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About the Global Student Challenge

The Global Student Challenge is the #1 Student Competition in the world, which allows students to gain valuable knowledge, further develop their skills, expand their professional network and much more. The Challenge pits teams from top business schools and universities from across the globe against each other in the search for the world’s Top Talent in Value Chain Management.

By participating in this Challenge, students experience the life of a Corporate Executive by running their own virtual company together with their team.

Only 10% of the best performing teams from curriculum courses gets invited to one of the three Global Qualification Rounds. During these GQRs, teams from around the globe compete against each other for a guaranteed spot in the Global Final.

It’s time for the Global Final!

The Global Final is taking place on our online event platform, Scoocs, on May 2^nd till May 8^th, 2021. It’s a week where all qualified teams battle against each other for the Champion title and EUR 10,000 in cash prizes! This will be an intense competition among the top value chain students around the world!

Program

During the Global Final Week, students will be playing 4 rounds of supply chain business game, The Fresh Connection. The team with the best weighted score will win the champion title! Apart from game-play, there will also be a wide variety of fun activities for students to network with their peers from across the globe such as, ice-breakers, networking roulettes, and more!

Qualified Universities

A total of 33 universities have qualified and are participating in the Global Final Week 2021 (in random order):

1. University of Twente 
2.  McGill University 
3. Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
4. Tilburg University
5. Technical University of Munich
6. Cranfield School of Management 
7. Technische Universität Dortmund
8. Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría
9. Korea University
10. Ajou University
11. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
12. ENSA Agadir
13. Universiteit Antwerpen Management School
14. Vietnam Logistics and Aviation School
15. Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
16. VSCC – Vietnam Supply Chain Challenge
17. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
18. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) – MIPT, Phystech
19. Jacobs University Bremen
20. Universidad del Pacífico (PE)
21. Avans Hogeschool
22. Aarhus University
23. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
24. UC Leuven-Limburg
25. SRH Hochschule Hamm
26. Kedge Business School Marseille
27. California State Polytechnic University – Pomona
28. North china university of science and technology
29. PPA Business School (Pôle Paris Alternance)
30. Politecnico di Milano
31. Shanghai university
32. Tsinghua university
33. Universidade de Aveiro (ESTIEM)

As can be seen from above mentioned universities, teams from 17 different countries are joining:

Kick-off

On Sunday, 2 May, we welcomed all 197 students on our online event platform, Scoocs. The day started with an introduction session with a quiz as an ice-breaker. During this session, the students got their first assignment: participate in the organized gaming activities after the introduction session to collect words.

After the gaming activities, each team needed to form a sentence with their collected words. If correct, the sentence was “At Inchainge, We Develop Value Chain Leaders”. The game activities consisted of Song quiz, Guess the Flag, Pictionary, I go on Holiday hands up, and more.

Furthermore, networking sessions were also organized for the students to get to know each other based on their role in The Fresh Connection: Sales, Purchasing, Operations, and Supply Chain. All of this really made it a great start to the Global Final!

What an experience to see so many students networking, engaging, and sharing experiences with each other despite the distance!

First day of the Global Final

Wishing all teams good luck. May the best team win!

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