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Achieving more together: The Centres of Excellence are modern education centres that meet international standards and have been set up by the DAAD at leading African universities with the support of the German Federal Foreign Office. The aim of the education centres and their programmes is to increase the quality and relevance of education in selected subjects and to promote research and networking. p4d moderated the high-profile networking and strategy conference of the African-German Centres of Excellence. Welcome to the Common Ground – e.g. 2015 in Flensburg, 2016 in Ghana and 2017 in Kenya.

Since 2017, p4d has been advising AMOVA, a global technology leader in the intralogistics sector, on various change processes. On the one hand, an international merger process was accompanied, the kick-off of a new business model was supported at the start and the change and development of the entire organisation was accompanied.

In 2020, p4d organised the 4th Bonn Nutrition Days for the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE) and the Federal Centre for Nutrition (BZfE) for the first time as a virtual conference with around 200 participants under the title “Eating will change – nutrition and the planetary boundaries”.

p4d supported the BLE/BZfE on the three conference days and in the run-up to the event with the technical planning, realisation and virtual event management for the successful implementation of the online conference on questions about opportunities and challenges for a sustainable transformation of our food system.

Cooperation with civil society is an important task for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Here, the BMZ needs to enter into dialogue with a wide variety of people and organisations, shape dialogues and find forms of cooperation. The particular challenge here is to find a better solution together despite differing interests. p4d supported the BMZ with preparatory analyses, workshop moderation and active process support.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is an expert in international exchange and develops scholarship programmes at university level. As part of a strategy development for an established programme with a focus on Africa, p4d conducted qualitative impact research in Namibia and South Africa on target group needs and experiences with the programme. The results formed the basis for the strategy workshop moderated by p4d. This made it possible to identify opportunities and trouble spots in intercultural communication between headquarters and partner countries and to develop tangible results for the further implementation of the programme.

This renowned charity organisation decided to prepare for the long-term future and global trends and changes, actively engaging a highly committed workforce to further improve their work towards the goal of eradicating hunger and poverty. We supported the process design, advised the organisation on action research and facilitated the multi-day workshops to analyse, develop and implement the project. The success: a high degree of employee participation and activation as well as a common approach that motivates everyone.

From global competition to more co-operation: The Global Coffee Platform is a multi-stakeholder initiative with the aim of creating a thriving and sustainable coffee sector. It brings together public and private actors using a bottom-up approach and promotes the cross-sector adoption of minimum requirements and a level playing field for joint reporting. p4d supports the GCP in its complex and challenging tasks: As a sparring partner, organisational developer and moderator in the restructuring and further development of the organisation. In addition, p4d was active in the interim management of the HR department.

Virtual teamwork across national borders is the order of the day for the internationally active software company. For this to work, it is essential that people enter into a dialogue with each other. Together with its partner Synergie Vertriebsdienstleistungs GmbH, p4d designed and moderated an international large group event lasting several days for SAP AG’s core developers working in different countries to optimise future collaboration.

Conference support from A to Z: As a public-sector credit institution, Sparkasse Nürnberg successfully serves private and business customers and is the most important financial services provider in the region with over 100 branches and self-service facilities. In order to be able to operate successfully in the changing market in the future, Sparkasse Nürnberg is intensively dealing with the topic of change.

p4d developed a concept to accompany and moderate the Sparkasse Change Conference. At this forum, all managers of Sparkasse Nürnberg entered into dialogue with each other on the topics of trends, dealing with change and innovation. To this end, the p4d team delivered an overall concept comprising a keynote speech, interactive dialogue and moderation.

The aim of the pilot project “Mülheim East Competence Region – Competence Centre for Special Educational Support” was to network stakeholders from a wide range of municipal, school and private institutions in an urban district who often do not work together and to make them more effective and able to act together.

Over the course of several years, we supported the various stakeholders from the fields of education, health and social affairs in developing a constructive dialogue. Today, the organisations think and act in a much more networked way and beyond their own institutional boundaries.