I have a memory from Council Meeting Tampere, a bunch of cool people applying for the 30th Board. I was so impressed by them, I couldn’t believe that they are students just like me. Those people seemed like superheroes to me. And guess what? Since that moment I started to dream about becoming a superhero one day.

Dear ESTIEMers, 

I’m Darya Bakaeva, from Local Group Moscow. I’m a 21 years old student, currently in the last year of my bachelor’s degree. With great honour, I am applying for the position of President for the 32nd Board of ESTIEM.

When I joined ESTIEM in 2018, I couldn’t imagine myself staying in Moscow longer than 1 month. I’ve attended 32 events both offline and online. In these 3 years, I created so many experiences that no place but ESTIEM can offer, and met unique people that shaped me into who I am today!

My ESTIEM journey as an active member started when I was elected President of Local Group Moscow in my second year of studies. That year I started to explore the network, trying myself in different areas. I was lucky to attend Training New Trainers, become a part of Trainers Community and find what I’m passionate about. Being extremely motivated to become active in the central layer and learn more about the network, I applied for a leadership position as Baltic Regional Coordinator. This showed me how ESTIEM works, the major role of the Local Groups, the importance of leaders in the network, the emphasis of generations, and how individuals can influence the network. I grew so much personally by joining projects, initiatives and organizing events such as LR Forum and Training Next Leaders.

My journey taught me the strengths and weaknesses of our network; it showed me what I’d like to work upon, change or develop in 2021-2024 ESTIEM Strategy. I believe one of the best things that ESTIEM provides to European students is a welcoming environment where everything is possible. All of us, together, aligned by purpose and development, can achieve amazing results. That’s why, if elected, I’ll start with investing in the 32nd Board to climb up the sunshine mountains together. Besides that, my main focus for the mandate will be Local Groups and Leaders. 

 With this being said, my goals for the mandate are:

• Develop and accelerate a COVID-19 recovery strategy.
• Investing in the development of ESTIEM leaders while encouraging them to be focused on their position-related responsibilities and their bigger role in the network.
• Capitalize the work which has been done during the online term to ensure future development areas for the network by keeping the best practices of the past online year and refining the established working processes.
• Ensure that ESTIEM has attractive offers to all background of IEMers across Europe

I thank you for reading through the application; if you have any questions, suggestions, doubts or cool memes to share, don’t hesitate to contact me by email at darya.bakaeva@estiem.org 

In High ESTIEM,

Darya Bakaeva 

Dear Fellow ESTIEMers, 

The last year and half, we have felt so lucky to be part of such an amazing team, that we believe works for a greater cause. We see the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt service as a way to help our community of estiemers – help how? You say. This course gives participants 2 main benefits, first, the knowledge advantage that we engineers need to improve anything we put our minds to, and second the opportunity of learning exclusive content at a fair price. 

Now, you must be thinking, but who is “we”? We are Agnieszka Remi (Aga), LG Poznan, and Juliana Fernandes (Ju), LG Porto. 

Agnieszka Remi: I joined ESTIEM in 2018, starting with a delegate position during CM Karlsruhe. Later on I had an opportunity to be LR and president of LG Poznan and I participated in a few ESTIEM events. 

In 2019 I took part in the LSSGB Course in Kaiserslautern. I was very positively surprised with the professionalism of instructors and how much I have learned just within one week. It motivated me to join the LSS Team at the end of 2019, as CR responsible. Since then I gained the confidence and motivation to aim higher and apply for co-leadership with my friend and future partner in crime: Ju. 

Juliana Fernandes: If you don’t know me it’s a shame because you should 😉 So, first things first, estiemers call me Juju or just Ju, so please also do. My first event was in 2019 in Moscow for the Lean Six Sigma course – BEST EVENT EVER! Since then I have joined the LSS Team as the local course responsible and because of it my motivation, dedication and spirit has just gone through the roof. These drivers lead me to work on improvement projects inside the team as well as an opportunity to develop an LSS Guide for an international organisation. I love being part of this family and really want to make this service grow even more than what already has, and of course, with the help of my amazing girl, Aga. 

We in the LSS GB Service have a very specific vision, where we inspire ourselves to define our mandate goals: 

Through developing our students during and after the course, we cause European-wide, measurable and accumulating impact in the organizations they work. 

Taking into account the 3 main pillars of our service, better defined by our leader, we have: Quality, Sustainability and Expansion – they all have to be aligned and equally developed or else we have instability. With this in mind the great AgaJu plan to: 

1. Quality: 
   a. Keep finding ways to increase/monitor/modify the quality of our course
   b. Keep improving our internal process operations, to be as lean as possible
2. Expansion:
   a. Understand where there’s opportunity to expand:
         i. LG
         ii. University
         iii. Company 

3. Sustainability: 
   a. Define better how we can keep continuity in current courses
   b. Increase ESTIEM Spirit in all courses
   c. Keep working on increasing participants knowledge after the course ends

When we feel we truly belong to a community, we try our best to conserve it and take it a step further! If someone told me two years ago that I was going to have an amazing network with lovely people from all around Europe, I would probably have laughed at it and wouldn’t believe it. In these two years, I have found a new home and a safe space that I truly feel that I belong to here and I want to keep going and aiming high. 

Dear ESTIEMers,

I am Serhat Gürgenyatağı from Local Group LG Ankara-Bilkent. My journey in ESTIEM began with a most beautiful event back in February of 2020, where the magic of ESTIEM hit me hard and I have been under its spell ever since.

After my first and only-ever face-to-face event, I could not resist the urge to be a part of this magic world. I immediately applied for the role of Knowledge Management Responsible in the Academic Days team. However, not only did I manage the Knowledge Management in the team, but I also tried to attend to any other duties that needed help. I contributed to the birth of the Academic Days Masterclasses concept and have watched how it became such a success with pride.

During my work in the Academic Days team, I applied for a local position and became a board member in my LG. I took part in creating various events throughout the year with my mother association (OR) and especially played a crucial role when it comes to ESTIEM events. Furthermore, we as LG Ankara-Bilkent very proudly incorporated many new ESTIEMers into Central ESTIEM to ensure continuation in ESTIEM. My mandate in the local board taught me how to manage big numbers of people, organize big-scale events and work with companies.

Aside from these two roles, I have also been the ESTIEM Talks Coordinator for several months now. And I appreciate more and more each day how much this position has contributed to my leadership skills. I had the opportunity to work with a wonderful team, with whom we have redefined a concept and have been helping ESTIEMers get to know ESTIEM better with success ever since. During my mandate as the ESTIEM Talks Coordinator; I learned how to work with people, manage expectations, and set goals.

For one and a half years in the Academic Days team, I worked with two amazing leaders and I have learned so much from them. Now it is my turn to give back to this beautiful network and make Academic Days even better than it is now.

With this, I am both excited and honored to apply for the position of leader of Academic Days for 12 months. 

I would like to talk about my goals for Academic Days for the next 12 months:

• Revising the main pillars of Academic Days and approaching the concept within a new framework.
• Carrying the know-how of the face-to-face era to the future so that the knowledge of organizing an offline Academic Days event is not lost.
• Taking steps to carry the current momentum and ensure that Academic Days will not falter after the pandemic
• Contribute to the consistency of the entity by following up on the work of the previous leader.

Thank you for reading thus far! For any suggestions or questions, do not hesitate to contact me through serhat.gurgenyatagi@estiem.org.

In high ESTIEM,

Serhat Gürgenyatağı

To aim high together, send your application to board@estiem.org

Applications will be shared once they sent, stay tuned…

Dear ESTIEMers, 

After six months of working with the current Vision Leader, Burak Diler, I am really happy to  announce my application for becoming the next Vision Leader!  

My experience 

I am Claudia Caus Regidor, from Seville Local Group. About my experience in ESTIEM, I joined  in October 2017 and since then I have learnt incredible things, like resposability, leadership  and controlling the stress, what makes me love this network and its philosophy. The first two  years I focused on the local level, where I was the organizer of many events and the  vicepesident of Seville for one year. My next step was in Darmstadt, where I did my Erasmus  and I also joined the Local Group quite often. However, when I came back to my city I decided  that it was time to get active in Central ESTIEM, so I applied for the Vision Online Webinar  Responsible and took part in the last edition of Training Next Leaders to be prepared for this  following challenge.  

Why Vision? 

My first experience as an organizer was in the Vision of Robotics and Mechatronics, which took  place in Seville. I learnt so much about thecnology and management, but at the same time I  had so much fun, that I just fell in love with the concept of Vision. 

Sadly the the situation of CoVid-19 has highly affected the Vision, the main part of it are visits  to companies and support from them. Therefore, I have spent the last few months with Burak  developing a new idea of how to organize an online Vision, but there is still a lot to do, so here  are my main goals: 

Popularity 

For a long time the Vision used to be highly successful and recognized, although lately, it  has been quite left apart and forgotten. For this reason, it is one of my main goals to  achieve this popularity back by doing a big PR campaign. 

Data improvements 

Because of the current situation, events are taking place online and even in the future it is  posible that in offline events will be some addapted online contents. That brings me to  think that it is very important to create an organized list of company contacts, so that the corporate relations part of the event is not only a task of the Local Group but also of the  complete entity. In summary I want to have partners who know about the complete idea behind ESTIEM and Vision and are up to join some events. 

Team 

In order to achieve these goals, my strategy is to create a Vision team, in which every  person will have an area of work: PR, companies data and contact with the Local Groups.  

If you have any questions or suggestions I will love to hear and answer them, you can approach  me via claudia.caus@estiem.org 

Thank you very much for reading and I hope to see you soon somewhere in Europe (maybe in  CM Seville)  

Claudia Caus Regidor