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CIBER and WAGE Receive Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Award
The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and its campus partner, the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), together with international area studies centers, received a grant from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment for their project, “Growing Wisconsin Business Globally: International Business Workshops for Wisconsin Businesses.”
The CIBER/WAGE project will design and deliver a series of international business workshops to firms with untapped export potential in Wisconsin communities that typically have limited access to information about global business. The workshops are intended to help increase small and mid-sized companies’ awareness of and ability to successfully engage in global trade. In the tradition of the Wisconsin Idea, the initiative will tap UW-Madison faculty expertise to deliver some of the workshop sessions for Wisconsin businesses. CIBER and WAGE staff will work with the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, UW System schools, regional economic development organizations, and chambers of commerce to reach their audience. The first workshop, “Navigating the Global Marketplace,” was held May 14 at Northcentral Technical College in Wausau. (See related article in CIBER News.)
In addition to the grant, the project is funded by CIBER, the UW-Madison Division of International Studies, and other campus units. For more information, please contact Suzanne Dove, CIBER/WAGE outreach director, at sdove@bus.wisc.edu or (608) 265-4938.