President: Wouter Schaekers - Leuven
Treasurer: Kristjan Mitt - Tallinn
Secretary: Tina Toni - Ljubljana
VP - EduCo Coordinator: Iulia Gherasim - Bucharest
VP - ITC Coordinator: Gwenael Alizon - Lund
VP - markeTeam Coordinator: Tarvi Olli - Tallinn
VP - CaSCo Coordinator: Piotr Bryk - Lodz
VP - SPOC Coordinator: Gabriela Popescu - Bucharest
VP - TIGro Coordinator: Aneta Blaszczyk - Lodz
XVI Board also known as the Gliders. From left to right: Piotr, Aneta, Wouter, Tina, Kristjan, Iulia, Gwen, Gabriela, Tarvi
There are always a lot of things you would like to accomplish while being in the board, but as a mandate lasts only 1 year and as BEST is limited in resources, we need to set priorities. During the board summer meeting in July we first made a list of things we would like to achieve. This was based on information from the LBG reports, ideas presented on previous General Meetings and our own experience. After putting priorities, we made a selection and came up with the following goals for the upcoming year.
Goals of XVI board
- To make the information flow between different bodies of BEST more functional.
- To make LBGs stronger:
- To provide LBGs with fundraising (FR) and Human Resources (HR) skills,
- To plan more in advance,
- To provide a useful tool for LBG cooperation.
- To improve the quality of our public events.
- To interact with the external world, showing that we are proud of BEST.
During our Board Winter Meeting we made a first broad evaluation, which allowed us to focus on some goals which didn't get much attention in the first part of our mandate.
1) Thanks to the introduction of
trainshops on fundraising and human
resources as well as the development of the
online LBG corner, we managed
to strengthen our LBGs.
2) By
fine-tuning the core target group BEST could easier adapt its
services to the expectations of those students.
3) During the general meetings we facilitated
the extended responsibility
feeling among LBG delegates in passionate discussions on membership, bonding
and strategy.
4) Years of intense work on strategic thinking in BEST resulted in
clear
guidelines on growth of the organisation.