By: Leticia Lövkvist, International Exchange Student Coordinator

I had the opportunity to represent Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) at the Australia Exchange Fair Circuit, from April 27 to May 6. This fair is a collaboration of many of Australia’s universities, whereby fairs are held at their campuses around the country to promote student exchange.

Leticia Lövkvist promoting JIBS!

The Fair circuit facilitates awareness and exposure of the Australian Universities’ International Partners. The involvement in the fair has offered me the opportunity to network with JIBS partner universities’ students and staff, as well as other international and Australian institutional representatives. My main goal was to promote JIBS as a student exchange destination, so in addition to the participation in the fair, I had the opportunity to have meetings with different representatives at the Universities and presentations in the classrooms.

Leticia Lövkvist (JIBS) and Prof. Gensheng Shen, Dean International ECU

It is important for JIBS to be able to attract more Australian students, so that we can bring balance to the exchange program and continue sending JIBS students to Australia on exchange. The Universities I visited are in Perth: Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University (ECU) and Murdoch University, and in Melbourne: Deaking University Campus Geelong and Campus Burwood, Swinburne University, La Trobe University, RMIT and Victoria University.

Sophia IP (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Jackie Taylor (Deakin, Australia), Kasey Dugan (Deakin, Australia) Leticia Lövkvist (JIBS, Sweden) and Alejandro Escudero (ESSCA, France)

At some of the Universities I was accompanied by JIBS students who are studying in Australia during the spring 2010 semester. At ECU:  Daniel Carlsson and Mikael Falck, at Swinburne University:  Jens Myhrman and former exchange student Krystina Witt, at La Trobe: Pontus Petersson and at Deaking University: Marcus Törnblom and Martin Andersson. In addition JIBS was represented by our student Anna Norrsell Karlsson at the Queenslad University of Technology fair, which took place on April 21.

Swinburne Univeristy with JIBS' student Jens Myhrman and Australian student Krystina Witt, former JIBS exchange student.

Fair at Deakin University with Australian student Sarah Grills, prospective JIBS exchange student.

Students showed great interest when knowing more about JIBS’ large number of courses offered in English in different areas of studies, JIBS’ international profile, the integration of international students in the courses and the student body in general. In addition they considered very important the services offered to international students such as the pick-up service, help in finding accommodation, the induction week and support by the international office during their studies. Sweden being a modern, safe, developed and well-organized country, as well as most Swedes being fluent in English, was also significant. Knowing about the extracurricular activities organized by JSA (JIBS’ student Association) and IA (International Association at Jönköping University) motivated them as well.

Fair at ECU with JIBS students Daniel Carlsson and Mikael Falck

By: Erik Lagerwall

We started the day by checking out from the hostel, which took some time since some people enjoy sleeping. But after our hectic day yesterday, we deserved to take a long morning.

Since we had our meeting with Carnegie at 3pm we decided to walk around in Stockholm. We visited the Stockholm and the church where Daniel and Crown Princess Victoria will get married in the 19th of June. We also walked around in the old town of Stockholm to have some ice cream and look at the old stock exchange.

At Carnegie we met up with Maria Johansson from the HR department, she had arranged a great visit for us. We got to meet people from the corporate finance department, research department and the sales department. Carnegie as many knows have been through a rough time, and they were very open with it, and we got ask a lot of questions to them.

We got a good look at their new offices in Stockholm, which they moved into in September last year. They have really nice head office and we got to sit in the executive boardroom, which has a great view over Stockholm. We ended our visit at Carnegie by going down to their trading floor, and it was just like we had expected. People shouting at each other, talking loudly in their phones with clients and they all have at least 5 different computer screens to look at.

After Carnegie we hade some spare time for some shopping and for some food before going back to Jönköping.

These 2 days in Stockholm have been really great, and we have meet a lot of different companies, but specially we got to chance to see different parts of what makes up our economy in Sweden.

By: Erik Lagerwall

Together SIFE and Nordnet Trading Room hace educated students in Jönköping in private economy and basic stock trading. The finale of this education is a trip up to Stockholm, to visit different financial actors.

We left JIBS around 6 am in the morning yesterday, for some people that was a bit early but we drank some coffee and managed to get on the road.

Our first stop in Stockholm was with Länsförsäkringar. They talked about the different segments they work with and how they try to combine them into one product. One interesting thing is that Länsförsäkringar is organized in a different way then most companies.

After Länsförsäkringar we visited Nordnet to learn more about how to be successfull on the stock market. The lecture was very interesting, and we learnt a lot from them and how we should invest.

The last visit of the day was with Riksbanken (Central Bank). This lecture was really good, and if we could we would probably have stayed much longer with them. Because we had a lot of question that we want the to ask, and we learnt so much about the differentiation from ECB and Riksbanken.

We ended the day with Dinner, and hopefully we will have a good next day!