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YAK Agency at CONI for the closing ceremony of the 13th edition of Master SBS

7 June 2018
YAKAgency CONI

The 13th edition of the first-level University postgraduate course in Sport Business Strategies of which YAK Agency is partner, and which is arisen from the collaboration of Verde Sport, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Ca’ Foscari Challenge School in 2005, was closed on Wednesday the 6th of June in Rome. 

 

In the beautiful setting of the CONI Hall of Honor, the home of Italian sport, the 38 students that have completed their training have been awarded by President Giovanni Malagò during the traditional graduation ceremony and are now ready to enter the Italian and international sport industry.

 

Taking part in the event, YAK Agency has confirmed the will to be partner of and support a Post Lauream course that has become one of the most important ones in sport marketing in Italy and Europe, and which has already trained over 430 students to work in sport business management. 

 

Special guest Giorgio Squinzi, President of Mapei, who was awarded with a degree for sport merits for the successes achieved in sport: at first in cycling, with a team that has gone down in sport history, then in football with Sassuolo, a small team that succeeded in reaching the Italian premier league. 

 

On this occasion, the SBS Master has presented two novelties: the Sport Business Search project (in collaboration with the partner Manpower), a platform exclusively dedicated to the search of professionals in Italian sport industry to contribute to the creation of a young and competent managerial class, and the second edition of the International Sport Marketing Summer School, organized in partnership with AC Milan Training School, scheduled from the 16th to the 27th of July at La Ghirada - Città dello Sport.