Programme & Pedagogy

The common thread of the pedagogical approach of EMMIE is experience learning and learning by practicing. This will be achieved by a combination of innovative methods that will be performed to offer students the variety of knowledge and skills that are needed to build entrepreneurial competencies.  As an illustration of this blended learning approach, we could mention:

1. business simulations as a learning environment, where students will work with trial and errors and through trying different strategies and approaches, they will be more prepared for the situations in the business environment;
2. case studies, that will provide opportunities to learn the key concepts from practical and real cases;
3. focus groups and in-class discussions that will be used to turn theoretical knowledge into practice;
4. game-based learning will be offered to the participants to experience learning in a more entertaining mode;
5. industry collaboration problem-based learning will propose projects on a selected case of emerging technologies’ applicability;
6. conferences and testimonies from experts and entrepreneurs in the field of impact entrepreneurship will be offered throughout the program. Many of them will take place in the setting of social events so that they will provide opportunities to not only learn from practical insights but also develop students’ networks;
7. visits and internship in collaboration with our partner institutions will provide opportunities not only to apply key concepts covered during the seminars but also to nurture some practical experience;
8. hackathon: participants will be invited to participate in hackathons, which are residential 2-3 days seminars during which they have to come up with innovative entrepreneurial ideas in relation to a given topic;
9. fieldwork will take an important part in the participants’ activities. They will be pushed to work from the field to document their understanding of needs and problems for which impactful solutions could be identified. In that respect the lean start-up methodology will be taught and applied on the field;
10. edition of an “impact entrepreneurship magazine”: participants will be invited to work on the edition of a quarterly online magazine that will document cases, provide interviews, analyses… in relation to impact entrepreneurship;
11. capstone project/master thesis: participants will be required to develop a personal capstone impact entrepreneurship project;
12. group composition and diversity: one very important dimension of our pedagogy relates to As it is often the case in experiential pedagogy, the program will rely a lot on group works. A specificity of the approach pertains to the way groups will be composed. Since the program will recruit candidates with (1) diverse backgrounds as fields of studies and (2) diverse nationalities and gender, we will organize the groups so that they are as mixed as possible in terms of education, gender, and origin;
13. During the Master, students will have the opportunity as part of their courses or their project, to be confronted by juries made of professionals chosen according to their field of expertise;
14. Beside the examinations organized at the end of the teaching terms, many assessment methods also take into account individual and group homework, oral presentations, case studies, continuous participation, debriefing and reflection…. They are adapted to the teaching methods developed in order to achieve the specific course learning objectives and could be very different from one course to the other;
15. During the program, high-profile experts in fields relevant to the program will act as invited scholars/guest lecturers.

DIPLOMAS

At the end of their master's, successful candidates will obtain the following three official degrees provided by the different consortium universities.

Additionally, a joint certificate of Master in Impact Entrepreneurship signed by the three partner institutions will be awarded to each successful candidate.