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Hidden Business Champions SchoolLaajuus (3 cr)

Code: LB10003

Credits

3 op

Teaching language

  • English

Responsible person

  • Iouri Kotorov
  • Varpumaria Jeskanen
Enrollment

05.11.2024 - 30.11.2024

Timing

07.04.2025 - 23.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Complementary Studies

Campus

Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

0 - 15

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in International Business
Teachers
  • Varpumaria Jeskanen
Teacher in charge

Varpumaria Jeskanen

Groups
  • TOP24_25
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2024-2025

Location and time

Steyr, Austria 5.-9.5.2025. There is a virtual component before the intensive week.

Teaching methods

Blended Intensive Programme including an intensive study week in Steyr, Austria 5.-9.5.2025. There is a virtual component before the intensive week.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Enrollment

01.10.2023 - 31.10.2023

Timing

22.04.2024 - 19.05.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

5 - 15

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in International Business
Teachers
  • Varpumaria Jeskanen
Teacher in charge

Varpumaria Jeskanen

Groups
  • TOP23_24
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2023-2024

Location and time

13.-17.5.2024 + online kick-off on week 17

Teaching methods

Blended Internsive Programme including an intensive study week in Belgium 13.-17.5.2024.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Enrollment

01.10.2022 - 30.11.2022

Timing

17.04.2023 - 14.05.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

10 - 15

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in International Business
Teachers
  • Varpumaria Jeskanen
Teacher in charge

Varpumaria Jeskanen

Groups
  • TOP22_23
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2022-2023

Location and time

online and on campus (17.4.-12.5.2023)

Materials

online materials given by the teachers.

Teaching methods

This course is a journey through European and Nordic business culture by experienced professors and entrepreneurs. Teaching language is English. It offers an opportunity to visit and work with local companies and real case studies. During this course you gain intercultural experiences and it is executed together with the partner universities from Belgium and Austria.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Enrollment

01.10.2021 - 30.04.2022

Timing

02.05.2022 - 27.05.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Virtual portion

3 op

RDI portion

3 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

10 - 12

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in International Business
Teachers
  • Iouri Kotorov
  • Varpumaria Jeskanen
Teacher in charge

Varpumaria Jeskanen

Groups
  • TOP21_22
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2021-2022

Location and time

Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme with online studies and 1 week exchange to Austria.

Materials

Methodology and teaching methods:
1. Preparatory Assignment/Readings
Every topic covered in the spring school has its preparatory readings, which are mandatory in order to follow the course and utilize the gained.
experience at the best.
2. Collaborative Experience in Austria
The spring school is designed towards experience-based learning. Short theoretical highlights/inputs by top managers and scientists will be accompanied by company visits, workshops and a final assignment for small interculturally diversely structured student-teams, offering a broad variety of challenging possibilities to learn and gain experience.
3. Learning diary to be submitted after the trip

Teaching methods

Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme
Objectives
The students:
• understand how the emerging of a business champion may look like from a cultural and historical perspective.
• understand how an SME with limited resources is realizing a USP and a market positioning.
• identify the main challenges for international companies operating in Europe in respect to the social and economic requirements.
• pre-assess intercultural differences of a European team-setting, respect and utilize these differences productively.
• relate the success of an organization to its cultural background, the specific environment the organization is embedded to and to key success factors in today's globalized world.
• use the right information sources and channels to collect, process and manage information in a multilingual environment.
• cooperate in a multicultural (national and international) professional environment.
• understand the current reality of the multilingual professional environment and how this affects the professional context.

International connections

Joint programme with Artewelde UAS (Belgium) & Upper Austria UAS (Austria)

Student workload

Learning materials and recommended literature: Students will get complete study material before and during the course.

Student´s workload: 81 hours: Share of student's workload: On site 60 h, readings and assignments 31h.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Group Member Evaluation (peer feedback): Peer evaluation may be applied.

Assessment Evaluation scale: pass/fail.

Further information

Learning outcomes
The students:
• are able to differentiate between various market entry and growth strategies.
• develop an understanding of online collaboration in multicultural settings, including new methods to see the potential and risks.
• use the right information sources and channels to collect, process and manage information in a multilingual environment.
• are capable of identifying key success factors for business growth within and outside the organization.
• are able to understand the social, micro-and macroeconomic environment of operating business in Europe and know how to identify and interpret relevant statistical material about European countries and its’ business-related data.
• are able to identify intercultural challenges of working in Europe and develop a set of skills that enables to cope with intercultural differences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation Assessment criteria: Active participation 40%, Assignments 20%, Group work 20%, Group presentation 20%

Enrollment

15.01.2022 - 28.02.2022

Timing

28.02.2022 - 01.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Virtual portion

3 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

20 - 35

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in International Business
Teachers
  • Iouri Kotorov
  • Satu Mättö
  • Varpumaria Jeskanen
Teacher in charge

Varpumaria Jeskanen

Groups
  • TOP21_22
    Other Complimentary Studies Group Semester 2021-2022

Location and time

Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme with online studies and 1 week exchange to Austria.

Materials

Methodology and teaching methods:
1. Preparatory Assignment/Readings
Every topic covered in the spring school has its preparatory readings, which are mandatory in order to follow the course and utilize the gained.
experience at the best.
2. Collaborative Experience in Austria
The spring school is designed towards experience-based learning. Short theoretical highlights/inputs by top managers and scientists will be accompanied by company visits, workshops and a final assignment for small interculturally diversely structured student-teams, offering a broad variety of challenging possibilities to learn and gain experience.
3. Learning diary to be submitted after the trip

Teaching methods

Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme
Objectives
The students:
• understand how the emerging of a business champion may look like from a cultural and historical perspective.
• understand how an SME with limited resources is realizing a USP and a market positioning.
• identify the main challenges for international companies operating in Europe in respect to the social and economic requirements.
• pre-assess intercultural differences of a European team-setting, respect and utilize these differences productively.
• relate the success of an organization to its cultural background, the specific environment the organization is embedded to and to key success factors in today's globalized world.
• use the right information sources and channels to collect, process and manage information in a multilingual environment.
• cooperate in a multicultural (national and international) professional environment.
• understand the current reality of the multilingual professional environment and how this affects the professional context.

International connections

Joint programme with Artewelde UAS (Belgium) & Upper Austria UAS (Austria)

Student workload

Learning materials and recommended literature: Students will get complete study material before and during the course.

Student´s workload: 81 hours: Share of student's workload: On site 60 h, readings and assignments 31h.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Group Member Evaluation (peer feedback): Peer evaluation may be applied.

Assessment Evaluation scale: pass/fail.

Further information

Learning outcomes
The students:
• are able to differentiate between various market entry and growth strategies.
• develop an understanding of online collaboration in multicultural settings, including new methods to see the potential and risks.
• use the right information sources and channels to collect, process and manage information in a multilingual environment.
• are capable of identifying key success factors for business growth within and outside the organization.
• are able to understand the social, micro-and macroeconomic environment of operating business in Europe and know how to identify and interpret relevant statistical material about European countries and its’ business-related data.
• are able to identify intercultural challenges of working in Europe and develop a set of skills that enables to cope with intercultural differences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation Assessment criteria: Active participation 40%, Assignments 20%, Group work 20%, Group presentation 20%