GSEM International Partners’ Days take place in UrFU

17:43, April 14, 2019

GSEM UrFU International Partners’ Days are held on 15-17 of April 2019 attracting international academic and corporate partners of the Institute

GSEM UrFU Partners’ Days is an international event aimed at quality development of international academic mobility, promotion of flagman programmes and building a platform for communication and networking for effective problem solving the field of international partnership.

Partners’ Days start on April 15 with special programme for BA International Economics and Business (EPAS EFMD accredited) students representing 8 countries. They will listen to the guest lecture on investments projects in the Urals delivered by Natalia Knyazeva, head of the projects of Development Corporation of Sverdlovsk Region. Then the students will take part in unique by its format event — “Economic teambuilding for International economics: Sport-and-Economics Orienteering” which has been created and organized by the students in collaboration with GSEM Career Center and the general partner of the event — retail network Decathlon.

On Tuesday, April, 16, the programme with GSEM international partners’ participation begins. This year the following partners will be presented: Zagreb School of Economics and Management (Croatia), HEC Management School University of Liege (Belgium), HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Germany), University of Torino (Italy), Montpellier Business school (France), GISMA Business School (Germany), Fresenius Business School (Germany), Zuyd University of Applied Science (the Netherlands), VSE (Czech Republic), KEDGE Business School (online presentation).

Intensive programme of 16 and 17 of April contains networking sessions, meetings with administrative staff of GSE and heads of educational programmes, sightseeing programme to discover Ekaterinburg as a good place for study and living. One of the key parts of the agenda is the presentations of international partners’ programmes to GSEM students. Besides, the round table “International Academic Mobility: challenges and opportunities” will be organized to uncover new opportunities for development of international mobility projects among partners.

GSEM International Partners’ Days are planned to become an annual event aimed to invite key international partners and support the quality improvement of the GSEM UrFU internationalization processes from international standards implementation to academic exchange intensification.