league of romanian students abroad (lsrs) english presentation 2016
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THE LEAGUE OF ROMANIAN STUDENTS
ABROAD (LSRS)Your merit, our support, Romania’s future.
Contents
1. LSRS in brief a. Vision, mission and principles b. Stats c. Strategic directions
2. LSRS’ Impact
3. LSRS’ Community
4. Education
1. LSRS in brief
Our Vision
LSRS BELIEVES IN...
The value, strength, and potential of the solid community of Romanian students and graduates from around the world.
Every young Romanian’s chance to pursue the best education available.
The potential of its members to transform Romania.
AND SEEKS TO...
Build up a strong community of Romanian students and graduates, and facilitate their contribution to Romania's long-term development.
The League of Romanian Students Abroad (LSRS) offers an open forum for dialogue and action to Romanian students and graduates of universities around the world.
LSRS promotes the initiative, professionalism and solidarity of its members, as valuable representatives of Romania, and a positive attitude for their return to Romania in the long-term.
The main objective of LSRS is to promote the academic, professional, social, civic, and cultural rights and interests of its members, and to catalyze their contribution to the development of Romania.
LSRS is an independent, apolitical, non-profit organization.
Our Mission
SolidarityProfessionalism
Initiative
Value
Principles: VIPS
7 years of LSRS... in numbers
12.000+ LSRS members – students and graduates from over 50 countries
300+ active LSRS volunteers
40 LSRS branches all over the world
28.000+ LSRS fans (Facebook)
50.000+ total reach social media (Facebook, Blogs, Forum, Twitter)
500.000+ LSRS online visitors (lsrs.ro, wiki.lsrs.ro, gostudy.lsrs.ro)
10.000+ offline LSRS projects’ beneficiaries every year (Branches’ events, LSRS Gala, LSRS Caravan, C.A.E.S.A.R., Hai Acasă!, career events)
Activities
Projects Partnerships
Communication and Advocacy
Organisational Development
MeansCOMMUNITY: Raising the cohesion between Romanian students and graduates from abroad
IMPACT: Facilitating the positive impact of LSRS’s members in Romania
EDUCATION: Facilitating the access of young Romanians to a good quality education abroad
ObjectiveTo consolidate the community of Romanian students and graduates from abroad, encourage and facilitate their contribution to the development of Romania
Synthesis of our Vision
Gala, Caravana, FER, GoStudy, Hai Acasă !, 1st of December, Legal Advice
- Diaspora organisations
- Romanian NGOs- Student and Youth
organisations- Romanian Embassies- National Institutions- Mass Media- Business
Environment
- Press Releases- Promotion
Campaigns- Conferences- Young Romania
Forum
- Recruitment- Human Resources and
Internal Communication Management
- Financing (projects’ fundraising)
- Branches
LSRS’ Strategic Directions
ImpactProfessional Development
SMART Diaspora
Partnerships
Advocacy
Young Romania Forum
CommunityMembers’ Database
Branches and Subsidiaries
Website
LSRS Forum
Legal Advice
Online Platforms
EducationWiki LSRS
Caravana LSRS
Experience Sharing
Mentorship
Romanian Educational
Fund (FER)
2. LSRS’ Impact
LSRS’s Major Projects and Partnerships
Gala of Romanian Students Abroad
Description: The Gala is the major event celebrating the exceptional accomplishments of the best Romanian students abroad. The President of the Romanian Academy chairs the Jury every year. The event gathers hundreds of Romanian students and graduates from around the world and important personalities of Romanian society
Date: Yearly (January 8)
Location: Bucharest
Beneficiaries & impact: 500+ Romanian students and graduates from 30+ countries. Public recognition for the best Romanian students of the year. Hundreds of media appearances and involvement of the most important decision-makers in the country (the President, the Government, the Parliament, major companies, civil society, mass-media)
SMART Diaspora
January 2013: LSRS launches SMART Diaspora, a national-level strategy for supporting Romania’s brain regain. The strategy, based on the experience of other countries and drawing from open debates organized in 15 LSRS Branches around the world, aims at transforming Romania into an attractive career destination, facilitating the return of Romanians abroad to Romania, supporting their integration into Romania’s public and private sectors, and consolidating Romania’s relationships with its Diaspora.
Derived from this strategy LSRS created two successful projects, Hai Acasa! and SMART Internships.
SMART Internships
Description: Launched in 2013 as an integrative part of SMART Diaspora, SMART Internships is a programme of competitive management shadowing, which is addressed to students and graduates with studies abroad. This programme targets Romanian public institutions that are interested in collaborating with students and graduates with an international experience.
Period: annually (summer)
Location: Bucharest
Beneficiaries and Impact: Young Romanians with studies abroad are encouraged to acquire professional experience in the public system and to invest a good part of their educational and intellectual capital to the advantage of the host institutions.
Hai Acasă!
Description: Hai Acasă! is a career platform for young Romanians abroad interested in professional opportunities in Romania. Hai Acasa! connects top employers from the local market and Romanian human capital from around the world
Components: Annual event (job fair, employee presentations, training seminars) & online platform
Location: Bucharest, Romania & global
Beneficiaries & impact: 5000+ eligible LSRS members, top employers from Romania. The program promotes the transfer of skills and global expertise toward Romania, in the long run
Partnerships
12th March 2009: LSRS and the Romanian Senate sign a Memorandum. It is the first time when a Romanian institution recognizes the strategic importance of the community of Romanian students and graduates from around the world
February 2015: LSRS signs an unprecedented protocol with the Ministry of External Affairs to the advantage of the Romanian diaspora.
Business Consulting Case Study Event (BCCSE)
Description: BCCSE is an annual recruiting event for top graduates, who are selected based on a case study competition. The graduates solve case studies in teams and are evaluated by representatives of top recruiting companies in real time. The case studies come from top universities (HBS, Stanford GSB, and others)
Date and location: Annual event, Bucharest
Beneficiaries & impact: 20-30% of participants receive job offers (for full-time positions, part-time or summer internships). Participants are pre-screened by LSRS. The event can be adapted to various fields (consultancy, banking, marketing, communication, media, information technology, and others) based on the partner companies’ preferences
Spotlight: Young Romania Forum
Description: Forumul România Jună (Young Romania Forum), organized in Bucharest under the auspices of the Romanian National Bank, defined the young generation’s vision for Romania in 2030 – a first effort of its kind. 300+ experts in 10 expertise groups discussed, over the span of three days, the priorities, obstacles, and opportunities for Romania by 2030.
Beneficiaries & impact: The first major forum focused on defining a long-term vision for
Romania (2011-2030). The conclusions are published in „Programul România
Jună: România în 3Decenii” and were presented at the 2012 Gala.
3. Community
12.000+ LSRS members (2015)
a) Data about LSRS members
45%
28%
10%
17%
StudențiAbsolvențiCursuri doctorale sau postdoctoraleAlte tipuri de programe universitare
StudentsGraduatesPhD or postdoctoral coursesOther university programs
31.2%
17.2%16.1%
15.1%
9.7%
5.4% 5.4%
Economie și managementIT, științe exacte și inginerieDrept și criminologieȘtiințe umaneMarketing și comunicareArhitectură, arte și dramaturgie
Economics and managementIT and engineeringLaw and criminologyHuman studiesMarketing and communicationArchitecture, art, and dramaVeterinary medicine, biology, and biotechnology
Distribution of the types of university programs of LSRS
members
Majors chosen by LSRS members
Continents
34.8%
14.0%11.4%
10.1%
9.7%
7.8%6.6%5.6%
Marea Britanie FrantaDanemarca GermaniaItalia OlandaSpania Austria
Europe (top 8) North America
EuropeAsiaAfrica
North AmericaSouth AmericaOceania
Great BritainDenmarkItalySpain
FranceGermanyNetherlandsAustria
United States ofAmericaCanada
b) LSRS Branches and Subdiaries
40 LSRS Branches and subsidiaries
12.000+ membrs100.000+ annual visitors
Article posting in the News section, visible on homepage
Advertising opportunities: partner logo (dynamic display on the homepage and separate listing in the Partners section)
c) LSRS Website
lsrs.ro/forum 4.000+ monthly visitors 12.000+ members 2.000 threads 5.000 posts
Advertising opportunities: announcement and debates on topics of interest to partners and the community
d) LSRS Forum
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LSRS – 28.000+ fans; 25.000+ total weekly
reach LSRS Group – 5.500+
members LSRS Branches – 20+
groups (5.000+ members)
Advertising opportunities: announcements on one or more LSRS pages
e) LSRS Facebook
f) LSRS Blogs: blog.lsrs.ro, gostudy.lsrs.ro
LSRS Blog: 1.000+ monthly visitors
GoStudy LSRS: 2.000+ monthly visitors
Advertising opportunities: announcements on one or more LSRS blogs
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g) LSRS Newsletter
Monthly newsletter sent to 12.000+ members
Also available on LSRS’ website, under the Resources/Newsletter section
Advertising opportunities: ads, articles, and interviews in the LSRS Newsletter
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4. Education
Caravana LSRS
Description: Caravana is a major annual project enabling Romanian students and graduates from abroad to hold free workshops in Romanian high schools and universities. This program offers direct counseling to all students interested in studying abroad
Date: Annual (summer/fall), multiple seminars.
Location: 30+ Romanian cities
Beneficiaries & impact: 5000+ beneficiaries from Romanian high schools and universities. Caravana brings essential information about studying abroad to young Romanian people from all over the country. The event puts the students in direct contact with peers who have already succeeded in the admission process to top universities.
GoStudy Platform – LSRS Mentorship Program
Description: GoStudy is the most comprehensive collection of free counseling services for Romanians interested in studying abroad:- Mentorship program: Every year, 200+
Romanian students and graduates from abroad help high-school graduates prepare their admission files (essays, standardized tests, required documents, etc.)
- Caravana online LSRS: mentorship workshops organised by our branches around the world
- Caravana Road To Success: The online version of Caravana LSRS, including virtual Q&As and free seminars with members from LSRS branches around the world
Beneficiaries & impact: 150.000+ beneficiaries of GoStudy LSRS services. The services are free and accessible to everybody interested, worldwide 2
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Wiki LSRS
Wiki LSRS: +1.786.174 views
1.247 pages 39.717 edits 12.722 registered users
Advertising opportunities: Post ad on one or more pages of Wiki LSRS, if relevant
