Edited by M. Fedorov and B. Hallier “TeamSpirit for Networking” this English/Russian Book has four chapters:

• The history of the European Retail Academy since 2005 inclusive the concept of the Kruzenshtern Workshops
• A report about the first Eurasia Youth Forum with activities in Yekaterinburg/Russia and Astana/Kazakhstan





• An introduction into the start to develop within the EU a sector-network for vocational training in retail
• A chapter about spin-off-networks and sponsors

India is in 2009/2010 one of the economic engines of the world economy. Its leading retailers are according to the Top 500 ranking of Retail Asia: the Pantaloon Retail India group (1,231 million USA dollars/591 outlets), the Reliance Group (807/742), RPG Group (687/357), LG Electronics India (416/236), Aditya Birla Group (350/1,341), Titan Industries (345/405), Vishal Retail (268/135), Godrej & Boyce (220/280), Next India Retail (219/850) and Adidas India Marketing (201/500)

The lighthouse in India is the annual India Retail Forum (IRF) in Mumbai which brings together all national retail captains, international players and the total supply chain. Within the European Retail Academy the Indian Community is represented by 15 institutions. "Indian retail is a knowledge society” Prof. Dr. B. Hallier stated visiting the event each year.
 

During the last years more and more companies realize the necessity to create concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to reflect the topic of Sustainability. Both can be merged to a new dimension “Corporate Sustainability” as defined by Prof. Dr. Zentes and his team published in “HandelsMonitor 2010” by Deutscher Fachverlag/Frankfurt.

ERA promoted Prof. Dr. Hanon Barabaner/Estonia into its Hall of Fame. Being internationally engaged by the Council of Mutual Economic Aid and the Power Commission of the Social and Economic Committee of the United Nations he founded in 1993 the International Ecological and Technological College in Tallinn – today ECOMEN (Institute of Economics and Management). Prof. Barabaner was appointed Vice-President of the Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists in Astana /Kazakhstan - on photo together with Club-member Prof. Dr. Hallier.

Created in 2008 by N. Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Forum 2010 discussed „Sustainable Economic Growth in the Post-Crisis Period“. Organized by the Eurasian Economic Club of Scientists (among its members from the European Retail Academy are Prof. Dr. M. Fedorov and Prof. Dr. Bernd Hallier). There will be each year an Astana Economic Forum. Events of the Forum 2010 were supported among others by the World Bank, the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the Islamic Development Bank. The Eurasia Youth Trail participated in the event actively with an own slot.

The highest level of input came by the three Nobel Prize Winners of Economics: Prof. Dr. R. A. Mundell (1999), Prof. Dr. F. E. Kydland (2004) and Prof. Dr. R. Y. Aumann (2005). On the photo at the end of the closing ceremony are the two Laureates Aumann and Kydland together with members of the Scientific Club Eurasia - among them Prof. Dr. M. Fedorov and Prof. Dr. B. Hallier. The next Forum will be in May 2011 ( More)