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April 2011: The new intensive course Business Strategies for Sustainable Development
The intensive course took place for the first time at Mälardalen University in Västerås, Sweden in from 1 April to 9 April 2011. 23 students and 7 professors took part in the course where students were divided into mixed groups of students from the different participating countries. Assignments included working with various project tasks given by ABB, that is, concrete mission from ABB, concerning their CSR work. Many important contacts with employees of ABB have thus been established. These projects were presented on Friday 8 April to ABB and all other participants of the course. ABB was very satisfied with the students' contribution and the results were very useful for ABB.

The course began in February at each home university where the students had to carry out different tasks, and ended with the intensive week in Sweden in April. The plans for next years course will be carried out during the fall of 2011, and the plan is to run the intensive week at Telemark University College in Norway in April 2012.

June 2011: € 60.000 to the NordBiz network
For the academic year 2011/2012 the NordBiz Network was awarded € 60,000. € 25,000 relating to mobility (student and teacher exchange) and € 35,000 relating to the Intensive Course Business Strategies for Sustainable Development.

The money for the intensive course will be used for planning meetings for coordinators, deans and for teachers participating in the course. In the spring of 2012, the course will be held at Telemark University College and some of the money will be used for the implementation of the course on site in Norway.

The mobility money will be spent on students and teachers who want to make shorter or longer exchanges to any of the partner universities in the network and a certain amount can also be used for the two intensive courses we provide within the network.

June 2010: The NordBiz network has been granted a total of € 34.000 for the period of June 15th, 2010 – October 1st, 2011:
- € 12.000 for developing a new Intensive course in Business Strategies for Sustainable Development.
- € 22.000 for student/teacher mobility

February 17th, 2010: Application for the coming NordPlus year has been handed in.

January 2010: A new partner will join the network for the application of the year 2010/2011, ISM School of Management and Economics in Lithuania: www.ism.lt/index.php/corporate_page/top_menu/about_ism/1801

Week 45: November 2009: The intensive course NBPM was once again a success when we had 35 students and 7 teachers participating during 10 days in Bö, Norway.

June 15th 2009: The NordBiz network has been granted a total of € 26.000 for the period of June 15th, 2009 – October 1st, 2010:
- € 20.000 for mobility
- € 6.000 for the network (meetings etc).

March 2nd 2009: Application for the coming NordPlus year has been handed in.