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  • SACC Collaborates with the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH

    6/28/11 •

    New Contacts, New Ways, New York
    Project Destination is a non-profit international project, carried out by elected top students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm as a part of KTH’s student union. It is a student held organization consisting of four sub-projects. This year’s edition travelled to New York, the US West Coast, London, and Russia. The project is performed as a course in which dedicated students from different programs practice their skills in entrepreneurship, project management and teamwork.

  • SACC Arranged Visit to California for Students from Royal Institute of Technology

    6/01/11 •

    Inspiration, realizing how important having a network could be and letting people follow their dreams and starting their own business. Those three things dominated our visit to California this spring. As a part of a project course in entrepreneurship and international economy, a selected group of seven students from the Royal Institute of Technology got [...]

  • Meet SACC-USA Young Professionals

    5/31/11 •

    SACC-USA Young Professionals (SACC-USA YP) is an interactive section of the Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce (SACC) for young professionals with an interest in Swedish-American relations. SACC-USA YP is dedicated to provide a forum to develop and strengthen social and professional relations with the already existing SACC-USA organization and its local chapters.

  • Former SACC Trainee lands a job in Rockford

    4/15/11 •

    In 2006, an Industrial Partnership Agreement was created between Lidköping and Rockford at the SACC E-Days in Lidköping with the overall purpose to generate business opportunities for each city. In 2008, as one outcome of this agreement, Linnea Bengtsson began working in Rockford as Lidköping´s International Business Development Trainee. Linnea holds a Bachelor Degree in [...]

  • Per Johansson, Trainee at Goswami, Strand & Seaborn in San Francisco, CA.

    3/14/11 •

    Per Johansson, or Patrick as he is called in the U.S, has been working as an International investment trainee at the law offices of Goswami, Strand & Seaborn in San Francisco. Unlike most of the SACC trainees, I am a little older and it is because I after a long career in the IT and [...]

  • Michelle Roos, Marketing/Business Development Trainee at American Viking Productions, Los Angeles, CA

    1/04/11 •

    My name is Michelle Roos and I am currently undertaking the second year of my Bsc (Hons) in Business Administration at the University of Bath in England. I was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, but having a mother from Thailand and a family that loves to travel, I’ve spent summers and winters abroad experiencing [...]

  • Karin Sörensen, Marketing and PR Assistant Intern at VisitSweden in New York

    10/05/10 •

    As I have always enjoyed experiencing different cultures, an international career has become a natural choice for me. I am studying international business with German specialization and I have spent one year as an exchange student in Freiburg, an idyllic student town in southern Germany. I have also had the great opportunity of spending one [...]

  • All Widgets: Social Media, U.S. Style

    5/24/10 •

    “Yes we know, we wrote the campaign-site.” As we are walking down the glass-concrete stairs in the large but tasteful office on Madison Ave in New York City, getting the grand tour, we can’t help but pointing that out to our host as she shows us some ping-pong tables and describes a campaign they have [...]

  • Sara Dahlén Awarded the Sten-Olof Palm Scholarship – an internship at SACC-USA

    4/27/10 •

    Sara Dahlén, a student at the University of Gothenburg’s School of Business, has been awarded the Sten-Olof Palm scholarship. The scholarship includes nine months of practical training at the Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce (SACC-USA) with fully paid travel and living expenses. The scholarship, which was presented during the School’s graduation ceremony on April 24, 2010, is established by the Gothenburg Trade Association in collaboration with the Center for Retailing at University or Gothenburg and SACC-USA

  • Clean Tech Partnership with George Washington University

    4/21/10 •

    SACC-USA and George Washington University are teaming up to create a strategic partnership allowing Swedish firms in the Clean Technology sector to benefit from the research of students in GWU’s Global MBA program. Last year, the Global MBA program included a very successful study trip to Sweden. Building on this success, GWU and SACC-USA are collaborating on an MBA Global [...]