Board of European Students of Technology

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Established	1989
Type	European Students Organisation
President	David Salamon
Location	Europe
Website	http://www.best.eu.org/

Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) is an international, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit student organisation. It strives for empowered diversity by developing students of technology, making them more internationally minded by encouraging their mobility and intercultural communication. In order to achieve this, BEST organizes events on education, engineering competitions and academic courses. The main goals of the organization are complementary education, career support and involvement of the European learning system.

It currently consists of 83 local groups in 30 countries around Europe with more than 2000 active members.

Contents 1 Activities 2 Structure 2.1 Board 2.2 International Committees 2.3 BEST groups 3 Partner organisations 4 References 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Activities

The main events organized by BEST are academic courses, engineering Competitions and job fairs.

BEST Courses are the core activity of BEST. These are events about one to two weeks in length, uniting students of technology from all over Europe to study a technological subject. However, while these subjects are of an attractive and innovative nature^{[citation needed]}, mixing various topics in engineering education, education on itself is not the only goal of these events: Equally important are expanding horizons, improving cultural understanding and in general providing European students of technology with the opportunity to experience something unique^{[citation needed]} for little cost.

The quality and openness of BEST Courses are important, as they distinguish BEST from other international student organisations. Any engineering student from a university with a BEST Group can apply to BEST Courses, without having to become a BEST member. Thus, BEST provides a service not only to its members, but to all engineering students from associated universities. Furthermore, BEST has an internal quality standard that the courses are required to fulfil ^[1]. In a Course, participants will have all food, lodging, travel costs during the course, cultural activities and an exciting academic program supplied during the course. Almost every BEST group organizes such a course every year.

Another important type of BEST event is the Engineering Competition (BEC). These are events organised in collaboration with a number of important European companies in the field of technology. The companies propose a problem to be solved by teams made of participating students. The competition events usually begin with training sessions, followed by several rounds of competition. Thus, students have the opportunity to consolidate their engineering capacities. The BEC concept has been conceived in order to complete the theoretical part of university studies with a practical one. Therefore, students will be able to increase their knowledge and get used to constructive thinking, as well as a different vision of a problem. Since 2009, the local engineering competitions (LEC) are brought together in a common project where winners from these competitions compete at the Regional and National level and then the winners go to the European final which is called EBEC

[edit] Structure

[edit] Board

The Board is constituted by six members elected once per year at the General Assembly. The Board includes the following positions:

• President
• Treasurer
• Secretary
• Vice-president for external services
• Vice-president for internal support
• Vice-president for Local Group support

[edit] International Committees

BEST has six committees that take care of specific tasks, as follows:

• Educational Committee (EduCo): working on relations with institutions regarding education in Europe and supervising the symposia on education
• External Events Committee (EEC): supervising the organisation of external events of BEST, like Season Courses or Competitions
• Financial Team (finTeam): setting up cooperation with companies and other institutions
• Information Technology Committee (ITC): in charge of all computer-related aspects, including website
• Marketing Committee (markeTeam): creates and improves marketing of BEST
• Training Group (TiGro): takes care of internal training in BEST

[edit] BEST groups

A BEST Group is an association of BEST members at the same university. These groups are responsible for promoting and organising the activities of BEST at their university.

BEST is present in 30 countries at the following universities:

Country	Universities
Austria	Graz University of Technology, Vienna University of Technology
Belgium	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Universiteit Gent, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Université de Liège
Bulgaria	Technical University of Sofia
Croatia	University of Zagreb
Czech Republic	Brno University of Technology
Denmark	University of Aalborg, Technical University of Denmark
Estonia	Tallinn University of Technology
Finland	Helsinki University of Technology, Tampere University of Technology
France	École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers (ENSAM), Grenoble Institute of Technology, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, École Centrale Paris, École Polytechnique, École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées (ENSTA), Supélec
Greece	National Technical University of Athens, Technical University of Crete, University of Patras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Hungary	Budapest University of Technology and Economics, University of Pannonia
Italy	University of Messina, Politecnico di Milano, University of Naples Federico II, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Polytechnic University of Turin
Iceland	University of Iceland
Latvia	Riga Technical University
Lithuania	Kaunas University of Technology
Republic of Macedonia	Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
Moldova	Technical University of Moldova
Netherlands	Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology
Norway	Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Poland	AGH University of Science and Technology, Gdańsk University of Technology, Silesian University of Technology, Technical University of Łódź, Warsaw University of Technology
Portugal	New University of Lisbon, University of Coimbra, Technical University of Lisbon, University of Porto
Romania	Transylvania University of Braşov, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, Polytechnic University of Timişoara
Russia	Ural State Technical University, Ural State University of Railway Transport, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Serbia	University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad, University of Niš
Slovakia	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Technical University of Košice
Slovenia	University of Ljubljana, University of Maribor
Spain	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Technical University of Madrid, University of Valladolid
Sweden	Chalmers University of Technology, Lund University, Royal Institute of Technology, Uppsala University
Turkey	Istanbul Technical University, Middle East Technical University (METU), Yıldız Technical University
Ukraine	Lviv Polytechnic, Zaporizhzhya State University, National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”

[edit] Partner organisations

In order to improve its own work and activities, BEST collaborates with two other student organisations:

• bonding-studenteninitiative e.V. (from Germany, since 1997)
• Canadian Federation of Engineering students (from Canada, since 2004)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• BEST - Board of European Students of Technology

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