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Courses: Spring Semester

Law - Master 2 level

International Company Law

ECTS : 2.5
Language of instruction : English
Mode of Delivery: Hybrid
Hours: 18
Planning:
Day Hours
Tuesday 09.01.2024 09h30-12h30
Wednesday 10.01.2024 09h30-12h30
Tuesday 16.01.2024 09h30-12h30
Tuesday 16.01.2024 14h-17h
Wednesday 17.01.2024 08h-11h
Monday 22.01.2024 09h30-12h30

Description: This course aims at equipping attendees with basic notions on companies and comparative insights.
As major economic players, companies face key challenges and crucial legal issues: protection of founders, governance rules, role played by employees, financing.
This company law course focuses on French and EU law.
Teaching method involves practical case studies
Assessment : Oral Exam
Lecturer : Laurent GROSCLAUDE

Practicing International Companies

ECTS : 1.5
Language of instruction : English
Mode of Delivery: Hybrid
Hours: 9
Planning:
Day Hours
Tuesday 23.01.2024 09h30-12h30
Thursday 25.01.2024 09h30-12h30
Friday 26.01.2024 14h-17h

Description: This course aims at equipping attendees with basic notions on companies and comparative insights.
As major economic players, companies face key challenges and crucial legal issues: protection of founders, governance rules, role played by employees, financing.
This company law course focuses on French and EU law.
Teaching method involves practical case studies
Assessment : Oral Exam
Lecturer : Laurent GROSCLAUDE

Law - Master 1 level

Internal Market

ECTS : 5
Language of instruction : English
Mode of delivery: Hybrid
Hours: 30
Description: Internal Market-the class aims at giving students a broader knowledge on the substantive aspects of European Law, with a focus on the four economic freedoms shaping the continuous development of the internal market. Teaching method involves the analysis of jurisprudence and practical cases.
Assessment : Oral Exam
Lecturer : Oana Andreea MACOVEI

Management - Bachelor Level

Entrepeneurship project

ECTS : 6
Language of instruction : English
Mode of Delivery: Online
Hours: 24
Planning :
- Session #1: 8 jan(14h-17h)
- S#2: 9 jan (14h-17h)
- S#3: 12 jan(14h-17h)
- S#4: 19 jan (14h-17h)
- S#5: 22 jan(14h-17h)
- S#6: 23 jan (14h-17h)
- S#7: 26 jan (14h-17h)
- S#8: 29 jan(14h-17h)
Description: This course aims at further developing students' knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurial initiatives. Students will deepen basic concepts and tools about entrepreneurship. They will use this knowledge to develop a business idea and the first draft of a business plan. The business idea developed should be explicitly related with one or several UN SDGs. During this course students will discover key entrepreneurship notions useful to weigh the opportunity of starting a company project (program ILO 1). They will learn how to use and judge a business plan to structure an entrepreneurship project (program ILO 2). They will work both in groups and alone to develop a business idea (program ILO 6) and communicate between each other and with the professor to defend their idea (program ILO 5).
The course is organized around 8 sessions, each dedicated to a specific theme and sessions #3 and #6 are dedicated to teamwork organized around producing a specific delivery:
  1. Session 1: Introduction to entrepreneurship
  2. Business Plan
  3. Group work (session dedicated to monitored work on ‘use case’)
  4. Entrepreneurial project
  5. Causation, effectuation and bricolage
  6. Group work (session dedicated to monitored work on business model and partnerships)
  7. Lean start-up
  8. MCQ & Presentations
At the beginning of session #2 to #7, each group must present their progress around specific themes in 5 min. (topics are: #2 The start-up chosen; #3: purpose; management; #4: Its product/services and customers ; #5: Its business model: value proposition; #6: Its position regarding competition; #7: Its current strategy; ambitions and KPIs).
 
Leaning Outcomes: At the end of this course, students will be able to:
  • Explain why entrepreneurial processes are iterative and adaptative
  • Describe what differentiate social entrepreneurship from more classical entrepreneurship
  • Describe how to test a business idea
  • Explain what is a business plan
  • List the key parts of a business plan
Skills:
  • Managerial skills
    • Teamwork and communication
  • International
    • Students’ entrepreneurship projects can have an international dimension
  • Ethics Responsibility Sustainability
    • Students’ projects should be based on social entrepreneurship and/or around ecological stakes (e.g., contributing to UN SDGs)
Assessment : 100% continuous assessment
3 collective activities:
(i) preparing daily presentations around predetermined themes to monitor students work progress (5 min., each session from sessions #2 to #7);
(ii) building the first draft of a business plan (15 pages) to be delivered on session #8 but built all along the course;
(iii) pitching during 10 min. the idea and project in front of students playing investors’ roles (each group is given an equal amount of money to spend and should choose how to split it on the different projects presented; the 3 most funded projects will have a bonus).

1 individual assessment: MCQ regarding the course core notions (25% of the final grade)

Lecturer : Stéphan Pezé
 

Innovative Project Management

ECTS: 2
Hours: 16h
Language of instruction: English
Planning : from 8h30 to 12h30 on April 22nd, 23rd, 29th, 30th
Mode of delivery: Online
Lecturer: Trinité Laroche
Semester: Spring
Leaning Outcomes: To acquire innovative skills of conducting projects by:
  •  Developing a common language and a common culture of group genious and collaborative project management
  • Exploring the different dimensions and rhythms of project management
  • Developing reflexes and intuitions in the making of collective projects
  • Learning to use tools available to foster collective intelligence in project management.
  • The training aims at giving the basic foundation necessary to work in project mode.
Learning Activities and teaching methods: The methods are based on the reversed pedagogy, alternating practical learning and theoretical insight
  • Role-plays based on Collective Intelligence techniques
  • Training course material --> access to a Miro gathering all the resources (video, methods...)
Assesment :
  • The follow-up of the execution of the training is done with the help of the attendance sheet signed by the trainees with delivery of a certificate of participation
  • The evaluation of the acquired knowledge is done through practical situations throughout the training
Description:
  1. Learn about the different facets of project management through current methods, tools and postures.
  2. Take ownership of the state of the art and the project management tools available in your ecosystem.
  3. Develop your behavioural intelligence and reflexes to adapt to cultures, personalities and situations.
  4. Develop your ability to engage and lead the various stakeholders around a project of varying size while respecting the dynamics and intentions of each person.

Management - Master 1 Level

Digital growth and intellectual property

ECTS : 6
Language of instruction : English
Planning 15-16 Mar and 22-23 Mar 2024​
Learning Outcomes : The objective of this lecture is to introduce the recent developments of the strategic management of patents in modern digital economies. Participants will discover the emergence and the role of the patent system in modern economies and how technological companies try to protect their innovations and to use their patent portfolios in service of their business strategies in a digital era. The lecture is resolutely designed to provide a managerial and strategic vision of the patent to raise awareness and inform decision-making in this area.
The lecture is organized around six core issues (building blocks)
  • Patents and the protection of innovation
  • Patenting strategies
  • Internal organization for managing patenting strategies
  • Patent and licensing strategies
  • Patenting in collaborative arrangements
  • Patent and other appropriation strategies for digital innovations
Mode of Delivery : Online
Description: The aim of this course of to introduce students to the challenges of corporate growth in modern digital economies, in particular with regard to accessing and developing digital assets and intellectual property. The course is organized in two parts. A first part focuses on the recent developments of the strategic management of patents in modern digital economies. Participants will discover the emergence and the role of the patent system in modern economies and how technological companies try to protect their innovations and to use their patent portfolios in service of their business strategies in a digital era. It covers internal strategies and ways to organize for managing patent and licensing strategies as well as patenting in collaborative arrangements.
A second part addresses then more specifically external growth strategies to access patents but also more generally digital solutions and assets. It addresses in particular the strong increase in technology acquisitions and alliances in past years and introduces students to the particular strategic and organizational challenges that external digital growth induces (i.e. integrating and leveraging acquired intellectual property, transferring knowledge between companies and teams of engineers, implementing co-innovative practices between R&D departments from merging companies, etc.).
The course provides students with the relevant knowledge and perspectives to understand the management of intellectual property and growth strategies implemented by firms in modern digital economies.
  • First, the course provides students with a managerial and strategic vision of patents, to raise awareness and inform decision-making in this area.
  • Second, students will learn about managerial and strategic challenges of acquiring patents and digital assets in general and how to address them.
After this course, students will understand challenges associated with digital growth and intellectual property and are able to develop strategies to deal with such challenges.

Assessment: Group presentations
Prerequisites: None
Lecturer : Jamal AZZAM

Innovative Project Management

ECTS: 2
Hours: 16h
Language of instruction: English
Planning : from 8h30 to 12h30 on April 22nd, 23rd, 29th, 30th
Mode of delivery: Online
Lecturer: Trinité Laroche
Semester: Spring
Leaning Outcomes: To acquire innovative skills of conducting projects by:
  •  Developing a common language and a common culture of group genious and collaborative project management
  • Exploring the different dimensions and rhythms of project management
  • Developing reflexes and intuitions in the making of collective projects
  • Learning to use tools available to foster collective intelligence in project management.
  • The training aims at giving the basic foundation necessary to work in project mode.
Learning Activities and teaching methods: The methods are based on the reversed pedagogy, alternating practical learning and theoretical insight
  • Role-plays based on Collective Intelligence techniques
  • Training course material --> access to a Miro gathering all the resources (video, methods...)
Assesment :
  • The follow-up of the execution of the training is done with the help of the attendance sheet signed by the trainees with delivery of a certificate of participation
  • The evaluation of the acquired knowledge is done through practical situations throughout the training
Description:
  1. Learn about the different facets of project management through current methods, tools and postures.
  2. Take ownership of the state of the art and the project management tools available in your ecosystem.
  3. Develop your behavioural intelligence and reflexes to adapt to cultures, personalities and situations.
  4. Develop your ability to engage and lead the various stakeholders around a project of varying size while respecting the dynamics and intentions of each person.

Collective Intelligence and facilitation

ECTS: 2
Hours: 16h
Language of instruction: English
Planning : From 8h30 to 12h30 on January 16th,17th, 22nd, 23rd
Mode of delivery: Online
Semester : Spring
Lecturer: Trinité Laroche
Leaning Outcomes: At the end of this course, students should be able to
  1. Define codesign. Tell the history of the profession and name the different methods 
  2. understand the interest and mechanics of a preliminary scoping time for any collaborative workshop. Why and how to activate the facilitation levers. Activate the right facilitator postures for design. Understand the mechanics of a collaborative workshop
  3. Use the following tools (framing document, detailed process, instructions.... ) : prepare and facilitate a framing time. Construct an outline for a simple collaborative workshop. 
  4. differentiate a classic workshop from a codeigned workshop by means of a collaborative reading grid.
Learning Activities and teaching methods: The methods are based on the reversed pedagogy, alternating practical learning and theoretical insight
  • Role-plays based on Collective Intelligence techniques
  • Training course material --> access to a Miro gathering all the resources (video, methods...)
Assessment :
  • The follow-up of the execution of the training is done with the help of the attendance sheet signed by the trainees with delivery of a certificate of participation
  • The evaluation of the acquired knowledge is done through practical situations throughout the training
  • Self-assessments (before and after the training) to follow the progress and to check the acquisition of the key notions covered
Description:
1 -Identify the fundamentals of codesign and facilitation:
a- Know the definition
b- Understand the interest of integrating it into daily practices
c- Know the history of Codesign and its origins and the different methods
2 - Recognise the levers to activate in codesign and facilitation:
a-Know the different collaborative approaches
b- Understand the importance of scoping
c- Know the facilitator's postures
3- Implementing codesign:
a-Experience the facilitator's postures through role plays
b-Practice the different methods and tools of codesign through role plays
c- Analyse a codesign situation
d- Develop your codesign posture by defining your needs for further study and implementation of actions

Economy and Social - Master's level

Principle and Challenges of Circular Economy

ECTS : 3
Language of instruction : English
Mode of delivery: Hybrid
Planning: Thursdays from 9h30 to 12h30 :
- 08/02/24
-07/03/24
-21/03/24
-04/04/24
-25/04/24

Description:What is the circular economy? In a nutshell, the way our current economy works is that materials are taken from the earth to make products and these products are eventually thrown away as waste. This process is said to be “linear.” By contrast, in a (perfectly) “circular” economy (CE), waste is stopped being produced in the first place. It is based on three principles driven by implementation, namely, minimize waste and pollution, circulate products and materials at their highest value, and regenerate nature. Simply said then, CE is a model of production and consumption involving sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible.
CE is strengthened by the transition to renewable energy and materials and the decoupling of the economic activity from the consumption of finite resources. It provides a framework of solutions to global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. CE is a resilient system that should be beneficial for people, business, and the environment.
This course is an introduction to CE. Its main purpose is to make students familiar with the theoretical underpinnings of CE and its role in providing solutions to global issues faced by society as suggested by national and international organizations. The course will help students to be acquainted with the terminology of CE, to understand the relationships between various associated concepts and models, and to discuss some issues that are at the forefront of research in the area.
Prerequisites:Basic principles of economics and strong interest in environmental issues.
Assessment : There will be a one-hour final exam in the form of multiple-choice questions.
Lecturer : Farid GASMI

Multidisciplinary - Master level

Opportunities and risks of AI

ECTS : 4
Language of instruction : English
Mode of delivery: Online
Description:Seminar-style course
We present a seminar-style interactive module that centers on the multifaceted examination of risks and opportunities associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing technical, ethical, social and legal dimensions.
At the onset of the course, module leaders will provide an introduction to the primary research topics and ongoing initiatives within their respective fields of expertise. Throughout the remainder of the course, students will then delve into the current literature, extracting and presenting comprehensive overviews that address various issues and topics in AI, focusing especially on opportunities and risks. We will strive for a dynamic learning environment, encouraging active engagement and critical analysis as students explore the intricate landscape of AI, its challenges, and the potential it holds across diverse disciplines.

Seminar on Opportunities and Risks of AI in the legal field (4 hours): Jessica Eynard (University of Toulouse Capitole)
Seminar on Opportunities and Risks of AI in the ethical and social fields (8 hours): Philipp Kellmeyer, Simone Ponzetto (University of Mannheim)
Seminar on Opportunities and Risks of AI for Business (4 hours): Angel Marchev (University of National and World Economy of Sofia)
Seminar on Opportunities and Risks of AI in the technical field (4 hours): Pascale Zaraté (University of Toulouse Capitole)

Adademic Coordinator : Jessica Eynard

 

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