SPONSORSHIP EXPERIENCES

We want to keep on adressing testimonies of students who were capable of being sponsored when travelling for SABF.
Today, we offer you the story of two students from Brazil who took part in the 5th Edition of SABF.
We really hope these stories help you to take part in our forum, and what’s more, allow you to know, financial situations are not a limit nor a main factor to be a SABF participant.

Hânder Costa Leal,
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Hânder received financial help from his university. Here is his story.
“The Department of Research from my university (PROPESQ/UFRGS) provides students who want to go to academic-related activities (both in other regions of Brazil and in the MERCOSUR contries) with a small financial help of R$300,00 (~US$ 150,00) in a reimbursement to be paid when the student presents the certificate. This, provided that he or she orders the financial help at least a month prior to the event date. It does not cover all the travel expanses, but is a good help.

I live in Porto Alegre, the closest Brazilian large-sized city to Buenos Aires, and paid R$500,00 for my travel tickets. One important thing is that the financial help only applies to students that have some kind of paper or essay to be presented in the event, as is the case of a SABFER applicant. This essay must be attached on the online financial help application form. I guess that this frame is worth to most of Brazilian public universities. The private ones use to provide more generous financial help to their students.”

Published by Nicolás Loreti under experiences, SABF 2009, sponsorship

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The SABF 2009 experience

This time we would like to share with you all a participants point of view about the SABF, a quite different one from the rest. The following article was griten by Juan Pablo Nieto Stábile, who participated in the fifth Edition of the SABF, he is part of our delegates team nowadays and a student from Universidad Católica del Uruguay. We would like to thank him for his contribution.

After my sad early departure from the SABF, I started thinking what I’ve learned, what was modified in my life, what I modified in others life…

On my Buquebus tripo, half asleep because of the great night at Asia de Cuba, I started to meditate (dream, mutate in River Plate’s Spanish, etc.) about what happened, about what was waited to happen, about the dreams i had.

And now, I’ve read what Juan Ignacio wrote and, really, had nothing but to repeat his words.

The SABF was much more than a simple forum. Was much more than a place to learn new market or lidership or even anarchy techniques (Casey, haha). Was much more than a place to have fun, meet new people or meet a new city. Much more than a hotel and it’s breakfast, a crumpled business suit or a corrupted game (it was very notorius that my group was the winner, but some monetary transferences modified that decision, haha). Was much, much more than that.

Published by Juan Pablo Nieto Stabile under delegates, Experience, SABF 2009

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Engineering for Export

9.55 - Manuel Aguirre, Director General de América Latina, CH2M Hill starts introducing company, explaining the reason for the name, and their commitment for engineering, Quality and Safety, a major thing for the company.

It is between the 5 biggest contructing companies.

They divide their work in three main areas:

• Energy
• Facilities and Infrastructure
• Government

He mentions that, and whay really impress is that all the employees own the shares and no one has more than 1% of the shares.

Published by Alberto Pose under construction, engineering, export, SABF 2009

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