Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme “MANAGEMENT FOR BUSINESS STARTUP’S: 2024 Summer course” in VMU Agriculture Academy
June 3 to 14, 2024, the Erasmus BIP course “Management of Business Startups, 2024” was held at the VMU Agricultural Academy. The course started with distance learning. Later, 21 students from 4 universities came for the Physical mobility part at the VMU Agriculture Academy. Partner universities, participated in this blended intensive program were Jegiellonian University (Poland), WSB Merito University (Poland), Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies and Estonian University of Life Sciences.
The aim of this course was to provide students with the knowledge and skills that would enable them to create their own business plan and be able to present it to interested parties (shareholders, bank representatives, co-workers or clients). This course combined various subjects: planning, organization, marketing, accounting, payroll, budgeting, etc. theoretical knowledge and practical abilities to plan and control business processes, motivate employees, predict business indicators important to shareholders and managers.
The virtual part of the course and theoretical lectures were held by 4 teachers – prof. dr. Gunta Grīnberga-Zālīte from Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. assoc. prof. Janusz Sasak from Jegiellonian University, Paula Pyplacz from Czestochowa University of Technology and prof. dr. Jan Žukovskis from VMU Agriculture Academy.
During the course, students prepared business plans for their future enterprises. On the last day, they presented them to teachers and classmates. During the week in the afternoons, students went on the study tour to sustainable business “Farmers circle” and visited the old town of Kaunas.
The leader of the course: prof. dr. Jan Žukovskis (Faculty of Bioeconomy Development, VMU Agriculture Academy). Erasmus BIP coordinator Dr. Monika Medikienė.
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