Author: Maria Frolova

We invite you to develop your professional skills in real projects in the spheres: creative economy, territory branding, hospitality. Russia, Ryazan city, July 3rd – 31st, 2019. Project customer: Regional Center for Tourism Development. Business mentor: Oksana Kutukova, Head of the Center – “Originally my family comes from German colonists who moved to Russia by the manifest of Ekaterina II giving the right to foreigners to settle in Russia in 1762. For me my grandfather was the example of resilience, diligence and discipline, and my family – the wellspring of its unique identity, cultural traditions and hospitality. Perhaps, that’s the reason I combine the scrupulousness to the place I live in and the desire to go ahead, be efficient and influence the positive changes in my city. I invite you to join my practice, feel the atmosphere of the place where I do my favourite job, get acquainted with the history of our ancient city, people who make our identity and their fortune. I invite you to master your skills and share with us your vision and experience.” More info about Ryazan city http://en.ryazantourism.ru/

The teams were working for Samara region companies that develop new projects or plan to enter international markets in the following spheres: sea plane production, endoprosthesis of small joints production and sales, developing the sales strategy for on-line games, promotion the service for tourist companies at the international market, developing a logistic model and logistic department for delivering goods to the USA and Europe. The students chose the projects and joined the teams due to their present and future professional interests, gained the experience of solving real practical tasks in management, marketing, finance, operations spheres. The customers of the program were Samara cluster of sea plane companies, Samara State Medical University, mobile application Fantasyon, Agg Lab Ltd, Osnovnoi product Ltd. It was a great opportunity to have a new vision, exchange experience, make business contacts, work with top managers.The students were lucky to visit Russia in the period of FIFA World Cup 2018, Samara was hosting a number of matches. The partner of the program was Samara city administration, Department of culture and youth policy and all foreign students took part in Samara territory marketing project. The potential of Samara city was analyzed as the destination attractive for foreign tourists, Read more …

This time ITIP was devoted to the topic: Local and global entrepreneurship and was organised for the students of the Samara State University of Economics and Alliance University. The program goal was to select high potential students, make effecient international teams and develop own business projects or accomplish technical tasks provided by companies. Most of projects were designed to be implemented in Samara region in the period before and during FIFA WORLD CUP 2018. 9 companies were invilved as customers. The spheres: Promotion of Local brands, Tourism and Hospitality, Restaurants and Entertainment. Focus skills: system thinking, situation analysis, personal position analysis, after-action review, creative thinking, team work, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Our results: 84 applicants for the program, 54 participants, 28 students successfully graduated, 9 students were participating in more than one project. 9 projects were developed.

Twenty-two students studying Marketing, Finance, IT, Operations, Economics and Management from Alliance University (Bangalore, India), Samara State University of Economics (Samara, Russia) and Togliatti Academy of Management (Togliatti, Russia) participated in the program. The trainees gained the experience of solving real practical tasks in two spheres: IT and Purchasing. LADA Image company hosted the students for developing the projects in IT sphere. Program mentor from business was IT director Boris Frolov.Seven students were divided into two teams to work on different IT projects: “Design and develop Survey System” and “Design and develop Employee Suggestion Management System”. On the 1st stage of work the trainees got the task to develop A3 forms and the concepts of interfaces. The first results were presented two weeks later.During the next three weeks they worked on software development: data bases and interfaces. Every participant performed tasks according to the A3 form. As a result, by the end of the 2nd stage with the consulting support of LADA Image colleagues the teams developed the concepts of two systems. AVTOVAZ RENAULT NISSAN Purchasing Organization. Eight MBA students from Alliance University, four Bachelor students from Togliatti Academy of Management and three Bachelor students from Samara State University of Read more …

During 18th June – 3rd July 2016 International team internship program (ITIP) was organized for University of Maribor (Maribor, Slovenia), Samara University (Samara, Russia) and Togliatti Academy of Management (Togliatti, Russia) students at Automotive Cluster of Samara region (ACSR). Three students studying E-business, IT and Logistics participated in this program. The trainees gained the experience of solving real practical tasks in two spheres: Logistics and IT. A team of three students from the University of Maribor, Togliatti Academy of Management and Samara University made one international team and worked in ACSR. The program was started with the welcome speech of ACSR General Director Mr. Dusan Busen and Russian-Slovene Club of Businessmen Director Anastasia Putkina. They presented company profile, projects and activities. The task was divided into two stages: developing an IT portal and creating an educational module in the sphere of Logistics. At the end of the 1st stage (1st week) there was a meeting with mentors where the trainees presented their first results: the concept of IT portal. At the end of internship there was a final report to ACSR General Director and internship mentors, where the trainees presented the following projects: «IT portal for the ACSR» and «Educational Read more …

During June-July 2015 International team internship program was organized for Alliance University (Bangalore, India) and Togliatti Academy of Management (Togliatti, Russia) students at AVTOVAZ RENAULT NISSAN Purchasing Organization (Togliatti, ARNPO). The International team internship project realized at ARNPO is the pilot project of lean educational technology developed for training cross-functional team work in multi-cultural environment and focused on finding new solutions and process optimization, where the participants got the experience of net-working and complex interaction, international team management, got understanding of purchasing processes and ARNPO corporate culture. 19 students studying Marketing, Finance, Operations, Economics and Management participated in this program. 10 MBA students from Alliance University and 9 Bachelor students (2nd and 3rd year) from Togliatti Academy of Management were divided into international teams and worked in different ARNPO departments.Program business mentor was ARNPO General Director Mr. Venkatram Mamillapalle. During the 1st stage (2 weeks) of internship the trainees were assigned to different ARNPO departments and performed similar task: benchmarking of one of commodity groups comparing AVTOVAZ-Renault-Nissan and other OEMs. ARNPO departments: interior, exterior, body in white&materials, chassis, indirect, body&electrical, powertrain and logistics. For the 2nd stage (2 weeks) of internship ARNPO General Director has chosen three focuses for the Read more …