Cooperation | USJ runs 14-day Lusophone training program

A 14-day training program focusing on business and economic activities for participants from Portuguese-Speaking Countries was launched on November 9 at the Grand Lapa Hotel.
The training program, organized by the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) and conducted in Portuguese, aims to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of economic activities. The course includes 21 representative participants from Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, and covers topics such as “International Legal Status of the Special Administrative Region”; “Environmental and Urban Policy”; “E-commerce Policy”; and “Tourism and the Creative Industry”.
The course is being complimented with on-site visits to both private enterprises and government inspection agencies in order to allow participants to gain first-
hand knowledge of Macau’s public and private sectors.
Participants in the program, led by the Dean of the Faculty of Administration and Professor José Alves from the University of Saint Joseph, were hosted by members of the City of Dreams and the creative team from Dragone Entertainment’s “House of Dancing Waters”.
Participants were also taken on a back-stage tour sponsored by the City of Dreams. The head of the host team explained the concept and inception of the “House of Dancing Water” and the construction process of the state-of-the-
art facilities, which took five years and HKD2 billion to complete.
The colloquium was sponsored by the “Forum for Trade Economic Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries (Macau)”, and will last until November 22.