Family event once again in Brumbambule

Once again a great meeting of alumni, their partners and their children. Brumbambule is a great place and we can only envy our children such a great playground :-). Nevermind - having the opportunity to talk to each other is a great thing and I am sure we will continue with the family events tradition.

Vojtech
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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#March issue of the CEMS Alumni Newsletter: Warm invitation for great CEMS events in the upcoming weeks!

Dear CEMS Alumni, We are thrilled to invite you for greatly diverse CEMS Alumni events - all of them taking place in the upcoming weeks. And as a highlight do not forget to book your calendar on Thursday 19th April: The celebration of 20 years of CEMS MIM in the Czech Republic. CEMS Talk dedicated to a topic we typically do not talk about: Tue 20th March 7pm: CEMS Talk The Dark Side of Management Successful management career: it is easy to imagine the bright side of it, but what does it actually take? Come to discuss this topic with our top speakers. Location: Palac YMCA, Na Porici 12, Prague 1 Registration: Google Form Details: Facebook Upcoming events in April A traditional CEMS Alumni event: CEMS Alumni Sauna on 5 April 7pm Location: TBC Details: Facebook CEMS Alumni meet CEMS Students: CEMS Breakfast on Fri 6th April 8am Location: TBC CEMS Alumni Family Event on Sat 7th April 10am Location: Brumbambule, Kolbenova 9a, Prague 9 Details: Facebook CEMS celebrating 20 years in the Czech Rep. on Thu 19th AprilKey CEMS event in 2018: Meet the whole CEMS Community Location: University of Economics, Prague Program: Coming soon :-) Details: Facebook Share your CEMS Alumni Story for the 20th Anniversary CEMS Event

We need your support CEMS Alumni Association in Prague is a non-profit organization ran by volunteers To be able to organize events like this one in the future - we need your support. How can you support us? 1) Financial support To cover our costs (e.g. for space rental, refreshment during events etc.), we would like to ask you for your support. You can either join the Global CEMS Alumni Association or you can give a financial donation to our Alumni Association in Prague. For details please check this post. Our bank details are: IBAN: CZ16 2010 0000 0029 0011 9575, SWIFT: FIOBCZPP. 2) Space support Do you access to meetings / conference rooms or any unusual space (i.e. theatre, gallery) that we might use for future CEMS Alumni Events? Please let us know. 3) HR support Are you willing to give back to the CEMS Community? Do you want to join our team and prepare future events for other CEMSies? Please let us know.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our uproming events. To stay connected, join our Facebook group #CEMS Alumni Czech Republic

Pavlína, Kashia, Vojta, Honza and DaryaYour CEMS Alumni Board Team
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CEMS Alumni Family event on 7 April

Dear alumni
come and join us at another family event (yes, that means that the majority of participants will not be alumni but only potential cemsies :-)). The last family event went pretty well, no children discouraged from becoming a cems student and not parent went mad.

Where: Brumbambule (reservation made by Olga Ciglerova)
When: 7 April starting at 10:00 AM
Registration: Via Facebook or send me an email.

Looking forward to meeting you and your children!

Vojtech
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Pics from the family event

Once again we organized an informal gathering of alumni and their families. In the colder months it is better to play indoors so after being in the Cafe Koala last time we moved to Brumbambale.
This time we didn't have any specific topic to discuss so it was just a friendly chat interrupted quite often by our children requiring attention and support during their games and investigation of many of the amusement. But what would it be a CEMS event without discussing different business topics: working in Russia, business travels, running own photo atelier, or changing career to another direction.

Eleven families / parents and their children

Eva and Vašek :-). 

One of the children participants

I am pretty sure this was not the last time we went to Brumbale. Next family event to take place in the first quarter of 2018.

Vojtěch
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25 Nov: CEMS Alumni family event

Dear alumni
come and join us at another family event (yes, that means that the majority of participants will not be alumni but only potential cemsies :-)). The last family event went pretty well, no children discouraged from becoming a cems student and not parent went mad.

Where: Brumbambule (reservation made by Judita Bihellerová)
When: 25 November starting at 10:00 AM
Registration: Via Facebook or send me an email

Looking forward to meeting you and your children!

Vojta
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CEMS Alumni discussing family and career

Dear CEMSies,

our event on the topic Family and Career took place in a bit untypical environment for CEMS gatherings - in kids' entertainment center Café Koala. This showed up to be a great choice for both kids thanks to the enormous amount of play and fun opportunities in the center as well as for adults due to very nice and comfortable atmosphere, great café and friendly and smiling staff.

Almost all attendees of this event were parents. After we all met and kids started to explore the neighboring slides and jungle gyms, we did an introduction round. Each of us introduced himself / herself and also added what he/she currently faces in relation to family and career. 

Clearly the key point of discussion was, under which conditions a mum can work but also be with her kids - i.e. a compromise between full time job full time household. CEMS mum enjoy being with kids at tome but at the same time are capable and want to work, further use and develop their skills and capabilities. 

So what is the ideal scenario? Based on our discussion, it is a part time job with flexible working hours that can be done from home. Although, the reality of the job market is a different story. There are some cases, when a mum is offered a part time job that can be combined with family. 

Though what we learnt from our own stories or based on our own experience, these are mostly individual exceptions, company and society rules are still rather rigid in this area. 

This can be a great topic also for big companies, for CEMS corporate partners. Today's huge topic is CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). Isn't this one of the key topics in the CSR agenda?

We would like to thank to all participants of this event. We are looking forward to seeing you at other events coming this year (more details soon :-)). 

Thank you for being interested in this topic and also reading this article.

Pavlina, Vojta and Honza

Your CEMS Alumni Board Team

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CEMS Alumni Saturday morning event on the topic Family and Career

Dear CEMSies,

this is a little reminder about the upcoming CEMS Event dedicated to the topic Family and Career.
We are meeting on Saturday (28th Jan) at 10 am in Cafe Koala in Prague Hostivar
If you are coming with public transport, take a bus number 111 from Skalka to the station "Tovarny Hostivar".
Cafe Koala is a kids' entertainment center, so also kids are warmly welcomed :-)
Registration via email at: cemsalumni@seznam.cz
We are looking forward to meeting you,
Your CEMS Alumni Prague Board

PS: There is no entrance fee for adults of babies up to 1 years. The entrance fee to the kids' entertainment park in Cafe Koala for kids between 1 and 3 years is 150 CZK, for kids older than 3 years, it is 250 CZK.

CEMS Alumni event on the topic Family and Career (bring your kids along :))

Dear CEMSies,

we would like to invite you for a networking as well as a family event on Saturday 28th January at 10am in Café Koala. During this event, we will talk about combining family and career, sharing our experience, while kids have space to explore the kids' center in Café Koala.To secure enough space for us, please register at: cemsalumni@seznam.cz

A short summary:
Topic: Family and Career
Where: Café Koala, Dolnomecholupska 209/17, Praha 10 Hostivar
When Saturday 28th January between 10am and 1pm
Registration at: cemsalumni@seznam.cz

We are looking forward to meeting you!
CEMS Alumni Board