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On Thursday, October 11, 2012, the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) had a pleasure to host Thomas C. Schelling, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Professor Schelling was awarded the prize in 2005 (shared with Robert Aumann) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis".

On 4th October was the opening ceremony of the new academic year of EBS Helsinki in the main hall of EBS in Tallinn. The students were welcomed by the Minister of the Embassy of the Republic of Finland, Ms Heli Kanerva. This autumn there are 63 new students who start their studies at EBS Helsinki which amounts to 130 students in total.

On September 27th EBS Rector Professor Arno Almann gave an Oath of Office on an official inauguration ceremony in Estonian Business School. The Rector was collared with the Chain of Office by Rector Emeritus Peeter Kross. Arno Almann became the 5th leader of EBS. In 2013 Estonian Business School celebrates its 25th anniversary.

EU Business School held its fifth annual Oktoberfest Alumni Event on Friday, September 28, 2012. Alumni were lines up in front of Käfer Wies’n-Schänke where they took a few minutes to catch up with old professors, ex-classmates and their hosts, the Craen family.

20th CEEMAN Annual Conference, as the first ever CEEMAN annual conference to be held outside Europe, took place on 26-28 September 2012 in South Africa, co-organized with the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB)

The 18th CEEMAN Case Writing Competition in cooperation with Emerald Group Publishing attracted again an impressive number of submissions from all over the world, and the winners were announced at the 20th CEEMAN Annual Conference in Cape Town on 28 September.

On the final day of the 20th CEEMAN Annual Conference, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa from 26 to 28 September, the CEEMAN Champion Awards were officially announced.

On October 8, 2012 EU students start classes at a brand new location in Munich. After five years at the campus on Gmunder Strasse (2007-2012), the university decided it was time for a change; and the new facility provides just that.

A new book by EU Business School professor Philippe G Nell is receiving praise for its first-hand insight into the negotiations that led to the signing of the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement in 1992.

Professor of Information Systems & Technology Management at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM), Founder and Director of the Learning & Innovation in Networks & Communities - LINC Lab (at GEM), and the Founder and Director of the joint DBA degree in partnership with Newcastle University (UK), Professor Assimakopoulos has been elected to Vice President of EDAMBA.