Corporate Relations

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Corporate Relations
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Agenda

• What is BEST
• What we offer
• Opportunities for partners
• Our partners
• Contacts

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BEST is...

• Board of Europeans Students of Technology
• Working voluntarily to promote Europe to students
  since 1989
• Motivated by the challenge to develop ourselves
  in a multicultural environment

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• Our target group...
• Students of Technology

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BEST is...

• 1700 active members
• 67 universities
• 27 countries
• Reaching 500 000students all over Europe

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To promote Europe among Europeans!
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BEST is...
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Educational involvement
Career Support
Complementary education
Student expectations
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Services for students

• Complementary Education
• Career Support
• Educational Involvement

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Complementary Education

• Technical courses and Engineering competitions
  all around the year in close cooperation with
  universities
• Intense cooperation with companies
• High quality label and credits given by
  universities
• Continuous experience since 1991

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Complementary Education
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SOURCE BEST Application Centre
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Complementary Education
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SOURCE BEST Application Centre
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Career Support

• BEST Career Centre
• Multinational companies announcing
  jobs,internships and special projects
• Online database of CVs from technical students
  and young graduates
• Informal contact between companies and Students

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Career Support
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SOURCE BEST Career Centre
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Career Support
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SOURCE BEST Career Centre
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Educational Involvement

• Participation of students in European Thematic
  Networks (TREE, EUCEN)
• Events gathering students, companies and
  universities to enhance engineering education in
  Europe
• Positive feedback from academics!

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Services in numbers

• Our target group Technical Students
• Network of 67 Universities
• 500 000 students
• 14 000 willing to join BEST international events
• 1 000 companies involved in all BEST events

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Our work

• Local BEST Groups in universities all over Europe
  
• 7 international teams gathering 430 motivated
  students working on specific tasks
• (Internal training, Marketing and Public
  Relations, IT Systems, Educational
  Involvement, Career Support, Courses
  Coordination, Corporate Relations with Partners)
• International board - 6 enthusiastic students

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Our work

• Virtual Communication
• (Internet and BEST Intranet, private area)

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Our work

• Virtual Communication
• (Internet and BEST Intranet, private area)

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Our work

• 20 meetings and workshops all around the year
• 70 training on different topics
• 2 000 BEST members trained

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SOURCE Training Interested Group
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Our work

• 20 meetings and workshops all around the year
• 70 training on different topics
• 2 000 BEST members trained

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SOURCE Training Interested Group
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Currently focusing on...

• Corporate image
• Unique IT system - merging all information in one
  central database
• Structure how to manage that teams all over
  Europe work together on the same goals
• Growth strategy

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Cooperation lanscape

• Efficient promotion direct to your target group
• Recruitment (on line, job fairs)
• Interaction with students (workshops, seminars,
  participation in General Meetings)
• Case studies
• Engineering competition
• Training
• Brainstorm together on new opportunities

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Cooperation levels

• Corporate Partner
• Continuous cooperation
• Promotion through BEST network
• Students expectations
• Feedback evaluation

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• Career Support Partner
• Promotion through BEST network
• Recruitment possibilities through BEST Career
  Centre

• Supporter
• Promotion through BEST network

• Project Partner
• Allows non-partners to promote a single project
  in BEST

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Partner companies
- Corporate partners -
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- Career Support partners -
- Supporters -
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Contact
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