✅ Key features of the challenge

• Students per team: 4-5 students
• Course: Project Management
• Programme: Bachelor Computer Science & Economics (Dutch programme)
• Student background: Third year bachelors students, who have basic programming skills and business knowledge. Typically, in this course, they are eager to learn news skills to solve your challenge.
• No. of hours spent per team: 200 hours
• Deliverables: Working prototype (optional), presentation and report (in the form of slides) with recommendations.
• Company time investment: Your time involvement is 10-16 hours in total (e.g. weekly (short) meetings, interviews, final presentation, etc.)
• Matching fee: €850,- (ex tax, charged by Master Challenge (NOT the university))

📑 Challenge Examples

The students will come up with a project plan and execute this plan. They will learn and apply relevant project management techniques while solving your challenge. They will receive training and guidance by lecturers and professionals from Leiden University. The main deliverables are a (working) prototype, a presentation and report (in the form of slides) with recommendations. In the past, students worked on challenges such as:

• Help us make our business processes more efficient using software.
• Improve our IT infrastructure.
• Help us build an online dashboard.
• Help us to set up a new information system.

🔎 Case study example

Curious for how such a project could look like? Have a look at 👉this case study about a collaboration between a team of students from the Leiden University and Bizway.

🏢 Requirement for participating companies

• Any companies/organizations from any industry can apply
• Available for (bi)weekly update sessions with the team

💰 Costs

Master Challenge charges a matching fee of €850,- (ex tax) per team. This is to be able to further operate and close the gap between education and practice.

❗️You will only be charged when matched to a team.

📨 How to apply

You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge. See link for a template you could use: https://link.masterchallenge.me/challenge-template or use the challenge generator: https://masterchallenge.me/challenge-generator

🗓 Planning

• June 19: Deadline for submitting your challenge
• July 22 (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the Course Coordinator
• September 5-9: Matching phase
  • September 5: Student teams rank the challenges
  • September 9: Challenge owners rank the student teams
• September 10: Matches are communicated
• September 11-17: Kick-off meeting with your team
• December 8-11: Handover and final presentation to project sponsor.

Questions? Want to discuss your challenge before submitting one? Feel free to schedule a call 👉 here.