CEMS Magazine | May 2011
The CEMS Student Board wishes you a warm welcome to the first CEMS Magazine of 2011! The Student Board was founded in 2000 and has since then grown remarkably both in terms of level of activity and importance to the alliance. Structured into four teams, we cover virtually every aspect of the CEMS network concerning students: MIM Affairs for the curriculum, CEMS Club Support overseeing the proper functioning of local CEMS Clubs, CEMS Social Responsibility integrating a social framework throughout the Alliance and Student Relations ensuring that the student community is always well connected and informed. In 2011, the main focus of our efforts will be more equal opportunities for CEMS students, and visibility, both of the Student Board within the alliance and of CEMS to the outside world. Local CEMS Clubs will continue to be a focal point of our work. The CEMS Club Conference will be held at the end of the year, gathering the Student Board, CEMS Club Presidents, Head Office representatives and Corporate Partners together to strengthen the activity of the local Clubs by sharing best practices and future plans. Another focus lies with the entrance into the alliance of Social Partners, CARE International and Fairtrade Labelling Organization International. We as students are more than happy
to assist in the process of integrating the Social Partners and helping them get in touch with us through elements of the MIM. We also aim to help strengthen the ties between the Student Board and CEMS Alumni Association, representing a closer relationship between current students and alumni. We believe the alumni pool is an abundant resource we still need to learn how to take advantage of, just as students are a resource to alumni. A good relationship of this kind is a win-win element, and we look forward to working together. With this, we hope you will enjoy the magazine, remembering how it is a multi-stakeholder tool which will help you connect the many dots – of which one is us, the students – that together comprise the CEMS Alliance.
Yours sincerely, Marco Proto (NHH) President, CEMS Student Board Fredrik Ahlberg (CBS) Vice-President, CEMS Student Board (L) Fredrik Ahlberg (CBS) Vice-President, CEMS Student Board (R) Marco Proto (NHH) President, CEMS Student Board
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