Global Business Problem-Solving with African & German Student Teams (online)

The Project & How to Apply

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 online 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 companies from Ghana, Kenya and Germany 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.

To guarantee efficient cooperation, the number of participating students is restricted to 40 maximum, 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.

High motivation, flexibility and personal commitment are required to make this international student project a success and fun for all involved!

 

Learning objectives

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

 

Credit points in "Allgemeine Studien"

3

If you are studying for a Bachelor's degree and would like to earn credit points in General Studies with a Career Service 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

 

Where

online in virtual conference rooms and using online means.

 

Process

• After submitting your application, you will 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. The workload will depend on your performance and that of your team. Expect around 20 working hours for e.g. online team meetings, research, preparing presentation.
• Friday, 13th June 2025, 11.00am–5.00pm: Presentation of student teams

 

Application

Please apply via E-Mail to Dr. Jan Knauer, jan.knauer@uni-muenster.de, giving the following information:

• Full name
• Phone number
• Student number
• Uni user ID
• Subject of study
• Semester (Fachsemester)
• Bachelor/Master/Doctoral studies/alumnus

In the email, please briefly answer the following questions:

1. What is your motivation to partake in this Global Business Problem-Solving with African & German Student Teams?
2. What strengths can you bring to an interdisciplinary and interculturally mixed student team?

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