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Free spots in our seminar "Intercultural Entrepreneurship"!

Are you looking to gain hands-on experiences in intercultural collaboration and virtual teamwork?

Then join our Intercultural Entrepreneurship Seminar (StudIP 48540), co-taught by Prof. Dr. Christoph Barmeyer (University of Passau), Dr. Olga Goncharova (University of Passau) and Dr. Tali Hadasa Blank (Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel).

Led by our intercultural team of instructors, this seminar offers you a unique chance to collaborate with students from Israel and explore challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurship on an international level. By working on case studies of real entrepreneurs in virtual multicultural teams, you will be able to experience interculturality in real life and develop essential language and collaboration skills for global business.

Earn 5 ECTS
Every second Tuesday, starting November 5th, 2024
Virtual, interactive learning experience

We look forward to your participation!

Call for Papers: „Management and cultures: qualitative organizational research“ EURAM-Conference “Managing with Purpose” University of Florence

For the ninth time in a row, Professor Christoph Barmeyer is organizing a section at the 25th EURAM conference (European Academy of Management) together with Professors Sylvie Chevrier (Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris-Est) and Mette Zølner (University of Aarhus). This year's conference will take place from June 22 to 25, 2025 at the University of Florence, Italy.

This track is dedicated to the exploration of the complex role of cultures in organizations, including those that are emerging in the digital transformation of organizations, with qualitative methods. It welcomes papers dealing with cross-cultural encounters in work settings, the Global South, multicultural individuals, languages in organizations, international transfer and recontextualization of management tools, and the interplay of cultures and power relations in diverse organizations. It addresses also methodological questions: How to get access to international settings? How to compare equivalent situations across countries? How to deal with language and translation issues? What strategies allow academics to produce meaningful intercultural research?

We highly welcome the submission of intercultural research that takes interpretative paradigms into account (e.g. in the form of qualitative contextual case studies).

Further information on the conference: https://conferences.euram.academy/2025conference/

Deadline for Paper Submission: 14 January 2025

PATEC: Passau – The Entrepreneurial Campus Intercultural Start-up Hub

The University of Passau wants to realize the great founder potential of Passau's students and develop into a real entrepreneurial university. Therefore, on September 1, 2020 the project: Passau - The Entrepreneurial Campus (PATEC) launched, supported by the BMWi program EXIST-Potentiale for over five years with almost two million Euros. The project aims to raise awareness, connect, and consult students about starting their own business in order to establish an active and vivid start-up culture at the University of Passau, especially targeting students of the humanities, social and cultural sciences as well as female students.

In addition to a sustainable and digital start-up hub, an intercultural start-up hub will be established under the direction of the Chair of Intercultural Communication and the research assistant and PhD student Constanze Ruesga Rath. Through the Intercultural start-up hub, aspects of culture, internationality and interculturality will be integrated into traditional elements of entrepreneurship, which nowadays are also indispensable for start-ups.

Next to the Chair for Intercultural Communication, the Transfer Center and various chairs/institutes of all faculties of the University of Passau are involved in PATEC. Furthermore, a network consisting of alumni founders, the INN.KUBATOR Passau, the BayStartUP, the Hans Lindner Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Niederbayern, the HWK Niederbayern-Oberpfalz, experienced coaches and mentors as well as seed-investors will be established to support the students in their start-up projects.

Under the following link you will find further information: https://www.uni-passau.de/bereiche/presse/pressemeldungen/meldung/detail/bund-foerdert-gruendungskultur-projekt-der-universitaet-passau/