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The Erasmus Consultancy Project (ECP) provides you the opportunity to be the management of a student-run consultancy firm. You gain board and consultancy experience by leading a group of students in conducting tailor-made research in an emerging country. Going on for 33 years, destination countries have been amongst others Indonesia, Colombia, Peru, Malaysia, Chile, Vietnam,…

Our committee experience started back in August. After we wrote our policy for this year’s event, we started working on the first agenda point: the acquisition. The whole committee picked up the phone and called every company they could find in our database. After a few weeks we had more than a hundred companies that…

As Commissioner of Research, you will be responsible for all research that needs to be done during the different phases of the project. In this task, you will be supported by professors of RSM, who will warrant the quality of your work.  It is your call to ensure that your obtained insights into your country of destination are well-founded…

As the treasurer of the Erasmus Consultancy Project you will safeguard the financial health of the project. Your main responsibilities are the creating and maintaining the budget and managing contracts. You will closely work with many stakeholders to ensure the best budget possible that takes all financial decisions into account. You will need to think…

As the Chairman of the Erasmus Consultancy Project, you will be responsible for leading, motivating, supporting, and coordinating responsibilities and tasks among the board and the consultants. You will represent the ECP towards all stakeholders, and will be responsible for managing and meeting expectations towards them. As a chairman, you will constantly be challenged to…

As Commissioner of Marketing you are responsible for every outing of the ECP brand, recruitment of consultants, designing the ECP website, templates and a promotion video. Besides that I write all publications, keep track of social media activity and will capture a great year in a ECP yearbook. The function of marketing requires a creative…

As the Commercial Relations Manager you are responsible for the relationship management with clients from previous ECP years, potential and current clients, as well as with internal and all external stakeholders. Next to this your main responsibility will be carrying the acquisition phase of the project, which includes enabling the team to perform in their commercial…

Hi everyone, My name is Esther Jellema and I am a member of ATBA. I am very honoured to be chosen as STAR of the month! At the beginning of this year I moved to Rotterdam to start my study Business Administration. I joined the Eurekaweek to get to know the city and meet new…

Hi everyone, My name is Maarten and together with my fellow committee members I am organizing the Erasmus Recruitment Days 2018, the biggest on campus recruitment event in Europe. Pretty exciting right? The day that we were chosen still feels like yesterday. We were all gathering around in the ‘Bunker’, our cozy office. From there…

Hi all, My name is Peter Groothuis and I’m December’s STAR:) Besides that, I am a master student from Management and Innovation and a consultant for the Erasmus Consultancy Project. With the ECP we are consulting Dutch companies that want to expand to Indonesia. As a consultant it’s our job to research industries, get companies…

Hey everyone, My name is Julian and I am the chairman of the MSC Strategic Management. With the help of Kim van Teeseling, Lisa Brämswig, David Boer and Joep de Geest, we make sure that all the students in our study program have a great time while studying at RSM and get the opportunity to…

Hi guys, My name is Carlijn and together with Harm, Dook, Sara, Thije, Saskia, Annick and Iza, I have the honour of organizing the 31st STAR Management Week. It is almost inevitable that you haven’t heard about the STAR Management Week yet. We have been visible with our stands on campus since September, but the committee already…

Hi everyone! My name is Milou van Mierlo and I’m so honored to be the STAR of the month September! I’m a second-year BA student and I’ve lived in Rotterdam for almost a year now. I applied for a position in the BA Introduction Days committee in January, which was one of the best choices…

Hi everybody! My name is Ablo Traoré and I’ve been the marketing manager of the STAR Eurekaweek Committee for the past 7 months. Together with my enthusiastic and hard working committee members Friederike, Iris and Yorick we’ve been responsible for the promotion of STAR during last Eurekaweek. Although I participated in the BA introduction days…

Hi there! My name is Lorence and I’m chair of the MSc BIM studytrip committee! Together with Mateusz Bochenczak, Gabriel Muller Adade and Rick van ’t Hof we organised the sickest trip to San Francisco – Silicon Valley. If you want to know more about the trip itself I can tell you all about it…

Hey everybody, My name is Theresa, I am a second year IBA student and June’s STAR of the month! Seeing that I’ve been given this opportunity, I’d like to give a small review of what the Reach Out Committee has been up to recently. Among active members, the Reach Out committee is mostly known for…

Hey all! I am very thankful to be chosen as the STAR of the month! My name is Joost, I am finishing my second year of IBA and currently very busy with the preparation of my exchange to Kingston, Canada. My future looks as bright as the previous year, in which I have been Commissioner…

Although we aren’t working full time as consultants, my week is totally filled with ECP this time. My week started off good on Monday with a spontaneous meeting. The only problem was to have professional clothing: I was in casual dress since I had no meeting planned. Eager for the meeting, I changed clothes with…

Hi everyone! Ten months ago I started as the Information Processes Manager of the 39th STAR Board. So far it has been an awesome experience and I expect the coming months to be great as well. As the Information Processes Manager I’m responsible for all the IT systems, IT Strategy and Data that STAR has.…

This week I discovered what an “ECP full immersion” is, and I almost loved it. Surely opening the office at 9 AM every day, Monday to Friday was not my favorite part, but a good dose of coffee is often enough to wake my brain up and start looking for new hot leads. Result? Almost 100 new…

For many people a job interview can be a stressful event. It is often the first opportunity, and sometimes the last, to present yourself in a positive way to a new employer. Since this is such an important first step in your career, it is good to know how to conduct a successful job interview. If you…

Hi guys! A few weeks have passed by, and it’s time to write another ECP update with the highlights from the past week! My name is Daniëlle and I’m the Marketing Manager of the ECP board, which means I’m working on ECP full-time at the moment. The week started with some preparations for the ECP…

Ahoy! My name is Simon! Last year I started being active at STAR in an activity team and after that the Heartbeat festival. From the beginning on, I liked the experience that STAR offered me. That is why this year I decided to apply for another committee. Currently I am responsible for the acquisition of…

Buenos dias muchachos y muchachas! We are honoured to be featured as the first ECP Blog for STAR. In this small blog we will discuss some of the most vital events that have happened last week. We are the first ones to be featured since we had a quite productive week with loads of interesting…

Hi Guys, This time it’s my turn to be STAR of the Month. I’m glad to tell you about my experiences at STAR. Starting with the Events committee last year, where I organized the best parties. This was already a great learning opportunity and an adventure. We arranged some great parties, such as the New…

Hi, First of all, thank you very much for choosing me for the STAR of the month! My name is Sara, I’m second year student on the Erasmus University and an active member of STAR since September! After focusing the first year of my bachelor on school, I was ready for something new. I wanted…

Hi fellow STAR Members!   First of all, it is a great honour to be selected as STARs of the month! We, yes you hear it correctly for this episode of the STAR of the month both of us, José and Elisa got selected! We are the externals of the MSc BIM Board, which is…

STAR’s ambition is to focus on personal development. Therefore STAR developed the STAR Academy through which it offers all its members various trainings possibilities. Furthermore, all members of STAR committees are asked to work on their own Personal Development Plan. This is not without a reason: there is a current trend in workspace, where not…

Hey guys, Thank you very much for choosing me as the STAR of the month! I’d like to share this distinction and forward the credit to my amazing team members Kamja, Marissa and Karl who have been working hard the past couple of weeks to make the MSC AFM a success. Thank you guys! My…

After months of preparation, we finally managed to load 30 people on the plane to fly to Lisbon. When we landed, we were surrounded by palm trees and 27 °C weather, quite a surprise after the perfect Dutch weather. We found our way to the hostel, which was right in the heart of the city,…

On February 17th all eight of us received a call with the good news: we were selected to organize the STAR Management Week 2016! With no clue of what was coming we celebrated that night in Van Leeuwen with all the other active members. We bonded as a group and after the first night we…

Hi everyone, What an honour to be chosen as the STAR of the Month! Thank you very much. My name is Perrine and I am currently a second year International Business Administration student. After having joined a student association in my first year, I wanted to further develop myself and started looking for additional opportunities.…

It has been more than a month ago when iCare departed to Nepal. But oh man, it has been an amazing experience! After two long flights, the group of 20 students arrived in Kathmandu where a bus was waiting for us to bring us to Thuli Besi. It was six in the morning, but the…

My name is Elles and I was honored to be this year’s fundraiser of iCare. It has been an amazing year in which I have learned a lot. This year was also my first year at the Erasmus University and I hoped to learn more next to my study and was ready to make a lot of…

It was only 2 years ago that I myself was subject to experience university life in the Dutch environment. Everything and everyone was new to me. Nevertheless, the STAR Introduction weekend that I attended aided me in making great friends and settling into the hugely diverse atmosphere. My name is Suraj Iyer and I’m about…

Last year I joined the STAR Surf Trip to Loredo, Spain. I had never surfed before, but after that week I knew there were many more Surf Trips to come. In February I was accepted to the STAR Surf Trip committee and I got to meet my fellow committee members: Nienke, Ronja and Micha. It…

Personally, I am not a big fan of an “employee of the month” type of program for several reasons. First, you want to create a culture of people who join your organization wanting to do the right thing due to intrinsic motivation, instead of people who are focusing solely on gaining praise. Second, success is…

Every committee member follows a personalized track which starts with filling in your own Personal Development Plan. This Plan forces you to be concious about your ambitions regarding personal learning goals. Based on these goals, STAR will make sure you receive suitable training. Anne de Jong, who is currently organising STAR Management Week 2016 and…

To all the STAR members that are interested in the International Week, I’d like to start with telling you how awesome the International Week and its community is! It seems like you’re only organizing the IW Holland, but there are so many more things to it. The International Week actually consists of two very important…

Hi all, I am so honored to be the STAR of the Month in June! At the beginning of this year I started university with my second choice study, but this year couldn’t be better! I applied to become active at STAR and got chosen to be one of the marketers of the Marketing Team.…

Hi all, I am very flattered for being chosen as the STAR of the month! Thank you very much. Today is May. The month in which the weather starts allowing all kinds of spontaneous ideas for stuff to do while you try to stay productive and hand in the last assignments or prepare for the…

Dear all, It is such an honour to be picked as STAR of the Month! Being chosen as one takes me back to that certain day in September, on which I was appointed as Program of the Case Competition – still unaware of what this event encompassed.  I was definitely excited to be picked as…

Hello fellow-STARs, Hola mis amigos ESTRELLAs, Thanks for the recognition as STAR of the Month! Currently, I am one of the 27 consultants of the Erasmus Consultancy Project (ECP). On September 30th 2015, the ECP Committee called me to let me know that I was selected to participate. I had no idea how big STAR…

Hello Everyone! I am very happy to be the STAR of the month along with my co-external commissioner Roberto Flores. It has been a great experience with the MiM – Master Study Club so far and I look forward to achieving more with the team in the future. More about me – Born and raised…

Howdy everyone! It seems like it was only yesterday when I started my student life by attending the STAR Introduction Weekend. During this weekend I met a lot of new and interesting individuals, some of which have become my closest friends with whom I still party every week. Now, almost two years later, I can…

At the end of may we each got a call that we were selected for the Eurotrip 2015. After this call we immediately met up for dinner to get to know each other, we formed a group chat and added each other on social media. Then on a Wednesday morning, 6 months ago, we formally…