CONTAGIOUS BERLIN SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP / LAUNCH

 Contagious is delighted to announce the launch of a scholarship which will offer one of our lucky subscribers the chance to participate in the prestigious Berlin School's Executive MBA. The part-time course starts in March 2012 and is designed for busy professionals with five separate two week modules taking place in the USA, Asia and Berlin over either one or two years.

The course is designed to nurture creative leaders who can inspire and build cultures of creative excellence. This is a leadership program focused on complexity, analysis, strategy, innovation and implementation within the context of creative excellence. The course is designed with the purpose to lead enterprise, clients partners, products, people, oneself and creative industries. You can read more details about the course, modules, thesis and previous participants here.

The recipient of the Contagious Berlin School Scholarship for Creative Leadership will be awarded €25,000 towards the cost of the course fees.

Sheridan Johns, director of the Berlin School, says: 'Leaders in media and communication today face an unprecedented array of challenges and opportunities in an increasingly complex industry landscape. Just as Contagious provides industry leaders with intelligent and invaluable business insight and analysis the Berlin School's part-time global Executive MBA program provides them with an opportunity to develop essential quantitative and qualitative skills for leading their company more effectively. We are very excited about partnering with Contagious to offer this special scholarship and hope that together we can help foster an inspire a new breed of thinkers and leaders in creative enterprises.'
 
Contagious co-founder Paul Kemp-Robertson says: 'One of the reasons we launched Contagious back in 2004 was because creativity had become one of the few legal ways to gain an unfair advantage over the competition. Like Contagious, the Berlin School is a global champion of creativity and enterprise. Its mission is to raise standards across the creative industries and to foster a culture of innovation amongst a new generation of leaders. We're thrilled to be able to offer a Contagious subscriber the chance to participate in such a career-changing programme.'

To apply for the scholarship please fill in the Berlin School's application and all applicants are also required to submit a  short essay on the following subject: Now / Next / Why: in no more than 500 words, what significant emerging technology, communications platform or cultural trend has interested you in the past twelve months? How do you see it developing? Why and how do you think it is relevant for brands and marketing?

Please send completed applications to application@berlin-school.com or more information on the scholarship please click here.

Applications close on 31 October 2011 and the winner of the scholarship will be announced on 30 November 2011.