Day Programme/timetable

9.00 Bus leaves from Mikkeli

10.30 Arrival to Savonlinna

10.30-11.20 city tour in Savonlinna

11.30-12.30 guided tour at Castle Olavinlinna

13-14.00 lunch in restaurant Wanha Kasino

Transportation to Rantasalmi, Järvisydän (50 km)

15-17.30 bathing in the saunas

17.30 Supper

18.30 Bus leaves to Mikkeli

19.45 Arrival at Mikkeli

Reservations by 1 March 2012. Payment by the end of March 2012.

Contact information hanna.aholainen@pohjolanmatka.fi

For more details take a look under excursions: http://www.space-eu.info/space_conferences.aspx?confContentId=198.

Read more about Savonlinna on http://www.savonlinna.fi/en/home_page/facts_about_savonlinna

The Marketing Communications Committee of SPACE is proud to invite you to its 3rd

State of the Art Conference (SotA)

Across Europe and throughout the SPACE Network, we invite all lecturers of Marketing Communications and anyone else with an interest in the major themes of SotA2012 to join us at Lillebaelt Academy in Odense,Denmark.

The SotA 2012 builds on a participative and involving approach inviting you to experience, touch, share and take an active part in the conference tracks.

• Digital and Audiovisual Marketing Communications (for lecturers)

• Digital and Audiovisual Marketing Communications (for business/managers)

The full conference program is available at www.eal.dk (look under Events)

Sign up for the conference as soon as possible at www.eal.dk (under Events). We have a maximum of 50 participants. Deadline for registration is on 1 March 2012.

JOIN, EXPERIENCE, LEARN, GROW... and have fun in the while!

Exiting places and one city are tuned in on experiences in the world's happiest country, Denmark. And you are invited!!!

Want to know more?

Read more about the submission of abstracts www.cit2012.eal.dk:

Abstracts to be reviewed for the conference are to be submitted by 3 January 2012.

You can also learn more, on the conference website: www.CIT2012.eal.dk.

Do you think that others should have this opportunity too?
Feel free to distribute this invitation in your close network.

NOTICE!We have a limited number of seats.

Florida Universitaria in cooperation with the University of Valencia and the most relevant Hotel Associations, is organising a MASTER IN HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT & INNOVATION - ONLINE  for the next academic year 2011 - 2012.

This Master is accredited by the University of Valencia and will start next October. The methodology is online - by making use of our e-learning platform - and it is based on seminars, videoconferences, tutorials and the possibility of having a placement experience in Spanish hotels.

The e-MDIH is taught primarily in Spanish; a B2 level is required. There is an option for studying one semester in Birmingham (UK) in collaboration with the University College of Birmingham; in this case a B2 level of English is also required.

Florida Foundation offers an 80% scholarship of this Master to one student per institution. In this case, the student (selected by the institutions themselves) should submit the corresponding Application Form together with a covering letter from his/her university, stating that this particular student fullfills the requirements to join the Master and to achieve the above-mentioned scholarship.

For further information please do not hesitate to visit the following link:http://direccionhotelera.florida.es/  or to contact Ms. Marta López

 mlopez@florida-uni.es

 SPACE President Danute Rasimaviciene speaking to CBU 2011

Dear all!

My philosophy of life is simple and easy to understand.

To be grateful is the concept I follow and support – it is my normal state of mind.

But then occasionally life prepares for me an exceptional present, then it takes me to the top – I am always asking myself:

“Am I strong enough to accept such a gift?”

Sir Winston Churchill once said: 

“The price for greatness is responsibility”.

But are we always ready to pay that price?

I am lucky – I’ve met a lot of responsible people, and I am still working with a lot of responsible people and organizations. Most certainly I have discovered that Constantin Brancoveanu University is one of those organizations and with many strong personalities.

SPACE – the European Network for Business studies and Languages I am representing here - is actually only 2 years older that CBU. CBU and the Association grew together but till the year 2002 the doors to that purely Western European and EU network were closed to all Eastern European Universities and Colleges.

I am proud that my Vilniaus Kolegija/University of Applied Sciences was the first to enter the Network and to promote the policy of openness.

CBU was among the first Eastern European Universities to take responsibility of the representation of Romanian HEI and of the country as a whole.

Here I must to emphasize how important for the managerial bodies of the institutions is to make a right choice of a liaison person or director of international relations. Usually in international organizations the perception of the university or even a country depends on the behaviour of and thoughts expressed by the one person entitled to work on behalf of his or her university.

CBU joined the Network in 2006.

A perfect choice of a liaison person made by the managers of the University let both parties: SPACE and CBU – benefit from the interaction and cooperation. SPACE acquired an active and trustworthy partner with a passion for quality and innovation.

In 2008 SPACE was invited to organize its Autumn Meeting here in Pitesti that meeting did a great job in disturbing all false assumptions Western Europeans had about Romania. Participants were taken in and impressed by a modern university with contemporary approach to studies and the mindful CBU attitude to the students and staff.

At the same time CBU:

-    received access to all project outcomes and courses developed by SPACE members (more than 70 EHEI)

-    gained a platform for the promotion of their business studies, Romanian culture and Romania itself in 24 European Countries.

-    Enhanced its international visibility and attracted a lot of new Erasmus partners and in that way opened new study destinations for the students.

As a member of SPACE, CBU got a chance to become an active player in the field of Bologna process and to contribute to the development of European Higher Educational Systems.

A lot of possibilities related both to SPACE and to the cooperation with VIKO are still in a future. We could mention

- joint programmes

- double and multiple diplomas

- international weeks

- European projects

- Cooperation with the SPACE business partner society

- international internships

By awarding the title “Professor Honouris Causa” you are letting me in and inviting me to become part of your future development.

It’s an honour.

It is a responsibility.

And I am accepting it with sincere gratefulness.

Danute Rasimaviciene,

President, SPACE