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Facing unprecedented disruption over the past few months, for the first time in CEEMAN history the 28th CEEMAN Annual conference took place online. On 23-25 September 2020, the big CEEMAN family gathered once again - this time in virtual space - in order to search for Ideas and Inspiration for Management Development from Fields Beyond Management, the topic of this year's event.

KROK University has officially joined the UN global initiative PRME - Principles for Responsible Management Education, which is transforming business education through research and leadership. KROK Business School is authorized to represent and coordinate cooperation with PRME.

The 26th CEEMAN Case Writing Competition was organized for the fourteenth time in cooperation with Emerald Group Publishing. A total number of 63 cases from 15 countries (Colombia, Egypt, France, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, UAE, UK, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) were submitted for the competition.

Launched in 2010, the annual CEEMAN Champions Awards recognize and promote outstanding achievements of faculty, management, and staff from CEEMAN member institutions in the categories of teaching, research, institutional management, and responsible management education.

It has come to our attention that with the current international travel restrictions due to COVID-19 and most training events going online, Erasmus+ Grant Support for the Mobility of Staff could cover “organizational support” of participation of teaching or administrative staff in online events that are at least 2 days long, in the amount of EUR 350 per person.

In the light of the current pandemic situation and keeping in mind safety and wellbeing of all of us, we decided to move all events of the 28th CEEMAN Annual Conference to an online format.

Last week, IEDC successfully implemented the first hybrid module of General Management Program in the history of IEDC. Part of the attendees attended the program in class, and the other part was joining online at the same time.

On July 22, 2020, KROK Business School community met with Valeria Ionan, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, on the implementation of the Business.Diia. project. The purpose of the project is to develop the business ecosystem in Ukraine and provide new, digital tools to help entrepreneurs. Thus, the KROK Business School creates new opportunities for informing about innovative services for the development of entrepreneurship in Ukraine.

On August 6, a signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Cooperation was held between the Ministry of Defense of Georgia and the authorized higher education institutions in Georgia. The ceremony was attended by Dr. Kakha Shengelia, President of Caucasus University and the International Association of University Presidents, who signed the memorandum.

The joint EMBA program of AlmaU GSB and SPbSU GSoM was included in QS Global EMBA Rankings * 2020. Graduate School of Business at Almaty Management University is the only business school in Kazakhstan included in QS rating.