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Scholarship Contest

The European School of Economics is an international university with campuses in London, New York, Rome, Milan and Lucca offering undergraduate (BA Hons), graduate (MA, MBA, Online MBA) courses.

Organisations, whatever their nature, rely on people, especially on leaders, to build and sustain them. The competitiveness of today's marketplace and the pressure on organisations to adapt to change as never before, increased the need for management expertise to be developed to its optimum and to go on adapting to constantly changing conditions.

Our philosophy is based on partnership and participation. We provide opportunities for managers to acquire new skills and realise the full potential of those skills they already have. We provide challenging experiences that provoke this change in people, give insight and knowledge to help our students benefit from this experience and offer our continued support through the whole learning process.

The only certainty is that there is a need for a new breed of business men and women.

In Economics, as in politics, there is a need for courageous, well-prepared, sincere individuals - leaders able to harmonise the ever-apparent antagonisms in today’s business world: free markets and ethics, pure emotion and reasoning, financial power and empathy. The Mission of the European School of Economics is to prepare these men and women, young entrepreneurs and managers, with the necessary cultural preparation, practical experience and moral qualities in order to manage today's business scenario.

Economics is the reflection of our ideas and values. If a society's ideas and system of values evolve, its economy evolves as well.

ESE presents a new philosophy to business management training that offers more than just knowledge and skill. It provides a student with the determination and courage to make an impact on today's changing world of business.

The European School of Economics is committed to helping dedicated and deserving students meet their educational goals through a focused and merit-based scholarship program. The School feels that students of limited means and/or extraordinary academic achievement should have the opportunity to avail themselves of the high quality education that ESE offers. The European School of Economics awards scholarships to the most qualified full-time MBA candidates.

Below you will find the question and the general rules to participate the competition. You can find more details about the MBA programme by clicking here.

The question: Provide your comments on the following chosen passage from the book “The School for Gods” by Stefano E. D’Anna: “The world is shaped according to your degree of inner responsibility. You can possess only what you are responsible for”.

This explains why countries that are richest in natural resources are often the poorest, and why a man's enrichment is not a sufficient condition to rescue him from his destiny, when it does not correspond to an improvement of quality in his thoughts and being.

An unprepared man, even if momentarily favoured by an event or by external circumstances, is pushed back to his old poverty if what he has exceeds his level of responsibility and commitment. This is true for a country or for an organisation or for a man.

After more than half a century of failures in the programmes of international aids, we should have understood that it is not possible to help from the outside a country (or a man or a company) that is not yet ready in its Being.

Rules to participate:
1) University Degree (or final year student).
2) 1 year work experience (in-company training, summer works are accepted)
3) English language knowledge: TOEFL 550 or IELTS 6.0.
4) Scholarships cover only the tuition fee and only valid at ESE, it cannot be transferred to another institution.
5) The student must cover her/his accommodation, living and traveling expenses.
6) Participants grant the ESE the right to use their addresses and publish their names electronically, in print or other media in connection with the competitions. Acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for the ESE to use the winner’s entry, proposal, name and likeness for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation.
7) All essays should be in English.
8) Only one essay per participant is permitted.
9) Essays must not have been previously published.
10) Essays will be judged by their originality and the uniqueness of the idea expressed and also the creativity, writing skill and grammar.
11) The evaluation will be made by 2 commissions made up of ESE faculty members.
12) The decisions of the commissions are final and shall be binding on the participants. The commissions reserve the right to disqualify any participant or winner and may refuse to award any prize to a person who is ineligible or has violated any rule, gained unfair advantage in participating in the contest or obtained winner’s status by the use of fraudulent means.
13) Essays will be divided into 2 categories, with the 2 corresponding types of scholarships. In the first category, 2 winners will be granted 50% scholarships. And in the second category the winners will be awarded 30% scholarships. The total number of scholarships is 10.
14) The MBA programme will be delivered at the European School of Economics campuses in Italy.
15) Three top essays will be published on www.eselondon.ac.uk website.
16) All participants accept all the rules.

Application procedure:
a) Article written by the applicant
b) A copy of university diploma or certificate from the university stating that the student is on final year
c) Application form  
d) CV / resume
e) Certification of English knowledge (Toefl or Ielts certificate)
f) Essays should be sent no later than 28 February 2007.
g) Winners will be announced on www.eselondon.ac.uk  website on 15 May 2007

For any further information participants can contact: mba@uniese.it  

Applications must be sent to
International Admissions Office
Ref: Contest - 2007/WMBA/________ (country name)
Via Nieri 51, Lucca 55100
Italy