JANUARY 2009: Virtual Firm and the implementation of the Agenda

ZUBIRILET SAS: " Hands on training"

A few years ago IES Zubiri-Manteo joined the SEFED / EUROPEN (Business Simulation for Education) program. There are more than eight thousand virtual firms belonging to the program.

Our firm ZUBIRILET SAS belongs to the SEFED virtual firm network, where students work in trade relations, each company designing the products they are selling, buying materials and hiring the necessary services to produce them.

This means that students have to organize their business, and manage business relationships arising from the activity with other firms, as if it were a real company (business and administration processes, documentation, communication, filing etc.)

Relations between firms are carried out using new technologies, especially though the Internet and email. The classroom is a real office which is divided into the following departments; Front Desk, Marketing, Sales, Purchasing, Accounting and Human Resources. Throughout the course, students rotate between different departments, by means of undertaking their correponding office task, to widen their theoretical and practical knowledge.