Veranstaltung des Career Service

A.3.11 Global Business Problem-Solving with African and German Student Teams

A collaboration between the University of Münster, Ashesi University, University of Ghana, the United States International University-Africa and international companies

Get first-hand African experience: This project offers you the unique opportunity to gain international experience and strengthen your intercultural capacity while collaborating with students from African universities. In German-Ghanaian-Kenyan student teams, you will help internationally active companies to tackle current problems they face in the business world. You will contribute your individual strengths and your academic knowledge, and apply and broaden your intercultural skills.

The participating companies will present to you real-life challenges they face in their efforts to act sustainably. Over three weeks, you will cooperate online with your student colleagues from Ghana and Kenya to develop ideas, strategies or even full solutions for the situations described by the companies. After the three-week working phase, in a final online workshop the German-African student teams will present their outcomes to the companies involved. Potential different approaches, ways of thinking, experiences and competences from the German-African student teams might, in working together, well produce creative and impressive results, which we are all looking forward to.

The number of participating students is restricted to ten from each of the four universities. Therefore, a selection process is carried out beforehand. High motivation, flexibility and personal commitment are required to make this international student project a success and fun for all involved.

For more information & application see https://www.uni.ms/jp9md.

Learning goals

  • You will strengthen your intercultural working skills.
  • You will test yourself in contributing your professional strengths.
  • You will gain experience in international project work.

Who can participate?
    
Anyone who is currently studying at the University of Münster, is doing a doctorate or has graduated from the University of Münster within the past year can participate.

HIS-LSF-Nummer:
310220

Leistungspunkte in den Allgemeinen Studien
3

When

  • Application deadline is 31st of January 2025. You will then be informed promptly whether you have been selected for the project.
  • Monday, 26th May 2025, 11.00am–5.00pm: Get to know & problem presentations
  • Monday, 26th May till Thursday, 12th June 2025: Student teams work according to their own schedule
  • Friday, 13th June 2025, 11.00am–5.00pm: Presentation of student teams

Where

Online via Learnweb

Speakers

  • Dr. Jan Knauer, Career Service
  • Dr. Andreas Eimer, Career Service
  • Selasi Nukpe, Ashesi University
  • Edwina Paintsil, University of Ghana
  • Patricia Gichuki, United States International University-Africa

How can I earn credit points?

If you are studying for a Bachelor's degree and would like to earn 3 credit points in General Studies with this Career Service project course, you must write a reflection (five pages) after your participation and submit it to the Career Service by Sunday, August 31st, 2025 at the latest.

This regulation applies in the same way if you wish to acquire credit points as part of other degree programs. You can find important information about the reflection on the Career Service website at: www.uni-muenster.de/CareerService/programm/essay.html

How do I apply?

Please visit & apply here: https://www.uni.ms/jp9md

Application deadline is 31st of January 2025.

You will then be informed promptly whether you have been selected for the project.

 

If you want to earn credit points for a course in the General Studies of the Bachelor's degree programs, you must also register with QISPOS: http://www.uni-muenster.de/studium/pruefungen/qispos.html

The Career Service cannot add you to QISPOS. We can only register your credits if you have registered in both systems on time. Please also note the registration deadlines for QISPOS.

 

How do I deregister?

If you have a binding registration and are unable to attend the event, please cancel your registration with the Career Service on time: www.uni-muenster.de/CareerService/Abmeldung

If you are also registered in QISPOS for an examination for the event, please also deregister from the event in the QISPOS portal on time within the deregistration period specified there: www.uni-muenster.de/studium/pruefungen/qispos.html

 

Conditions of participation:

 

  • Tardiness: Our seminars and workshops are not lectures, but offerings with many active components. Therefore, late arrivals who leave the event in between or before the end of the event will repeatedly interrupt this dynamic. We therefore ask you to arrive on time and participate fully. If you arrive more than 15 minutes late at the start of a fully booked event, you will lose your seminar place. Any places lost due to late arrival will be allocated to subsequent participants.  
  • Full participation desired: Full participation is desired for reasons of process and content. If you can foresee that you will not be able to attend in full, we therefore recommend that you cancel early. Instead, choose an event that suits you in terms of time.
  • Evaluation: For quality assurance purposes, all participants will be asked to complete an evaluation form at the end of each event.

 

If you have any questions:
Career Service of the University of Münster
Telephone: 0251 83-32293
E-Mail: careerservice@uni-muenster.de