Point of View: AEME

Association for Events Management Education
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As part of our commitment to championing the industry, we are talking to people about their careers and what IEM means to them.

The Association of Events Management Education (AEME) was founded in 2004, with the central aim of advancing events education within the UK and overseas higher education institutions.

Q What does the IEM mean to you?
A AEME have known the IEM founders since 2006 and at the Annual Forum in 2016 the need for professional accreditation for the industry was discussed and presented by IEM.  This was further developed at the 2017 event and since then it has been on the agenda of AEME.  As an educational association that provides support for the Higher Education sector delivering Event Management courses throughout the UK, we decided that it would be useful to have a voice in the development of the IEM and for the benefit of our members and students at our member institutions.

Q Why did you decide it was important for you to get involved?
A The majority of our members are lecturers and have held positions within the Events Industry or gained experience in supervising their students to create successful events within their local communities.  As such our members have extensive experience of both event theory and praxis.  Therefore, it was felt that AEME could offer much to a partnership with the IEM and vice versa.  In particular AEME and the IEM can work together to develop a professional and fit for purpose accreditation programme for the industry and University level academic courses.

Q Where do you hope to see the IEM in 20 years time?
A It is hoped that working together AEME and the IEM would have fully developed the above-mentioned course accreditation and that this would be accepted by Industry and rolled out across the events sector and that IEM would be a significant voice for the industry with annual membership of over 5,000 and Chartered status gained.

Q What is your favourite event related memory?
A As an organisation, there are many favourite memories  related to the forum that AEME hosts annually.  This year the event is being hosted by partner University of Brighton with a theme centred around Diversity and Inclusion.