If you've been to one international conference, you've seen them all. I came to IC expecting that I would probably not now anyone. But as I arrived, I found out that from CEE region there are so many familiar faces. I've met those persons either in EnterCEE conference in Hungary or in CEELDS conference in Estonia or in both of them. So to my surprise I found out that I really do have a lot of people here with whom I have "common history".
The other thing is that even with those people that I don't know, its really easy to connect. Most of the people I have met are very opened and ready to share. So in these past few days I have met a lot of people, not only random contacts but people whom you really have something to talk with.
The atmosphere here doesn't seem to be that different. I think the biggest difference (and which I really like) is that there is no place for criticism. Everything that is said is for improving - so you don't say what is lousy, you say that that could be improved and how.
So for me all of this proves again that IT IS important to attend international conferences. Right now I'm thinking that we have the priority to send people to conferences, but we didn't planned the support for international ones. We need to raise more money :) Anyone up for some X selling? :)
20 minutes = 6 country contacts. About this I'm very EXITED :D Yesterday, on 19th of August (I have to remember the date ;)), I asked Deniss to tell me something about the countries which deal with tourism. But instead of just naming the countries, Deniss started to introduce me to different people, from different countries. So basically in 20 minutes I got 6 MC contacts from different countries, who are working with the issue tourism and are very interested in co-operating. Who ever said networking is hard?!
So what does this mean? It means that if we will follow these contacts up, realizing exchanges will be so much easier! We can have agreements with different LCs to recruit EP (exchange participants) for us, for a certain job description. And for our EP's - they can find much easily a good internship place.
So basically I got my IC goals realized before the actual IC started. I'm amazed. Now I'm trying to gather those LCPs that are here, together. Lets see what happens ;)
BTW - this is my first blog-posting ever :) Thank you for the attention :)
The other thing is that even with those people that I don't know, its really easy to connect. Most of the people I have met are very opened and ready to share. So in these past few days I have met a lot of people, not only random contacts but people whom you really have something to talk with.
The atmosphere here doesn't seem to be that different. I think the biggest difference (and which I really like) is that there is no place for criticism. Everything that is said is for improving - so you don't say what is lousy, you say that that could be improved and how.
So for me all of this proves again that IT IS important to attend international conferences. Right now I'm thinking that we have the priority to send people to conferences, but we didn't planned the support for international ones. We need to raise more money :) Anyone up for some X selling? :)
20 minutes = 6 country contacts. About this I'm very EXITED :D Yesterday, on 19th of August (I have to remember the date ;)), I asked Deniss to tell me something about the countries which deal with tourism. But instead of just naming the countries, Deniss started to introduce me to different people, from different countries. So basically in 20 minutes I got 6 MC contacts from different countries, who are working with the issue tourism and are very interested in co-operating. Who ever said networking is hard?!
So what does this mean? It means that if we will follow these contacts up, realizing exchanges will be so much easier! We can have agreements with different LCs to recruit EP (exchange participants) for us, for a certain job description. And for our EP's - they can find much easily a good internship place.
So basically I got my IC goals realized before the actual IC started. I'm amazed. Now I'm trying to gather those LCPs that are here, together. Lets see what happens ;)
BTW - this is my first blog-posting ever :) Thank you for the attention :)
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