Agenda Goals Cross-Sectional Congresses & R8 SYP Congress Student Branches Student Paper Contest Electronic Communications Awards Projects & Initiatives

Increase the IEEE Footprint Work closely with the Section SACs of the Sections to increase member retention Staying up-to-date with our Students Events and Activities and assist when needed Approach and collaborate with the AfI and Young Professionals Subcommittee to increase the industry involvement in the student level (e.g. establish student internships) Be the voice of the R8 Students Goals

Student Congresses

Cross-Sectional Congresses + R8 Cross-Sectional Student and Young Professional Congress Manual

Cross-Sectional Congresses Gulf Cooperation Council SYP Congress Bahrain, Manama, 7-8th May 2017 Central European SYP Congress Ukraine, Lviv, June 2017 Middle Eastern SYP Congress Tunisia, 1-4th of August 2017 Hellenic SYP Congress Greece, Athens, November 2017 Western European SYP Congress Spain, Valencia, TBA Nordic SYP Congress Lithuania, TBA

Regional SYP Congress Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress 2018 CALL for Proposals Timeline 17 th of March Release of the Call 15 th of April 1 st Proposal Submission 1 st of May Feedback 30 th of June Final Proposal Submission 31 st of July Results Announcement 10 th of August Feedback to R8 Meeting

R8 Database 2017 UPDATE

Student Branches How did we do?

Student Branches How did we do? Target R8 SB Chairs R8 Counselors Registered at SAMIEEE (by 24th February) First interation - 24th February - Through survey + strong media advertisement Reminder - 3rd March Closure - 18th March

Student Branches Milestones?

Student Branches Milestones? Goal SB Chair s name and email, SB name and email, How many SB Chairs are really active? How did they perform last year? How many of those were revitalized, in the last 2 years? Update contacts Connect with students: evaluate what are their needs and opinions Global plaftorm to be easily reach the contact the target audience

Student Branches How many SB Chairs are active? 991 People contacted 485 SBs Chairs were contacted 459 SBs were approached (more than one representative per branch)

Student Branches How many SB Chairs are active? 991 People contacted 485 SBs Chairs were contacted 459 SBs were approached (more than one representative per branch) 289 replies ~63%

Student Branches How did SBs perform last year? Q: Have you submitted the annual report last year?

Student Branches How did SBs perform last year? Q: Have you submitted the annual report last year? Yes - 204/289 = 70.59% No - 55/289 = 19.03% I dont know - 30 /289 = 10.38%

Student Branches How many SBs were revitalized, in the last 2 years? Q: Was your branch involved in a revitalization process, within the last 2 years?

Student Branches How many SBs were revitalized, in the last 2 years? Q: Was your branch involved in a revitalization process, within the last 2 years? Yes - 104/289= 35.99% No - 120/289= 41.52% I dont know - 65/289= 22.49%

Student Branches Revitalization Project To be continued

Student Branches Vision Facilitate the interaction & communication with the Student Branches all over Region 8 Make the information as accessible as possible to everyone By growing a FAMILY we are increasing numbers

Family makes a house a home! Student Branches

Student Branches Mission Engage with the students by sending personalized emails (may take a lot of time but totally worth it) Creation of volunteer pool: Investing in people Collect updated emails into a database Student Branches Section Chairs, SSRs and SSACs

Student Branches Together, let s inspire the students of Today, the leaders of Tomorrow

Student Branches Network for IEEE student branch/student chapter counselors and advisors First phase (2016): Collected ideas and shared them with MGA SAC. Second Phase (2017): Communicate with the winners of last year s Outstanding Counselor Awards and ask them 2-3 key questions to be able to find a model and provide to other SB counselors. Evaluate and select ideas will form a pilot system to run in our region (2018) Announce the programme (enotice/collabratec) to all the Region 8 Counselors and ask for their participations. Report the outcomes to MGA SAC to get feedback and transfer the experience to the other regions.

Student Paper Contest

Student Paper Contest IEEE R8 Student Paper Contest is an annual event divided into two parts: 1. Part I: Papers are invited from IEEE students in Region 8. Papers without names or affiliations are marked by five jury members. Best five papers are chosen. 2. Part II: Papers are presented at an IEEE R8 Conference (EUROCON or MELECON) and published in the conference proceedings. IEEE R8 pays for the five students to attend the conference and present the paper. What? IEEE R8 also gives money prizes to the best three out of the five and a small prize to the student branch of the winning paper. All valid participants will be given a certificate of participation for their effort preparing the paper.

Student Paper Contest SPC is an excellent occasion for personal leadership and involvement of student members in a prospective IEEE scientific/technical activity; SPC is a very good reason and chance for activating and keeping active Student Branches It makes possible further promotion of IEEE among students; Why? It is an attractive situation for IEEE members with non-student grades - the local and regional SPC Committee (Jury) members, Region 8 Technical Activities Committee associate reviewers, Student Branch Counselors, Professors (student mentors) and many others- to be involved and to participate in such an interesting IEEE student activity.

Student Paper Contest Who? IEEE student members presenting work at the level of graduate, masters Any subject matters within IEEE. The material does not have to be at the technical front edge of an IEEE magazine paper, but must include the usual: o Theory, importance of the work, results, comparisons, and conclusions normally expected in a good engineering paper.

Student Paper Contest Statistics Only 10 submissions: 7 Europe 2 Africa 1 Middle East SPC 2017 Advertised on IEEE R8 SAC from October to December

Student Paper Contest Statistics Short Listed Five Students for EUROCON 2017 Lucija Brezočnik University of Maribor Elly De Pelecijn KU LEUVEN Mathieu Jadin Universite Catholique de Louvain IstvanTaczi Budapest University of Technology and Economics Tim Thielemans KU LEUVEN

Electronic Communications

Electronic Communications Facebook 7400+ followers Webpage Base content

Interaction Electronic Communications

Electronic Communications Vision

Awards Campaign 2017

Awards Campaign 2017 Award Campaign was launched on the 20 th January Deadline submission was on: 15 th February 141 submissions in 2017, out of 301 (47% in R8)

Awards Submission 2017 Exemplary SB Larry K. Wilson Outst. counselor Darrell Chong

Awards Submission 2017 2016 Exemplary SB Larry K. Wilson Outst. counselor Darrell Chong 35 10 7 32

Awards Submission 2017 2016 2017 Exemplary SB Larry K. Wilson Outst. counselor Darrell Chong 35 54 10 13 7 7 32 67

Projects & Initiatives

Projects & Initiatives Mind The Gap Contest 2017

Projects & Initiatives Idea Submission Deadline: 22nd May 2017 Winners Announcement: 22nd June 2017 Idea Evaluation: 31st July 2017 6 Month Implementation: 22nd August 2017

Projects & Initiatives IEEE Skills Match Introducing a project management tool for the IEEE project leaders

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