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What do you imagine first when you hear the word “Erasmus”? Travelling all over Europe? Meeting new people? Learning and studying in a new language? All this is now available to UNYP students – and financially supported by the European Union.

Earlier this month, Almaty Management University hosted a gala reception honoring its 30th anniversary. CEEMAN Vice-President for Russia Sergey Myasoedov joined the festive event on behalf of the Association, congratulating our friends at AlmaU on this important occasion.

In early September, Tymofiy Badikov, chairman of the non-governmental organization Health Platform and Iryna Tykhomyrova, president of MIM Business School, presented an online course for primary care physicians. The course is yet another MIM contribution to the national healthcare system reform. It is rooted in the training for physicians developed and delivered by MIM.

On 4-7 November 2018, CEEMAN organized a new workshop for deans and their teams, Leading the Way in Management Development. The aim is to provide participants with better understanding of the future world of management development and unique contexts, help set successful strategic direction and positioning, and provide conditions to work efficiently together to implement these plans.

At the beginning of October 2018, BSK launched a study on the creativity of top managers. On 21 October, a workshop entitled "Creative Thinking in Business" took place. Oksana Sedashova, PhD, an expert in the development of creative and innovative thinking, delivered the workshop and explained why business creativity is the right way to generate good ideas and creatively interact in teams.

»Hidden Champions in the Connected World“ was a joint symposium that took place from October 22-23 at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. This academic gathering explored the factors which induce companies to be Hidden Champions and how they develop in the connected world.

The annual international HR forum, titled “The Changing Society: Implications for the HR Function”, was held at IEDC-Bled School of Management this October. Eighty participants and eminent speakers from 16 countries gathered at the event to discuss the human resource challenges of today’s changing business environment with a focus on one of the most crucial challenges: negative demographic trends.

With the meeting of Hidden Champions research partners in Bled successfully concluded, October continues to be a key month for the Hidden Champions projects CEEMAN is involved in. Today, the symposium “Hidden Champions in the Connected World” is opening at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

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This year’s EdTech seminar, hosted by CEEMAN at the IEDC-Bled School of Management during October 15-18, took more than a dozen professors, program directors and administrators from Europe, Russia, and the United States on a dizzying exploration of graduate management education in the throes of disruption and change. This is a place where micro-masters replace traditional two-year MBA programs, where gamification supplants conventional lectures and tests, and terms like “virality, badges, block chain, uplinking, digital learning, playability, chunking, and grinding” are the nomenclature of the day.