Entrepreneurial learning

Business orientation is the leitmotiv in the programme, but it is particularly and explicitly noticeable in the business projects. There is one business project every year, in which you develop specific skills (e.g. teamwork, meeting skills, negotiating, professional reporting), languages and, of course, business contents and academic skills. The business projects are perfect opportunities to start working on your career while you are studying.

1st year: Social profit project

As a first-year student, you immediately discover and develop your entrepreneurial skills, team spirit and language skills. In the context of the project, you are member of a team that carries out a project to support a good cause. A coach keeps you on the right track with the help of workshops and feedback sessions. Example: SOS Kinderdorpen

2nd year: Company screening

You team up with other students to work out an Integrated Business Project in the second year of the programme. You select a key enterprise, audit it financially, analyse the industry it operates in, and study its internal organisation. Obviously this also means that you have to explore various aspects of the company on site. To round off you write an academic paper and give a presentation on the project.

3rd year

Management Game

You play the HUB Management Game in the third year. The game simulates a business context and you are in the driver's seat. You gain an understanding of the various aspects of the business. Your team manages a company and competes with two or three entreprises of the same sector. Every team member is allocated a position in the executive committee and takes responsability for a department. As a team you take all important decisions: selling price, marketing and promotion, staff, production, loans. You have to take into account economic forecasts and assess the impact of unexpected events.

International study visit

Another optionis to travel to European capitals - London, Paris, Madrid or Berlin - for a week in the third year and immerse yourself in business life there. You will visit major enterprises and international organisations on site in the context of Cross Cultural Competences (CCC). Your lecturers provide you with support and guidelines but it is going to be you and your fellow students who formulate questions and points to be discussed with the reps of the companies involved. Moreover you organise a company visit yourself. To round off you write a practice oriented but academically sound paper in the language of the city you visited. CCC also is a unique opportunity to improve your language skills.

Business Projects

If you take the International Business Management orientation programme, Business Projects in the third year offer you the opportunity to experience a complete decision-making process at management level. Three challenging choices from which you pick one:

• Dealing with a practical problem a company faces
• Offering support in export decisions
• Drawing up your own business plan