Activities
Training Work Shops on Working in a Multicultural Class Room Environment
This one-day work shop focuses on the cross-cultural aspects of International Business Programmes. pedagogical and didactical issues in international business education are addressed, methods and tools presented and discussed. They are based on the experience made in the consortium’s international courses and focus on teaching a culturally diverse student group in English as a foreign language. A work shop for programme directors, professors, teachers, and student counsellors. The next work shop takes place in Mainz (Germany) on May 20th, 2011, 09:30 - 17:30. Please register by contacting judith.busch@fh-mainz.de . Fee: EUR 90.00
Training Work Shops on Joint and Double Degrees
CIDD regularly arranges work shops on joint and double degree Non-members and interested university business schools are welcome. The 2010 work shops took place in Paris and MYrtle Beach, South Carolina Please with around 20 participants. The 2011 work shop is planned for the EAIE conference in Copenhagen (September 13-16). Based on the experience of the CIDD universities, we give an overview of possible models, talk about legal
questions and issues of quality assurance, and accreditation. An interactive case studies in which the participants are split into small work groups of three to four persons, serves as example for different modes of taking hurdles developing a joint curriculum, addressing issues of transferring credits and grades. Our check-list for double degree negotiations helps you to prepare yourself perfectly for developing your own double degrees.
The work shop has been regularly held since 2007 (for example as a pre-conference day the EAIE conference in Trondheim, 2007). Participant feedback:
“Good, positive and motivated presenter”
“The case study helps to understand the different steps in negotiating joint degree programmes”
“I liked the trainer’s presentation”
“The contents discussed are extremely relevant for my job.”
“I liked the exchange of experiences between participants”
“Far more than I expected”
Thesis Award: Deadline December 15th
Deadline for this year’s Thesis Award: Double Degree students are encouraged to submit their application to president@CIDD.org . Please use the forms to be downloaded from the CIDD web page:
Application form for students (zip-format 166kb)
Application form for supervisors (zip-format 165kb)
Teacher Mobility - Faculty Exchange within the CIDD Network
A CIDD task force investigates opportunities to increase mobility of teaching staff between CIDD member schools. First results
were discussed at the Annual Meetings in Helsinki 2009 and the ESCE International Week in Paris 2010. The project will be continued.
Student Conference on Cross-Cultural Management
The CIDD International Student Conference on “Cross-Cultural Management” is regularly hosted by the Fachhochschule Mainz - University of Applied Science. The 2011 conference will take place from May 18 to May 22. Students from CIDD member universities who wish to participate: Please contact judith.busch@fh-mainz.de
More than 50 students from European CIDD member universities and Coastal Carolina University (CCU) work on international business case studies. Students’ cultural backgrounds read like a journey around the world:
Chinese, Thai, Russian, Belorussian, different EU nationals, US Americans, Latin Americans from Venezuela, Mexico, and Argentina learned and worked together in a variety of lectures, seminars and cases. The social programme includes a half-day excursion to the UNESCO world heritage middle-Rhine valley with its medieval castles and towns. Even more important than the academic programme itself is the first-hand experience the students gain from working together in international teams: “It was the first time in my life that I worked with so many people from so many different countries. It is amazing how different our working styles are - and how great it is to combine all of them in working groups”, as one of the 2010 participants stated. “I thought Germans are rigid and Americans arrogant - but it’s completely different”, a student from Eastern Europe said. “I have never been so close to people from so many cultures”, a CCU student expressed and added: “This is the most exciting seminar of my studies.”
Research Project: Do 'Double Degree Programmes' improve career opportunities?
Based on interviews with alumni of CIDD member schools, the research team investigates the impact
of double degree programmes on graduates’ career opportunities. For first results, see CIDD paper No 3.
CIDD Assembly Meeting
The 2011 Assembly Meeting will be hosted by the University of Brescia on June 10-11, 2011.