Developing and exchanging ideas for a better future

Rubicon Contest 2009 starts at BiTS University, Iserlohn

(Iserlohn, 03/09/09) Ideas for a better future are developed and exchanged at Rubicon Contest 2009, which takes place for the third time. Students of the Business and Information Technology School (BiTS) Iserlohn invited 80 students from 25 nations to come to Campus Seilersee. Till Wednesday the students from all over the world will compete in a business oriented computer simulation and case studies, dealing with this year’s topic “Green Business Management”.

The Rubicon Contest is a student initiative and is held by the collegiate consultancy b.one e.V., which also organised the event in 2006 and 2007. For the first time the contest has an interdisciplinary topic. Tasks concerning „Green Business Management“ not only deal with economic aspects, but with natural and employees ones. “The world wide financial crisis is a topic everybody talks about. But we think about our future and therefore we chose “Green Business”, says the business student Stephan Meier (23), who coordinated the organisation of the contest.

The contest will commence on Monday welcoming the participants and giving them the chance to get to know each other. An economic computer simulation which requires entrepreneurial thinking will take place on Tuesday. The best eight teams will be qualified for the second round on Wednesday morning, where they will have to solve a case study an present it in front of an interdisciplinary jury. This jury will chose the four best teams, who will have to solve and present another case study, to win one of the attractive leading prices.

Besides the competition the participants enjoy an attractive supporting program. Not only a party and a gala dinner, but trips around Iserlohn are offered. A few students already arrived on Sunday and visited the “Dechenhöhle”, together with their hosts. On Monday they could take the opportunity to visit the historical factory site of Maste-Barendorf in Iserlohn. “A lot of them have crossed a long distance to get to the Sauerland, therefore it would be too bad if they would only have seen the Campus”, is the opinion of Friederike Schnittker, who studies sports and event management and organised the supporting program.

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