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Leadership in action!

Leadership in action!

This course provides synergy between college-based courses on leadership, change management, teambuilding and other topics from Organizational Behavior and putting the learnt skills into practice in the field. The field in this case is a 6- or 8-man crew of a high performance sailing yacht on high

Latent Class Analysis

Latent Class Analysis

This course provides participants with a practical, working knowledge of one of the major approaches to categorical data analysis and market segmentation research: latent class analysis. The latent class model (LCM) provides one of the most important approaches for understanding relationships among

Intensive Spanish for beginners

Intensive Spanish for beginners

This course is perfect in case you want to make your Summer experience in Barcelona even more complete. Learn how to communicate in Spanish by taking our beginner course. The course will introduce you to the basics such as the alphabet, spelling, and Spanish phonetics. We will also deal with the

Human Resources Management in The Netherlands

Human Resources Management in The Netherlands

The relationship between HRM and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the last decade, with the great bulk of the primary scientific research coming from the USA and, to a lesser extent, the UK. Here we start with an overview of this research so as to give a frame of reference to

Historical Philosophy of Science

Historical Philosophy of Science

This is a 5-day course. Each day will begin with a guest lecturer's talk, and then a seminar follows based on the talk and pre-circulated material. At the end of the morning session, the participants will organize themselves into small teams focusing on some specific question of the given topic.

Green Business Opportunities

Green Business Opportunities

Fact: The EU put ambitious sustainability targets in its 20-20-20 program and more beyond.Fact: The US, UK, South-Korea, India and China have multi-billion economic stimulus plans focused on greening the economy. More nations are expected to follow.Problem: the green industry was already short of

Food Safety

Food Safety

For food companies certain norms and standards have become a necessity. This necessity can be caused by several reasons as: marketing, gaining trust of the consumer, motivating employees, etc. The company would like to prove that they invested in development, implementation and maintenance of

Fashion Design, Strategic Branding and Innovation

Fashion Design, Strategic Branding and Innovation

A quiet revolution is taking place around us! The fashion industry, a sector in constant expansion, is becoming one of the most innovative, dynamic, fascinating and competitive in the world. When we look at top 100 brands ranking by Interbrand, we see more and more fashion brands every year! The

European Union and Funds

European Union and Funds

The European Union plays a silent but very important role in our lives. Sometimes, especially in crisis time, the working of the EU is more apparent, but how does the EU work, what does it do and how do outsiders view the EU? Those questions and many more will be answered in this course. To give an

European Architecture through ages

European Architecture through ages

This course examines the fundamental styles of European architecture from Ancient Rome to the present day modern architecture. We will go through time by visiting major architectural sites of Ancient Rome, Gaudi%B4s Barcelona and modern Almere.Architecture is a rather unknown subject. It was