Arctic Business Dating

The event started at 10 o’clock with welcoming speeches by Leena Alalääkkölä, Kaisa Lammi, Katarína Hollá and Leena Svanberg.

During the morning part, there was International Fair running in the main hall, organized and prepared by international 1st year students of International Business program. They had prepared stands where they were presenting their countries, altogether it was 9 different countries – Finland, China, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Iran/Azerbaijan, Hungary, Russia, United Kingdom and Spain. Their stands were really interesting and there was many different things to see what most of us didn’t even have an idea about!

In Borealis Auditorium were at the same time presented pitches by Napalaakso enterprises. After that students from Napalaakso enterprises visited International Business students at their stands, read their brochures, asked some questions and finally got to know 9 different cultures within such a short time.

In the afternoon students had a chance to listen to very interesting entrepreneurial stories. First speaker was Juha Eskelinen who was talking about his famous company located in Rovaniemi – CafeBar21. Second speaker was Olli Huotari who talked about his success story with company Mandragora. The third speech was about Nutmegger PR by Rob Patterson which was really interesting to listen for every student who was present.
The next on the program was Arctic Business Dating which aim was to get together Finnish students with International students of Lapland UAS. The program was created by IB students (Raivis Aire and Katarína Hollá) and consisted of Ice-breaking activities, Arctic freeze challenge and in general activities which made everyone get to know each other and most importantly laugh and have fun!