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BEST at a glance 3
BEST in numbers 3 BEST Services 4 Complementary Education 4 BEST Career Support 5 BEST Educational Involvement 5
Our main events 6
BEST General Assembly 6 European BEST Engineering Competiton 7 BEST Presidents’ Meeting 8
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9 What we ask from you? 9 What we offer to you? 10 Partners 12
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BEST at a glance Board of European Students of Technology, in short BEST, is a constantly-growing voluntary, non-profit organization for students of technology. With a history of over 20 years, BEST provides communication, cooperation and exchange opportunities between students from the most important technical faculties and universities around Europe. We are present in 96 universities in 34 countries, connecting promising and innovative technology students all over Europe. With our vision in mind, empowered diversity, we strive to achieve an environment that supports people acting responsibly and using their full potential in the academic and professional field. We do so by helping students achieve an international mindset and reach a better understanding of cultures and societies in order to develop their capacity to be able to work in culturally diverse environments.
BEST in numbers
33 countries 96
3300
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1.700.000 students reached
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BEST SERVICES Why are we so special?
BEST provides a variety of high quality services to students, with the goal of bringing all partners in the “student - company - university” triangle closer.
complemetary education By bringing a significant added value to the education provided by the universities, BEST provides students a chance to enrich their overall university experience. • BEST Courses - Students are granted the opportunity to participate in short-term courses that will help them develop their technical skills in numerous areas of technology and on different expertise levels (basics, intermediate or advanced). While sharing experience with students from other cultures and developing their soft-skills, the participants experience working and interacting in an international environment. • BEST Engineering Competitions - Engineering Competitions events are encouraging creativity and teamwork by creating a competitive environment for students in which they try to overcome different challenges. Being structured on three levels (local, regional and international), these competitions offer students the possibility to compete with teams from other countries. • BEST Leisure Events – We also organise some events which provide different social activities for having fun, travelling, discovering new cultures and trying out new experiences. These activities get students from different parts of Europe together, make them acquire another perspective about themselves and the world around them because they will learn how to interact with people from different cultures.
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best career support By directly connecting students with their future employers, BEST Career Support aids students of technology in having an up-to-date overview of the work market and in finding the most suitable internship or job. Students are offered the possibility to develop their potential and start a career.
best educational involvement We take an active part in the European Union initiatives towards European Higher Education. For this, we aim at increasing the awareness of students on issues related to engineering education and improving engineering education through the input of those students. We organise events and meetings where students, professors and experts analyze and discuss actual educational topics in order to improve and develop the European educational system. Later on we prepare reports and present them to higher educational bodies during conferences and partner meetings.
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OUR MAIN EVENTS Building the future of technology students
BEST general assembly This international congress will be held in Bucharest, Romania, from 24th of April to 2nd of May. It’s the most prestigious and the most important decision making event of BEST. Gathering more than 250 people: • Management of BEST, • European Union Project Leaders, • Delegates of the 96 Local Groups, • Members of our Official Partners ( AEGEE, bonding, CFES and ESTIEM ), • International president of FEANI. Purpose of the event: • To present the outcomes of the international projects, • To elect the new Board and to set goals for the next year.
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European BEST engineering competiton EBEC – EEuropean BEST Engineering Competition is the Final of the Engineering Competitions organised by BEST all over the Europe and it will be held in Riga, Latvia from 1st to 9th of August. It will gather around 112 top-level engineering students who passed the local, then national and regional Engineering Competitions in their own countries and regions. During the final they will work on 2 different challenges: • Case Study - participants have to cope with real life hot business • Team Design - participants have to find a solution for an engineering problem.
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BEST presidents’ Meeting One of our most important events will be held in Gdansk, Poland, in November 2014. It is an international assembly which gathers more than 160 students from the best universities and engineering schools in Europe.. Gathering more than 160 people: • Management of BEST, • European Union Project Leaders, • Delegates of the 96 Local Groups, delegates of international teams • Members of our Official Partner organisations. • Companies and local students. Goal: Exchange ideas and decide on how to improve: • Performance of BEST on technology students’ lives and education all over Europe, • Actions to bring technology students and companies closer, • Present and evaluate the current international projects.
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MEDIA PARTNERSHIP opportunities for both
what we ask from you • Wide coverage of these 3 events: - General Assembly (24th of April to 2nd of May 2014) - European BEST Engineering Competition (August 2014) - Presidents’ Meeting Gdansk ( November 2014) • Help us to divulge our services to technology students from all over Europe. • Covering our events will bring technology, career and education closer to students.
That’s what we are looking for: a Suitable Partner that will bring to students all the opportunities regarding their future, careers and education that Europe can provide!
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whAT we offer to you Besides participating in our events and contacting with our members, projects and ideas, this partnership will also guarantee: • Regarding the Events: - Complete Media Kit of each event, - Attend the Press Conference, - Interviews and free access to all VIPs, participants, organisers, companies, project leaders, etc, - Promotion as Media Partner on all the events’ promotional materials like website, official banner, printed materials, etc, - Provide promotional material that you want to divulge. • Regarding BEST in general: - Logo and banner on our official website, - Logo on all our official promotion materials. • We also offer you stories about: - Events on Education, - Highlights on Internal BEST Events, - Personal stories on voluntary work, - Cross European work, - Soft skills in Engineering Education. When both BEST and YOU know each other and develop a mutual understanding, YOU are invited to become an official Media Partner of BEST during one year.
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• Being a Media Partner means: - Active contact with the organisation, - Knowing first hand of all our news and innovations, - Being the first to know about our events and projects, - Helping to communicate the breakthroughs on technology education, - Helping to improve the technology education of European students. We will be contacting you before every event with more details. If you would like to know more about our other events and activities or add any suggestion to the proposal, we are always available and flexible to discuss your suggestions and opinions.
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PARTNERSof BEST
Career Support Partner
University Partner
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Supporters
Educational Partners
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Associated Partner Student Organisations
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CONTACT always available to you
For more information about our organisation and partnership proposal please contact:
Public Relations Coordinator of BEST: Alessandro De Vita Tel: +39 338 50 41 695 Email: alessandro.de.vita@BEST.eu.org
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