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Narxoz University in International Associations: EFMD

EFMD provides an international platform to bring together leaders in the management education profession and membership brings many opportunities for partnerships, student and faculty exchanges and the sharing of knowledge and ideas. The different services EFMD offers include conferences&events around the world that address key issues for business industry, and the dissemination of knowledge, quality improvement and accreditation via EQUIS (institutional accreditation), EPAS/EFMD Accredited (programme accreditation) and CLIP as well as the Online Course Certification System (EOCCS), the Deans Across Frontiers mentoring programme (EDAF), the Business School Impact System (BSIS) and Highered, a global talent platform connecting students, schools and companies worldwide.


Narxoz University has been an affiliated member of the EFMD association since 2015 and has the following free benefits:

1. The prospect of obtaining EQUIS accreditation.
2. Participation and Voting rights in the yearly Annual General Assembly (usually taking place during the EFMD Annual Conference) impacting EFMD general policies and governance matters. 
3. Nominating Business School as a host for an EFMD event, conference or seminar. 
4. Nominating School’s staff to become member of a board/committee, reviewer, speaker or writer of articles appearing on the EFMD Global Focus magazine; all members of staff from the School are eligible. 
5. Making connections, benchmarking and sharing learning amongst international peers by attending our events and initiatives.
6. Participation in Awards and Competitions. 
7. Attracting and placing talent: EFMD offers an international placement service called Highered; the Global Talent Portal - a global student recruitment platform to connect, market, and recruit student talent at the 703 world’s leading business schools directly through one entry point. The Highered platform gives companies a unique positioning towards talent through unprecedented employer branding possibilities, reach and access to a diversity and global student body at a low cost. 
This platform provides international internships and job opportunities to students. EFMD company members but also other companies are offering these international placement opportunities (among others AB InBev, Bayer AG, Mazars, Grupo Santander, L’Oréal, Daimler AG, Repsol, Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, EDF and more). 
EFMD Virtual Career Fair series are being organised by Highered, allowing students and alumni to connect with companies and organisations from around the world in a sophisticated job fair simulation environment enabling real-time interaction between recruiters and candidates. The cost for EFMD members is 590€ (including unlimited talent and alumni participation). More information is available here.
8. Recruiting talent: posting ads on the EFMD website. 
9. Access to different publications: the Global Focus magazine and its special supplements. 
10. Access to the online EFMD Membership overview allowing to search for and connect with the EFMD community via an online platform
11. Seminars on online learning models, programs to support the school in developing a strategy for institutional research goals, seminars on international strategy, and so on.