MASTER STUDENTS
BEYOND COMPETITION

“DRIVING CHANGE, TOGETHER”

CONTEXT

On the initiative of Belgian scholars, the ‘Beyond Competition’ project strives to encourage collaboration between Belgian Universities and University Colleges, through their respective Schools of Management. Under this flag, projects are launched to target PhD candidates, Alumni, Executives in general, as well as Master students. The latter group is the focus of this initiative.

COLLABORATORS

The initial version of this course includes the following participants:

ULB – Solvay

UGent – FEB

ICHEC

UCLouvain – LSM

(expansion to other schools possible).

SUBJECT MATTER

Through the participation of students from different Belgian Universities in the same course, the aim of this project is to foster cross-fertilisation between Master students and, in doing so, to raise their awareness of open-mindedness and mutual enrichment. The main common denominator of the ‘pedagogical projects’ covered in this course will be an aspect of environmental and social sustainability. The course is aimed at Master students in Business Engineering and/or Management Science. Students will collaborate on a real project at a partner company – the project having been evaluated as fitting in terms of subject matter and complexity.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Student groups will be maximally diverse, ideally including one student from each institution per group. This to facilitate the exchange of ideas and leverage the different approaches across universities, in line with the broader aims of the beyond competition project.

The course will use a short-term Erasmus-like experience, focusing on a single consulting project.
Each institution will provide a business project for its students.
Students will be assessed based on the requirements set by the host university.
The person of contact in each university will constitute a panel to evaluate the four groups.
Students earn 5 ECTS credits for completing the course.
The grading system of the host university will apply to all students.
The person of contact in each university will constitute a panel to evaluate the four groups.

TIMELINE

The goal is to launch this as a pilot project in Q1 2025, starting with a single group per university (i.e. four participating students in every university). Participating students would have to be recruited by August 2025.

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