Post on 01-Jan-2016
Discussion groupGrowth strategy
Outcomes
+Proposal
Presidents’ MeetingBucharest
» Outcomes
• Question 1: worldwide organisation?• Conquering the world: no• Slowly extending to North-Africa: maybe
• Question 2: more international partners?• Slowly increase the amount• Get to know each other very well before• Clear purpose for cooperation
» Outcomes
• Question 3: Should BEST be more pro-active towards target countries?
• Cities without a bonding group• No problem to promote• Long list of possible ways to create
awareness
• Cities with a bonding group• More discussions with bonding are
needed
» Situation
• CO.R.E• “BEST should not be pro-active in
approaching universities”22-G-CP-STG-017
• Situation• Not clear what is allowed and what not• Today: pro-active towards cities and
countries where there is a BEST group• You want it!
» Proposal
• In the last
» Question 1
In 10 years, should BEST consider to be a worldwide
organisation?
» Worldwide organisations?
• Partner with CFES• International Engineering Competition• Joint Event on Education • Exchange of participants
• Contact with other organisations in the past• Australia• New Zeeland• India• …
» Question 2
Would BEST benefit from having more partners in other
continents?
» Growth of BEST: history
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» Growth of BEST: history
• Statistics since 2000• On average:
• 3.5 new LBGs per year• 1.1 new countries per year
•The future:• 48 countries in Europe18 years to cover Europe• 195 countries in the world165 years to cover the world
» Countries without BEST• In order of amount of inhabitants
• Germany (82,369,548 ppl )• United Kingdom (60,441,000 ppl)• Belarus (9,799,000 ppl) • Switzerland (7,489,000 ppl)• Bosnia & Herzegovina (4,590,310 ppl)• Ireland (4,016,000 ppl)• Albania (3,619,778 ppl)
• Azerbaijan (8,177,717 – considered case by case)• Georgia (4,677,000 - considered case by case)• Armenia (2,968,586 - considered case by case)
» C.O.RE.
• “Groups from countries where BEST is not present yet should have priority”
22-G-CP-STG-017
•“BEST should not be pro-active in approaching universities”
22-G-CP-STG-017
» Question 3
Should BEST be more pro-active towards growth in target
countries?
» Thank you for your attention
Questions?