Visit and participation at business student conference
On this week's agenda were both visits from Dalarna University and active participation in the nationwide mega conference in Sundsvall.
Elin Löof and Viktor Tsiamis, who work with collaboration issues at Dalarna University, spent two days at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall. This included visiting CER to learn about how the work is organized and carried out in the CER network (which consists of companies that are also competitors) and about various collaborations in research and education
Central to CER was to participate as a partner and organizer of this year's mega conference together with the business student association Sundekon. Around 200 business students from all over the country were on site in Sundsvall and the former business students Kevin Yesil and Lovisa Tällberg skillfully put the event together. They now work at SEB and Handelsbanken respectively, two companies that are part of the CER network.
Peter Öhman and Dennis Hedback participated in the introductory partner dinner together with representatives from the main sponsors Akavia, Grant Thornton and Xledger.
Dennis Hedback made an impression already when he danced in and he then held the center's efforts together at the conference.
It was particularly uplifting that the Swedish Economists' Associations' National Organisation (S.E.R.O.) on several occasions highlighted the CER network as unique in Sweden. This was also shown in action when the economics students visited the so-called stand square on Friday afternoon. CER was present there, and the following companies in the network were represented: Aspia, Azets, Cedra, Grant Thornton, Handelsbanken, Nordea, Pro&Pro, SBC, SCA, and SEB.
A forward-looking result of the conference is that CER will invite S.E.R.O. and Akavia to talks on how collaborations between academia and industry can be developed.
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