The Promotion Team
The Erasmus Mundus Alumni Association Promotion Team was created to explore ways to promote the Association, its activities and Erasmus Mundus programme.
The members of the EMA Promotions Team can best be described as enthusiastic students and alumni who have enjoyed both the academic and cultural experiences (and often scholarships) provided by EMMCs (via support from the European Commission). We are now eager to build networks amongst students, universities, companies and organisations to help spread information about this exciting new educational opportunity, as well as promote our own emerging network – the EMA. The Promotions Team aims to promote EM as a programme of excellence in higher education. It also aims to identify an emerging ‘brand’ as to what EMA is and should be known for: an enthusiastic network of motivated, globally-adaptable and interdisciplinary students and alumni: members who have a diverse range of academic, national and cultural backgrounds, but a common unifying experience linked by three elements inherent to every member of EMA – quality, opportunity, and mobility.
From the fall 2007 General Assembly, the Promotions Team has expanded in number and redefined its goals. It has a larger commitment of active members and a new team coordinator. Undoubtedly, we are learning along the way on how to best organize and where our targets should be. Since fall 2007, we have focused on the following areas:
- Promotion and interaction with other student organisations (IFISO, the informal forum of international student organisations) – this has a two-fold benefit for EMA: we can promote the EM option to undergraduate students; and learn from such organisations as to their operations.
- Participation in the European National Structures (NS) – EMA is promoting itself as an active and competent organisation, and has made partnerships at (European) national level(s), to promote our common interests, promoting EHE.
- Participation in EM Action 4 Workshops – promotion of European Higher Education (EHE).
- Participation in European Higher Education Fairs – around the world.
- Promotion Team members active in setting up Latin American Alumni Chapter – one of the LA chapter’s main goals is promotion of EM and EMA in Latin America.
- Participation in the Global Promotion Project
- Country Representatives – members of the Promotions Team supported this joint venture (headed by the Jobs Team) to create an international network of EMA-ers.
- Contact to Job Fairs – along with Jobs Team
To sum up, the promotion activites are structures in three directions:
- Internal EMA Promotions (to recruit new members from EMMCs),
- External EMA Promotions (to promote our organisation)
- Promotion of EM (to attract competitive and eager students and to support the EC from a student/alumni perspective). Further details are described in 2007/2008 Annual Report.
Please contact us if you have any questions about how to promote EMA! We are happy to hear from you: promotion AT em-a.eu !
EMA Promotional Materials:
NEW EMA FLYER 2010
EMA Promotion Events Application Promo Poster Recruitment Poster
Flyer for employers EMA Flyer EM and EMA Presentation
Erasmus Mundus Promotion Materials
Mundificent Seven - film about Erasmus Mundus alumni
EM Compendium 2010 EM Poster EM flyer
Promotion Team Documents
Promotion Team Annual Report 2008/09
Promotion Team Annual Report 2007/08