Outline of the project

The project will focus on the theme of Designing or re-designing a sustainable object. Ex: the straws cannot be used anymore in the European Union, hospitals need to look for an alternative. 

• Outcome: creation of a sustainable product accompanied by its financial plan and marketing strategy all presented in an original way 
  
  
• Target group: 2nd, 3rd year students and young MBA-students; 5 students per institution – preferably of same discipline, group of 25 to 30 students. Each group will be made up of students from different disciplines 
  
  
• Period: Start: February 17th - the project will last for 4 weeks. The project will end with a hackathon!
  
  
• ECTS: the sending school determines the number of ECTS each student will obtain by participating in this project. Businet suggests 3 ECTS. Every student whose participation is successful, will receive a certificate.  
  
  
• No registration fee

Learning outcomes

• The student communicates efficiently in English 

• The student demonstrates the ability to function in an intercultural environment 

• The student engages and collaborates in an interdisciplinary team 

• The student demonstrates project management skills in a team environment 

• The student evaluates and applies learned technologies and/or methods 

• The student behaves professionally before and during the project 

• The student sharpens his creative skills 

After the visit to the Bertinchamps brewery and the onsite briefing, students will be challenged in order to develop an innovative business idea that will help Bertinchamps to further grow on the Belgian and International Market. 

During this week, a special focus will be put on creativity, innovation and pitching skills, for which students will benefit from the expertise of professionals.

Visits, workshops, team work, coaching sessions and teambuilding activities are spread throughout the week.

WHAT TO EXPECT ?

the Social Lab Week

In the week of the 17^th of March, we will celebrate the International Social Work Day with a week of cooperation, reflection and work with lecturers, students and work field on the following topics:

·        Climate and social work: how to combine and match solidarity, responsible young people and climate issues with an ambitious social work

·        Youth policy with an impact: What should be today’s youth policy?  At what crossroads of domains, actors and competences do you build a youth policy with impact?

·        Working on recovery and hope: Social work is a hopeful profession. It always has the ambition to recover and (re)grow. How do you work on the basis of this optimistic vision?

·        Under-protection in health care: Giving rights to those who are otherwise excluded is a core business of social work. In this Social Work Lab we investigate the causes, impact and approach of under-protection in the field of health care.

WHAT TO EXPECT

 WHAT IS THE PROGRAMME ?
The finalized programme will be posted in October 2019

https://www.ephec.be/wild-animal-tracking-iot-solution

What to expect of this week?

• Banking simulation game 
• Guest lectures
• Company visit
• Cultural visit
• Sports activity
• International reception
• Gala dinner
• A lot of fun!

Outline of the programme

The main target of this week is to let students work in mixed international groups on a subject that interests them, which makes them think and communicate in another language. In this way students with as main subject Business Management broaden their practical knowledge of languages and culture.

The International Business Week revolves around the concept of start-ups. Students participate in an updated version of the business game Stratvision. The students are split up into different enterprises (groups). A set of 4 or 5 groups competes with each other and forms a market. Each enterprise has to define its objectives and make decisions to reach those objectives. At certain regular points in time the coach gives the students an update of  the economic situation so that the students are able to make decisions for the following fiscal year. These decisions are of a financial and accounting as well as on a commercial level. At the end of the week, the groups present their results within their market.

What to expect of this week?

• Banking simulation game 
• Guest lectures
• Company visit
• Cultural visit
• Sports activity
• International reception
• Gala dinner
• A lot of fun!

Outline of the programme

The main target of this week is to let you work in mixed international groups on a subject in finance.  It makes you think and communicate in another language.  In this way you broaden your practical knowledge of languages and culture. We form groups of people with different nationalities.  At the end of the week the groups give a presentation within their market of the work they have achieved. 

Banking simulation game

Students play a banking simulation in 4 rounds. They are the general manager at a medium sized bank! They have to find out how to make their bank successful, taking into account the different risk factors associated with the credit market.

What to expect of this week?

• Workshops 
• Guest lectures
• Company visit
• Cultural visit
• Sports activity
• International reception
• Gala dinner
• A lot of fun!

Outline of the programme

The main target of this week is to let students work in mixed international groups on different subjects  that interest them as entrepreneurs, which make them think and communicate in another language. In this way students with as main subject Business Management and a string interest in Entrepreneurship broaden their practical knowledge of different aspects of entrepreneurship, languages and cultures.

Students work on a project in international groups; the more nationalities involved, the more interesting for the students. To create an experience as close to a  real-life entrepreneurial one as possible, the project will focus on different departments of a start-up and will work with a case provided by a company. Every day, the groups will get information through a workshop, guest lecture or company visit on a specific aspect that they will need to perform tasks regarding that subtopic of entrepreneurship. The topics will reflect the different departments of a small or medium sized company: Sustainability (CSR), HRM, Marketing Communication, Supply Chain Management, Financial Risk Management/Budgeting.

At the end of the week the groups will have to present their work in a compelling way.

After the visit to the Bertinchamps brewery and the onsite briefing, students will be challenged in order to develop an innovative business idea that will help Bertinchamps to further grow on the Belgian and International Market. 

During this week, a special focus will be put on creativity, innovation and pitching skills, for which students will benefit from the expertise of professionals.

Visits, workshops, team work, coaching sessions and teambuilding activities are spread throughout the week.

WHAT TO EXPECT ?

16th Thomas More International Days

the Social Lab Week

In the week of the 17^th of March, we will celebrate the International Social Work Day with a week of cooperation, reflection and work with lecturers, students and work field on the following topics:

·        Climate and social work: how to combine and match solidarity, responsible young people and climate issues with an ambitious social work

·        Youth policy with an impact: What should be today’s youth policy?  At what crossroads of domains, actors and competences do you build a youth policy with impact?

·        Working on recovery and hope: Social work is a hopeful profession. It always has the ambition to recover and (re)grow. How do you work on the basis of this optimistic vision?

·        Under-protection in health care: Giving rights to those who are otherwise excluded is a core business of social work. In this Social Work Lab we investigate the causes, impact and approach of under-protection in the field of health care.

Within the emerging field of Smart Cities, UC Leuven-Limburg (UCLL) and KU Leuven (Faculty of Engineering Technology, Diepenbeek Campus) offer you the opportunity to learn about Smart City innovations and sustainability by addressing the best practice examples on smart transformation whilst disseminating guidance and information transformation within data, energy, security, transport, infrastructure and the environment.

Target Audience:  Students of Chemistry, Electromechanics, Electronics-ICT, Energy Technology and Environmental Sciences

• Organisation of a multidisciplinary project: H&SM Busiskills (March 2020)

  A virtual semester course cooperation between students on topics related to wellbeing@work will be finalised by an international week in Namur, hosted by Henallux..

  Objectives:

• Comparing the situation on specific wellbeing@work topics in the different countries per profession and searching for best practices (medical, burn-out, motivational training, absenteeism, people management, SDG issues (gender and health), …).

• Develop foreign language skills and knowledge on these topics by starting up multilingual vocabulary lists and exercises

WHAT TO EXPECT

 WHAT IS THE PROGRAMME ?
The finalized programme will be posted in October 2019

https://www.ephec.be/wild-animal-tracking-iot-solution

HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts is delighted to invite you and your colleagues to the HOGENT International Week, held from 24 till 26 March 2020 in Ghent (Belgium).

This edition’s central theme is ‘Global engagement: working towards meaningful collaborations all over the world’.

The program is still ‘under construction’ but will be a combination of theme-oriented workshops, teaching opportunities in our Bachelor programmes, degree program-specific projects and various informal networking moments.

But to finalize the program, we need you!

You are most welcome to either teach to our students in any of our study programs and attend or even give sessions for staff members – lecturers, researchers and administrative staff -  in line with the central theme.

Interested in participating?

Please submit your expression of interest via this link before 5 December 2019. All applicants will be informed by 17 December whether or not their proposed teaching topic was successfully matched with one of our study programs or whether or not their proposed session for colleagues was accepted. In order to maximize the international experience for all parties involved, we encourage all staff of our partner institutions to apply for funding within Erasmus+. All updates of the program will be published on our website.

After the visit to the Bertinchamps brewery and the onsite briefing, students will be challenged in order to develop an innovative business idea that will help Bertinchamps to further grow on the Belgian and International Market. 

During this week, a special focus will be put on creativity, innovation and pitching skills, for which students will benefit from the expertise of professionals.

Visits, workshops, team work, coaching sessions and teambuilding activities are spread throughout the week.

WHAT TO EXPECT ?

After the visit to the Bertinchamps brewery and the onsite briefing, students will be challenged in order to develop an innovative business idea that will help Bertinchamps to further grow on the Belgian and International Market. 

During this week, a special focus will be put on creativity, innovation and pitching skills, for which students will benefit from the expertise of professionals.

Visits, workshops, team work, coaching sessions and teambuilding activities are spread throughout the week.

WHAT TO EXPECT ?

After the visit to the Bertinchamps brewery and the onsite briefing, students will be challenged in order to develop an innovative business idea that will help Bertinchamps to further grow on the Belgian and International Market. 

During this week, a special focus will be put on creativity, innovation and pitching skills, for which students will benefit from the expertise of professionals.

Visits, workshops, team work, coaching sessions and teambuilding activities are spread throughout the week.

WHAT TO EXPECT ?

How do you make your team implement your company’s mission and vision? When do your employees need extra coaching? What makes managing culturally diverse teams challenging? More and more graduates are working in an international business environment, so answers to these questions prove to be more relevant than ever. Therefore, the International Management Week aims to provide students with all tools necessary to cope with these situations.

During this international week, students will have to solve an interesting case study in the field of career management. To complete this task, they will have to draw upon their knowledge of several disciplines, but they will also be assisted by a professional HR manager. At the end of the week, directors from several prominent companies will answer any questions about HR topics the students may have at a round-table conference.

The International Management Week is developed as a competition, so the best team will receive an award at the end of the week. Team spirit, commitment, enthusiasm and initiative are decisive factors in this competition. This year the 20th edition will be organised.

How can technological innovations support employees with special needs in selected Austrian organizations and companies

Learning outcomes - by the end of the International Week, the students are able to...

• foster their verbal and non-verbal as well as written communication and collaboration skills.
• actively use English as a shared language to communicate in a culturally appropriate and linguistically adequate manner
  across cultures.
• act responsibly and enhance their problem- solving skills in an intercultural setting.
• further improve their presentation and free-speaking skills in their new, intercultural groups.
• encourage out-of-the box thinking and innovative brainstorming in intercultural groups.
• reflect on their own behavior and progress in intercultural teams by regularly participating in group discussions and writing entries in their reflection journals.
• manage complex projects and do research in intercultural teams and present their findings effectively.
• be a role model for others in terms of teamwork and support to reach a common goal.
• develop new approaches/ideas of how to use the latest technological innovations to support employees with special needs at the workplace.

CREATING VALUE:

You are a student-entrepreneur, a student with an idea for starting a company or you want to support an urban social business?

YES! WE WANT YOU!

During four days we will support you in developing a plan for growth or starting your own sustainable business. Using the lean start up method you will go out of the building to interview your potential customers.

Lecturers from  all over Europe will coach you with their knowledge and expertise.

WHAT TO EXPECT

 WHAT IS THE PROGRAMME ?
The finalized programme will be posted in October 2019

https://www.ephec.be/wild-animal-tracking-iot-solution

Togehter with our strategic partner LAMK University in Lahti Finland, we will organize this two day conference in Breda. More info will be available by the end of september.

In the summer of 2020, a selected group of students with various backgrounds and origins will have the opportunity to participate in the Changemaker Bootcamp. The Changemaker Bootcamp is an intensive 10-day life changing summer school, which teaches students how to start making a positive impact on today’s society. Aside from the professional training sessions, several cultural and social activities are an important part of this unique programme.

The goal of this summer school is to inspire participants to come up with a well reflected changemaker action plan by the end of the boot camp. In order to accomplish this, students will participate in innovative sessions on power skills development, systems thinking, wicked entrepreneurship, global citizenship and natural change. All students will work in teams, so teambuilding assignments also make up an important part of this summer programme.

The Changemaker Bootcamp is developed as a real bootcamp, so a team of inspiring coaches and experts from various fields such as Business, Social Work and Education will provide intensive training. This year the 1st edition will be organised.

Togehter with our strategic partner LAMK University in Lahti Finland, we will organize this two day conference in Breda. More info will be available by the end of september.