20 years of CEMS at VŠE - pics

Dear alumni
so far, just the pics, more to come :-).

You can find more pics right here.

Vojtěch
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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Invitation - 20 Years of CEMS at VŠE

Dear CEMS Alumni,
This year, VŠE is celebrating 20 years as a CEMS Alliance member. Moreover, CEMS Alliance celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2018.

We find this anniversary as a nice opportunity to bring together all 543 alumni who graduated in the years 1998 – 2017, 98 students, corporate partners, academics and also prospective students. We cordially invite all CEMS stakeholders to the event: „20 Years of CEMS at VŠE“, that will take place exactly in one month, on Thursday, April 19, 2018, 4:00 - 9:30 p.m. on the premises of the University of Economics, Prague.

CEMS is about networking, so let's meet, network and enjoy a nice afternoon and evening together.
Attached, you can find the invitation with the planned schedule. Details regarding the schedule can be found on our webpage.
If interested, please register via this form before April 12, 2018.

We would also like to collect your "Alumni Success Stories", where the main topic should be “How CEMS Changed my Life”. We desire to publish your stories (appx. 10 sentences) on our Facebook and web page. If you are willing to share your story with the photo, please, fill in your story in the registration form. Thank you very much.

The registration fee is 300 CZK when paid before April 12, 2018 or 400 CZK at the venue. The registration fee is to be used as a donation for the CEMS Alumni Association Prague for further development of the CEMS Alumni activities in the Czech Republic. Thank you for your generous support.

• Account number: 2900119575/2010 
• IBAN: CZ16 2010 0000 0029 0011 9575 
• SWIFT: FIOBCZPP 
• Variable symbol: 19042018 
• Reference (Note): Surname 

If you are either a CEMS corporate partner representative or CEMS Alumni Association member, your entrance is free of charge.
In case of any further questions do not hesitate to contact us.

Looking forward to seeing you in April,

Šárka Otčenášková On behalf of VŠE CEMS Team

Pavlína Šimurdová - CEMS Alumni Prague President On behalf of CEMS Alumni Prague Board

Wishes from the CEMS VŠE team

It is our pleasure to share with you Christmas and New Year wishes from the VSE CEMS team who is not only taking care of the whole CEMS program but also intensively cooperating with the CEMS Alumni Board.

CEMS Office Prague would like to wish a Merry Christmas and Happy Year 2018 to all students, alumni, academics and corporate partners.

Vojtěch
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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Call for new teammates: Join CEMS Alumni Board Team!

Let's build together long-term CEMSational experience in the Czech Republic! 

We invite especially fresh CEMS graduates and international Alumni to come on board :) 

What is our team doing?

• We keep the CEMS spirit is alive also after graduation.
• We organize regular CEMS Talks and CEMS Social gathering.
• We run CEMS Mentoring Programme.
• We collaborate closely with CEMS Club and CEMS MIM at VSE to enhance life-long CEMSational experience.
• Next year, CEMS celebrates 20 years at VSE, which brings vast amont of opportunities how to highlight CEMS Alumni! 

Who are we looking for?

• Event facilitators, 
• Creative thinkers, 
• Community Managers, 
• Marketing and PR experts, 
• Technical & IT Specialists.

Interested in joining? Please contact us at cemslumni@seznam.cz.

Your Alumni Board Team

Pavlina, Vojta, Kasia and Honza

Pics from CEMS Alumni Soirée

You can find more picture here.

CEMS Roundtable: Students, Alumni, Teachers and Corporate partners brainstorming about the future of CEMS

• What are the current business trends influencing the CEMS Programme?
• What is the experience with the CEMS Programme seen from students', alumni's, teachers' and corporate partners' point of view?
• How can CEMS address current needs of the job market and prepare alumni that will star?

These are a few questions that were discussed during the CEMS Roundtable organized by Vojtech Oplestil and Ladislav Tyll at the University of Economics on 30th March 2017.

Each core CEMS Group (students, alumni, teachers and corporate business partners) was represented by the minimum of 4 participants. The whole program was organized in a very open-minded and informal atmosphere, which gave a space to many discussion and experience sharing.

Below you can find a few notes from the brainstorming evening:

What are top business trends these days? 

• focus on entrepreneurship
• digitalization trend
• increased competition of international business programs
• need of hard skills
• generation Y

How can CEMS address them?

• Building strong CEMS brand by offering excellent life-long education
• Minor specialization for CEMS students
• Increased offer of courses targeting deeper knowledge of technical disciplines
• Practically oriented guest speakers and lectures, e.g. real life case studies

How can CEMS Alumni Association support the future needs?

• Building the CEMS brand by organizing regular monthly CEMS professional events (e.g. Friday CEMS Stage) focused on the hottest topics that CEMS community is interested in
• At least once per year prepare big CEMS Community event with external top guest speakers

In the upcoming weeks, we will be gathering inputs from you, CEMS Alumni, about topics that are the most relevant to you, so we can plan the events for the 2nd half year of 2017 accordingly.

You can also have a look at the video with photos from this evening here

In case of any questions, let us know to: cemsalumni@seznam.cz

Pavlina on behalf of the CEMS Alumni Board Team

REQUEST TO CEMS ALUMNI: Would you like to share your experience with students and prepare a lecture for one of offered VSE courses?

Dear alumni,

For me being an alumnus and working on behalf of the whole CEMS community means focusing on three areas: alumni (professional and other events), students and the university.

This time I would like to focus on the third one. Mr. Ladislav Tyll, MBA, Ph.D., a new CEMS academic director at VSE, would like to continue cooperation with VSE and alumni and continue inviting alumni into CEMS VSE courses, which was also held in the past few years. It would be another great opportunity how alumni could support CEMS at their university. There are two options in the field of lecturing:

• Lecturing at some of the basic courses at the Faculty of Business Administration for bachelor degree students in order to attract more of them to apply for CEMS (subjects like Management, Business economics, Marketing, Consumer behaviour, Personnel Management or Logistics). These subjects are taught in Czech language and on rather basic level with large audience.

• Lecturing at some of the CEMS courses (subjects like International Strategy, Corporate Finance, Global Management Practice Course, International Marketing, Entrepreneurship and New Business Venturing, Accounting Information for Financial Management or Intermediate Microeconomics). 

These subjects are taught in English language and focused already on some rather specific, more advanced topics with the smaller audience of max. 50 students.

Would you be interested to share your experience with students? For you, that would mean not only preparing 45-90 minutes lecture based on discussion with the tutor, but also an opportunity to promote shortly your company, present yourself and enjoy presenting to CEMS students or to an audience of up to 300 fresh minds. It does not mean only some time spent on preparation and presentation, but also development of your skills and promotion of your company. Finally, it may be an attractive record in your CV.

If you are interested please, explore this file with the list of subjects including syllabus of each subject. For your better idea, I let the list of alumni lectures with their topics in the Winter Term 2012/2013 in the file. 

In case of interest please, fill in the table and send it back to me and a copy to Šárka Otčenášková (CEMS Communication Manager at VSE; sarka.otcenaskova@vse.cz). Please, send your e-mail by September 15, 2014 as the Winter Term starts on September 22, 2014.

I will be really glad to hearing from you - and helping the university together. Thank you for your time.

On behalf of Šarka Otčenášková, this post was created by CEMS Alumni Association Prague.

Some News for Start of 2014

Dear CEMS Alumni in Prague and Czech Republic,

Firstly we would like to wish all of you fantastic 2014. As we think about more events for 2014, we would like to bring two different kinds of news to your attention.

1. CEMS Alumni from Prague and surroundings are interested to meet families of other Alumni and so there is a voting event open to choose a date for a Children Friendly Gathering of CEMS Alumni in near future (follow up on last years successful brunch where some alumni brought their partners and babies and it was great fun.) Please vote here: http://doodle.com/mvebkarnz2tkn6hk. The organizers are Vojtěch Opleštil and Jana Maršálková.

2. In Czech only: Byla vypsána pozice Koordinátora/ky CEMS programu na VŠE, Praha. Pokud vás daná nabídka zaujme nebo byste někoho v průběhu února rádi doporučili, můžete si stáhnou popis pracovních povinností a požadavky na danou pozici zde: http://cemsmim.vse.cz/vyberove-rizeni-na-obsazeni-pracovni-pozice-koordinatorka-programu-cems/.

Sincerely, your CEMS Alumni Association Prague team