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Dear Subscriber,

A warm welcome to this 2nd newsletter for 2022. Q1 closing is at our doorstep and so is a beautiful long weekend and knowing everyone is working hard to meet your numbers we will cut to the chase!

See you soon! /Fredrik
 
Upcoming events
The Metaverse, Explained
The Metaverse, Explained
How to Prepare for the Virtual World of Tomorrow (Member only event)

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Apr 27, 2022
(8:30 AM - 9:30 AM) (GMT+8)
 
IKEA family weekend market
IKEA family weekend market
Come join us and celebrate Swedishness!

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Apr 30 & May 1, 2022 (GMT+8)

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IKEA Neihu Store
Taipei City, Taiwan
 
News from Taipei Mission in Sweden 駐瑞典台北代表團
Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES)
Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES)
本處開放瑞典人士申請赴台研習獎學金訊息,4月底申請截止,歡迎有意赴台學習中文的商務人士(現已在台亦可)運用,踴躍報名。
簡章及申請表下載連結為:
2022 Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) is open for application till April 30
Scholarship purpose: To encourage young people from Sweden and Norway to undertake Mandarin language courses in Taiwan and to promote knowledge, understanding and friendship with Taiwan.
Value and duration: A monthly stipend of NTD 25 000 (SEK 8 046 ) over the course of 3, 6, 9 or 12 months during the period from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. (Exchange Rate: 1 SEK = 3.1 NTD approx.)
Application deadline: April 30, 2022
Qualification: Applicants must be Swedish or Norwegian citizens, above 18 years of age, with an upper secondary school diploma or above.
The HES Program is provided by the Ministry of Education.
Please check link below for detailed information and application form:


Taiwan Scholarship Program
Taiwan Scholarship Program
2022 Taiwan Scholarship Program is open for application till April 30!
Scholarship Purpose: To encourage young people from Sweden and Norway to undertake degree programs in Taiwan from the September of 2022.
Value and Duration:
Bachelor’s program:
- Tuition and payment of academic fees: including course-credit fee and basic study-related fees up to a maximum amount of NTD 40 000 (SEK 12 873)each semester. Fees exceeding this amount need to be paid by the scholarship recipients themselves.
- Subsistence allowance: NTD 15 000 / monthly (SEK 4 827), up to four years.
Master’s program:
- Tuition and payment of academic fees: same as above.
- Subsistence allowance: NTD 20 000 / monthly (SEK 6 437), up to two years.
Doctorate program:
- Tuition and payment of academic fees: same as above.
- Subsistence allowance: NTD 20 000/ monthly (SEK 6 437), up to four years.
(Exchange Rate: 1 SEK = 3.1 NTD approx.)
Scholarship covers around 80 % of tuition and living expenses.
Application deadline: April 30, 2022
Qualification: Applicants must be a Swedish or Norwegian citizen, with an upper secondary school diploma or above.
The Taiwan Scholarship Program is provided by the Ministry of Education.
Please check link below for detail information and application form:
 
Talent Circulation Alliance - Internship program
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Most of you reading this have most likely done internship yourselves at some point in your career.

Being an intern means working and learning from some of the brightest minds in the industry – in a supportive, open environment where you can ask anyone anything.

You hopefully got to work on challenging projects and develop your skills in the areas you’re most passionate about. You learned a lot and you learned a lot about yourself too. About your strengths, your interests and the areas to develop as you gazed forward to your future career.

It's time for us all to give back and open our doors to both international and Taiwanese students and we were very pleased to see 7 member companies joining our two sessions together with , our partner who also helped prepare to join the internship partner program.
 
Taipei Soup Kitchen charity event
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We would like to thank everyone who supported, donated and joined our soup kitchen Charity Event. Over the course of a full day over 60 members and friends of the Chamber chipped in manpower and close to 60.000NTD to bring a square meal to over 250 homeless outside Taipei main Station. 

Representatives from , , , , , , Mindful ROI, , , Abso Capital Partners, ,  &  donated and were on the scene with our partner and team, and everyone's view is that this was one of the most meaningful and eye-opening moments of their lives.

This was not a one-off event, our partner does this almost every 2nd week and we are looking to replicate our event very soon and as soon as we gather up 30.000NTD to buy the food we need.
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Swedish Chamber Spring Golf Challenge
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Golfers couldn’t have asked for a better day to play than what we were dealt last Friday at for the 2022 Swedish Chamber Spring Golf Challenge.

Under blue skies and low humidity, 13 players took on the beautiful and well-kept course in support of business in and , our local dog sanctuary, which now benefits from 3900NTD in Mulligan purchases.

Even though we played for fun, in the end there can only be one winner and the trophy is now sitting on David Chou's mantelpiece. Congratulations brother!


See you all at our next event!
 
Breakfast meeting: Developing Global Competency
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Thank you Director from for joining our members for breakfast to help develop 'cultural intelligence' and awareness of any differences between Taiwanese and Western ways of interacting socially and in business.

A great interactive learning experience!
 
Webinars
Webinars
We continued our online "CEO Talk", most notably with Mr Jonas Samuelson the CEO of Electrolux Group and Mr. Leon Wang, Executive Vice President International and CEO China, AstraZeneca
 
Semlor!
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This year we delivered close to 1000 semlor to our members in Taiwan.

Just like everyone else right now, and regardless of business you are in, we fought our way through supply chain woes and found the right ingredients, only be hit by delivery issues but like the tortoise beating the rabbit racing around the woods - slow and steady wins the race and we came through with semla deliveries all the way down to Kaohsiung!

We are already looking forward to next year!
 
We are excited to introduce You to our most recent Chamber members
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Business Climate Survey
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We are pleased to announce that SCCT will be collaborating with Business Sweden on a joint 'Team Sweden'  for 2022/2023.

We aim to get the questionnaire to you beginning of April and we hope that as many as possible take the opportunity to voice your opinion about business in Taiwan, how we cab strengthen this important relationship and grow trade and exchange between our two economies.
 
A Taiwanese cross-country skiing hero
In other news we would like to give a huge shoutout to Taiwan's cross-country skiing hero Mr. Errol Chen.

Taiwan is half a world away from Sweden, the epicenter of Nordic skiing. It has no cross country skiing culture, no skiing programs, no skiing mentors. But that isn’t stopping Errol Chen from trying to master cross country skiing and dreaming of the Winter Olympics.

Chen, a 32-year-old marathon runner from Keelung City, Taiwan, is currently in Sweden where he just took part in the gruesome 200 KM race in the very north of Sweden.

 in Swedish state television

You can find out more about skiing in Taiwan
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NTU International Mentorship Program
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