Gov. Rick Snyder embarks Saturday on a week-long trade mission to Italy and Germany for meetings with auto executives and other businesses. Snyder also will be joined in Germany by representatives from Wayne State University, Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan for a Partnership Forum at the Fraunhofer Institute, Europe's largest application-oriented research organization.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120316/BIZ/203160444/1361/Mich.-gov-heads-to-Italy--Germany-on-trade-mission
http://www.hometownlife.com/usatoday/article/38820243
http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/03/gov_rick_snyder_heads_to_europ.html
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