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BEST ROUND TABLE5th of October 2007

Paris, France

EventsEventsWhat events we organise in BESTWhat events we organise in BEST

by Mihaela ROTARUBEST Corporate Relations

» Agenda

• External events

• Working events

• Local events

» BEST external events

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• Technical courses on different topics• 20 – 30 participants• More than 80 courses/ year• Learning in international environment• Each LBG organises one academic

course per year• E.g. Optical Communication Systems & Networks:

Light paths to the Future

• Micro and nanotechnology

» Academic courses

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» Academic courses

• You can contribute by• Holding a lecture• Leading case study• Providing company visit

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» BACo (BEST Academics and Companies)

• Conference where meet• Companies’ representatives• University professors• Students• Members of BEST educational team

• Discussing• Educational topics with feedback from

companies and students• E. g. Bucharest, 25 Feb – 2 March 2008,

“Shaping the 21st century professional engineer in Europe”

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» BACo (BEST Academics and Companies)

• You can contribute BACo by• Facilitating meetings• Sharing ideas and providing input

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• Competitions can include• Team design (mandatory)• Case study• Negotiation• Debates

• 20 – 40 participants• A week long event

» Engineering competitions

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» Engineering competitions

• You can contribute engineering competition by• Providing topic of competition• Leading sessions

» BEST working events

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» General meetings

• General Assembly • Presidents‘ Meeting

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• 8 regions of BEST • Each region helds 2 meetings/ year• Top BEST members of each LBG• 40 – 100 participants

• You can contribute by• Leading case studies• Holding presentation

» Regional meetings

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• Training on different topics• 8 training events per year• Approx. 20 participants

• Topics• Leadership• Marketing• Communication• HR

» Trainshops

• IT

• Training skills

• Organisation

• Corporate Relations

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• You can contribute by• Providing training• Leading case studies• Holding presentation

» Trainshops

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• Develop solutions of current BEST issues

• 20 participants

• Topics• BEST hot topics (e.g. Visual Identity, Quality of

Events. BEST Services Evaluation, etc)

• You can contribute by• Giving input

• Facilitation of meetings

» Workshops

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• Intensive meeting of members of international teams

• Discussing and solving problems related to their work

• Preparing the strategy of the next year• Max. 20 participants• 3 – 7 days

» International teams‘ meetings

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• You can contribute by• Giving training• Providing input

» International teams‘ meetings

» BEST local events

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• Case study

» Case studies / workshops

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• On different topics proposed by companies

• For the specific group of students of local university

• 10 – 100 participants

» Case studies / workshops

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• Usually team design• 10 – 100 participants• Few hours – 2 days

• Key factors to face the challenges:• Creativity

• Adaptation

• Imagination

• Teamwork

» Local engineering competitions

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• To ease access of students to employers

• Recruiters can impress all students of a university at once

• 1 – 3 days• Usually more than 4 000 visitors• 16 contact fairs last year• 21 planned this year

» Contact fairs

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• Target group selected by company• Presentation promoted and organised

by LBG• Local groups know very well their

students

» Presentations

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• Excursion to partners manufacturing/ construction site, etc.

• Group of students interested in company

» Excursions / company visits

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» Questions?