• Davoine Eric
• Morschett Dirk

• André Olivia Lina
• Zagato Christelle

Available Places: 12

In this course, the participants from the University of Fribourg will be a part of a global virtual team. Each student will be in a different team, together with students coming from many different countries.

Overall, thousands of students and professionals from over 40 countries participate in this experience. An external educational organization (X-Culture) provides real business projects presented by their corporate partners.

In regular virtual meetings, the teams develop ideas and solutions. Overall, about two months are given to develop a solution to the case.

There are weekly deadlines that the teams must meet. At the end of the project, the teams will submit their solutions in the form of team reports. A detailed description of this process can be found on http://x-culture.org/. A more detailed information package will be provided in the preparatory first meeting of the course.

In Fribourg, the participants will meet ca. bi-weekly (from March 3 – April 28) with one of the lecturers or the assistants to present their progress and plans. In the end, every student shortly presents its group paper to all course participants (ca. 10 min presentation).

The grading will be based on a paper that each student must submit to the lecturers (usually the team report) (50%), the final case presentation at UniFR (20%) and a grade for participation and commitment (30%).

The objective of this course is to learn to apply the theoretical and conceptual knowledge from courses in international management, marketing and intercultural management to real business projects and experience and learn the collaboration within global virtual teams.

The number of participants in this course is limited to 12; hence, a selection of good and motivated students is made. We therefore place you on the waiting list upon registration and in the second week of the semester, we select the 12 students that can participate.

For this selection process, you must send a short application to one of the assistants for this course (listed above) by e-mail. This should include a grade list (already completed courses in the master, plus grades in bachelor).

You should send these documents at the latest when you register online but you can already submit them before the registration opens.

Course with continuous evaluation: after the registration period, you can no longer cancel your registration (see session calendar on the Faculty's website).

No retake exam