Become an alumni mentor! Next year, the IRIO program will start the alumni-mentor program, a program to match current IRIO students with IRIO alumni. Via the alumni-mentor program, alumni can share their expertise and experience with the next generation. Through the platform Career ConNEXT you can make a personal profile of yourself, which includes information about your background, expertise and experience. As soon as you have filled in the registration form, your profile will be activated and students will be able to find you in the mentor database and contact you with their career related questions. You can either accept or deny their request for information. So, if you want to coach students, keep in touch with the university and gain new perspectives on your own career, please become an alumni mentor! For more information or to apply, send an email to chairman@clio.nl

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The OCSE High Commissioner on National Minorities in the Hague is looking for an intern starting in September 2016. Working knowledge of the Russian language is a requirement. Note: The deadline will be on the 15th of June 2016. Read more about this internship via the link.

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Dear alumni, Unfortunately, the Alumni Dinner at Het Goudkantoor after the GMM had to be cancelled due to an insufficient number of participants. However, feel free to join us for food and drinks afterwards at a location that we will let you know at the GMM! If you want to read the documents for the GMM, go here: http://www.mitrany.eu/documents.html Also, Mitrany is looking for new Board Members for the new academic year. Do you have ideas how to run Mitrany next year? Send an email with a short motivation to mitrany@rug.nl before the 1st of August 2016. It is not a requirement to be located in Groningen.

General Members Meeting & Annual Alumni Dinner

Don't forget: The GMM and the Alumni dinner are less than two weeks ahead! Sign up now for a nostalgic night in Groningen with your fellow Alumni. Sign up here for the dinner: https://docs.google.com/a/rug.nl/forms/d/1193xDONlcvXs1Fta89ieTDZjqcwBlt7uRQbSKEiCb-M/viewform?c=0&w=1 The documents for the GMM will be made available a week on beforehand.

General Members Meeting & Annual Alumni Dinner

At 19:00 today, the Symposium on "Leadership & Sustainability" will take place. If you can't make it to the symposium, you can follow the Livestream via Twitter! (@irioalumni) The recordings will still be available 24 hours afterwards. Looking forward to an interesting evening!

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The business logic of sustainability

Companies may see sustainability as a burden and an obligation, while others see it as an inherent part of long term development for both business and society. During this Ted Talk, Ray Anderson unravels his company's commitment to sustainable ways of doing business. To learn more about this subject, do not forget to sign up for the Mitrany Symposium on "Leadership & Sustainability", where experts will explain how sustainable initiatives shaped their companies and how their organization became a front runner in sustainability within its industry. Note that the symposium will take place already this Friday the 13th of May at 19:00, so be quick and sign up now! Read more about the speakers and sign up via: http://www.mitrany.eu/symposium-leadership--sustainability.html

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Mitrany's symposium on "Leadership & Sustainability" is only 10 days away! Haven't signed up yet? Do it now! http://www.mitrany.eu/symposium-leadership--sustainability.html The symposium will take place on the 13th of May from 19:00 till 22:00 at Het IJ in Amsterdam (Restaurant-Café de IJ-kantine). One of our guests will be Arjen Boekhold, who works as chain director at the popular chocolate brand Tony's Chocolonely's. : Arjen Boekhold is the chain director of Tony's Chocolonely, a company dedicated to realize a 100% slave free chocolate industry. As a Dutch brand with international ambitions, Tony’s Chocolonely is Crazy about Chocolate and Serious about People. As the chain director, Arjen is trying to build a truly sustainable and responsible chocolate value chain. Due to its work for Tony's Chocolonely, Arjen stormed the top 10 of the Sustainable 100 list (2015) of the newspaper Trouw. Before Tony's Chocolonely, he worked on sustainability for cocoa, coffee and tea in the NGO sector at Solidaridad and the Green Development Foundation. Arjen received an MA in International Relations at the University of Groningen.

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If you are not yet sure whether to sign up for the Alumni Symposium on "Leadership & Sustainbility", read a bit more about the speakers via this link: http://www.mitrany.eu/symposium-leadership--sustainability.html We are looking forward to a inspiring, interesting and hopefully sunny evening at Het IJ in Amsterdam. Don't forget to sign up, the 13th of May isn't far ahead! This time, we would like introduce Thomas Hermans, winner of the award for Best Young Leader in Sustainability and currently working at KLM: Thomas Hermans has received the award for Best Young Leader in Sustainability in 2014. After the leadership challenge, the team traveled through Europe with a special mission: they have connected and shared knowledge, expertise and networks, giving circular economy in Europe the next positive impulse and engaging the next generation. As a result of their travels through Europe, the leadership team produced a short documentary about circular economy (http://www.nudgesustainabilityhub.com/circular-cities) and their findings concerning sustainable initiatives in the direction of a circular economy. But, what do we need to fully transform to a circular economy? What challenges will we encounter in this transformation? And what can one do on an individual level? For Mitrany's symposium Thomas Hermans will further explain the concept and his own experiences with working on circular economy. Thomas is an experienced product developer, campaigner and organizer. He is personally involved in different initiatives, including a campaign from D66 against extinction of bees. Thomas holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Groningen and a MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics.

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Save the date! On the 3rd of June, Mitrany will close the academic year with the General Member Meeting and the annual Alumni Dinner. On this evening, the past academic year will be evaluated and plans and advises for the upcoming year will be presented. During the dinner, which will take place at the atmospheric Goudkantoor in the city center of Groningen, you will have the chance to network, catch up with other alumni and share memories. More information will follow soon.

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Have you signed up already for the Alumni Symposium "Leadership & Sustainability" on the 13th of May? During this highly interesting evening, experts and initiators from different fields of work will discuss how sustainable initiatives were implemented and how they shaped the organizations they work in. (Sign up and info at: http://www.mitrany.eu/symposium-leadership--sustainability.html) During Mitrany's symposium Parsia Tayebi will speak about his experiences in winning the Nudge leadership challenge. As a result of the leadership challenge Parsia and his partners are currently working on a book concerning child education on food waste. He has experienced various organizational transformations and loves to engage in initiatives that keep the organization innovative and enterprising. Parsia Tayebi works for the European energy company RWE, is known for being a 'connector' and his ability to get everything through the 'RWE system'. He has a passion for change and improving organizations, and prefers to work at the edges of the company. Parsia is currently involved in startup engagement at RWE Innovation, designing effective ways to reach out to Israeli startups within various fields, from drone technology to smart parking, and facilitate collaborations with such startups in various ways. Parsia is also the head of Innovation in South Africa, where he initiated an innovation hub and leads its efforts to engage with strategic partners who share RWEs commitment to supporting entrepreneurial approaches to coding education and startup development. Before RWE, Parsia worked in international development in Bangladesh and Mozambique. He began his career at the United Nations. Parsia received a BA and MA in International Relations from the University of Groningen. ( LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parsiatayebi)