Alumni

Almost every consolidated master program offers to its students and graduates the benefit of having an alumni association. Such organizations play a key role in putting current students in contact with graduates, from whom they can obtain valuable information for their career decisions. Moreover, it offers graduated students the possibility to keep in touch with the University as well as with former classmates, with whom the personal contact might have been lost some years after graduation. The potential value of these contacts can be extremely high, not only in emotional terms but also for the networking possibilities that it offers.

Now, after five intakes of IMP graduate students, the Integrated Master Program announces its own Alumni Association and encourages program graduates and students alike to join. Aware of the importance of such an organization, the IMP Faculty Spokesperson (Prof. Dr. Landmann) and the IMP Program Coordinator (Ms. Moll) together with the IMP Student Union and the University of Freiburg have joined forces to give impetus to the project of launching the IMP Alumni Association. This project has been presented and will be coordinated by Antonio Farfán Vallespín, M.A. (IMP 2005) and will have in Marta Messa, B.A. (IMP 2007) its contact person.

• Database: As a member of the IMP Alumni Association you will have secured access to the membership database. Your basic information (name and year of intake) will be visible to other members, and you can decide whether further information (e.g. current job) should also be visible or not. As an official database for IMP students is not yet available, we have created an IMP Alumni Association group in Linkedin and one in Xing. These groups give you the possibility to start exchanging contacts and information from this very moment. In a couple of months, once you will have signed to either of the groups, we will see whether the Xing of Linkedin group has more contacts. You will then be asked to join the larger group, so that all contacts will be pooled and you will all be able to get in touch with as many IMP alumni as possible. We hope you can make the most of this opportunity!

• Newsletter: You will soon receive the second edition of the Newsletter of the IMP Alumni Association. In the newsletters of our Association current and graduated students report on happenings in Freiburg as well as on what awaits students after completion of the program. If you would like to share your study or career experience, memories from your time in Freiburg, job tips, etc.… with other IMP Alumni and students, we would be pleased to publish your contribution in the next IMP Alumni Association Newsletter!

• 3^rd Workshop on Job Opportunities: For the summer semester 2010, the IMP Alumni Association will organize the third workshop on “Job Opportunities”. At this event, IMP graduates of the three specializations (Economics and Politics, Finance, Internet Economics) who are currently working at top institutions will be invited to Freiburg to present their experience and to provide job tips to current students. This will be the third edition of the workshop, which successfully took place for the first time in the summer semester 2008. In the following files you find the presentations held at the first two editions of the workshop on job opportunities.

    View workshop presentations 2008-2009

• IMP Reunion: The IMP Alumni Association is also planning the first reunion for IMP graduates to take place on June 5th, 2010!

In order to keep up to date with the events organized by the IMP Alumni Association and to receive its Newsletter you must become a member.

Becoming a member of the IMP Alumni Association is completely free, since we are an organization of volunteers. Our basic costs are covered by the support we receive from the University.

The only thing you need to do is to fill out the following form and send it to us it together with a picture of you. All provided information is kept strictly confidential under standard data protection law and will not be used for any purposes beyond the goal of connecting alumni with each other as well as with the Department of Economics. You can always select which information will be visible to the other members of the Association. Only your name and the year of your intake will be certainly shown on the database. However, offering further information about you will increase the chances you will be contacted by some other members who could have something interesting for you.

Contact

Alumni Registration Form

	Antonio Farfán Vallespín, M.A. (IMP 2005)               Coordinator of the IMP Alumni Association
	Marta Messa, M.A. (IMP 2007)                Contact person of the IMP Alumni Association

To make communication between you and the Alumni Association simple and effective, we are looking for/have found a contact person for each IMP intake. This means that, for any queries, suggestions, or ideas, you have the choice of getting in touch with the main contact person of the Association (see above) or with the contact person from your generation (see list below). If you want to be the contact person of your intake, please send us an email.