The  2017 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)Conference was held  in Berlin, Germany from June 7 to 9, 2017. Liang Jie, associate dean and  Doctor Shen Zhonghua from School of Business attended the conference.

The theme for this conference is “Trend,  Technology and Transformation”. During the conference, experts, scholars and entrepreneurs  from countries like Britain, Germany, France, Spanish reported on the topic  of “What Does the Industrial Transformation Mean to Business Schools”, and  meanwhile delivered speeches and exchanged thoughts on such topics as “Looking  at the Vision of Civilization in the New Autocratic Era from the Perspective of  Business Risk” and “Exploring the Global Trend and Impact of the Digital  Transformation of Higher Education”. 540 elite members attended the  conference, which builds up the platform forcommunication and exchange between  the academic circle and business circle.

During the conference, Liang Jie and Shen  Zhonghua exchanged opinions with Eric Cornuel, the CEO of EFMD and Japhet  Law, the accredited senior counselor of EPAS Asia-Pacific. At the same time,  they had a detailed discussion with Jens Petter Tøndel, the deputy director  of EFMD Quality Service Center in terms of the EPAS accreditation data we  have submitted. Jens appraised the first draft of the EPAS accreditation data  of the undergraduate program that we have submitted, and also gave us some  precious advice on further optimizing the data content and making our school  more internationalized. Our school acquired the EFMD membership in 2016. The  revision and submission of the EPAS accreditation data is an important step  to promote the accreditation work.  

In addition, Liang Jie talked with  the deans of several overseas business schools such as Chulalongkorn  University, Thailand, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia and ESMT, Berlin,  on the possibility of future cooperation. Liang also shared her international  cooperation and accreditation experience with representatives from Tongji  University, Zhejiang University, Sun Yat-sen University and other  universities at home.

Note: EFMD,based in Brussels, Belgium is the largest international  networkassociation in the field of managementdevelopment. EFMD has more than  500 institutional members and reaches over 12,000management development  professionalsfrom different fields across 65 countries worldwide. EFMD is  committed to finding and fostering various opinions that can promote the development  of management theories and practice. EFMD often organizes various activities  to help their members learn from each other and share their experience in  management teaching and practice, so as to draw from other's strong points to  offset the weakness and make common progress.