BEST Lund tillsammans med ÅF inbjuder dig till tävling i Case study eller Team design. Vinnarna går vidare till den nordiska finalen i Stockholm 1-5/4 med möjlighet att avancera till den europeiska finalen i Zagreb senare i år. (Resor och uppehälle är betalt)

EBEC (European BEST engineering competition) är Europas största ingenjörstävling och varje år deltar mer än 5000 studenter från över 80 europeiska universitet.

EBEC Lund är första omgången för tävlingslystna LTH studenter. Ni studenter tävlar i lag om fyra i antingen kategorin Case study eller Team design.

Case study innebär att ni teoretiskt ska ta fram en lösning på ett verkligt eller fiktivt problem. Er lösning ska sedan presenteras för en jury som korar en vinnare.

I Team design ska det istället tas fram (byggas) en produkt som ska klara vissa krav, till exempel ett mindre fartyg som ska kunna transportera så mycket vikt som möjligt. Även här koras vinnaren av en jury.

Tävlingen äger rum under en skoldag och ni har ca fyra arbetstimmar på er att lösa uppgiften. Under lunchen håller ÅF ett lunchföredrag där ni bjuds på lunch. Kaffe och fika kommer att finnas tillgängligt under hela dagen.

Även icke deltagare är varmt välkomna till lunchföredraget! Föranmäl er på teknologkårens hemsida för att säkra en gratis lunch!

Preliminärt dagsschema ser ut som följer

09.00 Samling, genomgång av tävlingsregler mm
10.00 Tävlingsstart
12.00 Lunchföredrag med ÅF
13.00 Tävlingstid
15.00 Presentationer
18.00 Resultat/Prisutdelning

Ta chansen att sätta dina kunskaper på prov! Anmäl ditt lag idag på best.eu.org

Mer info om tävlingen och anmälningsproceduren hittar du på http://best.tlth.se/

Friday, October 29

A group of excited besties met up early in the morning outside of kårhuset in Lund. Ahead of them was a long but fantastic trip awaiting. Two cars were rented and after a quick pack-in the group left Lund and Sweden behind. The journey time was spent with a quiz marathon, the winner will not have his name published here since he will be to cocky about it, so enough about that.

During the day we had a longer stop to stretch our legs and do some sightseeing in the wonderful town of Göttingen.

Close to midnight we finally arrived to Nancy. The BEST Nancy group was patiently awaiting our arrival and a glass of wine was immediately placed in our hands. We had a couple of hours to get to know each other before we went to bed.

Saturday, October 30

We had an early breakfast before we went out on a shorter city sightseeing. Most amazing was the beutiful square of Nancy, according to our french hosts, voted the most beutiful in Europe.

After lunch we went to the river, first we all paddled dragon boats. When this was done, the brave of us could paddle kayak in a bit more streamy water.


When the day changed to dawn we took our cars and drove to Les Vosges. Finally there we were served a fantastic french dinner of melted cheese, ham and potatoes together with wine.

Sunday, October 31

In the early morning we took off to go to Strasbourg. In Strasbourg we had an guided river tour there we saw the fantastic architetcture of the city centre, the old defense systems, the modern european parliament and much more.

In the end of our time in Strasbourg we had a couple of hours of free time when we could wander around the city. In the night we went back to our Cabin house and played the game cantus dressed for Halloween.


Monday, November 1

Still in the cabin we used the day to hike in the beutiful mountains. The weather was really nice, actually the best during the whole trip which was lucky and made the day great.

In the evening we headed back to Nancy and had a pub crawl.

Tuesday, November 2

As part of the cultural exchange the Lund group was going to be part of a creativity competition at the university. In the morning it was the introductory presentations, sadly everything was in french but it gave us a good chance to get some extra sleep.

In the evening our hosts had transformed the living room in the house to a replica of the Casino in Monte Carlo. Someone won a bottle of Champagne as the last one standing at 4 am in the morning, not a single Swede was among the last, so I can't remember right now who it was.

Wednesday, November 3

The day started as usual at 8 am, we was the whole day at school. In the evening it was Swedish evening. The evening started with a pre-course of knäckebröd and sill. After that we had potatoes, meat balls and cream sauce. Later in the night we served surströmming and snus. Sadly not everyone of our host could keep there food after that. During the evening we also tried to teach the french some useful swedish words and pick-up lines.

Thursday, November 4

The last day of the innovation competition we had to present our ideas. We had to choose two of them and decided to go for one idea about a hearing aid phone device and an interactive family schedule site. Both the ideas got positive responses from the company representatives (orange) and the professors. The presentations should be able to be seen on some french website, somewhere.

In the evening we had our last night together, Our hosts had set up an cabaret with highlights of Ocean carried out on a twelve strenged guitar and a number from moulin rouge. Of the swedes Christian stand out with his standup.

Friday, November 5

It was time to travel back to Lund. The journey didn't start to well for one car, since we realized that the got a female GPS(based on behavioural similarities). Our GPS had, if nice, problem to decide a route there to go. The route continued to switch between Luxembourg and Hannover. A few times we drove out in a forest apart that it looked like a perfect highway. We got lost in Metz a half hour after we had started. But as the logical engineers as we are we took out a route based on the sun and memorizing and found our way home.

Whoever more problems were to come. The other car got into an accident on Autobahn and we both stopped until the police was done with examinating the damages and so on.

After all that happened we missed bordershop, but late in the night we were atleast back in Lund without more obsticles.

So at the end thank you Nancy for a wonderful CE and hope to see you all in Lund in the spring.

This year BEST Lund held the second edition of the biotechnology course that we had last year. Once again 30 highly motivated international students showed up in Lund and they got accompanied of 6 international BEST members (co-orgs and dis-orgs)  and the BEST Lund members in an unfirgettable two weeks.

The students attended ofcourse lectures during the days, but its about the evenings and nights you will be able to read about in this post.

Several traditional BEST Lund nights were carried out, like:

International evening
City Rally
Viking night
All year round
Sauna Party
und so weiter

and maybe the most memorable, the nobel party.

Actually, lets just see the pictures..... :)

This is the story of how BESTies from Lund invaded the country of Pálinka.
- and how they survived.

Arrival

We arrived in Budapest on a Sunday afternoon and after some comfused trips with the Public transport we mamaged to reach the Budapest train station where two nice girls met with us to join on the trip Veszprem.

We are not really sure why Jan and Jimmy got Love [louvae], but the rest of us believe it had something to do with the fact that it was Saint Valentine's Day and the stewardesses were giving it out to all the romantic couples on the plane...

 

Chillin' in da metro from the airport.

After arriving to the hotel, which was outstanding for being BEST standard,  we met up with the rest of our Polish and Hungarian friends.  We did some introduction games before we headed to the local pub where we stayed until, well…no one knows exactly…

At the hotel having an introduction and playing some welcome games.
- straight-cross?
- No, it's straight-straight!

Friendly Polish-Hungarian foosball cooperation.

Day 1 - Start of the CE

The following day was the first planned day so after the breakfast we had the official opening where we received welcome packs containing some useful stuff like a shot glass, some maps and brochures about Veszprem and a very nice pillow!  We also got a presentation about Hungary including a language lesson with some useful phrases which later came very in handy, like micsoda fenek means 'One beer, please!' - a very useful phrase!

Snowball fight on the streets.

In the evening we had a 'Hungarian night' where we got to try different traditional Hungarian dishes, very delicious! We then continued with a Hungarian dancing lesson learning some basic dance steps by a professional dancer. Even though it was a basic lesson I’m not sure if our teacher was so impressed all the time by our attempts to follow his movements – in any way, we had loads of fun!

Playing Twist to warm up for the dancinglesson.

Every year BEST arranges several of internal trainshops to improve the members of the organization in different areas. These usually last around one week and can for example have the focus on marketing and PR, fund raising and company relations or recruitment and motivation.

I’ve always wanted to go to Rome so when I saw that they were going to arrange the trainshop beRICHER there I decided to apply. After about a week I got the answer; I was accepted. beRICHER  has a focus on fund raising and company relations. In simple words: how to get money for BEST Lund so we can afford to reach our goals.

Before the event I spent a couple of days in the warm Italian autumn sun and explored the beautiful Rome. Then I met up with 20 motivated BESTies, the organizing BEST group and the trainers for the event, in a little house in the mountains a bit outside of Rome.

 

There we stayed for one week and learned a lot about fund raising and how to cooperate with companies and the university. It was also very good for my personal development because we had trainings about presentation skills, negotiation, goal setting and a lot more. We also had time to have a lot of fun, visit Rome, great parties and eating delicious Italian food. So to sum up, It was a fantastic week!

 

Going on a trainshop is the perfect way of combining traveling, learning and meeting new people. So what are you waiting for???

 

/Daniel

It was time for yet another Regional Meeting (RM) for the Nordic Region between 23rd and 26th October 2009 . This was my 2nd BEST event and it lived up to it's expectation of a BEST event, lots of fun, new friends, parties and drinking every night and of course some good learning. The organizers this time were LBG Uppsala, also celebrating their 5th year birthday. There were suppose to be 3 participants from each LBG but we were only 2 from Lund, myself Balaji (the newbie) and Jens (the experienced). Overall there we were about 60 people including the organizers and the trainers, at a cabin some where in between Stockholm and Uppsala. The cabin was right in the middle of the woods, there were just no one else around and you had to drive 10 mins to reach the town. A perfect place to spend the weekend and have BEST fun ( specially for me, it was a perfect one since I had just completed my exams and I needed to relax). The weather was not really perfect, it was cold and raining sometimes, but it really didn't matter since all of us were in our BEST spirit.

There was nothing much on 23rd, it was just the arrival day and introduction. There were presentations from a few LBGs and Stockholm LBG had a presentation in a different way, they presented a surprise dance, since the theme for the RM was "Dance me away"!!! After that it was time for some get-to-know games. All paritcipants were divided into groups and there were lots of fun games for each group. Later on it continued with some drinks and party until all of us were tired.

Sleep is one thing you can never expect in any BEST event, but it's worth it, we have the whole life to sleep :) but BEST events come once a while. So, after going to sleep late at night or some of them even early morning, it was time to wake up and get ready for the sessions the next morning, 24th. The breakfast was at 8:30 am and sessions started at 9 am. There were different sessions going on parallely. I, being a new BEST member took the BEST Knowledge Transfer session. It was an interactive session where I got to know more about BEST, the activities that happen in BEST, the acronyms, RM (Reginal Meeting), PM (Presidents Meeting), GA (General Assembly), LBG (Local BEST Group), JBT (Joint Board Training), TS (Tain Shop) etc etc... All the way it was a great session where I had lots of fun and at the same time got to know about BEST. This was followed by a session EEC (External Events Committee) about organizing Local Engineering Competion (LEC). We were split into groups of 4 and our task was to plan and organize a LEC. Again it was a very interesting session and it gave us an idea of how to organize a LEC and what difficulties we might face during the event.

There were a few more sessions until the evening which were mainly disccussions. Then it was time for party again!!!! As said mentioned before, the theme for the RM was "Dance me away" and each LBG had to present a dance and all the other participants had to follow and dance accordingly. It was yet another fun filled BEST dance party, all of us danced the whole night, had lots of drinks and no one knew when we went to sleep, at least I don't remember when I slept, I remember only when I woke up the next morning, again pretty early, since we had few more sessions.

The next day 25th, again we had to gather for break fast at 8:30 am. It didn't matter even if it was sunday, you had to be there for the session, so not much sleep. There were sessions from the training groups, I attended a session on "presentation skills". This was one of the truly BEST sessions, I definetely improved my presentation skills and it gave me more confidence to face large audience and make a more effective presentation. This was followed by BEST session for all, in which there were presentations from different teams about some changes in the BEST activities. Later on in the evening, there was a workshop by the Fin-Team (Financial Team).

Unfortunately it was soon time for me to leave. It was such a pity that I could not stay on for the most awaited event, the International Evening. The International Evening is one of the BEST party night, you get to taste drinks from different countries and then the party is one of the most crazy parties ever. I still remember the International Evening during the BEST Spring course that I attended in France, simply superb and awesome.
It was sad but I had to leave. But I heard some crazy stories from Jens, that one of the main organizers was so drunk that he was almost naked :). Well, whatever happens at BEST stays at BEST, so no more details.

Overall it was a great event with lots of fun. Personally, I got to know more about BEST and I am now motivated to work more for LBG Lund. I also improved my personal skills, met many new friends and of course got a chance to visit Stockholm. That's what BEST is always about: travel around Europe, make new friends, have fun and parties every night, try something crazy and not to forget, there's always some learning involved. If you haven't been at BEST, then you are for sure missing something!!!

Between the 8-12 October the board of LBG Lund went to Gothenburg for the event Nordic Joint Board Training. The nordic BEST groups have since some years back combined the trainings of their boards into one event. This year the event was held in Chalmers Sportstuga outside Gothenburg and could count in around 50 participants.

Trainers had been flying in from Romania, Belgium and Slovakia together with the local ones. The trainers had a big variety of trainings to fit everyones needs. It was possible to learn about Motivation & Leadership, effective meetings & facilitation, fund raising, PR, HR, knowledge transfer and much more.

During the Sunday each BEST group sat down with their own board to set up SMART goals and SWOT analyses for their groups and plan the upcoming year. Much time was also set aside to discuss and plan the first regional engineering competition what will be organised of LBG Copenhagen this spring.

 

Since BEST is a student organisation some time was also put aside to have fun. The lake next to Chalmers sportstuga and Swedens largest wooden heated sauna made the theme for one party. As what heard of the boardies of LBG Lund it was only one drawback during the event. It was to be in the same room as the danes during the Sweden-Denmark game or should we say, especially afterwards.

The promotion video for the Winter season is here, take a look on where you can go this winter. And don't forget to apply to a BEST course!

You can now apply for the winter courses!

If you want to check out the new trends in Paris, experience winter in Russia or just have heaps of fun with other European students - don't hesitate to apply for a BEST course this winter!
More information at www.best.eu.org under events.

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So, during the second week the participants worked slightly more hours in school than during the first week to finish their presentations. The presentations was held during the thursday and the friday and overall the presentations was very good according to the professor.

During the second week the students also had one company visit there they could see how their new knowledge was used in practice. They were also showned the facilities of Lund University when it comes to laboratory facilities.



In the nights it was a second international evening, partcipants night, a Malmö trip there we all watched the live concert of the soundtrack of our lives. And finally the week ended with the fancy Nobel party.






Saturday was departure day and both organizers and participants was really sad that the course was so soon over. We in BEST Lund believe due to what we are told, that the participants had two great weeks. This will warm our hearts in this cold country during the rest of the year. Thank you all who participated in our summer course and see you guys somewhere in Europe :)

Right now BEST Lund is performing its most important task. The summer course. Every year, every BEST group have to have an academic course. This years course in Lund is about biotechnology and the professor is Olle Holst.



29 participants and 4 co-organicer travelled to our wonderful city to meet 15 friendly and crazy Lund citizens. The arrival day was set to Friday August 7th so at the moment the course have been ongoing for a little over a week.

The weekend started without academic content and was instead used for teambuilding. Activities on the schedule was Lomma beach trip, Viking Party and a City Rally. During the city rally the participants both had the possibility to taste our delicious ice-cream as well as swim in Lundagårds fountain. Which was appreciated both by them and by the spectators.




The lectures started on Monday 10th and have been ongoing througout the week. Climbing, floorball and "brännboll" have been the activities for the evenings and great parties such as international evening, sauna party, 80's night the activities for the nights.

Sorry, but I have trouble rotating the pics.







When the first week was over of the course, the group changed location to a scout cabin outside Höör for the weekend. During the Saturday the weather wasn't the best, so the participants got a chance to have some well needed rest. In the afternoon a smaller engineering competition was organised. When the sunset came closer the preparations for All-Year-Round started with baking and cooking. All-Year-Round is a dinner where all swedish traditions during one year is presented and celebrated during one evening and includes everything from Christmas to Midsummer, from Easter to Lucia. Not even the "surströmmings" premiere was excluded.

On Sunday the weather was a bit better and while some of the organisers stayed to clean the cabin, the participants was hiking their way back to Höör. We also stopped for some swimming on the way.




Well, now it is time to start the second week, so

See you later alli.. ahh you know what it will say!

Later this fall LBG Lund will organize its first local engineering competition. This competition will be the first qualification round to the European final. Right now this years final are going on in Ghent, sadly without Swedish participitation. But here is a short introduction video.



The link is also find on the left side, under links.

You can also visit their website there you can read more about the competition and also watch a livestream.

http://www.ebec2009.eu/

Enjoy

The countdown to the summer course has started and today it is less than one month until Lund will be invided by students coming to be a part of BEST Lund summer course 2009.

In Sweden the BEST group is working with the preparations, but there is a lot of things is still needed to be prepared. Unfortunately our application for a grant from Svenska Institutet was rejected, so the economical status during the summer course will be a bit poor. On the other hand we are BESTies and we are used to make magic with the resourses that we have and to make things as cheap as possible.

On the mailing list the participants are starting to get to know each other and it seems like this summer will be as great and as much fun as all previous ones. :) If you are interested in joining us organise it, you are more than welcome! Read more about it here.

To get some summer course feeling, here are some pictures from previous summer courses.

The voting session has just started during this the last day of the General Assembly. Mia is voting for LBG Lund. At the picture you can see her register.

At the moment the biggest decision making event in BEST is taking place in Budapest in Hungary. This event is called GA, or General Assembly. This means that two delegates from each LBG and delegates from committees, the board, partner organisations and other invited people are gathering and making up the future for BEST, as well as voting on important decisions. Each full member LBG has one vote and the voting sessions take place on the last day of GA.

GA is also where the international board of BEST is being elected and this year we have one guy from the Nordic countries running for a place in the board - Paal from Trondheim. :)
If you are interested in checking out what they actually do in Budapest this week, you can follow the plenary at a live stream using your VLC-player. Just type in the adress mms://best.sch.bme.hu/plenary and see what "hot" topic they are discussing at the moment.. :P Otherwise you can always try to spot our delegates from Lund - Patrik and Mia. On the picture below you can see Patrik in the left corner..
 

Ten members of BEST lund went on a one week long Cultural Exchange (CE) to Gliwice in Poland. The CE was a three-way exchange and also people from Veszprém (Hungary) participated. Here is the story, enjoy!

Arrival

We arrived to Poland on Saturday March 28th to Katowicze airport. After a short busride we met our polish hosts. The actual CE started first on the Sunday so no activities were planned but as Swedes we wanted to be on time ;-) The first night we therefore stayed in different appartements around Gliwice.

Day 0 - Start of the CE

The Sunday was spent shopping in Gliwice shopping mall. During the afternoon the group from Veszprem showed up and the evening were spent with different get to know games. During the Sunday we also moved into the dormitory that would be our home for the week.

Day 1 - Mine visit and Polish evening

Monday was the first day that was really planned. In the morning we got a history lesson about Poland and also a short language lesson with the most common lines. In the afternoon we took the bus to an old coal mine. At that time we had already realized that coal is used more often as energy source than in Sweden.



In the evening we had Polish night. That means that we tried several polish dishes and even had a live-band during the dinner.

Day 2 - Gliwice radio station

Next day (the Tuesday), we went to Gliwice radio station. Gliwice radio station is famous becuase it is the highest wooden tower in the world. It was also an important location during the start of the second world war. At that time Gliwice was a german city, and Hitler sent in german soldiers dressed like polish soldiers to attack the radio station. The outdressed german soldiers were when supposed to send a message over the radio so that it looked like Poland attacked Germany instead from what actually happened. But if you want to know more about that story, you will have to find it out yourself. SORRY.



In the evening we had, the for BEST so typical event International Evening. This means that the participants cook typical food dishes from their countries and present it to the others. This time we decided to not to bring any herring since thats a very typical polish dish as well. Which might be the first time in BEST Lunds history.

Day 3 - Heritage park

On Wednesday morning we went to a polish heritage park. The park contained old buildings and the guide told us stories about how people lived in Poland a long time ago. The group were also divided into two groups for a workshop in the end. One group was doing wood-crafting, what the other group did I don't remember now.

Day 4 - Tyskie Brewery

The last day in Gliwice we spent in Tyskie Brewery. After the Brewery trip we had another work shop. This time we had a polish cooking lesson. Sadly, but maybe not surprisingly the polish organizers were not to impressed of our creations.

Day 5 - Kraków

On Friday morning we went to the old capital Kraków. After Lunch the organizers had prepared a city rally for us. A city rally is a more fun way of sightseing, but if you don't know I will not spoil the fun here (go on a BEST course and find out).

In the evening we had a goodbye party, we all ended at a student nightclub in AGH (A university in Kraków also hosting a BEST group).

Day 6 - Departure

Saturday, was also departure day and no activities were planned. BEST Lund decided to spend part of the day at the shopping mall in Kraków and the rest of the day around the market square in the city center, enjoying the lovely weather before returning home to Sweden.

On the 28th of March, 10 brave BESTies from LBG Lund went to Gliwice in Poland for a Cultural Exchange (CE). This is three-way CE together with LBG Gliwice and LBG Veszprem, meaning that participants from each country will meet together first in Poland, then Lund and finally in Hungary.

Today we have been in Poland for a couple of days, and so far we have taken part in a lot of activities like visiting an old mine, a heritage park and a Polish beer brewery.

More information about our trip with a lot of pictures will of course come later.. :)