European Retail Academy (ERA)

The European Retail Academy (ERA) has as its scope to act as a virtual platform and as an initiator of workshops/seminars/conferences to bring more transparency about retail-research and retail-education at universities or universities of applied sciences. Further on ERA acts as a catalyst for sponsors who would like to contribute to reach a high level of trade (retail/wholesale)-education.
ERA promotes the international transfer of know-how between business on the one side and universities at the other side.
Among these are:

Objectives
● Survey about trade-cathedras and their academic degrees
● The exchange of research-results
● Joint research
● The exchange of professors and students between universities as well as with business companies
● To assist the Bologna-process
● To promote benchmarking in retail education
● To work in interdisciplinary academic groups as a retail-competence-center
● To help to establish a cosmopolitan world
● The transparency about Trade Fairs and Trade Congresses
● Supporting journalists specialized in retail/wholesale

ERA’s origin is Europe: it is uniting East and West – never the less ERA aims to be a bridge to other continents and their retail/wholesale – experts too. Insofar ERA was very happy that in the beginning of 2009 it had even 37 members outside of Europe.

Internship Tasks
Make website-updates to different ERA-sites
Design news and translate press releases

Requirements
● Excellent IT skills
● Bachelor’s degree (completed/ongoing)
● Fluency in spoken and written English
● Strong interpersonal and English communicative skills
● Proficiency in MS software (e.g. Word, Excel, Power point)
2014-02-16 | Düsseldorf, Germany – Annual Meeting
2011-02-26 | Düsseldorf, Germany – Annual meeting
2009 | Mumbai, India – Annual Meeting
2008 | Düsseldorf, Germany – Annual meeting
2007 | Moscow, Russia – Annual meeting
2006 | Prague, Czech Rep – Annual meeting
Relations
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Exchange member of: D-XD3807 – CEEMAN – International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies (CEEMAN).

Members
Institutions (225) in 54 countries and territories:
Member Countries & Regions
United Arab Emirates, Armenia, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Belarus, Canada, Switzerland, China, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Germany, Estonia, Egypt, Spain, Finland, France, UK, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea Rep, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Mongolia, Mexico, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Sweden, Singapore, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA, South Africa