Bocconi Meets the World this Fall
It starts on Friday 8 October in Latin America and arrives on Thursday 2 December in the Benelux. In between, a virtual world tour with stops in the United Kingdom and Ireland, North America, Russia and Central Asia, China, Austria and Switzerland, Germany, and France. These are the destinations of the fall edition of Bocconi Meets, the event organized by the Bocconi University Recruitment and Guidance Service in collaboration with the Bocconi Alumni Community. The meetings present the University's undergraduate and graduate programs and the institution overall, from admission procedures to the services that prospective students will find on the campus in Milan.
This is an online edition, with an alumnus or alumna telling about his or her experience in a given geographical region of the world, including the Dean for International Affairs, Stefano Caselli, and the Deans of the Graduate and Undergraduate Schools, Antonella Carù and Annalisa Prencipe, respectively. For the following edition, in the spring, the hope is to return in person, with a blended formula that will probably be the definitive one. In the meantime, while waiting to restore live meetings, the flattering figures recorded by the previous edition of Bocconi Meets comes to mind, with 11,500 contacts achieved, a +263% increase compared to the previous year.
"Bocconi Meets is a highly successful and highly effective format for presenting Bocconi to potential students and their families", says Stefano Caselli, "the online formula, born out of necessity last year, enables us to have decidedly greater coverage. We are receiving a growing number of requests from spots all over the world which want their dedicated online event". However, if the general health situation allows it, Caselli confirms a return to in-person events for Bocconi Meets, at least in certain situations: "We will resume going on tour to large cities and places from which Bocconi has traditionally recruited a larger number of students", says the Dean, "or where there is a particularly important community of Bocconi alumni".