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Today, Kajaani UAS (KAMK) is honored to have the SHARPEN partners meeting and addressing the first-year master's degree students on key HRM topics. Although the SHARPEN project has ended two years ago, the network, collaboration, and support for each other continue to flourish and deepen strategically. My heartfelt thanks to the partner presenters. You have made a memorable start for the HRM course and set the tone to reiterate the importance of adopting sustainable people management strategies and practices in every organization. Regardless of size, from big to microsize, every manager must keep pace with the rapidly changing environment in order to adapt our people management competencies and approaches to create a better and balance place for future work. Danke! Ačiū! Thank you! Kiitos!

The SHARPEN round table hosted by Dr Julie Davies and Dr Muhibul Haq on 20 June 2019 at Huddersfield Business School on managing people in ethnic minority owned regional micro businesses included excellent presentations from Eastern Catering and Engineering, Deluxe Beds, LTR10 Creative and Radio Sangam. We discussed recruitment and retention, health and safety, cultural sensitivity, knowledge management and talent and succession management as well as internationalisation. We also talked about the value of social media conversations and awareness raising rather than direct selling, community radio advertising, and SME-university synergies for student projects and government bids such as knowledge transfer partnerships.

Today the German SHARPEN student team presented their case studies at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau. We had two very interesting presentations and it was a positive ending for a succesful semester of cooperation with our five partner universities as well as the case study companies.