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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.

General information

Logistics@home is an international project for students from Howest (Brugge, Belgium), Inholland Universtity (Haarlem, The Netherlands) and the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna (Vienna, Austria). Students from these universities will work on practical cases focusing on the Incoterms 2020. Students from the participating universities will work in groups on the cases. A group consists of a student from each participating University to ensure a truly international dimension. We are looking to expand the number of participating Universities. We want to have a maximum of half of the students with mother tongue Dutch, in order to safeguard the international dimension of the project. Please contact us before sending students.

Organization

MS Teams will be used for the project. 

Dates

4 October 2021 18.00-20.00

On Thursday the 4th October the students will get to know the other members of their group through an assignment\questionaire\game. Students will have to make a report about this.

11 October 2021 18.00-21.00

The logistics@home project will be held on the Thursday the 11th of October from 18.00 untill 21.00.

Programme

18.15-19.15 First Round (case will be made available at 18.00 on the 11th of October)

19.15 – 19.30 Break

19.30 – 21.00 Second round (case will be given on the 4th of October)

The BSG is an exercice where students will have to run an athletic footwear company as co-managers in head-to-head competition against companies run by other class members.

What you can expect to learn :

- To chart a long-term direction for your company

- To craft a strategy and adapt it to changing industry and competitive conditions to achieve strategic and financial objectives

- To work with a full array of industry statistics, company operating reports and financial statements

- To deepen your understanding of revenue-cost-profit relationships and the different asspects sof running a company