The meeting in May 2025 took place in Germany, where Riza Öztürk, Eika Auschner and Nermin Karaoglu from the IBSEN team in Bielefeld welcomed the representatives of the IBSEN network. Key points of the meeting were the update on the international activities of the business faculties, the IBSEN Summer School in Izmir in July and the IBSEN certificate. The second day was under the motto World Café: In three themed cafés (social media, student projects, research/transfer), interested colleagues from HSBI talked together with the IBSEN members about ideas on these topics. All participants had to visit all three cafés and share or discuss ideas. The results of the cafés were presented at the end and task packages were distributed within the network.

This year, new elections were held to lead the network, and a new president and vice president was elected. Because of the great work done in the past, the previous presidents were confirmed in office. Congratulations to Alessandro Spano and Armand van Oostrom!!! 🙂

The IBSEN meeting with representatives from eight partner universities was used several times for networking. The HSBI students were able to obtain information from the guests about the individual IBSEN universities in a question hour. In addition, a joint network lunch of the faculty staff and the IBSEN representatives took place.

The cultural aspect was also not to be neglected: Beyond a dinner in a German brewery, a city tour and a guided tour of the “Sparrenburg” castle were organized.