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2011 28/12
Kello 9:42 | By Irina Starovoytova | Posted in International Business | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

International Business Students

We are different. We can speak different languages, we are of different age, different culture, and different experience. We contribute

to each other and learn from each other.

We are good communicators: we communicate to about 45 other students from our group every day. We are good speakers and performers: we make presentations in front of half hundred people at least every second week. We are good sellers: three students sold more than 60 brochures at KiVi event.

We are proactive. Some of us run their business while studying at JAMK, some do international working projects, many are participating in different students’ organizations, and we also have our classmate elected for JAMKO board.

We are curious: more than a half of International Business students have an exchange period abroad during their studies at JAMK.

Active students always have more fun. I can just shortly list the activities in which my friends and me took part during this autumn:

  • IDIS-competition /  Competitions among students teams about creating new ideas, which took 3 days, during which we were living in nice cottages in golf resort not far from Jyvaskyla, and had all meals and sauna included.  The tasks were set by the City of Jyvaskyla and Luotsi, non commercial organization supporting entrepreneurship in Central Finland. The award for a winner team was 800 EUR.
  • AIESEC / the world biggest students run organization which is targeted to make this planet more open-minded
  • JAMK Ambassadors / the program of promoting JAMK abroad
  • Lingua Café / the traditional Erasmus event, where you can speak different languages over a cup of tea
  • Feel Finnish habits evenings / every second week meetings, where you can find out and experience Finnish culture
  • Family Friend program / program of JAMK for foreign students to let them feel Finnish way of living inside a family
  • KiVi event
  • Protomo Open Doors Day / Protomo works like business incubator for startups, provides help, place and a fund for developing startups
  • Business Incubator Wednesdays / consultations and help for students of JAMK interested in entrepreneurship

I will not list all the parties and entertainments we are having here, it will take too much place, just believe me: that there are plenty of them.

See you next time, it will be post devoted to entrepreneurship in Finland and in Jyväskylä and at JAMK in particular.

 

2011 24/01
Kello 2:26 | By Kathy Nguyen | Posted in Degree Programmes in English in JAMK, International Business | Tagged , , , , , , , |

First IB tale: HOW…?

© Kathy Ng.

© H. Lämsä

Moi! (Finnish)

привет! (Russian)

Bonjour! (French)

Ciao! (Italian)

Hola! (Spanish)

你 好! (Chinese)

नमस्ते! (Hindi)

Cześć! (Polish)

… and other warm ”hello”(s) in more than 20 languages else from International Business students at JAMK University of Applied Sciences! Welcome to the one-week blog of IB-ers!

I should firstly introduce myself. I’m Kathy, from Vietnam, a JAMK-IB sophomore and also a JAMK-IB lover. After a definitely inspiring blogging time of my friends Mona and Johanna from two other English-based degrees, I’m now on stage during this week to be with you. Honestly, at anytime I can imagine myself buried in a mountain of cool tales about IB, but I’ll try my best to bring here the most JAMK-IB stuff with which you may hopefully get a clearer and more holistic picture about us, as IB-ers, indulging ourselves in the whole degree at JAMK.

You may already have some ideas about WHAT an International Business degree is. The program name tells us all doesn’t it? Just simply about studying business in an international context. A more puzzling question starts with HOW:  How an International Business degree is conducted by JAMK, as a university of applied sciences?

To be a little bit more detailed:

-Business (studies): IB-ers are on the way of mastering the whole business operation including different functions, e.g. logistics, finance, marketing, etc, in a modern organization. Project management, teamwork, analytical tools, organization communications and other business-skill trainings are the musts. All up-to-date business topics, such as globalization or the current economic crisis are taken into account from the global perspective.

-International (context): IB-ers are international themselves (saying hello to my classmates from all continents in their native languages has been one of the most challenging tasks I’ve ever tried my life). IB-ers go to JAMK to be even more international in a harmonious relationship by studying business and sharing experiences together, by applying cross-cultural and language knowledge with schoolmates at lunch and other activities in our exciting student life. We are also “forced” to fly around the world through exchange and internship opportunities in order to enhance our cultural and communication background.

-JAMK University of Applied Sciences:

© Kathy Ng.

© K. Nguyen

Your total learning = ½ conceptual study (lectures, theories) + ½ practical knowledge (case studies, real projects from companies in and outside Finland, internships). To get good grades, IB-ers are expected to apply and perform their profound understanding about theoretical issues into their hands-on workload; and JAMK has its own system to instruct, support and motivate us in this sense (wonder no more, we’ll talk about that soon).

You are starting to view the JAMK-IB picture aren’t you? Above are only the basic ideas about studying IB at JAMK, also the main theme of my daily stories in this week. Let’s go deeper into the IB world tomorrow!

P/S: Let’s stay connected! My e-mail thuy.ng.nguyen@gmail.com is also used for my Facebook account. Feel free to ask me anything you are wondering about IB, okay? :)

~ Kathy Nguyen