Why

… go on summer school?

• Focus on set of skills• Gain knowledge; ECTS• International experience & contacts• Appreciated by employers, partners

It’s funIt’s cost efficientIt’s a foreign adventureIt’s arranged rather quicklyIt’s part of your global mindset

Why

… offer summer schools?

• It’s in high demand: by students, research staff, employees and many other visitors

• It’s a great selling proposition for your institute• It’s a recruitment contact for future students

• It’s providing new business and new funding• It’s value creation using your university network

• Knowledge sharing on summer/winter schools!

• Joint communication• Joint recruitment• Joint initiatives

We want to offer a strategic platform for Unica partners

To get more applicants into S/W schools and programmes

Unica plan

Roadmap

• Annual assembly with UNICA partners (11/2012)

• Communication work group for platform (03/2013)

• NOW: demo, steering committee (06/2013)

• Web portal:create pilot portal (10/2013)

• For gathering S/W schools

• For publishing S/W schools

• Add partners, promote in network (12/2013)• Elaborate on contents & promotion tools (2014)

Strategic objectives• N 1 Summer/Winter school Portal in Europe• Promoting Unica+ partner programmes• For all ages; all qualifications; with(out) ECTS• Option: grow into an EU Alumni or Mobility project

Operational basis • Partner collaboration coordinated over Linkedin• Partners insert S/W schools and news online• Online/offline Unica promotion tools!

Core: web portal

Get more students!

• Build N 1 Search portal• Monitor extra traffic • Use Unica quality stamp• Boost initiatives with

joint marketing efforts:

• Web portal & back-end• Toolkits for promotion

News – Mail templates –Flyers – Fair presence –FB Posts - Movie sharing

Why join?

Send an Email to Martaoffice@unica-network.eu

• Briefly explain your interest• Get into steering committee

• Designing the platform = technical/functional vote!

• First mover advantage= your initiatives listed first

• Marketing strategy= vote in toolbox creation

What’s next?