Students go international
- ESTIEM Nokia Council Meeting Finland 2010 is coming! Read what is happening, and why, from 9th
to 15th of November
ESTIEM reaching the world for over 20 years
How can one get touch of all the Europe? Someone would say jump into a car and have fun with a road trip.
Why not, but Industrial Engineering and Management students from Helsinki, Tampere, Lappeenranta,
Oulu and Vaasa decided to do the other way around. They invited Europe to Finland! What makes this easy
and possible is a multinational student organization called ESTIEM (European Students of Industrial
Engineering and Management), which is present in over 26 countries reaching up to 47 000 students.
ESTIEM Council Meeting is the statutory meeting of ESTIEM, and takes place twice every year. This time in
Finland it is connecting around 300 people from the whole of Europe. During one week all the participants
experience Working Groups, teambuilding, networking and General Assemblies. They will also attend a so-
called Finland Innovation Workshop, where they are divided into 40 student teams to puzzle around
business problems of top Finnish companies. On the top, is the celebration of 20-year-old ESTIEM!
This is a huge possibility to show off our Finnish student culture, educational system and high technology
cluster and we intend to take full advantage of this. Like Jyrki Katainen, the Minister of Finance of Finland,
said: "--- Council Meeting in Finland brings together students in business and engineering from all across
Europe. The event promotes mobility, cultural exchange and employment in key industry segments. ---".
How often do you see this coming?
ESTIEM is really turning into men’s age. Started by
What internationality truly means?
innocent students trying to bring something international
“True internationality is when you stop being aware to their university life. In November 1990 in Berlin 50
of it despite being involved with people of other students from 7 countries were filled with let’s-do-it-
cultures.” – Geoffrey van Ijzendoorn
mentality creating frames for something special and
“Not only living in Europe and travelling once in a unique. In November 2010 230 students and up to 100
while, but considering yourself as European instead alumni (yes, we already have those…) gather around to
of Finnish/Swedish/German...” – Sebastian Geese Finland to share memories and celebrate all the amazing
“For me NOT about having necessarily a high moments spent together.
percentage of foreigners at the university/
department/ company. More about people's Finnish IEM students also have a nice history in founding
attitude like people that think international, ESTIEM. Quoting one of the founding members Christoph
integrate foreigners in a group by e.g. constantly
Hagedorn from Berlin remembering Finnish arriving to one
speaking a common language, showing culture,
of the first coordination meetings in 1989: “With no heads-
explaining background information etc.”
– Alexander Hornung up or warning there stood 2 Finnish students from Helsinki
in our middle. One large as a tree, the other one sturdier.
Both dressed in their white Prodeko combat overall. One said Hi, and then nothing more, the other one
stood up and over the course of the next 2 days explained to us what internationality truly means”
Read more from Christoph: https://www.estiem.org/Upload/Files/MagazineArchive/38_issue.pdf (page 28)
Why are also companies interested in this?
Naturally these events offer valuable experiences to all the participants and organizers, but what does the
world famous companies value from these. We asked the Council Meeting partners why do they put money
and valuable time to be present with us in CM Finland. Carita Poussa, Regional Head of Recruitment in
Nordics, East Europe and Eurasia at Nokia, sees that there are many benefits for the companies too: “We
value student’s opinions and feedback immensely. Participation offers us a learning experience as well.”
Ilkka Leppävuori, Manager from Bain & Co Nordic sees these events as a great opportunity to meet
potential employees: “We want to be visible among a selected group qualified students and build general
awareness of Bain & Company, but also to get to know potential recruiting candidates in person.”
Finland Innovation Workshop was created to show the best of Finland to Europe. It is an amazing
opportunity for the students to learn basic business problems that we face in Finland. Development
Manager Sari Tarnanen from Itella believes though, that it’s not only the students who are getting away
richer from this: “We expect to meet a multitude of high talented minds that can quickly give fresh answers
and multi-dimensional opinions to our current business questions. The cross-cultural aspect and well-trained
background for idea generating can give us a lot.”
What’s in it for your future?
More than 80 activities are organized through ESTIEM every year. These include case competitions,
seminars, bi-annual Council Meetings and many many other kinds of events, like skiing trips to the Alps!
These events around Europe offer good opportunities to expand international network and develop your
people skills internationally, which in turn provides good prospects for several future careers.
Well why would you want to travel across countries if not just for fun? Let Ilkka Leppävuori tell you:
“International experience is always an asset. Having the necessary courage, language skills and cultural
awareness to work in this multinational environment is very important in our work.”
Cultural diversity is a phenomenon of everyday life now even in Finland. Some people have strong feelings
and they tend to express them frankly. In other countries, this is no different. Only, it is expressed in
different ways, so there is quite a lot of data that gets ”lost in translation”. In your future work, the project
teams can easily be formed from people from many different nationalities. Yet, the goal is to create close
and effective team. If this can be accomplished, the result is a diverse team with enormous range of
creativity, enthusiasm and new opportunities.
“You are expected to have helped yourself and gained the basic cultural understanding during the college
and university years.” Reveals Sari Tarnanen: “Very few employers give you special training for basics in
these things.”
ESTIEM and experiences in multicultural environment help in this. Awareness of the differences in
communication comes through trainings, workshops, discussion sessions and personal communication all
the time in ESTIEM events. Getting involved gives an opportunity to actually work with multinational
project teams. Let’s have an example of one of the committees inside ESTIEM. Public Relations committee
is developing and assuring the continuity of the ESTIEM brand inside and outside ESTIEM. It is lead by a
French, having Finnish, German, Dutch, Turkish, Serbian and Spanish members. Could leading or working in
these kinds of groups look good in your CV when applying for a job?
Where have you been lately?
Europe is not that far, just put your mind to the right state and go for it!
Todays Global Networking:
No strings attached you can just have fun almost for free. Alexander
Hornung from Ilmenau, Germany brings up some benefits of having fun “ESTIEM completely changed the
way I see the world. At some point
and leaving the class rooms for a while: “Cheap holidays and useful
you realize that it no longer
learning. Good, new friends, which helped a lot during my exchange year, matters where you are physically.
as I already had good friends in the city.” Possibilities are endless. The power lies in knowing the
right people and being able to
You can also find many enthusiastic people working on the development connect them to something that
of ESTIEM and trying to make your experiences more worthy. What does fascinates them.” – Mikko Sjöberg
students who have spent a year working in a multicultural organization
think of the experience? President of ESTIEM, Geoffrey van Ijzendoorn: “ESTIEM has opened paths in my
future career beyond expectations. I got first-hand experience on for instance team building, conflict
management, and goal-setting in an international (virtual) environment.”
Andreea Sabo, former ESTIEM Vice President of Administration finds many dimensions from her learning:
“One of the most important things I learned is how to understand and like people that think in another way
than I do. “Before you seek to be understood, seek to understand”, said some great person once. With
ESTIEM I have learned to love cultural diversity in Europe and that when you want to make a change you
have to take the lead and other people will follow you and help you make that thing happen.“
See you somewhere in Europe!
On behalf of the Council Meeting Finland organizing team,
Tero Jaakkola
http://www.cmfinland.org
All pictures taken by Adam Kasprzak. Thank you!
http://www.adamkasprzak.com/
Great thanks goes to all of the below persons who helped with this article and provided interesting content:
Geoffrey van Ijzendoorn (President of ESTIEM 2010)
Christoph Hagedorn (One of ESTIEM founding members)
Adam Kasprzak (Local Group Gdansk)
Mikko Sjöberg (President of ESTIEM 2008, Local Group Helsinki)
Alexander Hornung (ESTIEM Local Group Ilmenau)
Andreea Sabo (ESTIEM VP of Administration 2009)
Sebastian Geese (ESTIEM VP of Finance 2010)
Carita Poussa (Regional Head of Recruitment in Nordics, East Europe and Eurasia at Nokia)
Sari Tarnanen (Development Manager, Itella)
Elina Lahtinen (Recruiting Coordinator, Bain & Co)
Ilkka Leppävuori (Manager, Bain & Co Nordic)
Images for the article:
General Assembly
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Fruzsina Kovátz (Local Group Budapest) giving a presentation
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Dinner in CM Porto
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One of the training sessions in CM Porto
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CM Porto participants from Local Group Karlsruhe
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Council Meeting Partners representing themselves
Nokia
IEM Alumni review: Getting to know Tiina Suvanto from Nokia, Finland
What do you do at Nokia, Tiina?
I work in Services organization, as Head of Ovi Indirect Channel Marketing and I am responsible for the Ovi
message in indirect channels like events. I have people working for me in Espoo, Finland and in New York.
What else have you been doing at Nokia?
I’ve been working at Nokia for 9 and a half years (!) and I came here directly from Helsinki University of
Technology. I started off as a master’s thesis writer for the Strategy and Business Development for Nokia
Mobile Phones, where I then worked for a couple of years working with several vision and strategy projects. I
also worked in Games for a number of years, and my last role there was to head marketing for our own
games publishing efforts meaning, 1st party publishing globally. Gaming industry is such a cool industry and
I was of course able to take the learning from my strategy background there as well! My team was located in
Espoo and Vancouver back then.
What did you do before you joined Nokia (work + education)?
Studied. And there may have been some student parties that were a part of that student life! My major at
Helsinki University of Technology was Strategy and International Business and Telecommunications. I was
also active in ESTIEM: participated in quite a few Council Meetings, organized a Vision seminar in Espoo
and participated in the local TIMES case competition among other things.
What makes you passionate about what you do?
Learning. I get my kicks from being able to learn all the time. And another thing is the people here at Nokia;
we have some truly brilliant people working here. This has probably been mentioned a million times already,
but I also really love the fact that at Nokia you’re able to make a difference and have a say in things. That’s
really important for me.
Any greetings for ESTIEM students?
Keep up the ESTIEM spirit!
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Nokia N8 tools for IEM professionals
- Review by CM Finland Organizers
Nokia invited us to get to know new Nokia N8 model. We wanted to find out how an IEM professional can
utilize N8 both in dynamic work environment and during ESTIEM-spiritful free time. Senior Designer and
Product Manager from Nokia N8 team shared some inside information with us.
Soul of the phone is the new Symbian^3 platform and two processors – one for basics like Internet and
telephone, other for graphics and software. Large 3,5 inch capacitive touch screen makes all the applications
and commands easy to control, and e-mails or Internet easy to read.
Even though N8 is more designed for home and free time use, young IEM professionals can benefit from
many features. Ovi mail application supports several simultaneous e-mail accounts and synchronization with
Outlook and Exchange accounts. There is also Ovi Suite 2 software for computer synchronization. Free
maps and navigation in over 70 countries makes it easier for you to find the way to the next meeting!
A convincing laser-cut aluminum cover and high-end Gorilla™ cover glass prevents scratches and enables
long-time use even after some bruises from Straba parties in Karlsruhe. All the notorious snapshots and
videos of dancing Serbians are easily captured with 12Mpx widescreen camera and 720px HD video.
Sharing is made fun with really easy-to-use video and picture editor and simple sharing interface with
Internet service providers.
Additionally, listen to music, be THE DJ of any party, track your sport record with the Nokia Sport Tracker
application and even watch your favorite baseball game with a mobile TV. At the end of the day, N8 can be
your entertainment center and replace your (video)camera, music player and navigator.
Pictures for the article:
Tiina Suvanto:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/658482/Tiina_Suvanto.jpg
Calendar file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/658482/Suvanto_calendar.pdf
Interview of N8 Senior Designer Mikko Aarras:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/658482/N8_Press-Conference-1.jpg
Nokia Logo:
http://www.nokiaphones.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/nokia-logo2.jpg
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