To improve the conditions for local businesses, and to maintain and create relationships across Greenland, the Qeqertalik Business Council participated last week in several business promotion activities in Nuuk.
The development of business and tourism in the Disco Bay region is locally rooted through Qeqertalik Business Council & Destination Diskobay. But sustainable development requires collaboration across regions and industries. The participants were business and tourism promotion organizations across the Greenlandic municipalities, and the hosts were Innovation Greenland and Greenland Holding.
On the agenda was a dialogue about the future form of cooperation after Innovation Greenland changed its service contract with the Self-government. The change means, among other things, that as a pilot project, the funds from Qeqqata Municipality have been decentralized, so that it is tentatively the colleagues in the Arctic Circle Business who will handle the business development area themselves.
More coordination across
The dialogue for the network meeting in Nuuk was widely circulated. Among other things, the business councils talked about how the overall business promotion effort should support the national goals for development. At the same time, it was debated how to ensure stable framework conditions for the organizations.
“We already have a good collaboration and an ongoing dialogue between the regions. It makes good sense to strengthen this, by Innovation Greenland coordinating the collaboration around, among other things, funding and competence development. We look forward to continuing the collaboration with our colleagues and with Innovation Greenland” says Gerth P. Olsen, director of the Qeqertalik Business Council, after the meeting in Nuuk.
Future Greenland participation
The day after the network meeting with the other business and tourism promotion organizations, the Qeqertalik Business Council also attended the Future Greenland conference. Here, a large number of Greenlandic and international top politicians gave their bids on where Greenland and international politics are headed, to a wide range of social stakeholders, business companies, politicians from the Self-government and the municipalities, students and others. Here, the perspective was expanded to also be international, as there were also participants from Canada, USA and Scandinavia for the conference.
The theme was entrepreneurship and tourism development across Greenland. In addition to presentations and joint debates, there was also time to represent the Qeqertalik region in open conversations with the many participants from around the world.
Company visit with the Mayor
In the same week, there was also room to visit a couple of Greenland’s largest companies in the company of Mayor Ane Hansen. Here, the Mayor and Qeqertalik Business Council met the management of Royal Greenland and Polar Seafood at their headquarters in Nuuk, where the companies’ activities in Qeqertalik’s towns and villages were the focus of the talks.
Qeqertalik Business Council takes the many inputs directly home to the local development in the Disko Bay region.
