KAPPAS – trade policy experts and know-how to Finland

Background of the project

• Global trade has witnessed a multitude of changes at an increasing pace – more than ever before.
• Digitalization and platform economy have changed value creation mechanisms and value chains, enabling the emergence of new business models.
• The developing markets have strengthened their positions as part of the global economy at the same time as the role of developed economies has been decreasing, thus fluctuating the traditional trade positions in global markets.
• Open market economy and free trade have been challenged in multiple locations all around the world.

Future business managers will need the ability to understand wide-ranging changes in their business environment. This will heighten the importance of managers’ capabilities to estimate the consequences of these changes in their businesses, as well as to identify and create business opportunities. Both business students as well as business practitioners need to understand the meaning of changing trade policy. Thus, we offer them the means and networks to be able to react to and prepare for the developments induced by changes in global or regional trade relations.

KAPPAS project is a three year initiative (November 2019 – October 2022) funded by The Union of Industries and Employers Foundation (Teollisuuden ja Työnantajain Keskusliiton -säätiö, TT).