inadequate business environment is an obstacle in sustainability
February 19, 2010 - More than a third of managers of big companies admit that immediate financial goals are a higher priority. This comes from the new research of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Enel. The outcomes of the research were presented on February 8 th in Rome, at an event on the Day of sustainability. The topic was Business, as we (don’t) know it. Beata Hlavčáková, executive director of the Business Leaders Forum and program director at the Pontis Foundation represented Slovakia at the event. ...   
 
first project of the great country program has obtained the full amount needed, six other can start as well
February 19, 2010 – The Great country individual donor program has its first successful project. The creative workshops Majáčík have received the full sum of money necessary for their project. Six more projects have fundraised the minimum of finances necessary for their launch. ...   
 
record 111 nominations are competing for the via bona slovakia 2009 awards
February 14, 2010 - In the 10th year of the Via Bona Slovakia Awards, the Pontis Foundation received a record of 113 nominations. The evaluation committee will evaluate 111 nominations. Two nominations – projects of Západoslovenská eneretika, a.s. this year's general partner of the awards - were excluded from the evaluation process....   
 
13 future entrepreneurs have participated at the already third course for the deaf
February 10, 2010 - The Pontis Foundation in cooperation with Foundation Integra and the Slovak Association of the Deaf organized, for the third time already, a course for the deaf How to start a business. 13 deaf participants from the whole of Slovakia learned the basics of marketing, accounting and communication with clients in Nový Smokovec. ...   
 
czechs and slovaks nominate chinese dissident for nobel peace prize
February 3, 2010 - Prague/Bratislava - Czech and Slovak lawmakers nominated Liu Xiaobo, a leading Chinese dissident sentenced to 11 years in prison, for the Nobel Peace Prize, organizers said Wednesday. Forty Czech lawmakers and 51 Slovak counterparts signed their respective nominations for the Norwegian Nobel Committee, according to organizers in both countries. Liu co-authored the Charter 08 pro-democratic manifesto that drew inspiration from Charter 77, a human rights petition signed by anti-Communist dissidents in former Czechoslovakia. In December, a Chinese court convicted Liu of subversion, sentencing him to 11 years in prison for his writings and activities in the Charter 08 movement. Liu's Nobel Peace Prize nomination was also backed by former Czech president Vaclav Havel and other former Czechoslovakia's Communist-era dissidents, Czech Senator and Charter 77 signatory Alexandr Vondra said on his website. ...   
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