Regional round ofEuropean BEST Engineering Competition

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Table of content

Organisers’ address 4

Board of European Students of Technology 5

Organisers 6

Competition categories 8

Sponsorship benefits 9

Support levels 11

Sponsorship overview 14

Contacts 16

*Explanation of the important acronims in the booklet:

CS - Case Study, TD - Team Design.

Organiser’s address

Dear Sir/Madam,

It is our honor and great delight to introduce You to the second edition of regional round of European BEST Engineering Competition - EBEC, which will be organised in Sofia in April 2013 by local BEST groups from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The First edition was held in Belgrade in 2010, under name BalkanREC.

Through this brochure, we officially invite You to actively take part in EBEC Balkan 2013, hoping that You will recognize the benefits this event brings to Your enterprise, its activities, future and reputation. By delivering a team design task or a case study task to the best students of our region, You’re being offered a unique opportunity to feel how perspective, competent and competitive engineering students think, just as to put their ideas in production afterwards.

You’re being provided a chance to achieve direct contact with the participants and recognize talents by setting serious and corporate-relevant challenges in front of them. Through a task of Your own, You become a part of competition atmosphere, staying in mind of competitors, organisers, guests and spectators as someone who made this great and attractive event happen.

By organising engineering competitions, BEST seeks fulfillment of one of its basic aims. Young engineer’s education process enrichment and promoting socially relevant ways of releasing their potential are considered to be important and insufficiently developed fields. Having that in mind, we sincerely hope that, together with You, we’ll look back to this project in a couple of years and talk with pride about it as an important milestone and a generator venture for other activities of that kind.

We are looking forward to cooperating with You.

Kind regards,

EBEC Balkan2013 organisation team

Board of European Students of Technology

Board of European Students of Technology - BEST is a non-profit and non-political organisation that provides communication, cooperation and exchange possibilities for students all over Europe. Local BEST groups operate at 94 universities in 34 countries, and are led by a total of more than 3200 members. Together, they are constantly developing a growing, well organised, powerful, young and innovative student network.

BEST strives to help European students become more internationally minded by reaching a better understanding of European cultures and developing capacities to work on an international basis. In order to achieve this, we organise academic courses, events on education, engineering competitions and job fairs, thus managing to bring all the partners in the student-company-university triangle closer.

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BEST in numbers

• 94 Universities

• 32 Countries

• Over 3300 Members

• Reaching over 1.000.000 students

Events

• Courses on technology

• Engineering competitions

• Events on education

• Job fairs

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Organisers

BEST is represented by its local groups on a particular university. Through involvement in various projects, volunteering students have a chance to get experience in project management, improve their leadership, communication and other skills, and create networks of contacts within their academic and corporate surrounding.

Local groups that are taking part in organising EBEC Balkan are:

BEST Belgrade | University of Belgrade BEST.eu.org/belgrade | www.bg.ac.rs

BEST Podgorica| University of Montenegrowww.ucg.ac.me

BEST Sofia | Technical University of Sofia BEST.eu.org/sofia | www.tu-sofia.bg

BEST Skopje | Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje BEST.eu.org/skopje | www.ukim.edu.mk

BEST Mostar | University “Dzemal Bijedic” of Mostarhttp://www.unmo.ba/

BEST Niš | University of Niš BEST.eu.org/nis | www.ni.ac.rs

European BEST Engineering Competition Balkan 2013

Regional round of European BEST Engineering Competition – EBEC Balkan is an annual event organised by local BEST groups from Belgrade, Mostar, Niš, Podgorica, Skopje and Sofia. It is preceded by seven local qualification rounds, one in each of those cities, and is itself one of 15 regional or national competitions that delegate their winners to EBEC.

European BEST Engineering Competition - EBEC is the biggest external event organised by BEST. All engineering students are eligible to enter the competition, but only the best ones can win and progress beyond local level - almost 4000 students will participate in local rounds, over 500 of them will proceed to regional or national level, and over 100 will participate in the finals. This year’s edition of EBEC will be held on August 1-11 in Warsaw, Poland.

Competition categories Sponsorship benefits

Search for innovation

Work together with the organising team and university representatives in providing a case study or team design task for the best future engineers in the Balkans to solve. Get creative ideas and a new approach in solving any issue important for Your company. Acquire the right to use all solutions in Your company’s production process.

Company Hours

Promote Your company and its activities via video presentation. Get the opportunity to present the direction of growth and success of Your company among important guests and participants, as well as all the other students and visitors.

Meet the participants

Monitor the progress of team design task solving. Get detailed CVs of all participants and provide them with additional questionnaires. Recognize young talents and secure valuable contacts for Your company.

Attend the official closing ceremony

Present Your company and its plans for the future to all participants, guests, other company representatives and media during the official closing ceremony. Describe Your task for the competition and why it was a valuable issue for Your company. Announce the winners and provide special awards.

Promote Your company in the media

Online Media Center Appear in daily reviews and live streaming during the competition. Be seen in press clippings and interviews alongside with the participants and other important guests. Follow the progress of the entire competition in real time via our webpage.

Modern Media Channels Get constant promotion through modern media channels, including the official competition website and various portals and social networks. Promote yourself at both local and international level through targeted newsletters with over a 1000 subscribers.

Traditional Media

Enjoy full media attention for the competition through television, radio, and newspapers, especially during the closing ceremony. Emphasize the image of Your company by being highlighted as a supporter of a youth project-based competition.

Team DesignEvery team has to design and construct a device or model that should satisfy competition requirements. The teams have a certain time limit and have to use tools and materials provided by the organisers. Criteria for evaluating the outcomes are predetermined.

For example, a good team design task would be to create the most efficient wind turbine whose efficiency would be tested by a strong ventilator. The enterprise providing this task could benefit in two ways:

- By testing if its existing equipment has a new and creative application

- By getting several working prototypes of a device or model that can later be used for other projects

Case studyEvery team has to study a certain real-life or imaginary corporate or other problem and provide a well-described set of solutions for handling such an issue. Problems can be either technical or management by nature. The results are evaluated by a jury, after presentations made by each team.

For example, one of case study tasks set at one of the previous EBEC was “Design the Feature of the Future” - improving one of the world’s top web browsers. The software enterprise that delivered the task benefited in two ways:

- By getting feedback about certain usability issues with features that were already developed or planned

- By getting proposals about new features that would resolve existing problems and attract new users

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Support levels

Team Design Partner • Deliver team design task

o Be the jury for your own TD task

o Providing materials needed

o Company award for the winning team in TD

• Presence at Closing Day

o Speech during official closing

o Presentation of the TD task

o Announcing the winning team in TD

o Awarding the winning team in TD

• Presence during Company Hours

o Video presentation of the company

• CVs of all participants

• Giving questionnaire

• Promotion

o Video presentation on the official website of the competition

o Logo on the official website of the competition

o Media center

o Modern media channels and traditional media

o All printed materials and t-shirts

o Providing company welcome packages for all participants

AVAILABILITY: one company

PRICE: 1200 euros

Case Study Partner• Deliver CS task

o Be the jury for your own CS task

o Explaining your CS to participants

o Company award for the winner team in CS

o Copyright on the solution of the winner team in CS

• Presence at Closing Day

o Speech during official closing

o CS presentation

o Announcing the winner team in CS

o Awarding the winner team in CS

• Presence during Company Hours

o Video presentation of the company

• CVs of all participants

• Giving questionnaire

• Promotion

o Video presentation on the official website of the competition

o Logo on the official website of the competition o Media center

o Modern media channels and traditional media

o All printed materials and t-shirts

o Providing company welcome packages for all participants

*Note: If the company is interested in giving a more complex case study, solving of their case study would take 2 days and the company would get more promotion, proportional to the case study duration and complexity.

Two day CSAVAILABILITY: one company

PRICE: 1200 euros

One day CSAVAILABILITY: two companies

PRICE: 700 euros

Support levels

Local Team Supporter • Giving the name to the team which company supports • Presence at Closing Day • Presence during Company Hours • CVs of all participants • Promotion

o Video presentation on the official website of the competition o Small logo on the official website of the competition o Modern media channels and traditional media o All printed materials and t-shirts o Providing company welcome packages for all participants

AVAILABILITY: one company per team

PRICE: 360 euros

Sponsor• Presence at Closing Day • Presence during Company Hours • CVs of all participants • Promotion

o Small logo on the official website of the competition o Modern media channels and traditional media o All printed materials and t-shirts o Providing company welcome packages for all participants

AVAILABILITY: Unlimited

PRICE: 300 euros

Support levels Sponsorship overview

Jury

Materials for TD

Company award

Jury

Explaining CS to participants

Company award

Copyright on the solution

Presence

Speech

Task presentation

Announcing the winner team of the task

Awarding the winner team of the task

Presence

Video presentation

Video presentation on the official website

Logo on official website

Media Center

Modern media channels and traditional media

All printed materials and t-shirts

Welcome packages for all participants

CVs of all participants

Giving questionnaire

Giving the name to the team

Availability per company

Price (euros)

Delivering TD tasks

Delivering CS tasks

Closingday

Companyhour CS tasks

Promotion

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1200 360 300

1/2 1per team unlimited

PartnerTeam Design

Partner Case Study

LocalTeam

SupporterSponsor

Contact

Maja Golubovic

Corporate Relations

maja.golubovic@BEST.eu.org

+381 64 2232 835

Viktor Golubovic

Coordinator

viktor.golubovic@BEST.eu.org

+381 60 0636 249

Nedyalko Nedyalkov

Main Organiser

nedyalko.nedyalkov@BEST.eu.org

+359 888 434 731

Technical University of Sofia

University of Belgrade

University of Montenegro

Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

University of Niš

University of Mostar

Official support

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