Economic Faculty Association Rotterdam

The "Economic Faculty Association Rotterdam" (EFR) has close to 3500 members and is one of the most active faculty associations in the Netherlands.

The EFR sets objectives for the students by filling the gap between theory and practice. They do this by organising a large number of activities. One of their most popular activities is EFR-Business Week, the largest student congress in the Netherlands.

Together with STAR, the EFR co-organises the largest campus recruitment event in the Netherlands, the Erasmus Recruitment Days. In 2007 there were approximately 1500 participating students and more than 120 companies present.

One of the international activities of EFR is the EuroTour, an international exchange project with foreign students where students visit each other's university and country and take part in company visits.

EFR has its own publication called "Eclaire" through which it communicates to its members. This magazine is published six times a year and 5500 issues are distributed among students and business associates. Moreover the EFR organises a wide range of readings, forums, lectures, workshops and trainings.

History

The EFR was established on 14 March, 1925, when the association for student interests VVS was founded to represent the students of the Dutch school of trade.

In the forty years that followed, the VVS has served up trade high school and, from September 1939, the Dutch College for economics in human activities. On 11 November, 1964 the members of the general member meeting decided to rename the association to the "Economic Faculty association Rotterdam".

As from 1969, a new phenomenon was introduced called the Dispute. The "onderverenigingen" had been intended especially for the progressed students who kept themselves busy with their main subjects. In the academic year 1977/1978, EFR-Bulletin was published for the first time; a communication booklet was distributed after the lectures. In the following year EFR-Courant was introduced. Later the booklet took the form of the magazine "Eclaire".

Under the governing board of the academic year 1980/1981, an event took place with the subject of "America", which became known as the so-called "paradepaardje" of the EFR. Later on the board of 1984/1985 named the same event the "EFR-Business Week".

External links

* [http://www.efr.nl "EFR" on the internet] (Dutch language)
* [http://www.businessweek.nl "EFR - Business Week" on the internet]