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virtual campus for its students, professors and staff. The project aims to provide a place where studying, teaching, meeting, and chatting can again take place, without the need to be physically present at the School’s brick-and-mortar campuses. The tool NEOMA has chosen offers features that enable its community to stick to the reality of a Business School as much as possible. With 3,000 students and 491 professors and staff members enrolled, the Virtual Campus has naturally imposed itself as the School’s fourth campus. In this category, the judges decided to award the silver to UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin (Ireland) for ‘UCD Business Alumni Challenge – Around the Globe in 30 Days’. They decided bronze should go to MBA Centre, Shanghai University (China) for ‘Launch of New Global Industry MBA Specialisations’. BEST LIFELONG LEARNING INITIATIVE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH KORTEXT The Best Lifelong Learning Initiative recognises the efforts of AMBA & BGA member Schools that are reinventing teaching and learning among students, graduates, alumni networks, and in their custom and executive education offerings. The gold award was presented to IE Business School (Spain) for ‘Turn It Around – Alumni Engagement’. In response to the abrupt lockdown across many regions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, IE Business School designed a virtual toolkit – ‘Turn It Around’ – from March to July 2020, to support both students and alumni during this difficult time. It extended premium online learning content free of charge, showcased alumni making a difference in the world, and provided a comprehensive virtual experience related to professional development, networking, and wellbeing. The response from the community was phenomenal: more than 3,000 students and alumni participated in 56 online events, 906 signed up to the School’s peer-to-peer mentoring platform, and 119 alumni volunteered as speakers, or shared their story ‘up close’. In this category, the judges decided to award the silver to Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London (UK) for ‘MBA Student Enhancement Package’. They awarded the bronze to College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of Technology (China) for ‘GET – Gather Alumni, Enlighten Alumni, Turbo Alumni’. BEST CSR AND SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE The Best CSR and Sustainability Initiative award honours AMBA-accredited and BGA member validated and accredited Business Schools that share AMBA & BGA’s commitment to CSR, and are passionate about making a difference to communities and societies. The award recognises Business Schools that are taking the initiative in creating a sustainable future and teaching students about social values, as well as making a positive impact in practical and measurable ways. The gold award in this category went to International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) (China) for ‘15 Ways in 15 Weeks’. The entry ‘15 Ways in 15 Weeks’ represented a semester-long initiative divided into weekly campaigns that drove sustainable positive behavioural change at the International Business School Suzhou.
The AMBA & BGA Schools network continued to cope magnificently with the challenges caused by Covid-19, showing determination and innovation
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