2018-2019 / GEST0214-2

Mission Personal project

Duration

20h Th, 100h Pr

Number of credits

 Specialised master in entrepreneurship (Specialised master in entrepreneurship)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Bernard Surlemont

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course aims to enable students to implement a personal, concrete project through the creation of a business plan.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

As a result of this course which is part of a program approach, students will be able to:
. Elaborate a business plan based on a personal idea. This is aimed at the practical implementation of the different aspects of a project: marketing, strategy, operations, team, financing and investment offer.
. Ability to synthesise a personal project with a view to its actual realisation.
. Ability to present and defend a project to third parties (partners, bankers or investors) in a professional manner.
. Develop contacts with the eco-system that will be useful for the realisation of the personal project.

According to the Key Learning Outcomes, these objectives mainly contribute to the development of capacities  from ILO's  1 to 6 and 9 to 13 of the master's in management sciences, with a specialisation.








  • ILO-1 : To strengthen knowledge and understanding of management disciplines and its legal, policy and social context
  • ILO-2 : Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the proposed fields of concentration or to gain deep knowledge in the field of the management being already specialized thru a first University Master Degree . 
  • ILO-3 : To understand, in management situations, the transversal tools of quantitative reasoning, information systems and project management
  • ILO-4 : To acquire the capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem, 
  • ILO-5 : Integrate autonomously researched information, tools, knowledge and context to build and propose, either individually or as part of a team, original, creative and viable solutions to concrete complex management problems, whether real or simulated, taking into account, when necessary, the human, social and legal context.
  • ILO-6 : Ability to speak 2 foreign languages: C1 in English and B2 in one other language.
  • ILO-9 : Developing a critical sense (arguing) 
  • ILO-10 : Developing a transversal, global vision 
  • ILO-11 : Creative conception of solutions 
  • ILO-12 : Professional capacity for oral communication
  • ILO-13 : Professional capacity for written communication  

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Students must have done the preparatory module (GEST0211-3).

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The activities are organised as follows:
1. An introductory seminar on entrepreneurial communication
2. Doing the actual assignment, individually, with the help of the mentor; this mentor is a professional in the field of the assignment and supports the student during the assignment.
3. Elaborating and handing in the business plan.
4. Participation in coaching sessions.
5. Presentation and defence of the entire business plan to an entrepreneurial panel (final panel).

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

- Seminars with group discussions.
- Elaboration of a professional business plan, in a team, under the direction of a mentor.

Recommended or required readings

Recommended reading:
- Recommended texts will be available on the Lola platform.

Assessment methods and criteria

Presentation to the final panel (30% of the overall mark) - individual mark.
Final business plan (30% of the final mark) - individual mark.
Written exam (40% of the overall mark) - individual mark.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The programme's ROI applies strictly to this course.
To be accepted on this course, the applicant must provide a synopsis of their project (end December at the latest) and present it to a selection panel (end February).

Contacts

Professor : B. Surlemont
email : b.surlemont@ulg.ac.be (b.surlemont@ulg.ac.be  )