Talented 3rd year Bachelor students Informatics & Economics help your company solve a business/ICT challenge, such as improving business and/or IT development processes, setting up a requirement specification, creating a software design proposal, or developing a rudimentary software application.
✅ 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.
We're happy to have you on board 👋
Make sure to completely finish your registration (by September 5). Incomplete profiles will not be taken into account.
This will happen next 👇
We will use your input to form well-balanced teams on September 5.
Once you are assigned to a team, get together (offline or online) with your team asap, to discuss which challenges you want to work on and why, and submit this selection. Deadline is September 5.
Subsequently, the participating organizations will rank the teams that want to work on their challenge on September 9.
Finally, our platform will generate and share the team-challenge matches on September 10.
Once you're matched to a challenge, schedule a kick-off meeting with the company representative on September 11-17. (☝️Use this template)
Good luck!