A signature course is a course that has been newly developed by three or more ENGAGE.EU universities around grand social challenges. There are different formats from open online courses for all students of the ENGAGE universities to ‘Collaborative International Online Courses’ (COIL) formats that are only available to students from the partners offering the course. Please check your home institution’s website for signature courses of the latter category.
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Use of Data Science Methods in different disciplines, in particular the Social and Economic Sciences as well as Computer Science. Students learn to understand and summarize the state of the art in a certain area and discuss achievements and open problems. Participants get insights in current Data Science Research in Computer Science as well as the economic and social sciences. The participants get an insight in the different perspectives on Data Science present in different research communities.
- Host: University of Mannheim, Germany
- ECTS: 6
- For whom: Master students
- When: Fall 2023
In a world that has become more globalised than ever, future leaders need to work and collaborate effectively in virtual teams, with colleagues from different countries and cultural backgrounds. Research shows that multicultural teams are more productive, profitable, and creative.
Yet, this positive outcome depends on whether leaders and their team members can bridge diversity effectively.
In this course, students will learn about and experience first-hand the challenges and opportunities of working across cultures and reflect on the process. The course involves a team project in which students apply design thinking processes and collaborate virtually with students from other ENGAGE.EU universities.
This part allows students to apply and deepen their learnings in a project that simulates real-business-world global virtual teamwork.
Topics will include diversity and inclusion, leading globally distributed teams, design thinking, teamwork across cultures, remote work, cross-cultural management and communication. The course is based on recent research and insights from several disciplines such as global leadership, intercultural management, organizational behavior, information systems and human resource management. It has an international dimension and is business focused. The course will draw on the diversity that the ENGAGE.EU alliance offers to develop collaborative and cross-cultural competencies that are necessary when working in virtual teams
- Host: NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway (in association with WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria and Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki Finland)
- ECTS: 5
- For whom: Master students
- When: Fall 2023
The course is aimed at investigating aspects related to the emerging outlook of “Smart Cities”. The course will offer students the chance to learn through a research-based, applied learning perspective how to read, understand and design from scratch the legal tools that are often adopted by city governments to govern smart cities through public, public-private and even public-private- community collaboration. The course will address the opportunities and challenges connected with smart cities from a legal, policy, political economy perspective and though different issues: urban climate justice; substainable mobility; energy; new forms of housing; human rights and gender/intersectional perspectives; tech justice; data protection; IP law; tech transfer; PropTech.
*This course is available for students from URL, UNWE, Tilburg, Toulouse, Mannheim and WU Vienna.
- Host: Luiss University
- ECTS: 6
- For whom: Master students
- When: Fall 2023