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The world is increasingly developing towards complex and chaotic behaviour. Enterprises are challenged to establish flexible but trustworthy structures of doing business within global instability. We need to educate our students today for coping with such chaotic patterns in their professional future. As an example, the student-run Europe-wide organisation ESTIEM is offering the 2-week Summer Academy (SAC) to develop the communication skills corresponding. It also means among other aims to strengthen mutual trust through interaction of the students. In 2011, one of the SAC took place in Serbia. About 15 students attended it from all over Europe. In the paper, three of these students report on their experiences as a set of suggestions of how to develop further engineering and economics teaching towards international trust and stability.
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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the IFAC Conference on International Stability and Systems Engineering SWIIS 2012, June 11–13, 2012, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. The Summer Academy Serbia 2011 has been an unforgettable and amazing experience for all of us. I Vera Niedergesaess want to thank Professor Dietrich Brandt and the organisers for giving me the opportunity to participate in these two wonderful weeks. I learnt a lot about myself, other cultures, leadership and methods to handle complex problems. I am glad to have spent 2 weeks of my life with these people and new friends. Thank you all so much. Hope to meet you soon again!
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Juras, A., Brockmeier, J., Niedergesaess, V. et al. Trust and team development to fight chaos: three student reports. AI & Soc 29, 267–275 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0484-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0484-9