ECTS credits
6 credits
Learning objectives
Activity 1: Intercultural Management
To enable the student to use communicative skills in the native language of the target country or in
or in English.
Activity 2: Project Management
To experience the real-life process of a project through an interactive project management simulator.
Activity 3 : Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHS)
Learn about issues related to workplace risks.
Description of the programme
Activity 1: Intercultural Management
Study intercultural issues in business
Develop a question grid to conduct an interview
Search for one or more correspondents in a foreign company or laboratory
Establish a schedule of exchanges with the correspondent(s), including a proposal of
content based on the cultural particularities of the country.
Exchange with the correspondent(s)
Develop a comparative socio-professional analysis of three different countries.
Activity 2: Project Management
The participants live in group the unfolding of a real project with all its risks, and pilot it on the aspects of costs, quality and deadlines. The simulator puts the participants in situation to make them act and react, by taking into account all the parameters of the project. Confronted with a large number of situations requiring rapid decision-making, the group members learn to work and decide together. Participants realize the consequences of their actions in a complex system, the project, where human factors play a major role.
Activity 3: Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHS)
Conference in collaboration with the CARSAT
Generic central skills and knowledge targeted in the discipline
- Knowing oneself, building oneself (Ethical and Responsible Management competency)
- Develop your network (Strategic Vision Competency)
How knowledge is tested
Continuous assessment
Presentation: present the interlocutors, the number and duration of the exchanges, the
questionnaire, comparative analysis of the three countries and of France.
(15 to 20 minutes of presentation, 15 minutes of questions
Teaching team
Valérie Hamel
Pierre Bonora
Laetitia Piet
- Total hours of teaching40h
- Directed work40h