Business Office (10 cr)

Objective

- You know how to plan and implement work related projects in cooperation with the client and the project team.
- You negotiate, sign contracts and act as an expert in your field.
- You know how to make use of networks and create them.
- - You know how to look for and utilize the information and know-how needed in the project.
- You know how to productize, commercialize and market your product or service idea and present the project.
- You assess the success of the project and report the project.

Content

- How do you plan and implement a customer project?
- How do you get customers?
- How to define the target group of the project?
- How to work in a customer-oriented way and as part of a multidisciplinary team?
- What do contracts contain and how to negotiate contracts?
- How do you manage the use of time and coordinate the progress of the project?
- How is the idea produced, commercialized and marketed?
- How do you assess the success of the project, and document and present it?

Course material

Course study materials will be on Learn platform.

Study forms and methods

Business Office offers you possibility to take part into challenges given by companies, development projects or change to develop your product/service prototypes.

RDI and work-related cooperation

The Business Office course offers you the opportunity to participate in interesting customer projects offered by companies or to design and develop your own product/service.

International cooperation

Possibility to take part of international competitions.

Student workload

The course includes a 3-credit theory part and an 2-credit real client project. You can also do more projects untill 10 credits.

Further information

Wellcome all the interested students to join Business Office and practise your worklife skills with client projects.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Failed

Assessment methods and criteria

Assignments 3 credits, client projects/own projects 2 credits and reports and your evaluation according to the diary of hours/credits from hours exceeding 5 credits up to 10.

Further information

The course includes theory part comprising 3 ECTS credits.. In addition to this, the student participates in specific projects, totaling 2-7 ECTS credits, as an expert in their study field.