Wednesday 23 June 2010

European Business Game

On Sunday, Kenny MacInnes, EBG National Co-ordinator, and me are off to the European Business Game Final in Limoges (EBG) to join my fellow judges, teachers, co-ordinators and, of course, 60 students in five days of enterprise, youthful exuberance, civic and industrial visits with, believe it or not, some hard work and desperately partisan decision-making.

This long-running project now includes not only the competition but an evolving framework for European schools enterprise projects and co-operation. The network of EBG countries has generated spin-off projects and partnerships, and we are now at the stage where at least one former competing student is returning to EBG as an enterprise teacher.

Fortrose Academy (see earlier post) are representing Scotland and are competing against fierce competition from ten other European countries but I'm sure teacher Jacquie Ross has been preparing them well for the week ahead.

We start off in Brive and migrate to Limoges mid-week where we can all prepare for the Grand Final to be held at the Council of Limousin. The teams (well, most of them) have already submitted their reports but will be making formal presentations to the judges, an invited audience and a film crew.

In good old Eurovision style, I can't vote for our own team but I'm sure we all wish our students Sally, Keri, Joanna, Roxanne and Anya the very best of luck in this prestigious competition.

Pics from last year's competition in Copenhagen: