Organize Your Talk 2020 – online edition

The Department of Business Foreign Languages ​​of the Faculty of Economics & Business, the University of Zagreb in partnership with the Representation of the European Commission in Croatia and the European Documentation Center of the Library and Documentation Center of FEB organizes the 8th competition in student presentations in foreign languages ​​Organize Your Talk 2020 - online edition. The eighth edition of the competition and also the first to be held online is one of the events as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Faculty of Economics & Business - Zagreb. It will be held on the competition website from June 15 to 22  2020.
The competition in presenting in foreign languages is intended for first-year students of the Faculty of Economics, and the goal of the competition is to practice communication skills of presentation in English or another foreign language, crucial in today's business world. In line with the expected learning outcomes for the Business English 2 course (development of professional presentation skills and adoption of professional terminology), the presentations address topics from economic and social life, with the EU's goals, achievements, and policies having a prominent place.
OYT 2020 has three segments:
1. team presentation competition in English (12 teams)
2. competition of single-person presentations in English (8 individual presentations)
3. presentations in other languages (Spanish, French, Italian, German and Chinese)
The winners will be decided by an expert jury, composed of representatives of the Representation of the European Commission in Croatia, sponsor companies, professors, representatives of students and former students of the Faculty of Economics, and the audience by a majority vote. Voting will be conducted through the Google Forms forms that will be available on the page https://oyt.net.efzg.hr/  from June 15 to June 22, 2020.
At the end of the voting, a short event will be organized on the same page, during which the jury will be presented alive, the winners will be proclaimed and prizes will be awarded.