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Valentina Nikolajevna Hannolainen is the founder and director of the Republican Inter-Sectoral Centre for Continued Training (KarelNOK Centre). Higher education. 1990 – Austrian Management Academy, Top Manager Programme; 1996 – Swedish Management Institute, participant of seminars under the programme “Protection of Intellectual Property” in Finland, Sweden. Permanent participant of seminars in Moscow and St-Petersburg. Valentina Hannolainen is a corresponding member of the Management and Market Academy (Moscow). Since February 2001, Valentina is an expert on certification of the personnel of organisations and enterprises. Valentina Hannolainen bears the title “Honorable Professional of Education of the Republic of Karelia”. Valentina Hannolainen has been awarded medals “Excellent Professional of Education of the RSFSR”, “Excellent Professional of Education of the USSR”, Honourable Certificate of the Ministers’ Council of the Republic of Karelia”, Honourable Certificate of the Government of the Republic of Karelia, Honourable Certificate of the Petrozavodsk Administration. Since 2002, Valentina has been a part-time councillor of the Governor of the Republic of Karelia on educational issues.According to leading managers of Karelian companies and entrepreneurs, Valentina Hannolainen is one of the most outstanding women of Karelia, who applied her personal efforts, will and talent to create a structure that allows having good training to many specialists. For the 17th year experts of KarelNOK have been training staff for the market economy. Over this time, some 25,000 persons have gone through training at the Centre, of whom 17% are directors of companies, 75% - SME businessmen. The experts of KarelNOK Centre and its partners (both Russian and foreign) have designed and implemented over 200 training programmes, some of which won prizes of Russian-wide contests and obtained grants from special funds. Over the time of its operations, KarelNOK Centre has implemented 53 projects together with foreign partners and been awarded several international grants. KarelNOK Centre is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Karelia, and Valentina Hannolainen is a member of the Directors’ Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Karelia. Today, KarelNOK Centre has been officially recognised as a structure oriented at rendering assistance to small and medium businesses. In this connection, the Centre places special attention to the development of the training infrastructure and consulting of entrepreneurs across Karelia. The mission of KarelNOK Centre is: To improve the community that contributes to the development of the small business. To enhance the quality of the entrepreneur environment. Entrepreneurship is an important element of the market economy, without which it cannot develop harmonically. Therefore, at the earlier stages of the market economy development, businessmen need support from the state. Support to the entrepreneurship is, above all, a task of the regions and municipalities. In this regard, KarelNOK Centre in 2002 designed training programmes for municipal officers and dedicated to municipal economy and management. The following training workshops were carried out within the implementation of this programme: “Theory and practice of designing and implementation of key strategic directions of the regulatory development of a municipality”, “Designing a strategy for municipal socio-economic development”, “Co-operation of municipal authorities and entrepreneurs. Basics of successful business”, “Basics of the land laws”. In the Centre’s classes, representatives of authorities and entrepreneurs work together. At the Centre, you can meet managers of Republican well-known companies and young specialists. Currently, the Centre rents extra premises for its classes – more and more people wish to get training at the Centre. Two departments were open on the base of the Centre: Economic Department and Department of Modern Computer Technology of the Republican School Academy, where talented senior schoolchildren from the Districts of Karelia study. Schoolchildren from Petrozavodsk schools study at the Economic Lyceum. For a long time KarelNOK Centre has been a leader of the Karelian education. KarelNOK central universities and international partners. - Valentina Nikolaevna, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said that we should make our business understandable to not only us but our international partners too, which will turn it into attractive for investing into the Russian economy. I think that besides the moral and economic aspects, increasing growth of comprehensively and economically educated businessmen is a step to achieving this goal. - I find this issue one of the priorities for the successful development of our economy. Investments will come to our economy only when it becomes transparent. Until a potential investor has a clear picture of the real situation at a Company, they will hardly invest their resources. As an educational institution, we offer entrepreneurs a special training course on management, budgeting, financial structure of a Company. What gladdens is that there are more and more companies ready to show their financial statements, professionally and legally running their businesses. At the moment, the world economy is distinguished by innovative nature. And training institutions should comply these rules in their approaches - to be mobile and effective. This is the way KarelNOK Centre works.
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