Awards 2008

Awards for the best individual of each competition

Best Consultant of ICT and BIZ, Best Representative of MEC:

Participation in the European Forum Alpbach 2008 “Perception and Decision”
Every year, since 1945, the European Forum Alpbach has organised highly acclaimed interdisciplinary congresses in the picturesque Tyrolean mountain village of Alpbach. The Forum Alpbach brings together academics and professionals, scientists and practitioners working in a variety of fields and disciplines of the social and natural sciences, as well as politicians and artists.
This year’s European Forum Alpbach will focus on the general topic of “Perception and Decision” (August 14 - 30, 2008).
For more information please click here.

Best Orator of LMC

Summer School on European Integration in Alpbach 2008
Every year since 1992, the Alpbach Summer School on European Integration, held contemporaneously with the European Forum Alpbach, has offered a compact yet comprehensive course on law and policies of the European Community (EC) and of the European Union (EU).  It is designed both to assist students in acquiring a basic understanding of the workings of the EC-EU, to equip them with the skills required to analyze socio-economic and legal issues of European integration and, more generally, to introduce them to a culture and practice of animated debate of contemporary problems facing European integration.
The summer school will be held from August 14 to August 29, 2008 in Alpbach.
For further information please click here.

Business Case Competition Awards

This year’s Business Case partner Vienna Insurance Group offers to the winning teams the following awards:

1st place: 1.000 Euro-scholarship per person for one year
2nd place: Thesis in cooperation with Vienna Insurance Group
3rd place: Internship in a VIG organisation or in the headquarters

ICT Case Competition Awards

ICT Case Partner ERSTE BANK offers for the winning team 3 x EUR 300 vouchers for Amazon.

Law Moot Court Competition Awards

One- Month Research Visit at the University of Graz
The Institute of International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz offers a one-month research visit to the winning team of LMC.

Model European Council Awards

International Civilian Peace-Keeping and Peace-Building Training Program 2008 presented by ASPR (Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution) in Austria

The ASPR aims to contribute to the promotion of peace and peaceful conflict resolution and to the dissemination of practical ideas for peace, including its developmental and environmental aspects.
The following sessions are offered:

• Peace-Building
• Cultural Awareness
• Cross-Cultural Communication and Working with National and International Staff
• Conflict Analysis
• Methods of Third Party Intervention, with special focus on Mediation
• Human Rights and their Protection and Promotion
• Democratization and Civil Society Development in a Post-Conflict Environment
• Stress Management and Working with Trauma

Practical exercises include

• A two-day workshop on project management
• Map reading and handling compass
• A Four-Wheel-Drive Training
• A Complex Simulation in Exercise held outdoors

The training program will take place from September 28 to October 11, 2008 in Schlaining, Austria. For further information please click here.

6th International Debate Academy Slovenia

It is the most international British Parliamentary Debate Training in the world with a distinguished training group from all over the world: A combination of lectures, skills sessions and two practice debates per day and then a major tournament at the end. This year the tournament at the end of Academy is open to all interested university debaters, so everybody who does not have time to come for the whole week, can join us only for the tournament.
The Debate Academy takes place from November 23 to 30, 2008 in Ormoz, Slovenia.