EFR-Business Week
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The EFR-Business Week is a student-organized conferences in Europe. Every year around April, the EFR-Business Week takes place at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and other locations around the Netherlands and Europe. It is organized by a committee of six students from EFR. The 27th edition of the EFR-Business Week will be held between 30 March and 7 April 2011.
The Economic Faculty Association Rotterdam
(EFR) is a faculty association in the Netherlands, with around 4000 members. It is related to the Erasmus School of Economics, of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Its aim is to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Over a hundred committee members of EFR organise various activities for all economic oriented students throughout the academic year, in order to contribute to the extracurricular self-development of the students.
The largest of these activities are the Erasmus Recruitment Days and the EFR-Business Week. The EFR-Business Week is amongst the most professional and prestigious student-organized conference in Europe.
During the EFR-Business Week different aspects of a central theme are treated by the means of lectures, master classes, workshops and panel discussions. Internationally renowned speakers from the business world, politics and science put forward their ideas to discover and discuss issues around the central theme. EFR-Business Week aims to integrate theory and practice by means of making contact between students and inspiring individuals of their future working environment. In the past the EFR-Business Week has featured the following speakers:
Opening day
The grand opening of the EFR-Business Week takes place during the Opening Day. Speakers will present their views and experiences through keynote speeches, interviews and panel discussions for an audience of 900 students, professors, businessmen and politicians. The World Leader Cycle Award and the EFR-Business Week Award are granted to its recipients during this day.
Company Days
The Company Days (formerly known as the External Congress) offer students and companies a 3 day series of recruitment events. These events will range from formal in-house days, where students are given an opportunity to witness the work environment and participate in a variety of workshops; to informal dinners and activities, to become acquainted with the company employees. Only the hundred best students will be selected to participate.
Conference Day
The Conference Day is an opportunity for students to interact on a one to one level with notable global citizens. It will give students a more specific perspective of the EFR-Business Week theme. The programme will provide students the chance to discuss the central theme with representatives of multinationals, politicians and other people of interest. During the day there will be an informal debate between a large group of students and a group of knowledgeable speakers who will discuss the theme from both political, cultural and the business perspective. The Conference Day will build upon its past with speakers as Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mr. Balkenende; former Minister of Financial Affairs of the Netherlands, Mr. Zalm and former Prime Minister of Spain, Mr. Aznar Lopez.
Business Week on Location
The day is filled with activities on an external location at either one of the firms or organizations of the Netherlands and Europe. In previous years the Business Week on Location has taken students behind the scenes of Schiphol Airport, the port of Rotterdam and the European Space Agency.
Eclaire Special
A month before the EFR-Business week is held the Eclaire special edition is published. The Elaire is EFR’s full-colour faculty publication, and is circulated to students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Eclaire Special is a unique edition solely focused on the EFR-Business Week, and is received by 35,000 students around the Netherlands.
The EFR-Business Week Committee 2012
Evelien de Wit - Chairman
Jeroen Verhoeff - Commercial Officer
Michel Goedhart - Marketing Officer
Pieter van Wijk - Commissioner Opening Day
Frank van der Knaap - Commissioner Company Days
Manou Lourens - Commissioner Conference Day
The Economic Faculty Association Rotterdam
Economic Faculty Association Rotterdam
The Economic Faculty Association Rotterdam has close to 4000 members and is one of the most active faculty associations in the Netherlands....
(EFR) is a faculty association in the Netherlands, with around 4000 members. It is related to the Erasmus School of Economics, of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Its aim is to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Over a hundred committee members of EFR organise various activities for all economic oriented students throughout the academic year, in order to contribute to the extracurricular self-development of the students.
The largest of these activities are the Erasmus Recruitment Days and the EFR-Business Week. The EFR-Business Week is amongst the most professional and prestigious student-organized conference in Europe.
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During the EFR-Business Week different aspects of a central theme are treated by the means of lectures, master classes, workshops and panel discussions. Internationally renowned speakers from the business world, politics and science put forward their ideas to discover and discuss issues around the central theme. EFR-Business Week aims to integrate theory and practice by means of making contact between students and inspiring individuals of their future working environment. In the past the EFR-Business Week has featured the following speakers:
- Mr. Wim KokWim KokWillem "Wim" Kok ; born September 29, 1938) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from August 22, 1994 until July 22, 2002....
, Former Prime Minister of the NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
- Mr. Jean-Claude JunckerJean-Claude JunckerJean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourg politician, 23rd and current Prime Minister of Luxembourg, since 20 January 1995. He is the longest standing head of government of any European Union state...
, Prime Minister of LuxembourgLuxembourgLuxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
- Mr. Pascal LamyPascal LamyPascal Lamy is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, a French political advisor, a businessman, and a former European Commissioner for Trade...
, Director-General of the World Trade OrganizationWorld Trade OrganizationThe World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which commenced in 1948...
- Mr. Shimon PeresShimon PeresGCMG is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years...
, President of IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
- Mr. Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin NetanyahuBenjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Netanyahu is the first and, to...
, Prime Minister of IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
- The Rt. Hon. The Lord George RobertsonGeorge RobertsonGeorge Robertson may refer to:*George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen , UK Defence Secretary, NATO Secretary-General*George Croom Robertson , Scottish philosopher*George R. Robertson , American actor*George S...
, former Secretary-General of NATO
- Mr. Romano ProdiRomano ProdiRomano Prodi is an Italian politician and statesman. He served as the Prime Minister of Italy, from 17 May 1996 to 21 October 1998 and from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008...
, former President of the European Commission
- Mr. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European CommissionEuropean CommissionThe European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
- Mr. Jan Peter BalkenendeJan Peter BalkenendeJan Pieter "Jan Peter" Balkenende is a Dutch politician of the party Christian Democratic Appeal .He was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 July 2002 until 14 October 2010, having led four coalition governments, cabinets Balkenende I, II, III and IV, none of which served a full...
, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Mr. Josef Ackerman, CEO Deutsche BankDeutsche BankDeutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...
- Mr. Jean-Claude TrichetJean-Claude TrichetJean-Claude Trichet is a French civil servant who was the president of the European Central Bank, a position he held from 2003 to 2011. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements...
, President of the European Central BankEuropean Central BankThe European Central Bank is the institution of the European Union that administers the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member states. It is thus one of the world's most important central banks. The bank was established by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt,...
- Mr. Gerhard SchröderGerhard SchröderGerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German politician, and was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor...
, former Bundeskanzler of GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
- Mr. Rex TillersonRex TillersonRex W. Tillerson is the current Chairman, President, and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation, positions previously held by Lee Raymond.-Education:...
, Chief Executive Officer Exxon Mobil
- Mr. Morris TabaksblatMorris TabaksblatMorris Tabaksblat, KBE , was a Dutch captain of industry. He was a former CEO of Unilever and chairman of the Tabaksblat committee which drafted the Tabaksblat code.-Education:...
, former CEO UnileverUnileverUnilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
and Chairman of the Committee Corporate Governance,
- Mr. Jeroen van der VeerJeroen van der VeerJeroen van der Veer was the CEO of the petroleum corporation Royal Dutch Shell until 30 June 2009....
, Chief Executive Officer Royal Dutch ShellRoyal Dutch ShellRoyal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
- Prof. John Forbes Nash, Jr., Nobel Prize Winner in Economics 1994
- Prof. Franco ModiglianiFranco ModiglianiFranco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:...
, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics 1985
- Mr. Frederik Willem de KlerkFrederik Willem de KlerkFrederik Willem de Klerk , often known as F. W. de Klerk, is the former seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994...
, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1993, Former President of the Republic of South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
,
- Mr. Mikhail GorbachevMikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...
, former President of the Soviet UnionSoviet UnionThe Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
- Prof. Eric MaskinEric MaskinEric Stark Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." He is the Albert O...
, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics 2007
- Mr. Anders Fogh RasmussenAnders Fogh RasmussenAnders Fogh Rasmussen is a Danish politician, and the 12th and current Secretary General of NATO. Rasmussen served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 27 November 2001 to 5 April 2009....
, Secretary General of the NATO
- Dr. Jakob KellenbergerJakob KellenbergerJakob Kellenberger is a former Swiss diplomat and the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross .-Biography:Jakob Kellenberger was born in the Swiss canton of Appenzell in 1944....
, President of the ICSCICSCICSC can refer to:*the International Cataloguing Standards Committee*the International Chemical Safety Card*the International Civil Service Commission*the International Climate Science Coalition*the International Council of Shopping Centers...
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The EFR-Business week generally consists of the following events:Opening day
The grand opening of the EFR-Business Week takes place during the Opening Day. Speakers will present their views and experiences through keynote speeches, interviews and panel discussions for an audience of 900 students, professors, businessmen and politicians. The World Leader Cycle Award and the EFR-Business Week Award are granted to its recipients during this day.
Company Days
The Company Days (formerly known as the External Congress) offer students and companies a 3 day series of recruitment events. These events will range from formal in-house days, where students are given an opportunity to witness the work environment and participate in a variety of workshops; to informal dinners and activities, to become acquainted with the company employees. Only the hundred best students will be selected to participate.
Conference Day
The Conference Day is an opportunity for students to interact on a one to one level with notable global citizens. It will give students a more specific perspective of the EFR-Business Week theme. The programme will provide students the chance to discuss the central theme with representatives of multinationals, politicians and other people of interest. During the day there will be an informal debate between a large group of students and a group of knowledgeable speakers who will discuss the theme from both political, cultural and the business perspective. The Conference Day will build upon its past with speakers as Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mr. Balkenende; former Minister of Financial Affairs of the Netherlands, Mr. Zalm and former Prime Minister of Spain, Mr. Aznar Lopez.
Business Week on Location
The day is filled with activities on an external location at either one of the firms or organizations of the Netherlands and Europe. In previous years the Business Week on Location has taken students behind the scenes of Schiphol Airport, the port of Rotterdam and the European Space Agency.
Eclaire Special
A month before the EFR-Business week is held the Eclaire special edition is published. The Elaire is EFR’s full-colour faculty publication, and is circulated to students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Eclaire Special is a unique edition solely focused on the EFR-Business Week, and is received by 35,000 students around the Netherlands.
EFR-Business Week Committee
Every year, EFR selects six students from the Erasmus University Rotterdam to organize the EFR-Business Week. The committee is a full time position from August until April.The EFR-Business Week Committee 2012
Evelien de Wit - Chairman
Jeroen Verhoeff - Commercial Officer
Michel Goedhart - Marketing Officer
Pieter van Wijk - Commissioner Opening Day
Frank van der Knaap - Commissioner Company Days
Manou Lourens - Commissioner Conference Day