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Hello, dear Alumni!
New month, new events!
The previous month has been, together with the beginning of this one, a period for handover for the boards, but in the meantime the Be your own boss event happened and it’s been a nice success! Another event of the series, Startup Unleashed, is on the way!
totally real startup environment!
Note: Some links are only available if you have a bestalumni account. You can get one by becoming a member.
If you also wish to help actively, join our monthly meeting, and see our open volunteering roles.
📢 BAN News
📢 BAN News
😎 Freelancing Club
Our #project-training_program started, and the first event - Be your own boss - has been a nice success! The recording is available here for BAN members.
Follow up: If you want to join a club of Alumni willing to catch up ~monthly about freelancing, share their pains, ask each other questions, leave your email address here.
💪Startup Unleashed is coming!
Our next event, Startup Unleashed, will happen in one week and tickets are available now! It will happen on June 19th at 2PM CEST via Zoom.
Join us, meet other entrepreneurs, and learn while sharing experience and networking. The sessions will include a very interactive online whiteboard.
During the event, our Alumnus Fernando, who has raised more than 350k in direct financial investment for the social projects in which he is involved in Portugal, will talk to us about the main differences between B2C and B2B. And most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to get to know all participants of course :)
🧚 Storytelling Club
Join us for our next BESTorial! It will give you “the advantages of the last”. In fact, this will be the last meeting before the summer break, so a good occasion to benefit from a final surprise and not miss it!
🧑💼 Internships
Our team of interns is helping us in developing our infrastructure and sorting daily tasks, and two developer interns positions just opened up! Open internships here.
Keep in mind that, if you want to give us a hand, you can find here some areas where help would be very appreciated. But if you have different ideas, do let us know what you want to implement!
🎙️ Podcast: new series
We have a new logo and theme for our Alumni podcast! So, everything is ready to upload a new set of interviews and episodes with our Alumni spread around the world :)
💖 Our monthly favourites
💖 Our monthly favourites
Here we list materials we found interesting both inside and outside of our Alumni & BEST world, and we gathered some of those under favourites in our shared drive.
And what's your monthly favourite? Sharing is caring so tell us here! We’d love to add it to this list next month!
Hackathon: Data 4 Healthy Recovery
Their next hackathon is planned for the 18-20th June, but on this page you can find additional ones that may help you turn your idea into a working prototype.Science Festival: Pint of Science
Feel free to re-watch the world's largest annual science festival, they delivered really interesting sessions this year!
Beyond EBEC: New Rober’s squirrel maze
If you are a (creative) mechanical engineer and have some problems with squirrels, what’s the most obvious thing you’d do? If you are already aware of Rober’s squirrel maze, make sure you check his newest one ;)
Movie: Another Round (2020)
Well, kudos to Denmark! They didn’t make it to the Eurovision Song Contest final, but they delivered a great film. Psychiatrist Finn Skårderud theorized that having a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.05 makes you more creative and relaxed, so...
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