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Students start their own business during summer holidays
29 Jun 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
By Maria Nordström
They are called ”summer entrepreneurs” and with the help of Science Park Jönköping they start up their own businesses during the summer holidays.
Science Park, partly owned by Jönköping University, stimulates and contributes to the creation, development and growth of knowledge-intensive business. One of the ways to do this is to provide free coaching, workshops and counselling for students who want to start their own businesses. During summer, Science Park accepts applications from students who are interested in starting their own business, and at the same time finds companies who need help with specific tasks. The companies are then matched to the students, who form their business and start to work as consultants.
”I have been thinking for a long time about starting my own business, and this is a very good way to get going, says Johan Jonzén, who studies Business Administration at JIBS.
The tasks that the new consultants are assigned can be anything from market research and customer analysis to programming and graphical work. Science Park supports them with questions regarding taxes, keeping the books and other practical issues, and there are also office premises that they may use free of charge.
This summer, Science Park has received 90 applications from students, and this has resulted in 15 new businesses.
”We continously match new students to companies, so the number will increase as summer progresses,” says Gustav Österström, business developer at Science Park. ”This project has been running for a few years now, and there is a lot of interest both from companies and from students. The companies are very satisfied with the work of the students, and many of them return year after year.”
Johan Jonzén, Lisa Josefsson and Karl-Johan Timbäck are all students at JIBS. They have each started their own business but they will work together on their summer project for Kinnarps Interior.
”Their expectations of us are really high,” says Lisa Josefsson. ”What we do will form the basis for their future work.”
Kristofer Larsson was a summer entreprenur last year. During his last year of studying at JIBS, he has gotten more assignments and has been working in parallel with his studies. Now he will work with his own business full time. The help from Science Park has been invaluable, he says. In the future, he hopes that his business will do so well that he can employ more people.
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29 Jun 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
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JIBS welcomes International Summer Programme Students
17 Jun 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
By Leticia Lövkvist and Vaida Vysniauskaite
JIBS is running its Summer Programme for the fifth time! The programme has welcomed students from JIBS’ summer partners, as well as JIBS’ programme students. Internationalization is an important component of the program, as well as the diversity in students’ academic backgrounds. Participating students come from a number of different countries – China, France, India, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, Tajikistan and Vietnam.
The courses that are run are International Entrepreneurship and Venturing and International Logistics and Supply Chain Management. They are taught in conjunction with the Centre for Innovation Systems Entrepreneurship and Growth (CISEG) and the Centre of Logistics and Supply chain Management (CeLS). Course coordinators and administrators are Tomas Karlsson and Magdalena Markowska, and Helgi Valur Fridriksson and Lianguang Cui, respectively. Besides the academic content, students are able to experience the Swedish culture through cultural and social activities included in the programme, such as the reception at the Municipality of Jönköping, a bus tour of Jönköping and Huskvarna, a visit to Vadstena’s castle and Gränna.  In addition, students will have a company visit to IKEA’s Distribution Centre in Torsvik, which will give them a picture of a successful Swedish company working globally. The programme will end with a farewell dinner in the beginning of July.
For more information please contact JIBS’ International Office.
Please find below some pictures taken so far from JIBS’ Summer Programme.
A visit to Vadstena Castle – together with the queen.
Exploring Gränna…
… and taking in valuable knowledge during the lectures.
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Farewell to our Spring 2010 Exchange Students
11 Jun 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
By Leticia Lövkvist and Vaida Vysniauskaite
It was time again for the traditional “goodbye meeting” with JIBS’ exchange students who have just finished their semester abroad at JIBS! Meeting the students as a group for the last time is a great opportunity to provide them with important information they need to know before going back to their home countries and universities. During the meeting the students received information related to academic matters as well as advice on how it is to return home and to prepare for the re-adjustment process. In addition, students were encouraged to join JIBS Alumni association and come back to JIBS to participate in JIBS’ summer programme and/or master programmes. The meeting ended with a lucky lottery where students could win nice prizes, followed by the traditional “Swedish fika”. Please see below some of the pictures taken during the meeting as well as short interviews done with our exchange students.
We have asked the students what their most memorable experience from the exchange semester at JIBS was…
“I have never experienced cold, it was exciting for me to play with snow.” Taichi Takahashi (Kansai Gaidai University, Japan)
“Living in Vilhemsro was perfect. I have also got a Swedish contact family. It was the best five months in my life.” Selin Zeybek (Bilkent University, Turkey)
“During my studies at JIBS I had the opportunity to take four courses and what made them so special was the cultural richness I gained from having teachers with different nationalities and ideologies and at the same time the experience of working in teams with people from all over the world with their own thoughts, values, beliefs and ways of thinking. The accompaniment and guidance provided from the International Office was the key element in the process of adaptation not only with the courses but with the life in general.” Angelica Maria Echeverria Monsalve (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
“I liked the intercultural environment and really appreciated the fact that the university is accessible 24/7. I think it is very helpful for studying.” Nicolas Wook (EM Strasbourg, France)
“There are an abundance of books in the library. We can find all the information we need there. Another thing about studies at JIBS is that the school emphasizes teamwork. We do the assignments with other people and learn how to communicate with our teammates and combine different ideas together. These are the key points in our future jobs.” Li Shen (Shanghai University, China)
“Courses I took at JIBS are all very well organized – not only well presented in a succinct and interesting manner but succeed in designing seminars and assignments.” Liu Liu (Tsinghua University)
“In the courses that I joined we had guest lectures and student lectures, the classroom is the stage for entrepreneurs and students which is a great way of organizing business courses. My self-learning ability and communication skills have increased tremendously.” Xin Li (Nankai University, China)
“The snow, the mix of culture, the Swedish food. I also got to visit Stockholm. Jönköping is a really good place to study.” Alberto Alan Malfavon Molina (ITESM Campus Monterrey, Mexico)
“Meeting new people from all around the world, getting to know different cultures – that is what I will bring back with myself as the most memorable experience from exchange studies at JIBS.”
JirĂ Hofman (University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)
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