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European Summer School (ESSAM)

Our School is now a member of the prestigious Consortium of the European Summer School of Advanced Management (ESSAM). This enables our students to attend the Summer School in the last week of June and first week of July each year.

Dates for the 2008 Summer School are from Sunday 22 June 2008 to Saturday 5 July 2008.

IGSB students who are accepted into ESSAM can earn credit for two electives towards their MBA. To be eligible for ESSAM, however, students must be more than half way through their MBA and have achieved excellence in their academic results.

The benefits of ESSAM

The idea of ESSAM originated at Glasgow University, which hosted and ran the first summer school in partnership with the Aarhus Business School in 1988. The fundamental purpose is to provide an international education experience for part-time, post-experience MBA students who are in mid-career. Typically the average age of such people is 25-40 on entry to an MBA program.

The purpose is to give participants:

A hallmark of ESSAM is the highly inter-cultural learning process. Students encounter cultural and social differences. Participating in this multicultural setting provides a basis for the development of excellent managerial skills.

Real life cross-cultural experience, direct experience with management styles and processes in Europe, along with the invaluable creation of lifelong networks and friendships are other significant benefits from ESSAM.

In a dynamic economic environment, where companies are competing worldwide, it is important to be able to communicate with people from other cultures. Effective communication requires a solid background in terms of knowledge about and experience with other people.

The optimal approach to enlarging personal capacities for understanding people is to be put in a situation where you have to work closely with them. This is important for employers and employees alike. At the European Summer School, this is achieved by bringing people together from all over the world and having them work on real-life projects in local companies.

The quality of experience for the participants is not restricted to academic content. Participants also experience quality management and organisation, and a smoothly run event in which great care and attention is paid to even the smallest detail.

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How to apply

IGSB students seeking to apply for the 2008 Summer School should note that applications will close at the end of February 2008. Applications may only be lodged online through the ESSAM web site at http://www.essam.eu. Intending students are encouraged to arrange an appointment with the MBA Program Director (details below), to arrange a comprehensive briefing about ESSAM
Successful applicants will be notified by 15 March 2008. For further details contact:

Bob Gilliver
Program Director - MBA
International Graduate School of Business
GPO Box 2471
Adelaide SA 5000
Australia
Telephone: 8302 9292
Email: bob.gilliver@unisa.edu.au

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The ESSAM Consortium

ESSAM is organised by a consortium of the following business schools from around the world:

ESSAM Consortium

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Venue for 2008

Aurhus mapThe venue will be the City of Aarhus in Denmark.

Aarhus is the second largest city in Denmark with a population of 290,000.

Denmark is a small Scandinavian country with a population of 5.3 million people and is centrally located in Northern Europe What Denmark lacks in size is more than made up for in strategic location, political stability, quality of living, culture and education.

Links on Denmark

Links on Aarhus

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Fees

The fee for UniSA MBA students is EURO 2,600 (single room). For registered MBA students from other institutions, the fee is EURO 3,000.

This includes accommodation for one person, meals, course material, visits to companies and some social activities. Shared rooms are available on request. A rebate of EURO 175 will be granted.

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Testimonials from our students

Bev GaughwinI would strongly recommend participation in ESSAM to MBA students at IGSB as a valuable and enjoyable learning experience.
The opportunity to undertake two weeks of intense learning, group work, and  networking with MBA students from many different countries and industries, in Europe was a unique and truly international experience.

We learned so much from the course work and guest speakers, and from our  colleagues and network of new friends from around the globe. ESSAM was very well organized and our Danish hosts did everything possible  to make it an optimal learning adventure. We worked hard and had fun, and  for many it was a life changing experience.

A very worthwhile experience, that added depth and breadth to knowledge acquired in the MBA program. I'd do it again!

Bev Gaughwin
Director of Physiotherapy
Flinders Medical Centre

John RohrsheimESSAM 2004 was the perfect way to top off my MBA. International viewpoints, excellent guest speakers, a brilliant venue, interesting and up to date topics and an extreme amount of fun. ESSAM was an amazing networking opportunity which fostered lasting international friendships.

I'm so glad I made the trip.

John Rohrsheim
Engineer
Worley Projects - Chemicals and Minerals

Peter StevensESSAM provides a unique opportunity to spend two weeks with 100 MBA students in an intense learning environment exploring strategy and other learning elements.

It was intellectually stimulating and a great way to establish a global network of professional contacts. I would recommend it to anyone nearing the end of their MBA that wants an experience to remember to cap off their MBA.

Peter Stevens
Human Resources Manager - South Australia
Organisational Change Management Lead
EDS

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