Volunteering at Innovation Institute, Zagreb

Deadline: 20 November 2013
Open to: students up to 25 years old
Benefits: developing new skills and having the opportunity to meet world and regional top professors and Croatian and regional top managers

Description

Innovation Institute is a non-profit organization with a goal to develop regional innovation potentials by nurturing creativity, innovation, unorthodox thinking and dogma questioning. We aim at connecting academia and practice to develop approaches that aim at value creation and not mere value dissemination. You can visit their YouTube channel HERE to get a better idea of what they work in.

Innovative Institute is located in Zagreb (Croatia) and now is looking for new proactive volunteers to join their team.
So far Innovation Institute has organised several highly successful projects, and we have initiated a number of new programs. Some of the major programs are:

  • ADVANCED PROGRAM IN BUSINESS – leading regional executive education program bringing the world’s best scholars from top business schools: Harvard, Stanford, Bocconi, GATech, London Business School, Duke, Northwestern, INSEAD and Wharton for a comprehensive executive education program
  • GLOBAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE – bringing together around 100 scholars annually from around the world to present their research and discuss the approaches to improving the economy and business in the expected future contexts
  • THINKERS’ IMPACT SERIES – allowing interested individuals to hear presentations and participate in discussions with leading regional scientists / managers / entrepreneurs
  • MARKET RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM – program which presents contemporary market research knowledge to scholars and people in charge of firms’ market research efforts
  • TOP RESEARCHER AWARD – awarding top regional researchers in the field of business with substantial funds that will enable them to conduct high quality research
  • ONLINE CASE ARCHIVES – on-line database of regional business cases available to students of undergraduate, graduate and MBA programs world-wide
  • PUBLISHING – dissemination of key ideas through journals and books

Eligibility

  • Student up to 25 years old
  • Individual with a curious and value-generating mindset
  • Risk-taker
  • Passionate for work and fun
  • Highly fluent in English
  • One that questions the world around
  • Self-motivated future leader willing to learn

Benefits

  • Motivation and sense of achievement
  • Work in a challenging community of like-minded peers
  • Learn and develop new skills
  • Opportunity to meet world and regional top professors and Croatian and regional top managers
  • Upgrade your careers options

Application

Send your resume and anything else you may think is representative of you before 20 November 2013 to the following e-mail address: volunteers@innovation-institute.eu.
For further information, please visit the official website HERE.