Next 12^th September the Chamber organizes a breakfast-debate with Miguel Ceballos Barón, Deputy Head of Cabinet of Cecilia Malmström, who will be presenting: “Between commercial wars, the EU and Mercosur conclude an historic agreement“.

The European Union and Mercosur reached on June 28^th an agreement on a new trade framework – part of a wider Association Agreement between the two regions and becoming the largest trade agreement the EU has ever concluded. It will create a market of 780 million people, providing enormous opportunities for EU businesses and workers. The agreement will save European companies over €4 billion in duties at the border.

The event will take place from 8:45h to 10:00h at the premises of the Chamber: Rue Belliard 20, first floor. The conference will be held in Spanish.

We invite you to fill in the inscription to confirm your participation.

On September 16, the Official Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Belgium and Luxembourg, in collaboration with The Cortador Academy – the first school in Benelux to learn professionally how to cut ham -, invites you to the first course of professional ham cutting. The training will be carried out under the direction of Maestro Cortador José Cristóbal Álvarez García, who obtained his renowned diploma in the Spanish school “Escuela Internacional de Cortadores de Jamón”.

The course is aimed at professionals in the HORECA sector who wish to deepen their interest in the art of cutting and Iberian ham. The aim of the workshop is to provide the main bases for professionally cutting the ham to bone. Moreover, this training is the first stage to obtain the diploma of “Cortador”.

We invited to follow this link for more information.

Register here.

The next 17th and 18^th of September, the Official Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Belgium and Luxembourg organizes the “Workshop on Visual storytelling for any kind of presentations“. The course will be held by the visual facilitator Alejandro Gil (Ale Listens and Draws), member of the EmprendeBeLux program.

The objective of the course is to learn how to make the content of our presentations more relevant to our audience by using visual storytelling techniques. The training will use a participatory approach with a special focus on peer feedback so participants can learn from each other. The content will be developed by using practical activities based on the reality of the participants.

The first day of training will be a short introduction to visual thinking basic tools, an analysis of the audience and the focus question to develop the message.

On the second day of training will be presented the “three buckets technique” to structure a presentation; the four main different types of visual narration: report, pitch, drama and explanation; and a final practice exercise will be carried out.

The training will be taught in English from 9am to 1pm at the premises of the Official Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Belgium and Luxembourg (Rue Belliard 20, 1040 Brussels).

If you wish, you can register here.

The next 21th and 22th of November, the Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and Luxembourg organizes a workshop on “Preparation of technical offers for European tenders”, which aims to train the staff of the participating companies, allowing them to have the knowledge to start preparing tenders in accordance with the procedures of the European Union. The course will be taught by Karine Brück, founding partner of Karine Brück International (Ecosolve SL).

During the first day of the training, the participants will have the opportunity to prepare a technical offer; analyse and understand the tender conditions and terms of reference; work plan and strategic approach common to all offers and good practices and recommendations in the writing of the technical offer.

The second day of the course will be focused on the preparation of an economic offer and the analysis of its strategic context, as well as the preparation of different types of economic offers. The participants will also receive recommendations for the preparation phase of the economic offer.

The training will be taught in English from 9am to 1pm at the premises of the Official Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Belgium and Luxembourg (Rue Belliard 20, 1040 Brussels).

For more information, check the full program here.

If you wish, you can register here.