The benefits at a glance:
The Global Innovation Challenge cooperation is an initiative of the International Business School Network (IBSnet). The Business School is a founding member of the initiative and has been part of the network of international oriented Business Schools since 2008.
At the end of each spring semester (from Mannheim's point of view), four of the eight participating business schools offer a Global Innovation Challenge project, with different focuses within the spectrum of business subjects.
The Challenges are expected to take place at the following schools over the next three years:
2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Aston Business School, Birmingham, United Kingdom Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal University of Mannheim Business School, Germany University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa | BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Netherlands National Chengchi University, College of Commerce, Taipei, Taiwan QUT Business School, Brisbane, Australia | Aston Business School, Birmingham, United Kingdom Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal University of Mannheim Business School, Germany University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town, South Africa |
In the summer of 2024, the Challenges will take place between Mid-June and beginning of July:
Please plan one additional day each for arrival and departure.
You can apply for the module in Mannheim to Ms. Janna Ried from the International Team of the Business School.
Please send the following documents via email to Janna Ried:
You can apply for more than one Challenge (for the Mannheim challenge and also the challenges of the partner schools). Please indicate priorities then in your letter of motivation. The application deadline is 31 January 2025.
Mannheim has initially five places to allocate. If there are not enough interested students at the partner universities, it might be possible to increase the number of places. However, we will only find out about this in April and unfortunately you cannot make firm plans for this. If you are granted one of the five places in February, you can of course plan firmly with the course.
For the modules at BI Oslo, Maastricht SBE, NCCU and QUT Business School you can apply to Ms. Janna Ried from the International Team of the Business School.
Please send the following documents via email to Janna Ried:
You can apply for more than one Challenge. Please indicate priorities then in your letter of motivation. The application deadline is 30 November 2023.
The slides of the info session for interested MMM students are available on Ilias.
Discover the joint Global Innovation Challenge website that was developed by the network.