Societies on Campus
Together for a better world
Many students spend their free time together to pursue certain interests, including social involvement.
Here's a list of the dedicated IUBH Societies:
IUBH Grape(s)ociety
You are interested in wine, its origin and you want to learn something about how to rate a wine? Then you have to join Grape Society. In 2002 Grape(s)ociety, the university’s wine club, was founded by professor Willy Legrand.
With the general goal of bringing wines and wine knowledge closer to the university students, faculties and administration, Grape(s)ociety has organised over 50 small and large tastings with world renowned sommeliers and winemakers. For example an extravagant cava tasting as well as an intimate chocolate and of course wine degustation.
Grape(s)ociety is headed now by the students Florian Schakanowski and Jonas Lutz. Grape(s)ociety’s additional new concepts started in Summer Semester 2012
Get in contact to the society here.
IUBH Leo Club
LEO is the youth organization of Lions Clubs International. The IUBH LEO Club dedicates itself to social involvement. For that purpose it arranges activities for a good cause.
The club consists of students of all departments and semesters, because same interests bond. New support is always welcome.
IUBH Toastmasters
Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our membership is 270,000 strong. These members improve their speaking and leadership skills by attending one of the 13,000 clubs that make up our global network of meeting locations. A few IUBH students founded the "IUBH Toastmasters Club Bad Honnef" in late 2011.
IIt all started with a hint of their lecturer for developing and increasing the own speaking skills. Through Toastmasters it´s even easier for the students to train those skills.
Furthermore it is a worldwide organisation, which means that once you join the Toastmasters there are a lot of international contact points in the whole world.
For questions please mail
Student Marketing Association
The Student Marketing Association (SMA) is a community of people interested in and dedicated to marketing as a business function and philosophy. Everybody interested in marketing is welcome in our association. New members don't need to have marketing proficiency yet.
The SMA provides its members the possibility to gain practical knowledge in sales and marketing by participating in various marketing project competitions. Furthermore, it organises a regular conference in order to help establish the IUBH as a competence center for service management, starting in 2010.
SOAP - students on air
The project is funded by the North Rhine-Westphalia Media Institute (LfM) and aims to increase students’ media competence by giving them a chance to work on concrete projects. Participants receive professional training in concept development, camera work, and post-production, and are given access to professional and semi-professional equipment. Students develop their own concepts and formats, and their productions are regularly shown on the educational TV station “nrwision”.
Get more information here.
Sober - Society Of Beer Expert Representatives
"Hops and malt, they never get old."This German saying perfectly reflects your opinion about beer and goes beyond the excessive drinking of this wonderful and diverse beverage? You are also interested in the immense potential of beer? If you answer these questions with “Yes”, then there is only one conclusion about what you should do now:
Join the SOBER community at the kick-off event at the beginning of every semester and let Nikolaus Brandl and Norman Bechler, founders of SOBER and the whole SOBER community, introduce you to the fascinating world of beer.
With 4 - 5 "Beetings" in each semester you will not only get to know other lovers and explorers of beer, but will also get the opportunity to taste expensive, inexpensive, tasty, not so delicious, dark, bright, sparkly, boring and quaffable types of beer. Finally you will receive the basic knowledge about the topic beer, get to know interesting ways of using beer as a specialisation in business life and hopefully also find your personal favorite.
For further questions please feel free to like/contact us on our Facebook page and/or send us an mail.
Chef Society
The mission of the Chef Society is to educate its members in all culinary aspects and to establish an advanced knowledge about cooking procedures within different cuisines. This mission will be accomplished through presentations, lively cooking sessions and engaging in discussions about different styles and trends within the food and kitchen industry.
During each cooking session participants will be given a topic, prepare three different courses in groups and then talk about their experiences, as well as learn how to rate the meals together. Everyone is welcome who feels associated to that theme. No prior culinary experience is necessary to join. That means all students, alumni and professors could join in 4 - 5 Meetings within the Semester.
Chef Society was founded in spring 2013 by Eduard Müller, student in International Hospitality Management. Join the facebook group here.
