Do you want to apply for this minor?
Check out the step by step on our website. 
Here you can also find the correct manner to start your application on Studielink.

Newways Training Company: practical experience in (business) events and travel.

Are you good at making things easier? Then join our Newways Training Company in your last year of study. A great opportunity to level your skills and start your career by organising field trips, events and seminars in the field of travel & business events. 

What is it all about? 
As a student doing a minor at Newways Training Company you organise field trips, congresses and events, such as Industry Days, Consumer Behaviour in Tourism Symposium and the Corporate Travel Symposium. In this way, you will learn to run a business! Next to that, you are - together with your colleagues - responsible for running the Newways Travel Desk and arrange all business trips for employees of Breda University of Applied Sciences. 

What‘s in it for me? 
By doing so, you gain a lot of experience and expand your professional network in the leisure & tourism industry, which can be very helpful in your future career. It is a valuable year in which you work hard on your personal development. And what’s more, you are regularly ‘on the road’ - when possible and needed also abroad - and working as an event manager.  

How about my graduation? 
In case you are a student from the Academy for Tourism, you will graduate with a portfolio. In this portfolio you demonstrate your knowledge and skills gained via the projects (e.g. events/field trips) you worked on during your traineeship at Newways Training Company. So if you are a practical oriented student, take this chance to graduate with a portfolio instead of a thesis.

In case you are a student from another academy than the Academy for Tourism, the following applies: In addition to all those great activities, your graduation criteria are determined by your own study programme.     

• Running a business with (considerable) responsibility and autonomy 
• Creating / improving organisational and communication skills 
• Personal development (partly) driven on your own demand 

To achieve these goals, Newways Training Company provides: 

• One year of work experience, solely with real life assignments 
• Personal and intensive coaching ‘on the job’ 
• A professional work environment with great colleagues! 

Sophie, a former Newways employee about her experiences at Newways Training Company:  During my Newways year I organised several field trips (even one to China!) and events (I remember the Everything Procedural Conference for the Academy for Games and Media, which was quite a challenge). All this practical experience was of added value in finding a job after my studies. I now work as a groups & incentives project manager in a great company.   

Language of instruction
You can apply for (a traineeship at) Newways Training Company if you can understand Dutch very well. It is not necessary to speak Dutch as well.

Intake / selection for BUas students

• All third-year students of the Academy for Tourism and the Academy for Leisure & Events.
• All third-year students from other academies:In case you are not an Academy for Tourism or Academy for Leisure & Events student, this minor programme must be approved by the Board of Examiners of your academy.

The composition of the 2024-2025 Newways team will be done via an application process.

Apply?
We will organise two application rounds.

1. To apply for round 1:
We kindly invite you to send your application letter including your resume lastly Sunday 10 December 2023 via email Newways@buas.nl. The application process takes place in week 50 or 51.

2. To apply for round 2:
We kindly invite you to send your application letter including your resume lastly Sunday 10 March 2024 via email Newways@buas.nl. The application process starts in week 11 or 12.

Admission requirements for external students
We are happy to welcome students from outside BUas. Are you studying in the field of Tourism or Leisure & Events, and willing to work five days a week for one year in an inspiring learning environment, please join Newways! 

Provided by Newways Training Company

Performance and assessment interviews: these are about your performance and the circumstances related to your performance, making wishes/needs known and translate these into goals for personal development. Both you and your supervisor submit discussion points. You compose a portfolio consisting of reflections on your achievements and acquired skills and you set goals for the next period.

Competencies
If you would like to be part of the Newways team 2024-2025 you are:

• Independent and team-minded
• Innovative and creative
• Creative with budget and time with a strong customer focus
• Stress resistant, accurate and systematic
• Communicative and service oriented
• In possession of a positive and energetic attitude

Are you enthusiastic or do you want to have more information? It is also possible to have a look around our office and talk to the current Newways students. Make an appointment with one of the Newways members via newways@buas.nl or 076-533 23 90.   

Structure of the minor

In case you are a student from the Academy for Tourism:
During the entire academic year, you will be working for Newways Training Company five days a week. When a field trip, event or conference is your responsibility, you will consult the client, contact suppliers, negotiate prices, establish a programme, handle all communication with the participants and usually you are also present during the event. As a tour/event manager you are (partly) responsible for the success of the field trip/event. At the Newways Travel Desk, you will arrange business trips for employees of Breda University of Applied Sciences.

During your traineeship you regularly update your portfolio based on the work you carried out.

In case you are a student from another academy than the Academy for Tourism, the following applies:
During the entire academic year, you will be working at the Newways office three days a week. When a field trip, event or conference is your responsibility, you will consult the client, contact suppliers, negotiate prices, establish a programme, handle all communication with the participants and usually you are also present during the event. As a tour/event manager you are (partly) responsible for the success of the field trip/event. At the Newways Travel Desk, you will arrange business trips for employees of Breda University of Applied Sciences.

In addition to all those great activities, your graduation criteria are determined by your own study programme.     

Of course, you will be trained by the current Newways team members; this happens in week 27 and 28 (between 1 July and 12 July 2024). In the new academic year, your contract will start on Monday 26 August 2024.

Teaching method(s)
Learning by doing! At Newways Training Company you need a hands-on mentality which basically means that you continuously are learning on the job. You will be coached and supervised while you are executing your tasks.

International context
During this minor programme you will have several international contacts. When organising an event or field trip you will be in contact with several (inter)national suppliers and sometimes your client is international as well. Within BUas and especially the Innovation Square (where Newways Training Company is located) you will be part of an international environment.

Costs
Not applicable