Connect students to alumni portal to show students what alumni where they are and what they are doing. Photo and story of them, challenges. Alumni help local community go to university. Receive 1 year premium membership to linkedin. Join annual meeting, can stay in, and level up. Recognition and pride.

Karkhiev

Connect with local students (due to language), want to broadn to international. Have association of alumni. Alumni department helps current students and recent graduates find jobs. annual event for alumni.

Stavanger

decentralized, different events by faculties. Linkedin >1k alum. Actual alumni >30k.

Kaunas

Have events and support students in their careers, but we dont know what they do.

Salzburg

Membership fee, 40EUR per year to use library, newsletter, access to job portal, maybe events.

Twente

Alumni 1 big event, dia natalas. Stay connect. Decentrralized also.

Austria: Alumni subscription (account, services, activities, events, fundraising, infos) but management mostly at departmental level one to one since they are small

Data protection policy and alumni accounts - debate

France: Sending an email to ask the new graduate "to stay with us". Party organized to exchange experience among senior and new alumni, monthly newsletter. Pullover on sale :)

Spain invests much money on merchandising, sends abroad presents (pullover as well and many other goods). Website where past students (both local and international) can publish their start-ups. Invited for lectures. Charity activities (4 administrative staff dedicated at central level).

Once a year sport competition (football beachvolley and paddle)

Alumni foundation in Poland with its own funding and boards but with strong connections and support by the university. They are involved in studetns' life (ESN). Prepare and submit projects, give lecture (e.g. Amazon CEO), networking among themselves. Inauguration Ceremony in December :)

Debate on the fact if it is better central level or faculty level. Conclusion: better to give an idea of uniqueness and not of fragmentation also to grant interdisciplinary aspect.

Community building is a priority in ECIU and can be spread out among Alumni (Alumni could be part of WP5, identity)

Finland, centrally organized: the "Alumno/a of the year" like politician, minister (that opens the academic year). Own will to register. Magazine with carreer stories.

Paper or online magazine is better?

Exchange students' network and experiences could be better explored and communicated in all universities.

Debate on how to engage them more.

Melbourne organizes in country welcome events for international students and alumni

Student association organised events With panels

Newsletter

Invited to any uni event

Meetings with alumni amd students to get tips on career path

No office alumni, marketing office

Started with alumni in other countries

4 profiles on main webpage and one is for Alumni (registration on a volunteer basis)

Godfather and godmother for graduates chosen by director tr

Meet with international alumni that stay in germany. To make a small seminar/webinar to motivate students to remain .

Karkiev' Ukraine

Use them as stakeholders for promotion and job opportunitiesand recruitment of new students. Eg. need a specific area for students, use them to narrow/focus that search. Great opportunity to official portal can subscribe voluntary to stay connected.

Stavanger

A possibility should be to use alumni to recruit new students due to NON-free tuition for non'-EU students.

Kaunas

Doctoral school does not, but could be possible to reach after PhD to see successful stories in Uni. Invite in newsletter/event, . Goal would be to stay and work in university. Or if they do go, they make the KTU profile/awareness in externals.

Salzburg

Does not work with alumni, but potential is to showcase the city life and student life. Get alumni to talk about success stories to prospective students to come.

Twente

Meet with international alumni that stay in germany. To make a small seminar/webinar to motivate students to remain

Professors invite alumni every year for a week 'refreshment week' to show what is new methods. Keeping up with trends with current students. Potential for exploring LLL opportunities for alumni.

Karkiev

Computer engineering connection. Job fairs/internships to good education. Connection.

Stavanger

Traineeships/CBL. Good for students to be connected to industry in case their are alumni to offer master thesis, resaerch projects. Easier people in industry have connections to univeristy/departments/professors.

Kaunas

Alumni who are managers of companies invite students for what is

Salzburg

Big companies (RB, audi, etc), seem to have events, could be connected the private group. Likely through alumni portal.

Twente

Trainships/CBL --- further research spinoffs/etc.

ECIU

Trainships and CBL.

Trento

Ambassadors - such as economics programs -- invite alumni from companies come present their jobs, and the local students can have a view in what they do in the study course. International alumni have an possibility to stay in Trento with degrees taught in english.

No contact with Alumni directly

Grnerating a lot of jobs through collaborations

Alumni office

Alumni can have access to events

Job orientation by career office

Now it is scattered: alumni associations and actions in different departments and faculties. Separate system for national alumni and international. System for alumni is complicated.

There should be a program for am ambassadors

Invite alumni to events for schools

Alumni are invited to study fairs to testimonial and show the prospective student of opprotunities.

Karkiev

Stavanger

Had ambassadsor for exchange, but stoppoe during covid

Kaunas

Salzburg

Twente

At end of study they have to give optional providing/contact info

Stavanger

Active consent, assume. Cannot give out alumni contact.

Kharkiev

Consent at the beginning of the of the course. Could be idea to make active portal/platform for

Kaunas

Must be collecting info and emails, but unsure how.

Salzburg

Twente

At end of study they have to give optional providing/contact info

Trento

Used to have auto alumni email changeover, but they removed it due to privacy. Engaging them in the study career.