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Global Student Challenge
May 16, 2025
The Global Student Challenge is a spectacular international competition at the highest level full of cultural interaction, networking and team building. Every year, the Global Final week and its exciting Award Ceremony are the highlight of the season!
Description
International Networking
Expand your professional network by meeting people from all over the world. Kick start your career by gaining exclusive membership to our community network. More information about our community coming soon!
Professional training
The Fresh Connection, The Cool Connection, and The Blue Connection are the world’s leading web-based business simulation games. These powerful professional training tools provide real-life insights in the complexities and inter-dependencies of value chains under uncertain and volatile market conditions.
Fun and competition
A spectacular international competition at the highest level full of cultural interactions, networking, and team building. Every year, the Global Final and its exciting Award Ceremony are the highlights of the season. This year, a special fully online edition of the Global Final will be as exciting as ever!
Business Games
Since we are dealing with time zones from California to South Korea we are limited in the timeframe that everyone can be online during reasonable hours. Therefore, the Global Final Week for this edition will only include The Fresh Connection.
However, students who have The Cool Connection or The Blue Connection can enter the competition. Qualification is only possible by competing with The Fresh Connection in the Global Qualifications Rounds.
Participants get to run their own virtual company called The Fresh Connection, a manufacturer of fruit juices. Faced with declining performance, the management team must get the company back on track as quickly as possible. It is a high-pressure environment in which effective supply chain management is the key to success!
Teams will experience the impact of every decision they make, not just in their own functional ‘silo’ but across their business, and the entire value chain! Each team member will each assume an executive roll: VP Finance, VP Purchasing, VP Supply Chain, or VP Sales.
Timeline
Global Qualification rounds
Three Qualification rounds will be held and the top 10% of each course is invited to participate. The best performing student teams during the curriculum course are automatically invited. The top teams receive information in the game on how to join one of the Global Qualification rounds. These are online events and the top teams are guaranteed a spot in the Global Online Final.
Global Online Qualification 1: January 15th - February 4th
Global Online Qualification 2: March 3rd - April 4th
Global Final
May 12th – May 16th, 2025
The final phase of the Global Student Challenge Edition 2023-2024 is the Global Final! Out of thousands of teams only the best will battle for the Champion title and prizes!
Expand your professional network by meeting people from all over the world. Kick start your career by gaining exclusive membership to our community network. More information about our community coming soon!
Professional training
The Fresh Connection, The Cool Connection, and The Blue Connection are the world’s leading web-based business simulation games. These powerful professional training tools provide real-life insights in the complexities and inter-dependencies of value chains under uncertain and volatile market conditions.
Fun and competition
A spectacular international competition at the highest level full of cultural interactions, networking, and team building. Every year, the Global Final and its exciting Award Ceremony are the highlights of the season. This year, a special fully online edition of the Global Final will be as exciting as ever!
Business Games
Since we are dealing with time zones from California to South Korea we are limited in the timeframe that everyone can be online during reasonable hours. Therefore, the Global Final Week for this edition will only include The Fresh Connection.
However, students who have The Cool Connection or The Blue Connection can enter the competition. Qualification is only possible by competing with The Fresh Connection in the Global Qualifications Rounds.
Participants get to run their own virtual company called The Fresh Connection, a manufacturer of fruit juices. Faced with declining performance, the management team must get the company back on track as quickly as possible. It is a high-pressure environment in which effective supply chain management is the key to success!
Teams will experience the impact of every decision they make, not just in their own functional ‘silo’ but across their business, and the entire value chain! Each team member will each assume an executive roll: VP Finance, VP Purchasing, VP Supply Chain, or VP Sales.
Timeline
Global Qualification rounds
Three Qualification rounds will be held and the top 10% of each course is invited to participate. The best performing student teams during the curriculum course are automatically invited. The top teams receive information in the game on how to join one of the Global Qualification rounds. These are online events and the top teams are guaranteed a spot in the Global Online Final.
Global Online Qualification 1: January 15th - February 4th
Global Online Qualification 2: March 3rd - April 4th
Global Final
May 12th – May 16th, 2025
The final phase of the Global Student Challenge Edition 2023-2024 is the Global Final! Out of thousands of teams only the best will battle for the Champion title and prizes!