2009

December 2009

Edunection organises meetings for Griffith College Dublin in Germany and evaluates the sucess of a marketing campaign started with a German education marketing company.
Negotiations with agents, student-funding bodies and agricultural education institutions form all over Latin America are underway for Perrotis College.

Edunection signs a contract with a social networking site for ex-pats to offer education providers the opportunity for postgraduate recruitment to ex-pat communities via the web and local events.
Presentation about European and Latin American student migration flows and Irish international student intakes to a private Irish education provider.
Edunection signs an agreement with Griffith College Dublin to run their Germany marketing operations and to overlook its Germany Office activities.
AFUM give Edunection an assignment to find an external examiner for a joint degree programme with a UK university.

Perrotis College from Thessaloniki, Greece, assigns its Latin America marketing management to Edunection for the period October 2009 to March 2010.
Edunection visits the International College Day fair in Munich.
Edunection visit an Intercultural Congress to network with companies in the field of intercultural coching and consulting.
Edunection visits the QS TopMBA fair in Munich.

Edunection leads a seminar on student recruitment in Germany for international education providers in cooperation with its student recruitment parnter company from Germany.

Final negotiations about a Latin America agent networking assignment with a Greek higher education provider in the field of agriculture.

More negotiations are happening between several European universities as well as US and Australian universities about marketing certain programmes in Europe or Latin America with Edunection and its proposed partner companies.

Edunection runs a short email campaign to universities around the world to see what their demand for European students from various European countries is.

More negotiations are happening between several European universities as well as US and Australian universities about marketing certain programmes in Europe or Latin America with Edunection and its partner companies.

Edunection broadens its network as well as its website is being finalised for later this year and to be able to offer a broader range of services and countries for international student recruitment.

An accreditation visit of NCC Education in Bergisch-Gladbach and Erkrath, both Germany, happens at the campuses of AFUM. Edunection accompanies NCC’s staff on behalf of AFUM and helps NCC understand the practicalities of teaching its degree programmes in Germany.

Initial discussions with a graduate recruitment company from France about marketing an MBA programme of a German private college in Germany and its western neighbouring countries and with the German partner company about marketing the college's Bachelor programmes in Germany.

Partnership visit trip for Griffith College Dublin at the beginning of May 2009 in Germany, visiting Cologne, Paderborn and Berlin with different types of marketing presentations and discussions between partner institutions.
Edunection helping its German student recruitment partners at the Study World 2009 to gain more international university customers. Putting together a database of contacts, contacting university staff at the fair with information about Germany. Edunection puts together a database of contacts for the German partner company to follow up.
Also, initial discussions with a student recruitment company from Sweden about marketing a Barcelona-based hotel management programme in Scandinavian countries.

A first contract version is being handeld for further consideration by AFUM’s management. AFUM to decide on the programmes and courses to be operatetd on behalf of NCC Education in Germany.

Preparation of a trip to visit partner institutions in Germany for Griffith College Dublin.

AFUM requests more contract details from NCC Education. Edunection works on contract translations and negotiations between the two parties.

More follow-up contacting being done on behalf of our German partner company with international universities and preparation of a marketing campaign at another fair in Germany with only international universities present.

An education fair is visited on behalf of our German partner company for student recruitment for the establishment of contacts with international universities exhibiting at the fair and a plan is made of how to best contact the universities and what to offer the universities in a follow up.

NCC Education gets on board for a visit by AFUM to become an institution to offer partnerships with British universities.

During another trip to Dublin this time, a new consultancy contract is being negotiated and finalised with Griffith College Dublin and another Tripartite Master meeting is carried out with more specific information about the potential Erasmus Mundus application for 2009.

First successful contacts are being made for AFUM, a new private vocational college in Germany, to establish a partnership with a British higher education provider.