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.”
Jirí Hofman (University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)
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JIBS present at the Australia Exchange Fair Circuit!
26 May 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
By: Leticia Lövkvist, International Exchange Student Coordinator
I had the opportunity to represent Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) at the Australia Exchange Fair Circuit, from April 27 to May 6. This fair is a collaboration of many of Australia’s universities, whereby fairs are held at their campuses around the country to promote student exchange.
Leticia Lövkvist promoting JIBS!
The Fair circuit facilitates awareness and exposure of the Australian Universities’ International Partners. The involvement in the fair has offered me the opportunity to network with JIBS partner universities’ students and staff, as well as other international and Australian institutional representatives. My main goal was to promote JIBS as a student exchange destination, so in addition to the participation in the fair, I had the opportunity to have meetings with different representatives at the Universities and presentations in the classrooms.
Leticia Lövkvist (JIBS) and Prof. Gensheng Shen, Dean International ECU
It is important for JIBS to be able to attract more Australian students, so that we can bring balance to the exchange program and continue sending JIBS students to Australia on exchange. The Universities I visited are in Perth: Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University (ECU) and Murdoch University, and in Melbourne: Deaking University Campus Geelong and Campus Burwood, Swinburne University, La Trobe University, RMIT and Victoria University.
Sophia IP (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jackie Taylor (Deakin, Australia), Kasey Dugan (Deakin, Australia) Leticia Lövkvist (JIBS, Sweden) and Alejandro Escudero (ESSCA, France)
At some of the Universities I was accompanied by JIBS students who are studying in Australia during the spring 2010 semester. At ECU: Daniel Carlsson and Mikael Falck, at Swinburne University: Jens Myhrman and former exchange student Krystina Witt, at La Trobe: Pontus Petersson and at Deaking University: Marcus Törnblom and Martin Andersson. In addition JIBS was represented by our student Anna Norrsell Karlsson at the Queenslad University of Technology fair, which took place on April 21.
Swinburne Univeristy with JIBS' student Jens Myhrman and Australian student Krystina Witt, former JIBS exchange student.
Fair at Deakin University with Australian student Sarah Grills, prospective JIBS exchange student.
Students showed great interest when knowing more about JIBS’ large number of courses offered in English in different areas of studies, JIBS’ international profile, the integration of international students in the courses and the student body in general. In addition they considered very important the services offered to international students such as the pick-up service, help in finding accommodation, the induction week and support by the international office during their studies. Sweden being a modern, safe, developed and well-organized country, as well as most Swedes being fluent in English, was also significant. Knowing about the extracurricular activities organized by JSA (JIBS’ student Association) and IA (International Association at Jönköping University) motivated them as well.
Fair at ECU with JIBS students Daniel Carlsson and Mikael Falck
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Trip to Stockholm, part 2
07 May 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
By: Erik Lagerwall
We started the day by checking out from the hostel, which took some time since some people enjoy sleeping. But after our hectic day yesterday, we deserved to take a long morning.
Since we had our meeting with Carnegie at 3pm we decided to walk around in Stockholm. We visited the Stockholm and the church where Daniel and Crown Princess Victoria will get married in the 19th of June. We also walked around in the old town of Stockholm to have some ice cream and look at the old stock exchange.
At Carnegie we met up with Maria Johansson from the HR department, she had arranged a great visit for us. We got to meet people from the corporate finance department, research department and the sales department. Carnegie as many knows have been through a rough time, and they were very open with it, and we got ask a lot of questions to them.
We got a good look at their new offices in Stockholm, which they moved into in September last year. They have really nice head office and we got to sit in the executive boardroom, which has a great view over Stockholm. We ended our visit at Carnegie by going down to their trading floor, and it was just like we had expected. People shouting at each other, talking loudly in their phones with clients and they all have at least 5 different computer screens to look at.
After Carnegie we hade some spare time for some shopping and for some food before going back to Jönköping.
These 2 days in Stockholm have been really great, and we have meet a lot of different companies, but specially we got to chance to see different parts of what makes up our economy in Sweden.
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Trip to Stockholm, part 1
06 May 2010 | Posted By: Maria Markenroth
By: Erik Lagerwall
Together SIFE and Nordnet Trading Room hace educated students in Jönköping in private economy and basic stock trading. The finale of this education is a trip up to Stockholm, to visit different financial actors.
We left JIBS around 6 am in the morning yesterday, for some people that was a bit early but we drank some coffee and managed to get on the road.
Our first stop in Stockholm was with Länsförsäkringar. They talked about the different segments they work with and how they try to combine them into one product. One interesting thing is that Länsförsäkringar is organized in a different way then most companies.
After Länsförsäkringar we visited Nordnet to learn more about how to be successfull on the stock market. The lecture was very interesting, and we learnt a lot from them and how we should invest.
The last visit of the day was with Riksbanken (Central Bank). This lecture was really good, and if we could we would probably have stayed much longer with them. Because we had a lot of question that we want the to ask, and we learnt so much about the differentiation from ECB and Riksbanken.
We ended the day with Dinner, and hopefully we will have a good next day!
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International Day 2010
22 Apr 2010 | Posted By: JIBS Stories
At April 21 we celebrated International Day at JIBS. It was really crowded with lots of food from all around the world, guest lectures, amazing performances and more than 30 countries represented.
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