IMEX-MPI-MCI Future Leaders International University Challenge
What Do I Need to Do? What Is In It For Me? Contacts, Past Winners
What is the International University Challenge? |
The International University Challenge takes place at Future Leaders Forums around the world, allowing students to demonstrate their creativity in event planning. The winners of each Challenge are brought together at the Forum in Frankfurt in May to compete against each other, with the overall winner being presented with the MPI Foundation Student Scholarship Award at the IMEX Gala Dinner.
This year’s Challenge will consist of individual students attending the Future Leaders Forums at:
- MPI's World Education Conference (WEC), Orlando, Florida, 23 July 2011
- IMEX-MPI-IT&CMA Future Leaders Forum, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 October 2011
- IMEX-MPI-MCI Future Leaders Forum at the European Meetings and Events Conference, February 2012
- IMEX-MPI-MCI Future Leaders Forum, Warsaw, Poland, March 2012
- IMEX-MPI-MCI Future Leaders Forum at IT&CM, Shanghai, China, April 2012
What Do I Need To Do?
Each student accepted into the Future Leaders programme at the MPI Conferences will be encouraged to develop a bid for a conference to be attended by Generation Y, held at the destination of their choice. The conference will be a showcase of the organisational, creative and technical skills of this generation and will demonstrate the shape of meetings to come to the meetings industry with special emphasis on CSR and sustainability.
All the bids will be reviewed by a professional body and the top three will present their bid in a 10 minute presentation at Future Leaders Forums with a final presentation being made at IMEX in Frankfurt on Wednesday 23 May 2012.
What's in it For Me?
The winners from each conference will have their flights and accommodation paid for by the MPI Foundation and will be invited to the IMEX Gala Dinner where the winner of the International University Challenge will be announced.
The lucky winner will be awarded:
- The MPI Foundation Student Scholarship Award.
- An invitation to attend the MPI World Education Congress in 2012. Flights, accommodation and registration fee will be paid for by the MPI Foundation.
The winning student and their university will receive considerable worldwide publicity and exposure through the PR departments of IMEX, MPI, MCI and associated international media.
Contacts
Please contact either Randy Crabtree, MPI
rcrabtree@mpiweb.org +1 972-702-3085 or
Tom Hulton tom.hulton@imexexhibitions.com for more information.
Past Winners
In 2011 Michal Maziarczyk of Vistula University, Warsaw, was the deserved winner of the International University Challenge and collected his award from Bruce MacMillan, President and CEO, MPI, who praised him for offering a particularly insightful contribution to the meetings industry through his research paper.
The winner of the 2010 IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum University Challenge and IMEX-MPI Foundation Student Scholarship Award was Renea Anderson from the Rosen College of Hospitality Management, USA.
The winner of the 2009 IMEX-MPI Future Leaders Forum University Challenge and IMEX-MPI Foundation Student Scholarship Award was University of Westminster student, Miguel Neves.
