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EUCE Sponsored Lecture "Mobility in Niedersachsen". Speakers include Walter Hirche, Former Minister of Economics, Labor, and Transport for Niedersachsen, Germany. Also featuring Stefan Kapferer, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Employment and Transportation of Niedersachsen.
Entrepreneurs and representatives of businesses from Niedersachsen will be traveling through the Southern US from February 22 to February 28, 2009. Stefan Kapferer, Secretary of State of the Ministry for Economics, Labor and Transport of Niedersachsen, will lead the delegation. The delegation will visit Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina.
The purpose of the delegation is to strengthen the traditionally good business contacts and political relations between the German state of Niedersachsen and the United States, as well as to promote the advantages of Niedersachsen as a location for business development in the heart of Europe and to promote its innovative companies.