On December 9th-11th, CITO representatives Björn and Ebba traveled to Singapore where they had the chance to meet and attend: Cheryl Tan and Magnus Böcker, Secretariat and Chairman at Diversity Action Committee (DAC) Robert Jessing, Senior Manager at Accenture Strategy and Chalmers alumni Nikolaj Lynge, Chief Sales Manager at Nordea Subramaniam Iyer and Ima Augustine, Co-President and Member Director at Keiretsu Forum Singapore Chapter. Read more about it here.
On December 18h, we celebrated Lucia with NCTU staff and students. We sang Christmas songs and offered Christmas fika, including Lucia cat and mulled wine. Thank you for coming and hope you enjoyed our performance!
On the 3rd of December, eight of the CITO representatives visited the SHL (Scandinavian Health Ltd) group in Taoyuan, Taiwan. SHL is currently the world’s largest privately-owned designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced drug delivery systems such as auto and pen injectors. The company is involved in the whole production line of their products, including design, manufacturing and testing. Since SHL produces lifesaving devices, the quality and precision of the products are two major factors. Therefore thorough quality tests are carried out to ensure that the products meet the set standards.
On November 25th to 26th, we attended International Week of NCTU where international students presented their home universities and cultures. The first day(25th), we held a presentation about Chalmers and Sweden. The next day(26th) we invited visitors to our booth where we let them try Swedish crispbread with cheese, gingerbread and mull wine. The visitors were also taught how to play Swedish Kubb. We hope that the visitors enjoyed it and got more taste of Swedish culture.
On the 19th of November, 2015, nine of the CITO representatives visited the Taiwanese company Noodoe in Taipei. We met with the founder of Noodoe, John Wang, who is the former Chief Marketing Officer of HTC with diplomas from both Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Business School. Mr. Wang explained how HTC was able to ride on Apple’s success and how they were able to become Apple’s counter story.
On November 18th, we invited the students and staff from NCTU to our office to eat Cinnamon buns with us.The office was crowded and the buns were much appreciated by the visitors. Thank you for joining and hope to see you again!
On the 19th of November, 2015, nine of the CITO representatives visited the Taipei office of the Swedish company Fractal Design. The company designs and manufactures computer chassis and other computer components. The design process of the computer chassis is conducted in Gothenburg, Sweden, but the production sites are mainly located in China.
On October 15th, we had dinner together with the staff from ICS and Office of International Affairs. We would like to thank you for coming and for the wonderful evening!
We from CITO would to like thank you all for attending this year’s opening ceremony!Hope you enjoy the evening just as much as we did and that you learnt more about CITO as well as Sweden! Stay tuned for more upcoming events!
Time for the first official event of CITO 2015/2016! We welcome you to our opening ceremony where the staff will inform you about the office, Chalmers, Sweden and our relation to NCTU. Moreover, there will be snacks and other fun activities planned for this evening! So if you want to know more about Sweden and hang out with some nice people, please join us and bring your friends with you! See you soon!
