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On September, 28, new academic year of Ukrainian-Canadian Business Administration program has started in IIB.

This year IIB has offered clients Ukrainian Business Administration program and Canadian Management Studies program in a new format which allow students to take advantage of innovative approach in programs delivery and achieve better synergy between two programs combining the best Ukrainian practice with Canadian learning standards and incorporating international experience in study process.

The Fifth PR-forum will take place on the international exhibition of advertising, marketing and mass-media REX 2009. This event will held on September, 30, 2009 and permanently causes large interest for specialists. This year PR-forum takes place under an aegis of Ukrainian PR-alliance (UPRA).

The main subject of PR-forum - "Ukrainian PR: trials in the past, but prospects in future".

On July, 8 – 12 the International MBA regular educational module took place during which students studied the course "Building the trust in Cross-Cultural Communications". The distinguish feature of the module was the first time when the students of IIB International MBA program and 7 students of MBA program from the University Alaska SouthEast, USA gathered in one classroom room to study " cross-cultural communications". The idea to bring together MBA students from Ukraine and USA belongs to Dr. Yulia Ivanova, Associate Professor of Management School of the University Alaska SouthEast.

Julia whose roots in Belarus authored the course for students and excellently fulfilled the mission of a course moderator and instructor in auditorium consisting of representatives of several countries – Ukraine, USA, Latvia, Moldova, Brazil, and Russia. Close communication during the module, discussions in the class, work in groups and preparation of group presentations, projects, informal communication during barbeque party, coffee brakes etc. gave an opportunity to understand each other better, feel differences and similarities, learn how to develop business relations with representatives of different countries and cultures.

International Institute of Business has been acknowledged as outstanding business school – "Excellent business school, nationally strong with continental links", and awarded with 3 Palms considering its international influence and authority on business education market.

According to EDUNIVERSAL international influence of every business school can be defined by behavior and confidence of its alumni and, correspondingly, by job opportunities it provides in their country and abroad.

Internship Program, which is 7 weeks long training on the basis of companies in Canada or Ukraine is an important part of a studying process on management diploma program. The assistance in search of Canadian companies and enterprises which will host the students from Ukraine is fulfilled by Grant MacEwan College. While selecting the companies, students` preferences pertaining to the branch or sphere of company’s activity were taken into consideration.

On the 5th of July the graduation of the 9th cohort of students of Grant MacEwan College Canadian Diploma Management Program took its place. 22 listeners were awarded with certificates of degree, among which seven were honors degree in this year.

The honourable guests – Canadian Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador in Ukraine Abina Dann and Grant McEwan Business School Deputy Dean Mike Henry – were present at the solemn ceremony of diploma awarding.

Years of studying flew by unnoticeably and the graduates of Ukrainian Program for Business Administration, Professional Diploma and Professional Postgraduate Diploma Programs of The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), Advanced Diploma of The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Advanced Certificate and Diploma of The Chartered Institute Of Public Relations (CIPR) gathered in the conference hall of a new building of International Institute of Business for a solemn ceremony of graduation.

Dr. Alexander Mertens, IIB President opened the ceremony congratulating the graduates with successful graduation of the programs, wishing not to stop on the succeed and to continue moving ahead.

The traditional international module of Executive MBA program was held at the beginning of May in one of the biggest financial centers of the world- Zurich. In the frames of this module, organized by IIB jointly with its partner Swiss Business School, students studied such courses as International Financial Management and Venture Capital and Private Equity.

During intense two weeks students had a possibility not only theoretically, but also practically study the mechanisms of financial statements work and large international companies’ practice. Executive MBA students had the meetings with managers of such companies as Philip Morris and Tissot. Students had an opportunity to learn how the companies manage to operate in the crisis period, to look behind the "Zurich airport scenes" and to observe the best operational management and project management practice.

International MBA students came forward with the initiative – to start realizing the program of attracting money for Library and Resource Centre development at International Institute of Business. The goal of the project is to approach the IIB library to the level that will correspond the best standards of providing libraries with literature - the standards which now exist at leading business schools in the world.

We are pleased to inform you that on 2nd February 2009, the new campus of International Institute of Business will open its doors. The new building was designed and built in accordance with the world’s best standards of business schools and will afford a new level of comfort for our partners, clients, students and professors. Located in a green zone of Kyiv (a few minutes from Zhitormirskaya metro station), the new campus will furnish you with a comfortable learning environment worthy of Ukraine’s leading business school.