What to Get from Tanoto Scholars Gathering

As a successful self made billionaire that had not finished his education when he started doing business, Sukanto Tanoto addressed his credits to soft skills and strong networking. Therefore, he wants all new generations who receive scholarships from his foundation also have soft skills necessary to build success in the future, especially if they decide to start a business and become entrepreneurs just like him. Tanoto Foundation has several programs to instill these important concepts to new generations of entrepreneurs; one of them is Tanoto Scholars Gathering.

What is Tanoto Scholars Gathering?

As the name suggests, Tanoto Scholars Gathering is a routine event from Tanoto Foundation to gather scholarship recipients that get opportunities to study at partner universities. The gathering has been held for four times in a row, with last gathering event being held in D’Jungle, a popular outbound location in Bogor, West Java. The gathering is held before all the scholarship recipients go to their universities, and the participants come from different universities that all become partners of Tanoto Foundation.

Each gathering usually has theme related to soft skills such as leadership, responsibility, integrity, and entrepreneurship motivation. However, all the themes share similar elements: every program is designed to shape the best characters of all participants, which are soft skills necessary to support the future success in academic, career or business (and generally all life aspects). Soft skills are considered important elements to teach to students, and the gathering has such main goal.

Tanoto Scholars Gathering is usually held for several days, so students can get opportunities to get more friends, and join many fun activities as well as character building training and seminar. Participants can also get precious lessons taken from the experiences of Sukanto Tanoto, the owner of the foundation as well as several successful multinational businesses.

The Benefits of Tanoto Scholars Gathering

There are many benefits students get from this activity. Besides getting good character building activities and training, students can also get more friends from different universities. Also, this is the opportunity to teach students the benefits of networking, since many of these new friends can be potential business or work partners in the future.

Tanoto Scholars Gathering is also a way to make sure that all scholarship recipients from Tanoto Foundation get not only professional skills but also soft skills such as leadership, responsibility, integrity, spirit of perseverance, and many more. All these things are deemed important and become main qualities Sukanto Tanoto showed in his own history as businessman.