Best Bratislava

BEST, Board of European Students of Technology is a non-profit and non-political organisation. BEST promotes „Empowered diversity“ and helps European students of technology become more internationally minded, by reaching a better understanding of European cultures and developing the ability to work and volunteer in a global environment. Technical students are given the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in topics which complement their technical education. BEST Bratislava is one of 94 Local BEST Groups in 32 countries, which are creating a growing, well-organised, powerful, young and innovative student network. Around members are involved all over Europe and almost one million students are reached through events and initiatives. BEST Bratislava, our Local BEST group is composed of 26 active members who meet weekly to bring students of Slovak university of technology opportunities for their academic and personal growth. BEST Bratislava has outreach at more than fourteen thousand students of Slovak university of technology from seven faculties: Faculty of civil engineering (SvF) Faculty of mechanical engineering (SjF) Faculty of electrical engineering and information technology (FEI) Faculty of chemical and food technology (FCHPT) Faculty of architecture (FA) Faculty of of material science and technology in Trnav (MTF) Faculty of informatics and information technologies (FIIT) BEST Bratislava organize regurarly these events: BEST Summer Course In these event, participants attend lectures given by the university's teaching staff or by experts from companies. At the end of the course students take an exam, which is designed to evaluate the participants' success. In summer 2017 we held course Small things change the world. Participants from 18 countries received basic knowledge on Nanotechnologies in microelectronics, nanoelectronics, industrial biotechnology and advanced materials. Course has been held in labs of Faculty of electrical engeneering and information technology. BEST Engineering Competition EBEC Engineering Competitions are events where teams of students use their technical, social and communicative skills to compete in categories Team Design and Case Studies. In last edition we cooperad with firms Volkswagen, Hummusoft, SOZA which also prepared tasks and studies for our participants. Training day Organised in cooperation with student organisation IAESTE Bratislava, Training day is one day nonformal educatin training happenning once a term aimed to bring soft skills to student of technology. five to seven interactive trainings are lead by proffesionals in soft skills fields. Every participant also gets certificate of attendance. During training day ninth edition which took place in april 2017, participants have opportunity to chose from six trainings: Time management and Public speaking which has been held in english, Power of communication, Influencing and communication, Conflict solving and we also bring Graphic workshop JOB Forum In cooperation with Cech strojarov we bring annualy two days lasting job fair to Faculty of mechanical engineering. Firms have opportunity to present themselfs to more than thousands students of mechanical engeneering. Students have opportunity to meet representatives of more than 25 firms and find their future employer.