Economic cooperation and Micro Projects

Malaysia is making every effort to translate its "Vision 2020" into concrete action in order to change from an extended workbench for companies in other countries to a knowledge based economy. Winziger Frosch auf Bleistiftspitze Enlarge image (© dpa/pa/Indraneil Das)
What is needed - amongst others - is qualified training, better technical equipment, especially in small and medium sized entreprises, more research and development, and willingness for know how transfer.

The German-Malaysian development programmes in Education and Training fitted right into this concept.

One of the programmes still going on in the environmental sector is at the forest faculty of the University Sabah.

Sabah Mobility Small Scale Project 2012

Bikes for Borneo

Last year - with money from the small scale project fund - the Embassy supported a school project in Sabah, organized by the NGO „Borneo Child Aid“. The project, a school boat for the Bajau Laut (sea ...

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The German Embassy is actively supporting projects in Malaysia.
Find out more about some of the projects:

German organizations

In Malaysia, the following German organizations are - among others - active in the field of economic cooperation:

The Floating Classroom or A Drop in the Ocean?

Smallscale project Sabah 2010

In every country, Malaysia is no exception, no matter how well developed or prosperous, some people will always live at the fringes of society. Here, they are the  sick or handicapped, refugees or dis...

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Donation for Myanmar Refugee Children's School in Kuala Lumpur

Embassy Fund

The German Ambassador, Dr. Guenter Gruber, paid an official visit to a school for Myanmar Refugee Children in Cheras on 8 February 2010, to hand over a donation from the German Embassy's fund for small scale projects.

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