European Business Game

The European Business Game has kicked off in fine style. EBG is a business game for schools across Europe and currently eight countries take part. It is a part of the curriculum in several countries (Denmark is expecting 1000 young people to participate in its own national competition). A recent meeting in Prague, attended by yours truly, set the agenda for EBG's development over the next five years.

Last week, Brian Weaver (HIE), Jillian Munro (Frame Kennedy, Forrest) and your author judged the Inverness Final where Fortrose Academy took the honours and will represent Scotland at the Final.

This year is special as the International Final will take place in Inverness at the end of June. In addition to the award ceremony itself, the week long event will involve business visits, networking and the best of Highland hospitality for the 80 participants. We will also link up with the Highland Final of the ICT Challenge with a grand day out at the Strathpeffer Pavilion for all the youth enterprise agencies. The ICT Challenge is the foremost schools competition for innovation and enterprise (http://www.youth-challenge.co.uk/).

Highland teams have always done well at the International Awards. Last year's Final in Dubrovnik was won by the home team with Inverness Royal Academy taking second place. (It's hard to put into words how hot that week was. Enjoyable but hot.)

Here's the IRA team with the Provost of Dubrovnik. (The sweaty one on the right is Kenny MacInnes , EBG Coordinator).