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The 15th edition of CEEMAN’s International Management Teachers Academy (IMTA) brought together 39 participants from a record number of 29 institutions and 22 countries, including for the first time from Canada, Colombia, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Tanzania, who came to Bled to enhance their teaching/learning skills, approaches and methodologies.

Vienna, 22 May 2014: The international conference “Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey – Carving Out a Global Niche”, organized by CEEMAN in cooperation with WU Vienna Competence Center for Central and Eastern Europe and Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), brought together business leaders and entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern Europe, researchers and management experts, as well as representatives of economic institutions.

Thirty-six program managers and directors from 24 institutions in 14 countries (Finland, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom) attended the seminar and contributed to an inspiring and productive work and a very special spirit of professional understanding and personal friendship.

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Bled (Slovenia) 23 January 2014 - CEEMAN, the International Management Association for Development in Dynamic Societies, in cooperation with IEDC-Bled School of Management, publishes a new book presenting over 100 “hidden champions” from CEE and Turkey. The book is published by Springer.

Video proceedings from two global events on New Ways of Developing Leaders for the Future We Want and Business Schools as Responsible Change Agents: From Transition to Transformation that gathered more than 300 participants from 60 countries from all over the world on 25-27 September in Bled, Slovenia are now available.

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July 28-30, 2014 Leveraging Innovative and Cross-Country Learning for Poverty Reduction: Climbing the Economic Ladder: Examples from and for Nicaragua

CEEMAN in cooperation with BMDA and RABE is announcing the unique opportunity launched by Adizes Graduate School (USA) – to learn one of the most successful change management and organizational transformation theories and practices directly from its creator - Dr. Ickak Adizes! The 3 days Interactive training “Adizes Theory and Practice for the Best Business Schools” will take place on November 7-9, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey and is hosted by Sabanci University.

The winners of the 19th CEEMAN Case Writing Competition, which was conducted in cooperation with Emerald Group Publishing, were announced at the gala dinner of the 21st CEEMAN Annual Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 27 September.

The 2013 CEEMAN Champion Awards were delivered at the gala dinner of the 21st CEEMAN Annual Conference on 27 September.

Bled (Slovenia): An international management development association CEEMAN, gathering 213 members from 53 countries, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. This important milestone was celebrated by CEEMAN annual conference, attended by 170 participants, a new book titled 'CEEMAN – 20 years of creating history, and gala event, with CEEMAN 2013 Champion Awards ceremony.

Bled (Slovenia): More than 300 members of the responsible management education from 60 countries community convened in Bled, Slovenia, to discuss the continued creation of a new intellectual, research, teaching, and institutional agenda that develops leaders for the future we want. At the 2013 PRME Summit – 5th Annual Assembly, co-organized by international association for leadership development in dynamic societies CEEMAN, which is celebrating 20th anniversary this year, also 2013 Chair of the PRME Steering Committee, and the PRME Secretariat, business school leaders, faculty, researchers, and students, along with representatives from business, government, and civil society engaged in spirited discourse and shared recent lessens from the global landscape of responsible management education.

The 19th CEEMAN Case Writing Competition attracted an impressive number of submissions from all over the world. A total number of 54 cases, written by 113 authors and co-authors from 65 institutions in 25 countries (Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jamaica, Lithuania, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and USA) were submitted for the competition that is organized in cooperation with Emerald Group Publishing. Among the authors were also management faculties from four CEEMAN member institutions, including IMTA alumni.

For the seventh time IMTA alumni will hold the annual conference of their association of 415 members from 126 institutions in 34 countries. The event took place on 26-27 April 2012 at the ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius, Lithuania on the initiative of its president, Nerijus Pacesa (an IMTA 2003 alumnus).

There is a significant amount of innovation, adventure and soul-searching in our business and management schools. Thoughtful and well-trained people are conducting careful, rigorous research into responsible management education.

Highlight your thoughts and ideas about the contribution publishers can make to the implementation of the UN supported Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) – through a 500-1000 word Perspective Statemen

Bled, 17 June 5, 2013 - 14th edition of the International Management Teachers Academy (IMTA) organized by CEEMAN, successfully accomplished at IEDC-Bled School of Management. This year, 28 participants from 17 countries came to Bled to attend this major European faculty development program, which attracts participants from all over the world.

The 8th IMTA Alumni Conference on "Leading Change in Business Schools: The Role of International Accreditation and Faculty Development" was held on 24-25 May at the Russian Academy of National Economy under the President of Russia (RANEPA). The event gathered around 20 IMTA alumni from several generations, IMTA faculty, and other participants from Belarus, Latvia, Romania, Russia, Serbia and USA. It was organized and hosted by the Change Management master's program and its head Timur Atnahev, IMTA 2008 and 2012 alumnus from the IBS-Moscow at RANEPA, with the support of Alexander Abashkin, head of the International Cooperation Department at RANEPA.