EFMD offers a variety of networking services for business schools and executive education centres. For the different functions within management education institutions there is a specifically designed networking event to learn from the experience of their peers and to share their own experience.

• Deans and Directors General:
  Designed exclusively for those with top management responsibility in member schools as an annual forum for networking, reflection and discussion among peers.
  
• MBA Programme Directors:
  The networking meeting for those responsible for MBA programmes, whether full-time, part-time, distance learning or executive MBA. Topics of concern have included curriculum changes, student recruitment, career management, internationalisation and quality assurance. Subgroups are formed on an ad hoc basis to deal with special areas of interest.
  
• Directors of Executive Development Centres and Directors of Executive Programmes in Business Schools:
  This annual networking meeting deals with topics such as internationalisation, increasing strategic value, new forms of competition and faculty development. This network has also taken the initiative for a series of modules to develop faculty specifically for executive education.
  
• External Relations, Marketing, Alumni Affairs, Fundraising:
  This network meets each year in spring and covers key issues like branding, press relations,internationalisation, CRM.
  
• Directors of First Degree programmes:
  A new networking opportunity for those responsible for first degree programmes. Topics of concern for here are above how to deal with the changes in the European higher education landscape and internationalisation issues.
  
• New Deans:
  Biennial meeting for those taking up the position of Dean or Director of a business school, allowing a frank exchange with peers and seniors.

The best opportunity to get to know the European and global network of management education institutions, companies, public sector organisations and consultancies is efmd’s Annual Conference in June.

More information on all these events can be found in the EFMD list of conferences.