Presentation of the CEMS Alliance

Presentation of the Programme

CEMS MIM YEAR

Aug - Jan Term 1 - School 1

3 ECTS 28 ECTS 1 ECTS

Feb - Jul Term 2 - School 2

12 ECTS 15 ECTS

Block Seminar Global Strategy and other CEMS Courses Global Citizenship

Global Leadership and other CEMS Courses Business Project

2 ECTS Skill Seminars 5 ECTS Hard Skills Course

ONGOING LANGUAGE TRAINING AND TESTING

Term 3 International Internship

Min. 8 weeks

At any time during the graduate period of studies

• Internationalism

Students who enroll in the programme must spend at least one academic term abroad and gain a significant professional experience outside their home country. All students must master, at least, two other languages than their mother tongue and be fully proficient in English. Moreover, CEMS provides the resources and capabilities for the community to come together in a series of international, worldwide events. Ranging from the Annual Events (Graduation and meetings celebrated in each member school on a rotational basis, in Vienna in 2019) to the Career Forum celebrated in Budapest (students find the opportunity to interact and connect with the different corporate partners); to the Corporate Partners’ Benchmarking meetings (in 2019 in Dublin), which focus on sharing best practices and ideas. The essence of the CEMS Alliance is multicultural, multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder activities on a global basis, which emphasizes the search for new and innovative practices to be encouraged among business schools, and in turn towards future business leaders.

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, most of CEMS international activities have moved online, nevertheless, the alliance has ensured dynamic and even more regular opportunities for practice sharing and networking among partners. The semester abroad requirement has remained the norm, however, the CEMS institutions have showed enormous efforts to ensure a meaningful global expose to the students: virtual education, global skill seminars and business projects, elective course offer across borders provided opportunities to students for global education.

• Top class teaching and business orientation

The CEMS Master in Management (MIM) comprises a carefully designed curriculum that achieves one of the main goals of the Alliance as a whole: to combine academic theory with business prac-

tice. This balance between theoretical and experiential learning is achieved through a multi-faceted curriculum, and with the contribution of the over 70 Corporate Partners (multinational companies) and Social Partners (NGOs), embedded members of the alliance.

Students must take a mandatory course in Global Strategy and a mandatory course in Global Leadership as well as several elective courses throughout the course of the programme. Mandatory seminars, including Global Leadership, aim at providing the opportunity for the CEMS community to come together, exchange ideas, debate and discuss innovative management matters as well as comprehensive leadership topics. They aim at developing student’s business communication skills and their awareness towards global responsible leadership challenges. Each CEMS student has to undertake a Business Project. Business Projects are a consultancy-like project, where international teams composed of 3 to 5 students solve a real business problem as a one-semester, part-time, activity. The process is tutored both by the company and by a professor in parallel. Business projects reinforce the CEMS partnership between universities and companies, in jointly shaping the student’s learning process in international management.

Furthermore, each university has the competence of deciding on the suggested electives, maintaining the core ideology of CEMS, but bringing innovation & flexibility to the Alliance. Additionality, positive and negative student opinions are gathered and analyzed so as to enable students to have a say in their curriculum, embracing the positive aspects and improving in the negative ones. Lastly, a series of quality assurance & programme development activities are held during the year to highlight the importance of developing student learning, increasing adaptability, flexibility, openness to innovation as a responsive global alliance. These include:

The programme offer is subject to accreditation by the CEMS Academic Committee, which ensures that learning objectives are met.

All individual programme elements & support services are subject to constant quality evaluation.

Online student satisfaction surveys are sent to students for every programme element and at the end of each term, through the CEMS Global office.

Based on student satisfaction surveys, CEMS awards best courses and the school of the year at the graduation ceremony.

• Responsible Global Leaders

CEMS aspires to prepare future generations of responsible global business leaders to enter into a multilingual, multicultural and interconnected business world. The following pages will explore the CEMS commitment towards the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME).

THE PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION

As institutions of higher education involved in the development of current and future leaders, we declare our willingness to progress in the implementation, within our institution, of the following principles, starting with those that are more relevant to our capacities and mission. We will report on the progress achieved throughout our alliance, together with our stakeholders and share effective practices related with other academic institutions.

• Principle 1: Purpose We will develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy..

photo: Juliana Wiklund • Principle 2: Values We will incorporate into our academic activities, curricula, and organisational practices the values of global social responsibility as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact.

• Principle 3: Method We will create educational frameworks, materials, processes and environments that enable effective learning experiences for responsible leadership.

• Principle 4: Research We will engage in conceptual and empirical research that advances our understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of corporations in the creation of sustainable social, environmental and economic value.