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"Counterparts" is an initiative to support culture and education in Central and Eastern Europe. It was started by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. "Counterparts" stands not only for the exchange and dialog between different cultures, but for their search for similarities as well.

As part of the Counterparts initiative, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants sponsors two projects every year in a Central or Eastern European country: a cultural event in a country's capital and a library opening in another big city.

Russia's turn came in 2008: on November 28, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants opened a new library at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.

The Roland Berger Library is a state-of-the-art information and education center. Besides access to contemporary business books in various languages and magazines on management theory and practice, students and teachers now have access to a high-tech room equipped with digital catalogues and Internet-linked computers.

Roland Berger also sponsored the Festival for Contemporary German Choreography, held from March 27 to April 24, 2008, at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre and the School of Dramatic Art Theatre. Dr. Walter Jürgen Schmid, German Ambassador to Moscow, was the festival's patron. The opening of the library in St. Petersburg constituted the second part of this year's Counterparts project.