In the first week of December 2013, the Anatolia School of Business devoted organized the “Creativity Week” which was a series of seminar events and workshops on the topic of creativity that took place in Thessaloniki and Athens.

On December 2, 2013, the week began with the workshop «Stretching Creativity to its Limits: Strategies to enhance Creativity».  Dr. Mario Varvoglis, Creativity Catalyst and trainer in innovative thinking, was the lecturer. The same workshop also was held in Thessaloniki, the last day of the “Creativity Week” (December 7, 2013).  This seminar was a one-day break from "business as usual".  It was an opportunity to think about thinking.  It focused on boosting innovation potential, structuring methods to generate, develop and evaluate new ideas and solutions and finally it focused on how to concretely integrate out of the box thinking in a day-to-day business environment.  The participants of the workshop, both in Athens and in Thessaloniki, were mainly business leaders, coaches and consultants and received the certificate of participation.

On Tuesday the 3^rd of December 2013, the event «Unzipping Creativity: The secrets of creativity revealed in a way you have never heard before » took place at the Helexpo- Ioannis Vellidis Congress Center with over 300 participants.  Dr. Mario Varvoglis, George Adamantides and Rebecca Salmona, Creative Director and Account Director, respectively, of Bold Ogilvy & Mather advertising company and Akis Sakellariou, the famous actor, were the lecturers of the event.  The purpose of the event was a practical approach to creativity, from the different viewpoints of a trainer, a creative team and an artist.  The coordinator of the event was Dr. Fanis Varvoglis, Chair of the Anatolia School of Business. The collaborating partners of the event were the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) and the student-run organization AIESEC, supported by Biennale of Contemporary Art.  Media sponsors were TV 100 and FM 100. 

On the same afternoon (Tuesday the 3^rd of December 2013), at the Anatolia School of Business Dr. Fanis Varvoglis held an “open class” that hosted the advertising company Bold Ogilvy & Mather. 

On Wednesday the 4^th of December 2013, at the Stavros Niarchos Teleconference Center in Bissell Library at ACT, Dr. Kourkoumelis held a “Creativity Seminar for IB Students”.

 Finally, on Thursday the 5^th of December 2013, Dr. Mario Varvoglis spoke to the students of ACT on the event «Untangling Creativity ON CAMPUS: The secrets of creativity revealed in a way you have never heard before! » which took place in the Bissell Library at ACT.  The event had an interactive nature and students had the chance to meet creativity in depth.

 "Getting up early for my teaching internship and being at my best gave me a sense of responsibility... Teaching is my calling and I feel I should be in a classroom all the time, doing something related to that...My family does not have a lot of money. My parent always valued education. I would not be here if I didn't have great teachers pushing me and encouraging me... My favorite part in volunteering was working one on one with Konstantinos. He becomes very distracted in class and benefits from individual attention. He reminds me of myself when I was young and I wasn’t focusing…Teaching math in this environment took me into a real situation, which I liked. I wanted to expand and I did get the opportunity to do that…”

Martin Gamboa, one of the 184 U.S. students studying at ACT during the Fall 2013 term, spent three hours a week in the west school district of Thessaloniki, where he volunteered as a teacher's assistant in a special education class at the elementary level. Martin is pursuing a degree in Secondary School Education at Boston College. Teachers and school kids in the 3^rd Public Elementary School of Stavroupoli will remember him for teaching them breakdancing figures and basketball turns during recess and most impressively for jumping over the head of one of their teachers who was standing upright. Spyros, the cab driver that often drove Martin and Anna Cho- also from B.C., to their service site, remembers him for his incredible ability to pick up the language and converse comfortably in Greek in his short three month stay.

Ανακοίνωση Διαγωνισμού Επιχειρηματικών Ιδεών

του Anatolia School of Business

Τετάρτη 12 Μαρτίου 2014, 18:30

Δημαρχείο Θεσσαλονίκης, Αίθουσα Πολλαπλών Χρήσεων

Ο Διαγωνισμός Επιχειρηματικών Ιδεών «John & Mary Pappajohn Plan Award» που διοργανώνει το Anatolia School of Business τουAmerican College of Thessaloniki (ACT) βρίσκεται στο επίκεντρο της εκδήλωσης «Επιχειρηματικά Μονοπάτια για Όλους!» η οποία θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Τετάρτη 12 Μαρτίου 2014 στο Δημαρχείο Θεσσαλονίκης.

Ο Διαγωνισμός απευθύνεται σε όσους ενδιαφέρονται να ασχοληθούν με την επιχειρηματικότητα, σε εκείνους που κάνουν ήδη τα πρώτα τους βήματα στον χώρο, σε εκείνους που δεν το έχουν τολμήσει ακόμη ωστόσο θεωρούν ότι το μέλλον τους είναι το επιχειρείν. Η πρώτη φάση του θα διεξαχθεί την 1η Απριλίου 2014 και σε αυτήν οι ενδιαφερόμενοι θα καταθέσουν τις ιδέες τους, ενώ στη συνέχεια θα διεκδικήσουν το ποσό των 20.000 ευρώ που θα μοιραστούν στα 5 καλύτερα επιχειρηματικά σχέδια. Οι νικητές/τριες θα μπορούν να εκπαιδευθούν για ένα μήνα και στη συνέχεια να έχουν για έναν χρόνο την υποστήριξη του Κέντρου Επιχειρηματικότητας του Anatolia School of Business δωρεάν.

Την παρουσίαση του Διαγωνισμού, θα ακολουθήσει συζήτηση με startupers οι οποίοι θα μοιραστούν εμπειρίες από την έως τώρα επιχειρηματική πορεία τους. Η βραδιά θα ολοκληρωθεί με το ντοκιμαντέρ «The Startup Kids» σε πρώτη πανελλήνια προβολή.

Την παρουσίαση και τον συντονισμό της συζήτησης θα κάνει ο Δρ Φάνης Βάρβογλης, Διευθυντής του Anatolia School of Business.

Η εκδήλωση «Επιχειρηματικά Μονοπάτια για Όλους!» έχει τεθεί υπό την αιγίδα του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης και πραγματοποιείται με την υποστήριξη των: Συνδέσμου Βιομηχανιών Βορείου Ελλάδος, Deloitte, Open Coffee Club Greece, Odyssey Fund, AIESEC, VentureGarden.

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On the 4th and 5th of February, the Anatolia School of Business in its mission to support the entrepreneurship, hosted in Bissell Library, the CampusBus training initiative.  The Campus Bus is an actual bus with a group of trainers that travels around Greece providing workshops regarding entrepreneurship.  Thessaloniki and the Anatolia School of Business was its last station.  Participants had the opportunity to attend 6 workshops which educated, energized and inspired them regarding entrepreneurship and business success. 

In the first week of December 2013, the Anatolia School of Business devoted organized the “Creativity Week” which was a series of seminar events and workshops on the topic of creativity that took place in Thessaloniki and Athens.

On December 2, 2013, the week began with the workshop «Stretching Creativity to its Limits: Strategies to enhance Creativity».  Dr. Mario Varvoglis, Creativity Catalyst and trainer in innovative thinking, was the lecturer. The same workshop also was held in Thessaloniki, the last day of the “Creativity Week” (December 7, 2013).  This seminar was a one-day break from "business as usual".  It was an opportunity to think about thinking.  It focused on boosting innovation potential, structuring methods to generate, develop and evaluate new ideas and solutions and finally it focused on how to concretely integrate out of the box thinking in a day-to-day business environment.  The participants of the workshop, both in Athens and in Thessaloniki, were mainly business leaders, coaches and consultants and received the certificate of participation.

On Tuesday the 3^rd of December 2013, the event «Unzipping Creativity: The secrets of creativity revealed in a way you have never heard before » took place at the Helexpo- Ioannis Vellidis Congress Center with over 300 participants.  Dr. Mario Varvoglis, George Adamantides and Rebecca Salmona, Creative Director and Account Director, respectively, of Bold Ogilvy & Mather advertising company and Akis Sakellariou, the famous actor, were the lecturers of the event.  The purpose of the event was a practical approach to creativity, from the different viewpoints of a trainer, a creative team and an artist.  The coordinator of the event was Dr. Fanis Varvoglis, Chair of the Anatolia School of Business. The collaborating partners of the event were the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) and the student-run organization AIESEC, supported by Biennale of Contemporary Art.  Media sponsors were TV 100 and FM 100. 

On the same afternoon (Tuesday the 3^rd of December 2013), at the Anatolia School of Business Dr. Fanis Varvoglis held an “open class” that hosted the advertising company Bold Ogilvy & Mather. 

On Wednesday the 4^th of December 2013, at the Stavros Niarchos Teleconference Center in Bissell Library at ACT, Dr. Kourkoumelis held a “Creativity Seminar for IB Students”.

 Finally, on Thursday the 5^th of December 2013, Dr. Mario Varvoglis spoke to the students of ACT on the event «Untangling Creativity ON CAMPUS: The secrets of creativity revealed in a way you have never heard before! » which took place in the Bissell Library at ACT.  The event had an interactive nature and students had the chance to meet creativity in depth.

On Nov, 14-17, a number of ACT students participated in "EUROROMA 2013", a sports tournament in Rome. The tournament was probably the largest that ACT had ever participated in, with more than 60 universities and Colleges from 24 countries and more than 1500 participants. In Tennis there were 16 universities and Colleges and ACT was 2nd in its group. In the Quarterfinals we lost to University of Pula, Spain. ACT was represented by Katerina Kosmidou and Petar Przuljevic with coach Vangelis Pensos (ACT '07). In Table Tennis there were more than 50 participants. In the men's single event, Victoras Noulis was 3rd in his, while Katalina Koneva came 1st in her group, was seeded 6th in the main bracket and lost to the quarterfinals. In the Doubles Mixed event, our students lost to the Spain couple.

For the second summer in a row, the Birthright Program that is run by the Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation, based in Chicago, allocated 20 full scholarships, to Greek Heritage students of high academic standing, giving them the opportunity to study for 5weeks in Thessaloniki at ACT.These students took part in the Pella Projcet, a study abroad program which offers a combination of studies and intensive travel. For the majority of the students this was their first time traveling to Greece and for a few it was the first time that any member of their immediate family was to return to the home country from which their grandparents had left more than two generations ago. A number of them declared that they felt "at home" the minute they set foot on Greek soil; for others "coming home" was a gradual realization. The impact of this experience was immense on each one of the students as anyone can grasp by reading the weekly blogs that students kept while in Greece.   

Enrolled in a course on the World of Alexander the Great students literally followed in Alexander's footsteps as the young prince went from being a lad to becoming the king of Macedonia. Within their short stay, the group visited Vergina, Dion, Delphi, Athens, Pella, Olynthos, Philippi and Troy. During their trip to Constantinople they also  had a chance to see Agia Sophia, the Bosporus as well as meet the Archbishop Bartholomeus in person at the Greek Patriarchy. The warm reception at ACT and their integration in the life of the campus and the life of Thessaloniki was more than they had dreamed of when setting out for this grand summer voyage. Tears and a promises to return with other Greek members of their family were shared with friends as they boarded the airplane back to the U.S., this time with a much stronger sense of who they were and with pride for their Greek heritage.

 

As part of the Service Learning Program at ACT, on two consecutive Saturdays, the 28th of September and 5th October, a group of 80 ACT students helped clean up the Gardens of Pasa in Ano Poli, Thessaloniki.

This projects was organized by the YMCA as part of their «Είμαι Πολίτης και Όχι Απλά Κάτοικος» (I'm a citizen, not only a resident) project, in collaboration with the offices of the Municipality of Thessaloniki in charge of the urban environment.

The volunteers made a significant difference in the aesthetic of the gardens of Pasa, by picking up all the rubbish, weeding around the trees and plants, painting the fences of the park and sweeping away the dead leaves and branches. The students worked very hard on each day and by the end there were over 30 large rubbish bins to be disposed of.

It was a meaningful project to clean these gardens as they hold both architectural and historical value and are one of the most beautiful green places in the city that most locals don't know about. These gardens were created in 1904 and it's believed they belong to the Ag. Dimitrios hospital. The gardens have ancient fountains and monuments that are unfortunately not in use but if renovated could be a great attraction for both locals and tourists.
 

Το Ελληνο-Αμερικανικό Εμπορικό Επιμελητήριο και το Anatolia School of Business, σας προσκαλούν στο 3ο MIW Forum που θα πραγματοποιηθεί στη βιβλιοθήκη Bissell του American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), την Πέμπτη 10 Οκτωβρίου 2013 από τις 15.00 έως τις 20.00.

Η διοργάνωση του forum αποτελεί μέρος μίας σειράς ενεργειών που λαμβάνουν χώρα με πρωτοβουλία της Επιτροπής Καινοτομίας, Εκπαίδευσης και Επιχειρηματικότητας του Ελληνο-Αμερικανικού Εμπορικού Επιμελητηρίου, με στόχο την προώθηση και επιχειρηματική ανάπτυξη της καινοτομίας στην Ελλάδα.

Η συμμετοχή στο Forum είναι δωρεάν. Παρακαλούμε σημειώστε ότι ο αριθμός των θέσεων είναι περιορισμένος και θα τηρηθεί αυστηρή σειρά προτεραιότητας.

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