Megatrend University, in cooperation with “Proudfoot Japan, Inc” and AIO, the Hawaiian consultancy corporation, has established “Teogaku Training School”, based exactly upon the proven premises of the “Teogaku” concept of business leaders’ education. The school campus is located in a super modern eleven‐floor building at the heart of Tokyo – in a famous area of Shinjuku.

The Teogaku business school concept for experienced executives (managers) is unique in the world. In late 1946, Japanese company “Proudfoot”, that was providing consultancy and training services for business executives, designed this concept, which has been developing generations of successful directors for over 60 years. Precisely owing to this concept, Japanese were dominating the world economy in fifties, seventies and eighties of last century. Today, we are witnessing that Japanese companies are very successfully facing the economic crisis, which hasn’t bypassed Japan.

The program of the School is based on the Teogaku philosophy, which represents perfection and excellence in business operations and production, by teaching about Japanese leadership and management that have been proven as the most efficient for decades. Program consists of 9 days of intensive training about such concepts, as crisis and change management, systems of stabilization, as well as Zero Defect, Just In Time and Quality Circles, including excursions to Toyota and around Tokyo and Japan.

The course is organized in interactive way, led by top professors from Japan, South Korea, America and France – experts with rich experience in training managers of large world companies, some of them being: Kiichiro Hasegawa, president of “Proudfoot Japan, Inc”, Takeo Shiina, former president of IBM Japan, Shunji Yanai, the judge at the International Court for Naval Law, Beeler Gausz, former executive manager for staff training in “Phillip Crosby Associates”, Glenn Miyataki, professor at “Proudfoot Japan Inc”, as well as many other active top managers of the Japanese most renowned companies.

The training will be carried out in modules from 40 to 80 hours, depending on the trainees’ needs and the type of training. It will be performed interactively, in confronting the trainees with the experienced Japanese managers, through case studies, brainstorming processes in finding the optimal solutions, etc.

All the candidates for the School will go through a two‐day preparatory training at Megatrend University.

€ 6,7 MILLION AVAILABLE FOR UKRAINE, BELARUS AND MOLDOVA
UNDER  NEW ERASMUS MUNDUS PROJECTS

On 6 January 2011 the European Commission issued a call for proposals worth almost €100 million in the framework of the EU-funded programme Erasmus Mundus II. Out of this amount, €36 million is available for ENPI countries under Erasmus Mundus Partnerships, including € 6, 7 million for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.

The call for proposals (reference number: EACEA/41/10) aims at supporting projects under the programme’s three actions:

Action 1 – Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes. This action that aims at fostering cooperation between higher education institutions and academic staff in Europe and third countries.

Action 2 – Erasmus Mundus Partnerships. This action aims at fostering structured cooperation between European and third-country higher education institutions through the promotion of mobility at all level of studies for students (undergraduate and masters), doctoral candidates, researchers, academic and administrative staff.

Action 3 – Promotion of European Higher Education. This action aims at promoting European higher education through measures enhancing its attractiveness, profile, image, visibility and accessibility. Action 3 provides support to transnational initiatives, studies, projects, events and other activities related to the international dimension of all aspects of higher education.

The deadline for submission of applications under all three Actions is 29 April 2011.

A special Erasmus Mundus Info Day 2011 will be held in Brussels and broadcast online via live web-cast on 7 February 2011. 

CEEMAN’s IMTA program for management educators
Upcoming edition: 5-17 June 2011, Bled, Slovenia

CEEMAN’s IMTA (International Management Teachers Academy) program provides a unique opportunity for young faculty to improve their teaching skills, methods, and materials, and includes teaching using cases, case writing, course design, curricula development, and performance evaluation and feedback to students. The program is also designed to improve competences and skills integral to specific managerial disciplines, and provides input essential in other areas of a faculty member’s professional life, such as consulting, institution development and administration, and social responsibility.

The exchange of ideas and experience with colleagues from other countries is also an invaluable source of learning, and an effective instrument in establishing professional contacts and networks, additionally enhanced via the IMTA Alumni Association.

According to post-program feedback received by IMTA participants and their institutions, the effects of the program go far beyond individual professional career development. Its benefits also include an impact on the participants’ institutions and their respective stakeholders.

• improved educational skills
• development of new teaching materials
• new research project and doctoral thesis leads
• student (customer) satisfaction
• international case competition awards to IMTA alumni
• greater international cooperation, faculty networking, and exchange

Contacts:
Milenko Gudić, Managing Director IMTA, e-mail: milenko.gudic@iedc.si, tel: +386 4 57 92 521

If you are interested please contact Mr. Alexander A. Bocenko, CRE Secretary of East-European office, e-mail: summit@ebaoxford.co.uk, tel.: 380 57 719 33 71 and indicate which of the above mentioned subject areas that you would like to cover.

ANNUAL REPORT

2009 was marked by the single largest increase in membership of the CRE, when 22 pre-eminent figures from the world of education chose to join the club.

The club’s spring session, held on March 8 -11, took as its theme ‘International cooperation in the education sector’. About one hundred rectors from 22 countries worldwide took part in this event.

The participants in this prestigious forum listened with great interest to reports made by Will Baird – Director of Business Development, Europe Business Assembly (UK), Professor Nikolla Dhamo – Rector of University “Martin Barleti” (Albania), Zvezdan Hovat – Chief Executive Officer of Adizes South-East Europe (USA) and others.

The autumn session of the CRE, held on October 25-28 2009, was marked by the presentation of three International Socrates Awards for personal contributions to the intellectual development of today’s society, and by the admittance of 10 rectors as club members.

Issues covered at the session included:
- the establishment of specialised corporate educational centres on university campuses,
- new products and services offered to the educational sector,
- awarding diplomas,
- the advantages of a British education,
- the positioning and branding of universities.

At the end of 2009, a number of events aimed at improving CRE activities were submitted by the Academic Council of CRE for consideration by club members. In particular, it was suggested that the club working plan for 2010 should provide for offsite conferences to be combined with two prestigious European academic forums: the EuroScience Open Forum (July 2-7 2010) in Turin, Italy, and the European Education Fair (November 25-28 2010) in Paris, France, which would enable our rectors to take part in these events.

These proposals were supported by the majority of club members and were included into the CRE working plan. Activities aimed at organisational consolidation of the CRE also contained a proposal to introduce positions of the club vice-presidents.

These proposals were adopted at the spring session of the CRE, and on March 15 2010, the following vice-presidents were appointed:

For Ukraine, Russia and Belarus – a well-known philosopher, the author of more than 400 published works, professor and Rector of the Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, Ukraine, Victor Andrushchenko Ph.D.

Appointed vice-president for the countries of Central and Southern Europe was Rector of the Megatrend University, Belgrade, Serbia, one of the founders of business education in Central and Southern Europe, a prominent expert in cross-cultural management issues, Professor Mica Jovanovic Ph.D.

Appointed vice-president for the Baltics and Scandinavia was professor, Doctor of Ecology, Juri Martin, Rector of Eurouniversity, Tallinn, Estonia.

Appointed vice-president for the countries of Central Africa was the founder and Rector of Afe Babalola University, Lagos, Nigeria, Professor Afe Babalola.

The spring 2010 session of the CRE (March, 14-17) focused on the English approach to higher education, therefore the principal presenters were well-known representatives of eminent British colleges including:

Ines Molinaro – Director of Liberal Art Programmes, St. Clare’s College
Jessica Woodman – Acting Principal, Regent Oxford.

The presentation by Professor Milenko Gudic – Director of the International Management Teachers Academy of Central and East-European Management Development Association – aroused a great interest among the participants of the session. The presentation was entitled ‘Developing a new generation of management educators for a new generation of business leaders’.

The program of IMTA provides a unique opportunity for young faculty to improve their teaching skills, methods and materials, including teaching using cases, case writing, course design, curricula development and performance evaluation and feedback to students. The program is also designed to improve competences and skills integral to specific managerial disciplines, and provides input essential in other areas of a faculty member’s professional life such as consulting, institution development and administration and social responsibility.

In its ten years of existence, IMTA has attracted 374 participants from 113 institutions and 32 countries. To get your business moving, get in touch.
Call + 44 (0) 1865 251 122
Email info@ebaoxford.org.uk