Improving living conditions for slum communities CEMS student team’s plan to improve living conditions for slum communities amongst winners of Shanghai 2010 AwardThree students from Rotterdam and Louvain business schools on CEMS semester abroad in Dublin finish on winning podium. A decentralized energy distribution system using a standalone green energy-producing unit for use in slums has won the Schneider Electric Award at the Shanghai 2010 Awards. Designed by CEMS students to “enable slum inhabitants to be entrepreneurs by providing them with an ecological, technological and social business model,” the team will receive the €3,600 prize at the July 15th ceremony in Shanghai. Organised by HEC Paris and Tsinghua SEM Beijing on the occasion of the Shanghai Expo 2010, the business project competition jury awarded five major prizes. Four of the winning five teams represent CEMS academic members, including a 100% CEMS Master in International Management (MIM) team, representing Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business (UCD, Dublin). CEMS team strives to “make the environment of slums a better place to live” The CEMS team of Kai Hermsen, Tineke Franssen and Karel Vanacker devised the concept of the “SCTree”, a solar change project designed to, in the words of the students themselves, “make the environment of slums a better place to live.” In keeping with the CEMS global alliance, the team drew much from its own diversity during the exercise: “We all have different backgrounds and nationalities, share the affinity for entrepreneurship and saw this competition as a unique opportunity to combine our skills in order to create a sustainable venture for megacities,” said Kai Hermsen. The Business Project theme, “Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable City,” aimed to identify and promote entrepreneurial ventures contributing to sustainable urban development, a challenge that many CEMS students have been prepared for since the introduction of the CEMS Climate Change Course in 2008. CEMS member schools dominate winners’ podium HEC Paris, Fundação Getulio Vargas-EAESP, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business and Keio University all feature amongst the top 5 schools. All have CEMS membership in common. The Michael Smurfit team is a 100% CEMS MIM team, comprising students from Rotterdam School of Management and Louvain School of Management spending their mandatory semester abroad in Dublin as part of their CEMS Master’s in Management, the number one pre-experience Master’s in Management in the world according to the 2009 Financial Times global ranking. Following the March launch of the competition, 300 business projects were submitted by teams comprising students from business schools or schools of engineering, architecture or urban development, or young entrepreneurs who had graduated up to 3 years ago. These were then narrowed down to 87 projects, then 33 by the jury composed of esteemed academics and business partners. As well as the €3,600 prize money, the team of CEMS MIM students will be offered a three-night all-expenses stay in Shanghai (including access to the World Expo) and mentoring with representatives of leading international companies. Further information on the competition: www.shanghai2010award.com About CEMS Founded in 1988, CEMS is a strategic alliance of 27 member schools from 4 continents and over 50 prestigious corporate partners. The CEMS Master's in International Management provides a unique blend of top-level education and professional experience for multilingual, multicultural postgraduate students. The 2009 Financial Times ranking rates the CEMS MIM the n°1 Master’s in Management in the world as well as the best for combined international results, enhancing the status of the programme as the first supra-national M.Sc. This success has been boosted by the direct involvement of academic and corporate partners in the definition and teaching of the curriculum, as well as the implementation of a series of joint research projects. www.cems.org Post to Social Links 
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