Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

	Web:	http://www.eur.fbk.nl
	Contact Person:	Patricia de Heer, p.heer@fbk.eur.nl, +31 10 408 23 98
	Location:	Faculty Club, H-Building, Woudestein Campus, 3062 PA Rotterdam

How was it?

A very "classy" CEMS DAY!	CEMS Day 2002 at Erasmus Tuesday October 22, there it finally was! Erasmus University celebrated the launch in the Faculty Club, which is located on the 17th floor of one of the university buildings. Corporate partners, CEMS alumni, (visiting) students and staff attended the launch, which started at 17.00 h. with the official opening by Paul Verhaegen, Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management.
His welcome words were followed by the kick off clip presenting the inauguration of the new programme by Mrs. Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Education and Culture. Mrs. Viviane Reding assured the students that they should feel lucky being selected for the CEMS MIM programme as it offers many opportunities, which are so indispensable for an international career. The keynote speaker at the Rotterdam launch was Mr. Didier Guillot, Director Human Resource Management Nederland at LÓreal. His words expressed the importance of academia and business working together and the great advantage of having multicultural management teams working together at L'Oreal.	Dean Paul Verhaegen, Swalek Magala and Didier Guilliot from L'Oréal
Rotterdam CEMS Club	His words were confirmed by two CEMS Alumni, Ties Hartman, graduate 1992 and who is now working at Siemens AG in Munich and Dorothy van der Laan, graduate 1998, and who has spent several years abroad working for BP. The second part of the launch was spent on a CEMS European Buffet, which consisted of dishes of all 17 CEMS countries. The buffet was accompanied by a classical quartet playing festive music.
At 19.00 h. it was time for the most technical and therefore most difficult part of the launch: The Cemsational Video Conference with students from ESADE, Universität zu Koln and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen. Prior to the launch, test sessions did not always work successfully, but this evening the CEMS gods were with us and after a few minutes the audience in Rotterdam was virtually present at the CEMS launch in Barcelona, Cologne and Bergen. To celebrate the success of the CEMS launch in Rotterdam, Paul Verhaegen concluded the event in Rotterdam with a champagne toast on the future success of the CEMS MIM Programme. Linda de Vries
Dorothy tells about her "Life after CEMS"	And so does Ties...

And that was the programme at Erasmus

17.00h	Official Welcome and kick-off of the new CEMS MIM Programme Prof.dr. P.H.A.M. Verhaegen (Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management)
17.10h	Official CEMS MIM "kick-off clip" With the participation of Werner Delfmann (CEMS Chairman), Viviane Reding (EU Commissioner for Education & Culture) and many more…
17.30h	"The European Approach to Management Education" Didier Guillot, Human Ressource's Manager L'Oréal Nederland
17.50h	"Life after CEMS" Drs T. Hartman, CEMS Master 1992 and Drs D.C. van der Laan, CEMS Master 1998
18.00h	European Buffet
19.00h	"The Cemsational Video Conference" With CEMS students from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, ESADE Barcelona, NHH Bergen and the Universität zu Köln
19.30h	Champagne!

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