International Business And Career (IBAC)
Bringing together business students from all over the world, from Chile to China and from Sweden to South-Africa, with different backgrounds of knowledge and skills, International Business and Career (IBaC) offers students the chance to work together on real business cases in multidisciplinary and multicultural consultancy teams, in order to advise companies or non-profit organisations on how to approach international business challenges.
In the IBaC programme, you will learn how to use market research and innovation techniques and will dive into the latest marketing models to make companies flexible and resilient in a fast-changing business world, challenged by digital and circular transitions and more than ever driven by its impact on society. Current global challenges require new leadership, gamechangers who will make transitions happen. Therefore, the IBaC programme has chosen to focus strongly on further develop your personal and professional (new) leadership skills.
IBaC offers you an international community of around 50 young professionals from all over the world, who will build their long-lasting friendships through studying, playing and growing, within a five months’ pressure cooker.
Do you want to challenge your business skills in a multicultural setting? Are you creative, innovative and a real problem solver? Are you driven by a curiosity about how to conduct business in a fast-changing globalised world? Are you interested in working across borders and making impact on the international business world by developing new leadership skills? Then IBaC is definitely your choice!
Within the IBaC programme, you will develop and (partially) implement a business strategy to a real-life business challenge in the field of circular, digital or purpose economy:
- in an international multicultural context;
- with a strong focus on marketing and innovation;
- meeting the needs and wants of the customer;
- thereby achieving impactful results;
- that are logistically feasible and legally and financially sound.
Innovative teaching approaches ensure a dynamic, stimulating environment, in which students are triggered to find strategic, creative solutions for real international business challenges, to develop critical competences and to achieve the very best. The competitive atmosphere encourages them to strive for optimal results, allowing them to stand out, to develop their personal and professional leadership skills and to gain a head-start when applying for a job.
Build up your network!
In the IBaC programme, we host students from all over the world and from different disciplines, because we are working with 80 different partner universities. In a globalised business world, the importance of a well-maintained network cannot be over-emphasised. The contacts you will make during the semester, will broaden your international network and will help you with your future career.
In a challenging real-life project, divided in three periods, student groups will form independent consultancy teams and will work as a multicultural and multidisciplinary team. The main purpose of this consultancy is to provide a company or non-profit organisation which is challenged with an international business problem, with strategically balanced and sustainable advice on how to approach this.
In some cases, the teams will be even multinational, collaborating with students from partner institutions across the globe, working in different time zones.
Companies or NGOs selected as project partner will expect a level of professionalism and will demand realistic solutions to their challenge. In most cases, digital transitions, circularity and impactful entre- or intrapreneurship will play a central part in the challenge given to the student teams.
Steps to Be Taken:
- Discover: Research and Analysis
Analysing the problem. - Define: Formulating the strategy
Formulating the business strategy on how to tackle the problem. - Develop: Market strategy and Marketing approach
Creating a concise, but concrete strategic marketing and implementation plan, including a financial statement. - Deliver: Implementation
Implementing (partially) the strategy and analysing the first implementation results. - Deliver: Recommendations to the organisation
Presenting an improved business strategy with a concrete operational plan to the organisation.
Leerdoelen
If you have successfully completed this exchange programme then you are able to:
- Research and analyse a real-life international business challenge in a new-economy context;
- demonstrate an understanding of research design and data collection methods including motivated choices for an approach;
- apply the principles of design thinking to find solutions for user based challenges,
- apply marketing/business concepts in an international, complex and challenging environment;
- respond in a creative, flexible and innovative way to current international business challenges;
- translate these problems into sustainable, future-proof, profitable and impactful solutions;
- implement them, test them and improve them;
- communicate with stakeholders in a professional manner;
- satisfy the needs and wants of a client;
- work in a multicultural and multidisciplinary team in an international context and know how to reflect on it.
And furthermore:
- Formulate a vision and show insight on how to develop futureproof responsible leadership;
- show responsibility for your own futureproof career;
- ask and process feedback regarding your own personal goals;
- focus on and differentiate within the needs of others within a multi-cultural context;
- handle uncertainty, unclarity and risks and act upon them.
And will have:
- A thorough understanding of the European and global context in which international businesses operate;
- thorough practical knowledge of the supply chain and e-commerce.
Ingangseisen
This minor is meant for all students who want to grow in personal and professional leadership skills in an international business context and who would like to build an international network.
The entrance level is B2 English and 150 ects passed.
After applying, students will be asked to send the following documents to the coordinator of the programme:
Curriculum Vitae in English
Osiris grades list of P and Main Phase
Transcript of Records
Motivation letter for the programme
Literatuur
To be announced
Rooster
Normally not on Friday because of some small field trips
Toetsing
Presentations, Reports, Portfolio, Assessment
Aanvullende informatie
Are you a student from another educational institution and you want to take a minor at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, you can apply in 2 steps as follows:
1) Register for the minor of your choice via the blue button Enroll. You can find this button at the top right of the minor's page.
Download and fill in the learning agreement
Submit this learning agreement to the Exam Board of your study programme.
Once the Board of Examiners has given its approval, please register for the minor in step 2 no later than 07-05-2025
2) After approval, register in OSIRIS Aanmelding of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences via the link below (create an account first). https://osiris.hr.nl/osiris_aanmeld_hrprd/WelkomPagina.do?proces=KOM2509&opleiding=MINOR-RBS-VT+00
Part of the registration process is to upload the following documents:
- The learning agreement signed by you and by your institution;
- A scan or photo of your passport or ID card;
You will receive a message from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences whether your application has been positively assessed or not.
In OSIRIS Aanmelding, you must also upload the Evidence Paid Tuition Fee (BBC) for the academic year in which you want to follow the minor. You can request the BBC from your institution after you have signed or issued an authorization for the payment of the tuition fees for the academic year in which you want to take the minor.
You will receive a message from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences when your application has been approved.
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