Cooperation with Industry

Kaunas, Lithuania. April 16th - 28th, 2012

Business Relations: 2 weeks applied business project solving, cross disciplinary and branch focused.

The purpose of the course is to have students work on an applied business project defined by businesses in different branches e.g. Hospitality, Finance, Industry, Public, etc. The projects will be cross disciplinary and for students in the Baltic and Nordic countries. The primary learning focus will take place during a two week project period at Kaunas University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania.

Working in cross disciplinary project teams in an international environment will enable students to reflect on their own understanding of disciplinary interdependence and national identity in an applied context. The groups assignments will allow the students to reflect on potential different approaches from different Baltic and Nordic project teams, leading to the understanding of potential within diversity

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Project summary

The project will be based upon a blended learning approach. Each involved institution will be participating with x number of cross disciplinary project teams – each project team consisting of 4-5 students. The participating institution forms the project teams. The projects can originate from different branches, and there can be x number of projects within each branch. Prior to the 2 week program the different teams will be informed about which company their project will be about. For each project it will include:

• pre-course work based on various sources (no company contact) which explore and result in a company profile relating to the project company
• an intensive two week project case work highlighting applied problem solving
• post course work based upon the student project evaluations. This project will build on experiences gained from various study programs/courses