The document summarizes 5 seminars attended by the student. Seminar 1 focused on African diaspora and sustainable development in Africa. Seminar 2 discussed cross-generational marketing strategies. Seminar 3 promoted diversity as a competitive advantage. Seminar 4 provided tips for doing business in the United States. The final seminar emphasized empowering migrants through entrepreneurship for social change. Each seminar covered main discussion points and attendees. The student also reflected on takeaways and posed a question about youth participation in decision-making.

1. Introduction.
The main intension of these seminars is to help us the
students gain some professional experience when it comes to
seminars and how to network, create contacts and take down
notes in seminars.
There were a total of five seminars , each of which we had
to attend, with proves of attendance like photos taken with.

2. Seminar 1
Theme:African Dias and sustainable development in Africa.
Presented by: Khedivate Abdulkadir & co.
Date:06/11/2017.
Venue:Free university Brussels.
Time:900-5.00pm
Coordinator:
Ms. Khedivate Abdulkadir.
Attendance:
The Nigerian Ambassador to Belgium.
African students in Belgium.
 Main points:
-African dyas and investments in Africa for economic growth and developments.
-Digitalizing young African women for social development.
- Encourage self development to enhance career prospects.
- African dyas and the creation of startups in Africa for sustainable development.
-African dyas and active participation in African politics for socio political stability.

3. Seminar 2
Theme: Cross generational marketing.
 Presented by:J. van den berg
 Venue: aula Strop.
 Date:21/11/2017.
 Time:2.30-4.30pm
 Coordinator:
-Ms. Tania Van Denberg.
Attended by:
-Management students from the Artevelde
university college Gent
 Main points:
-Targeting age groups in marketing. All is not just about brand but also about meeting a need.
- Not all age groups need brands, some age groups need something specific to them and quickly.
- -Relating products to their respective age groups.
- The use of Facts, alternative facts and fake news in cross generational marketing.

4. Seminar 3
 Theme:Diversity as a USP.
 Presented by: S.Leroy.
 Cordinator: Ms.Tania van den berg.
 Attended by: IBM students .
 Venue: KNT, L.01.07
 Date: 19/12/2017
 Main points:
-Accepting diversity does not mean treating people equally, but rather fairly.
-Diversity does not encourage sexism, homophobism and racism.
-Diversity drives innovation.
-working in groups with people from different cultures, race, age ,sex, religion etc to
increase experience and perpective.
-diversity is not an affirmative action but rather optimizing business necesity .

5. Seminar 4
 Theme: Doing business in the USA.
 Presented by: Ms. E.Kelly.
 Cordinator: Ms.Tania Van den berg.
 Attended by:IBM students.
 Venue:KNT. A3
 Time: 4.30-6.30pm
 Date :20/02/2018
 Main points:
- US business have a good cultural diversity management ability.
- Americans have a very direct communicating style without being disrespectful.
-The US is a capitalist society, so they have powers more than the unionist.
-Us businesses have a lot of preference for work experience.
-The average work hours per week is about 45-50 hours.

6. Seminar 5
 Theme: Migrants empowerment for change.
 Presented by: Tom ako & Umi Khadija
 Cordinated by: Tom Ako.
 Venue:federatie van zelforganisaties in vlaanderen vzw, dampoortstraat 33-35
 Time:10am-2pm.
 Date:25/04/2018
 Attended by:
African dyass
Main points:
-migrants and start ups for change.
- Young migrants must think innovatively for entrepreneurial and improved skills for business
development.
- Developing appropriate skills through training for a successful business.
- Consulting successful start ups for improvement.
- Most successful start ups are online businesses .


7. Question(seminar 1)
 Why are the youths today not interested in decision making( going into
parliament) inorder to make changes?
 Answer:
Youths see legislative issues as very haed and requiring alot of experience
which they do not have.More over, they find it fun in technological
innovation.
My personal research on the seminar.
The African diaspora plays a very significant roll in Africas development.
This is because they operate at a more global level, and as a result, they
should have more influence in the social, economic and political landscape
of Africa.

8. REFLECTIONS
 Concerning the firsit seminar, Africa has been going through a lot of socio
political instability. This has not made it easier for the African dyas to carry out
sustainable development project back home. This has been a major hindrance and
most students at the seminar expressed their disappointment about this.
 For the second seminar, the erotic publicity or advertisement was
characteristic of the west, not taking into consideration cultural diversity and
cultural sensitivity. This was a major problem as it set some people from other
culture uneasy.
 The third seminar talked of diversity as a USP. The grouping up of people to
work together durring that seminar was a good innitiative , as the different cultures ,
ages, gender brought their experience and perspective to accomplishing a task.
 The seminar on doing business in the USA was very particular in its type. The
hall was full, an indication that many people wanted to understand the American
style of doing business. Also many student were already familiar with the topic
indicating their interest in that direction.
 The fifth and last seminar was all about empowering African carabien migrants
in europe for economic change.The seminar was mostly attended by students in
universities and colleges. This was an indication that they want to be employers
and not be employed after school.

9. Bibliography
 Zack‐Williams, G. M. (25 Feb 2007). Globalisation from below: conceptualising
the role of the African diasporas in africa's development.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240208704610