InWEnt GmbH (former CDG) is a leading European institutions for international training and human resources development and has initiated it@asia in spring 2002.

The overall organization's objectives are: Promoting know-how transfer between North and South, East and West, international exchange of experience, initiating developmental processes and global cooperation. As changes and development will always be man-made, people are central to all InWEnt activities.

About 300,000 people from all over the world have participated in CDG programs since its foundation in 1949.

InWent is an institution supported by both industry and state. Approximately 800 firms, organizations and individuals from commerce and industry are members. Major commissioning bodies are the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, other federal ministries and the ministries of the federal states, and the European Union. They bear most of the costs of programs, personnel, and materials amounting to roughly € 95 million per year.