Senior Experts Service (SES)

The SES, which has its headquarters in Bonn, is a foundation of the German economy that provides consulting services based on the principle of “helping people to help themselves”.

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The SES is the leading German organisation for voluntary assignments carried out by retired specialists and executives from various sectors of industry who are ready to share their knowledge and experience with others. The AHK Azerbaijan is the official representative of the Senior Experts Service (SES) project in Azerbaijan. Detailed information on the organisation can also be found at www.ses-bonn.de.

Financial Support of Senior Experts Service (SES)

  • Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Main activity of Senior Experts Service (SES)

  • Basic and advanced training and qualification of specialists and managers
  • Improvement of products, services and optimisation of processes
  • Management of technical, economic and organisational problems
  • Contribution to the development of the Azerbaijani economy
  • 200 successfully implemented projects in Azerbaijan from 1983 to 2019

Advantages of Senior Experts Service (SES) experts

  • Many years of professional experience in their field
  • Professional knowledge in more than 50 industries
  • Supporting customer requests and needs accordingly
  • Good foreign language skills
  • Ability to adapt to local conditions

Potential customer of Senior Expert Service (SES)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises from a wide range of sectors 
  • Social and medical institutions 
  • Institutions of basic and vocational education

Terms of SES project implementation

  • Submission of the completed application form to the local SES representative
  • Confirmation of the application request by SES Bonn and start of the expert search
  • Signing an agreement with the customer and the expert
  • Expert's advice as the goal of the application request
  • Personal responsibility of the customer to what extent he/she implements the recommendations

Financing of SES assignment

  • The customer pays the travel costs as well as catering and accommodation costs of the experts during their stay in the country.
  • In exceptional cases, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) may assume travel costs and SES administrative expenses.

Projects in Azerbaijan

The AHK Azerbaijan has already successfully implemented projects from a wide range of sectors such as medicine, agriculture and real estate. If your company also needs "gain knowledge through experience", we will be pleased to bring you into contact with one of the approximately 12,000 experts.

200 successfully implemented projects in Azerbaijan from 1983 to 2019

Various enterprises in Azerbaijan have already benefited from the experience of the SES experts. These include enterprises such as "Azersun Holding", "Gilan Holding", "Veyseloglu", "Qinyetogullari", "Azza", "Azza Agro", "BDM" Language Center, "Oki" Clinic, "Sahhat" Clinic", "Central Customs Hospital", "Baku Business Factory", "Gazelli Group", "Improtex Group", "ABAD", "AS Group Investment", "Tourism Agency", "ADA" University, "Yalama" Agropark, "AF Holding" and the others.

If you would also like to benefit from the Senior Experts Service (SES), please send the completed SES Assignment Request Form to Mrs. Ravana Guliyeva, SES project manager (ravana.guliyeva(at)ahk-baku.de).