IMEX-MPI Future Leaders International University Challenge
What is the International University Challenge? |
For the past two years, students attending Future Leaders Forums in Warsaw, Bangkok and Shanghai have been involved in an informal university challenge. Students representing different universities in each location have been asked to prepare presentations related to the meetings industry and present to a panel of judges consisting of the speakers from the Forum.
The concept of the International University Challenge is to develop the existing model and invite students from different parts of the world to compete against each other in an international competition to be held in Frankfurt during the IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum in May 2010. This will allow more involvement from the students attending the regional Future Leaders Forums as well as give them the opportunity to demonstrate their creativity. 
This year’s Challenge will consist of individual students attending the Future Leaders Forums at:
- MPI's World Education Conference, Salt Lake City, USA, 11 - 14 July 2009
- IMEX - MPI - IT&CMA Future Leaders Forum, Bangkok, Thailand, 6 - 8 October 2009
- IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum at the European Meetings and Events Conference
- The V Student Scientific Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 2010
The selected winners from the above Forums will attend the Future Leaders Forum at IMEX in May, where an overall winner will be announced at the gala dinner.
What Do I Need To Do?
Each student accepted into the Future Leaders programme at the MPI Conferences will be encouraged to develop a bid for a gala dinner at an MPI conference being held in the city of their choice.
For more information on preparing a bid contact Bianca Manteuffel, MPI Manager of Member Services, EMEA bmanteuffel@mpiweb.org
All the bids will be reviewed by a professional body and the top three will present their bid in a 10 minute presentation at Future Leaders Forums with a final presentation being made at IMEX in Frankfurt on Wednesday 26 May 2010.
What Is In It For Me?
The winners from each conference will have their flights and accommodation paid for by IMEX and will be invited to the IMEX Gala Dinner on Wednesday 26 May where the winner of the International University Challenge will be announced.
The lucky winner will be awarded:
- The MPI Foundation Student Scholarship Award.
- An invitation to attend the MPI World Education Congress in North America 2010. Flights, accommodation and registration fee will be paid for by the MPI Foundation.
The winning student and its university will receive considerable worldwide publicity and exposure through the PR departments of IMEX, MPI and associated international media.
Contacts
Please contact either Bianca Manteuffel bmanteuffel@mpiweb.org or
Tom Hulton tom@imvenues.com for more information.
Past Winners
The winner of the 2009 IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum University Challenge and IMEX- MPI Foundation Student Scholarship Award was awarded to University of Westminster student, Miguel Neves.
