Denmark-India Collaboration

We have had this group of Copenhagen Business School students visiting us for a part of their learning about entrepreneurship, the last couple of weeks. Yesterday we had a farewell dinner at the campus for them. I gave a small talk, basically asking them some questions.

Of the answers, some were amazing. More than one 21 year-old said that she (they) wanted to come back and see how the slums (which they visited) had changed, in reply to a question about where they would like to go next time they visited. Of course, Bangalore came out tops if you count frequency of answers, and Himalayas and Kerala or the South came next.

They had a small company or NGO they used to visit everyday, and did a small project for them. They built a small bridge for kids of a  school to cross a drain for example. One or two were taken in by a speech they heard from a Buddhist monk in Delhi.

Of course, they were happy that Carlsberg beer was available in India. These Europeans drink a lot of beer! There was also a birthday celebration of two kids, with a Danish Happy birthday song. Followed by a quiz about Denmark, where we learnt about the vices their Queen has, and that they celebrate New Year at 12 am by JUMPING. Nice to know.

Copenhagen Business School

Copenhagen Business School has sent a few of their students in an innovative two-week program that IMT Ghaziabad has devised for them. The group are doing an entrepreneurship course and will attend classes, meet entrepreneurs, and do a bit of consulting projects in teams. They will also take a day off to sight-see, and visit Agra.

This is one of the bigger B schools of the world, and the students are from different countries in Europe, doing an international business or I.B. program at their B school.

IMT Ghaziabad has a lot of partnerships (about 75-80) that work at different levels, with exchange of students for a term being one of the regular ways of interacting. We now also have a Doctorate in Business Administration that enables corporates to make a transition into the academic world.

We all learn a lot from doing these innovative programs. Cheers to more such.