Study Trips
gain international experience in a short time!
Professional and/or family obligations make it impossible for you to spend longer periods abroad during your studies at FHV?
You still dream of gaining insight into other cultures and ways of working?
Then find out more about our study trips!
Study Trips for Bachelor Students
The two-week study trips for all students of the part-time bachelor's degree programmes enable you to deepen your intercultural and language skills.
Already during the intensive preparation period with students from our partner universities, you will gain insight into the culture and working methods of the respective host country. Together with selected students from partner universities, you will then have the great opportunity to work on the implementation of the planned activities on site during the study trip and to reflect on what you have experienced and learned after your return to FHV.
You can acquire the following competences by participating in study trips for Bachelor students:
- Understand what skills are required to be internationally competent.
- Understand why cultures are different and why it is not always easy to adapt culturally.
- Have a deeper knowledge about at least one particular area of life (your study topic) in your target culture.
- Have a higher level of English language competence through having been emerged into a culture where English is an official language.
- Be able to look at your home culture critically.
South Africa has been the entrance door to the African continent for many companies of the northern hemisphere.
It is the only G20-member state from Africa and belongs to the so-called BRICS-states. Indigenous cultures and traditions, a strong heritage from European settlers going back to the 17th century, migrants from other African countries and from Asia, the history of the Apartheid-decades create a unique mixture – South Africa defines itself as “Rainbow Nation”.
During our two-weeks course you will explore selected parts of South African life. We will be travelling to some important landmarks in Gauteng-province and spend the mid-weekend in a typical Lodge for some game drives and bush walks. Together with local students from our partner institution in Pretoria you will be working on improving and accelerating business models of local entrepreneurs being supported by “Mamelodi Business Clinic”, an institution of the University of Pretoria (UP) at the community of Mamelodi. You can apply business modelling skills and intercultural awareness in real life. Your work will be supported by teaching staff from UP and FHV.
2023 will be the first trip to Pretoria.
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All part-time Bachelor's students can participate in the study trip to South Africa during their 3rd semester. At the beginning of the 2nd semester detailed information will be provided about the trip to South Africa in your following semester.
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Are you interested in other cultures? Did you ever look at your own culture from outside?
India is one of the best destinations for that, because India is different. History, region, food, society, industry, yoga,… all is very different.
During our two-weeks course you will explore selected parts of Indian life. Besides of Delhi we will be traveling to Agra, to River Ganges and to Jaipur. Together with selected Indian students from our partner institution in New Delhi you will be working on your own field study topic. You can apply tools from the textbook about “Intercultural Awareness” in real life. Your project work will be supported by Indian teaching staff.
International trainers will guide you through the learning process - starting from the preparation period at home until your final presentation in India.
For 14 years more than 300 part-time-students from FHV have been traveling to India for their studies. An experienced team in India gives you a save frame for your trip.
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Study Trips for Master Students
During your master studies you have the opportunity to participate in study trips as part of the Contextual Studies.
The study trips offer you the unique opportunity to deepen your professional, intercultural and linguistic skills.
Are you interested in different cultures, startups and innovation? Then the study trip "Innovation Ecosystem Explorers" might be of interest to you.
As part of the Innovation Ecosystem Explorers study trip, you will explore the innovation ecosystems of Tallinn and Helsinki. You will learn about the local environment for innovation, gain an understanding of the cultures and visit innovative startups.
In relation to its population, Estonia has an above-average density of successful startups. But why is this small Baltic state with its population of only 1.3 million so successful in growing innovative companies? Does the Estonian e-residency, which allows citizens from all over the world to set up a company in Estonia via the web, play a role in this? Or is it rather the simple tax system and the flat tax of 20% that attracts founders to Estonia? And how do founders in Estonia tick? Which innovations are they pursuing? We explore these and other questions on site in Tallinn with various stakeholders of the Estonian innovation ecosystem.
In close proximity to the Estonian innovation ecosystem, separated only by the Gulf of Finland, is Finland, with its vibrant capital Helsinki. In rankings of innovation ecosystems, the city has risen 20 places in the last year alone and is now in the group of leading European ecosystems. But what has changed in Helsinki in recent years that has led to an improvement in the innovation ecosystem? What is the Finnish culture like when it comes to innovation? How do Finnish founders tick? What interesting startups are located locally? And how strong is the connection or interaction with the neighboring city of Tallinn?
During the study tour to Tallinn and Helsinki, we will explore questions like these, have many conversations with people on the ground, gain an understanding of the environment and cultures, and interact with innovative startups and stakeholders from the innovation ecosystem.
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Between Societies – Diverse and Sustainable Development
Past decisions and actions have created tensions today about human rights and use of resources between various interest groups internationally today. But how does this impact diversity and how is diversity impacted in turn by the environment?
Changing toward a more effective solutions process that is humane and environmentally responsible is a big challenge.
The first step is to understand issues well enough to change assumptions, expectations and approaches that both cause the problems and can impede or lead to solutions.
During this unique 10-day course in India, we are taking an important step in this direction. This study trip gives you the experience about profoundly different cultural values, beliefs and actions – not only between countries as different as the EU versus India, but between the various interest groups within a country. You will discover this when interacting with students at our partner university and experts in various fields of specialisation.
They impact the issues and solutions when dealing with responsible sustainability management and this becomes especially evident when we visit some of India's poorest villages. And importantly, we will explore the question of how we need to work together, using each other’s’ strengths and resources, to achieve meaningful changes.
You will gain a deep understanding of the complexity, differences and challenges these two topics pose to the global community when we are confronted with key problems facing India today.
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