Identity of BEST
(Vision is an ideal state of the world we want to achieve)
- Empowered diversity
- People understand and respect different cultures and societies. The environment of empowered diversity supports people in applying their full potential and acting responsibly.
(Mission is a global action that we undertake to achieve the vision)
- Developing students
- BEST helps students to achieve an international mindset, to reach a better understanding of cultures and societies and to develop the capacity to work in culturally diverse environments.
BEST creates opportunities for personal development of students and supports them in reaching their full potential.
(BEST Spirit is the inspiration for all our actions)
- Flexibility
- We seek the ability to make changes and deal with changing conditions.
We are open to everything new. We value and raise the ability of being mobile and to quickly respond to changes in the environment or any other obstacles that we face.
- Friendship
- We build good relationships in which people help, support and care for one another.
We value good personal relations and teamwork. We focus on each person involved in our activities and in this way we create synergy.
- Fun
- We enjoy everything we do.
We value positive emotions of the people involved in our actions. We strive to make our activities enjoyable to everybody who is connected to them. We act with passion and strive to share this passion with people around us.
- Improvement
- We strive to continuously improve the standards in everything we do.
We use all our creativity to enhance the way we work. This is to guarantee constant development of our actions.
- Learning
- We gain skills and understanding through experience.
We value everything we learn through the experience of being involved in our activities and we strive to learn as much as possible from every aspect of our work. We value personal development and strive for an open learning community, where we have the freedom to share and develop ideas.
(Position is the social, political and economic location of our organisation)
- BEST is a voluntary, apolitical, non-profit, non-representative international association of European students of technology.
- We do everything out of free will.
We are politically neutral.
We attempt to make no profit from our actions.
We represent nobody.
We are based in Europe. We are based in Europe.
We are there for European students of technology. - Stakeholders
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- Students
- European students of technology
- Universities
- European universities
- Partners
- Organisations and individuals we cooperate with
(Stakeholders are organisations and individuals who have high interest in the success of BEST.)
(Activities are the actions through which we strive to fulfil our mission)
- CORE ACTIVITY
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- Providing complementary education
- Bringing a significant added value to the education provided by the universities.
- OTHER ACTIVITIES
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- Providing career support
- Connecting students with their future employers
- Increasing educational involvement
- Increasing the awareness of students on issues related to engineering education and improving engineering education through the input of those students.
