For four years, the company has been collaborating with the Department of Investment and Real Estate at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. This is the seventh edition of the EREC program. This year’s project will involve four SGH students, selected by representatives of the SGH Department of Investment and Real Estate and Cushman & Wakefield employees. The final of the months-long program will take place in January 2010 in Berlin. The students’ task will be to convince committee members acting as potential American investors to relocate their headquarters to one of the European cities. As the program sponsor, Cushman & Wakefield provides participants—students from both SGH and other international universities—with financial support and professional guidance, including access to reports on the commercial real estate market in Poland and Europe.
– We provide expert knowledge during site visits to selected prestigious commercial properties in Warsaw, as well as during the committee’s work during the students’ final presentation in Berlin. Additionally, participants of previous EREC programs, who are now our employees, actively support the students of this year’s edition – emphasizes Dorota Skowrońska, HR Director at Cushman & Wakefield.
– We are very pleased with our cooperation with SGH on such a prestigious international educational program. The EREC project creates a unique platform for the exchange of academic and expert knowledge, and above all, it gives students interested in the real estate market a great opportunity to see what the work of an advisor in this field looks like in practice – adds Richard Aboo, Head of Office Agency at Cushman & Wakefield.