Bled and Ljubljana (Slovenia): For the fifth time, IEDC is a proud partner of the unique media-research project called The Golden Thread (Zlata nit). The conference is taking place on Thursday, 23th of March, in Ljubljana, featuring IEDC experts: Dr. Filipović and Mr. Pogačnik.

Prof. Danica Purg had the opening address and participated in the panel at the »Aspire to Lead« event, organised by PWC and IEDC Alumna Tea Gasser.

Four companies operating in Bulgaria competed in the IEDC Case Study Competition. Dr. Nenad Filipović, Professor of General Management at IEDC-Bled School of Management presided the jury and announced that the winning team of third IEDC Case Study Competition in Bulgaria is the one from Coca-Cola European Partners.

IEDC organized its first HR Brunch in Zagreb, Croatia. The free HR event was led by Prof. Drikus Kriek, Vice Dean for Pedagogy and Executive Director of the PhD programme at IEDC-Bled School of Management.

IEDC concluded a Study field trip for IEIBS Academia group of students in Slovenia, Austria and Germany focusing on the theme of “European Business Culture”. The program included lectures of IEDC Faculty, company visits and other meetings as well some social activities.

IEDC welcomed 35 HR managers from Slovenia at the HR brunch event, where Prof. Nenad Filipović gave a lecture on “The Role of HR in the Process of Company (Digital) Transformation”.

IEDC welcomes 40 alumni from different programs, generations and 8 countries at the fifth alumni refreshment course.

New generations of International Executive MBA Class 2017 and Class 2017-18 started their studies at IEDC-Bled School of Management.

Bled (Slovenia) February 2 2017: Mr. Andrew Main Wilson, Chief Executive of AMBA and Mr. Dan LeClair, Executive Vice President, AACSB visit IEDC on invitation of Prof. Danica Purg, Dean and President of IEDC-Bled School of Management.

Third face-to-face gathering of PRME Champions for the 2016-2017 with Global Forum for Responsible Management Education takes place at IEDC-Bled School of management.

The program includes lectures of IEDC Faculty, company visits and other meetings as well some social activities. In the frame of this program IEDC will sign Memorandum of cooperation with IEIBS.

Selection Committee of The Scholarship Fund of Young Managers Section decided that Mrs. Saviola Shahollari from Albania is this year's winner of the scholarship.

Tomaž Schara, the IEDC doctoral student, Partner & CEO of Be Solutions, defended his dissertation entitled: »Integration challenges of the European Union: The Case of formation of a single European rail area« under the mentorship of Prof. Richard Common, The University of York, UK.

Bled (Slovenia) 23 January 2017: The 7th Executive PhD generation start with their studies at the IEDC-Bled School of Management. The new PhD cohort is comprised of experienced executives coming from Croatia, Germany, Romania, Russia, and Slovenia.

CEEMAN and IEDC research group representatives gather in Bled from 19-20 January to present and discuss preliminary findings of transnational research project titled: Management and Leadership Development Needs in Dynamically Changing Societies.

Members of IEDC Russian Alumni Club and CEEMAN IMTA Alumni meet at famous cooking school CULINARYON, headed by IEDC Alumnus, Mr. Giulio D’Erme.

Moscow (Russia): Prof. Danica Purg, IEDC and CEEMAN President participated at traditional Gaidar Forum, Russia from 12 to 14 January.

IEDC President, Prof. Danica Purg was a key-note speaker at the EU High Level Conference of Economic empowerment of Women. She was invited by the EU Embassy and the Slovene Embassy in Japan to address over 300 guests of the conference entitled “Together for Equality”.

The award is conferred for public awareness about the meaning/importance of social responsibility, promotion of socially responsible companies' practice long term, education about the latest practices of social responsibility in Slovenian and foreign companies, awarding the most socially responsible organisations, publishing a manual with examples of good practice of social responsibility.

49 executives from 13 countries are graduating.