ESC PAU Business School recently had the pleasure of welcoming representatives from 16 of its partner Universities during the 2006 International Week.

This event was the opportunity for the members of our International network to get to know each other better and to present their schools to our students, who are still at the crucial stage of choosing their work placement abroad. A series of “workshops” were organised in that perspective during which students attended presentations of partner schools, their programmes of study, the work environment and the life on a foreign university campus. The participants were also able to broaden their views on managerial skills and behaviours during the conference on “manager skills”.

Research activities were also a key theme during that week, the aim being to establish closer research relationships between ESC PAU Business School and its partners, especially as far as the co-production of academic papers is concerned.

To get fully immersed in the local culture, our guests were taken on sightseeing tours to the Betharram caves, the holy town of Lourdes, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Basque coast, San Sebastian, and were able to have a taste of Béarnaise food specialities.

The reinforcement of our links with our partner universities culminated with the signing of agreements for 50 extra places for our students on overseas programs, including :

• A one semester program of study at Kean University (near New-York)
• A one semester program of study at the International Institute of Information Technology in Puna (the education capital of India)