In May 2022, students of the International Business Administration (IBA) program were again able to gain experience abroad in their studies, which had to be paused for two years due to the pandemic. The students started this semester with great joy! The fourth semester is scheduled to include study abroad in this program, with six weeks at HWG in Ludwigshafen first, followed by travel. In the process, students gain valuable experience in a wide variety of fields.
IBA students traveled to a location of their partner company within Europe for almost five months. During this time they worked there and at the same time wrote their foreign thesis (a scientific paper dealing with an international issue in the respective department abroad).
They went to a wide variety of places, in pairs, threes or solo. The destinations were Oslo (Norway), Brussels (Belgium), Vilnius (Lithuania), Copenhagen (Denmark), Prague (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia), Vienna (Austria) and Budapest (Hungary). There, the students were allowed to work in various areas, e.g. Sales, Customer Service, Commercial, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance and Credit Management. The tasks were for example: in HR departments, conducting quick interviews or searching for cooperation opportunities; assisting in digital projects, solving problems regarding delivery difficulties, data analysis, product management, but also accompanying the given processes in order to get as many job-related impressions as possible.
From the IBA students came consistently very positive feedback on the countries and cultures. Food, open-mindedness of the people and different mindsets on the subject of career and life design were particularly exciting.
Thanks go to the IBA partner companies BASF SE and JT International.
