It has become a good tradition at our Baltic International Academy to organise summer schools for foreign students. This summer, the BIA is holding the Summer Student School “Digital Business and Finance: Managing for Tomorrow” under a grant from the ERASMUS+ international exchange programme. Students and teaching staff of eight higher education establishments from Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Ukraine, Czech Republic and Estonia take part in it. In the programme of the Summer School, the main attention is paid to the study of digital processes in business and accounting.
When opening classes at the European Centre of the BIA, the organisers of the Summer School – the director of the master study programme “International Finance and Economics”, assistant professor of the BIA Zanna Cernostana and the coordinator of winter and summer schools, assistant professor of the BIA Jekaterina Voznuka, on behalf of the Baltic International Academy, welcomed cordially the representatives of European universities, wished them successful studies and presented memorable souvenirs of the BIA. The Student Parliament of the Baltic International Academy also took an active part in organising and conducting the events of the Summer School.
Before the start of the classes, representatives of higher education establishments presented creatively their universities: South-West University Neofit Rilski (Bulgaria), Metropolitan University in Prague (Czech Republic), Tallinn University of Applied Sciences (Estonia), University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sacz, Bialystok University of Technology, University in Siedlce (Poland), University of Maia (Portugal), University of Oradea (Romania), Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine).
Invited specialists-practitioners delivered informative and innovative lectures: business architect of the company SAP Business&Enterprise Aleksander Popov, Doctor of Economics, exclusive director of AB Solutions Capital Management Company Alexey Aleksandrov, Doctor of Economics from Luxembourg Michel Verlaine, members of the teaching staff of the Baltic International Academy: professor Tatjana Jurkevica, assistant professor Inesa Ratanova, lecturer Julija Rastorgujeva.
The students of the Summer School received a lot of useful information during workshops conducted by the leading specialist of the business incubator of the Portuguese Polytechnic University Liliana Pego, representatives of the international platform Technology Commercialization Arseniy Sergeyev, Aleksey Korabovsky and coordinator of the International ERASMUS+ programme at the BIA Viktorija Petlaka.
Excursions to Old Riga, Jurmala, watching the sunset on the Riga canals and a trip to the Estonian city of Tartu, where the foreign students had the opportunity to get acquainted with the AHHAA science centre, will remain in their memory for a long time.
In the photos: Participants of the Summer School. Students from Poland present their universities. Guests are pleased with memorable souvenirs from the BIA.
Photos by Georgiy Kozlov.
