Four weeks remain to apply to the 8th edition of the SABF

by Luciana Reznik

We remind you that you still have four weeks to complete the application and be one of the 100 students that will attend the 8th edition of the South American Business Forum on 3, 4 and 5 August 2012.If you are a regular undergraduate student, or a graduate students born after January 1st, 1986, you have time until May 6 to upload your essay and take part in this enriching experience.

Important Information

Host University: Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA)
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 3, 4 and 5 August 2012
Language: Spanish and / or English
Main topic: Global Objectives, Collaborative Actions
Deadline for the application: May 6, 2012
Covered expenses: meals and accommodation. We do not cover the cost of tickets to Buenos Aires. For more detailed information check the SABF’s official site.

[vimeo 36902634 width=580 height=330] ### Main topic

The main topic this year is*** “Global Objectives, Collaborative Actions”*** . We believe that when taking decisions to face the main challenges we have today, it is increasingly necessary to think of solutions with a global approach.  To direct our actions towards a sustainable future, we must all work together, everyone from their own place.

Every day, we have the opportunity to collaborate with the rest. There are many situations where we do it and many more in wich we could. What if all of us collaborate to make a completely updated traffic status app? How much we could recycle if we could create more sharing networks of used stuff? Although the collaboration of each of us individually is the first step we should take to make some change in hour planet, what we can do as individuals is not enough. All this actions may have no impact if companies and governments do not have the same kind of ideas. It is increasingly common to speak about  models of cooperation between companies to stay competitive. A good example is the airline alliances such as One World and Star Alliance. It is also a tendency for many years the alliances between countries like the European Union, Mercosur, the ALCA, among others.

*Collective intelligence, regional integration, generation Y, activism, 2.0  *selection *and *corporate *social *responsibility are just some of the issues that are related to this hypothesis. We invite you to read more about the topics in the SABF ‘s web page.

Selection of participants

The selection of the 100 participants that will attend the forum will be based on the essays you will have to write related to the topics of this year. You may write about the main topic or one of the subtopics of this edition. The writings will be corrected and scored by an independent jury. Also we will consider the full profile of the candidate for the final decision. The results will be informed via mail, in early June 2012.

For any questions you can send an email to students@sabf.org.ar. To start the application go to apply.sabf.org.ar.