Let's start with a simple question: "What is a BEST course for students?" Throughout the year BEST organises different activities where students from member universities get the opportunity to increase their international experience, establish contacts, improve their English and have fun. Each BEST Course is attended by 20-30 students of engineering like you, who have something in common: they want to live a unique experience, different from day-to day school life!

Local BEST groups arrange short (1-2 weeks long) courses during autumn, winter, spring and summer, where engineering students get the chance to learn more about a specific topic in their field of interest. BEST also organises seminars on educational issues, engineering competitions and leisure events such as sailing-weeks, ski-weeks, ... and more! The limit is set only by the scope of our imagination.

If you are a student of a university where BEST is present and you are not yet convinced that BEST activities are what you are looking for, it is maybe better to take a look at what we exactly offer. The different activities BEST organises are:

• BEST Courses
  In a learning event participants attend lectures given by the university's teaching staff or by experts from companies. They visit companies, industrial plants or research centres and sometimes take part in case studies. Topics of the learning events cover mainly different technology fields, economics, marketing and management. At the end of the course students take an exam, which is designed to test the results of the course and evaluate the participants' success. An increasing number of courses are recognised by many universities and students attending these courses can get credit points (ECTS -European Credit Transfer System) from their home universities.
  
  
• BEST Events on Education
  BEST Events on Education are seminars that last for about 6 days. They gather engineering students and professors from Europe with the purpose of evaluating and finding new paths for higher engineering education in Europe. There are currently two kind of these events: BEST Symposia on Education and BEST, Academics and Companies forums.
  
  
• BEST Engineering Competition
  Engineering Competition is an event where teams of students use their technical, social and communicative skills to compete in different categories: Team Design, Case Studies, Negotiation and Debates.
  
  
• BEST Leisure Events
  BEST also organises non-academic activities such as sailing weeks, ski-weeks, extreme sports. These courses have a higher fee and have no academic part. Only fun, fun and fun!