International student business competition: a mysterious business case.

Six days at the event horizon without beginning or end. A challenging event you will never forget. With irreversible educational progress.

The project is to be held from 20 until 25 January 2025. It os designed for bachelor's students of any V4 university. Applications round from 1 July until 31 August 2024 (extended until 31 October for all universities but VŠE, UMB and the University of Pécs). The qualification round is set from 1 November until 10 November 2024.

32 qualified students will work on a mysterious business case in four eight-head teams presided over by mentors from the four cooperating universities: Prague University of Economics and Business + University of Applied Sciences in Nysa + Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica + University of Pécs.

Free transportation, free accommodation and free full board / The program includes professional training / The winning group gets 800 EUR in award 

About the „International Student Business Competition: A Mysterious Business Case“ is an event created in 2023 at the Prague University of Economics and Business by one of its academics. Given the success of this event, in late 2023/beginning 2024, it was developed as a more ambitious project and this project was submitted as a proposal for funding to the Visegrad Fund in late January 2024. In April 2024, the Visegrad Fund decided to sponsor this project (under No. 22410011), granting it the initially demanded 19,800 EUR.  

The project is administrated and organized by the Prague University of Economics and Business and will be carried out thanks to the participation of three partner universities from the other three countries of the V4 region. These universities are:

• Nysa University of Applied Sciences

• The Matej Bel University

• University of Pécs

These three universities and the Prague University of Economics and Business are further referred to as “cooperating universities”. Each cooperating university is represented by one person, also called “a representative” (typically a professor/teacher).

Furthermore, at the Prague University of Economics and Business, there is an “organizing team” composed of the author of the competition and two student assistants. 

The project’s primary goal is to organize a student business competition in a remote and unknown location. The two subgoals of the project are:

1) to use workshops and teamwork to develop students’ skills to successfully analyze business-oriented case studies and defend solutions to such case studies, and

2) to track students’ personal development. 

All details can be found on the website.

The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.