The Block Seminar is a 3-ECTS one-week course that takes place at the beginning of Term 1. Block Seminars bring together professors and students from various CEMS schools. Subjects derive from different cultural and academic perspectives; and many topics are not a part of the universities’ standard curricula. You are automatically assigned to the Block Seminar of your Term 1 school. 

The Global Citizenship Seminar is a two-day course bringing together representatives from Corporate and Social Partners, professors and students in a unique synergy. Within the Global Citizenship seminar, you will have the opportunity to engage with the Sustainable Development Goals through experiential learning. Take responsibility for solving problems as a responsible citizen and manager. Feel the challenges that have traditionally occurred due to lack of empathy and action towards the society and the environment. Be part of the solutions creating innovative business models through sustainable innovation and social entrepreneurship.

The Business Project is a consultancy-like project in which you collaborate directly with CEMS Corporate & Social Partners to help solve real-life business problems. This reinforces the partnership between universities and companies in jointly shaping your learning process in international management contexts. The project is designed to give you hands-on business experience with a company to learn about their industry while finding solutions for the challenges of tomorrow. At the end of the project, you will also be asked to reflect on the sustainability impact of your Business Project.

Global Leadership equips you with the knowledge and skills to manage people across borders and within multinational teams, creating culturally savvy individuals that show empathy and can relate to and interact with different cultures. Leadership is about exciting, inspiring, energizing, embracing change, and putting values first. Wherever your professional development takes you, knowing how to lead people from diverse cultures in a global world will be crucial for your success. Being a CEMS student, you deal with diverse cultural backgrounds and get trained to be the best leader in the making.

Skill Seminars are training seminars in practical skills to kick-starting an effective professional career and fundamental to adjusting easily to an international management environment. Delivered as interactive class sessions, CEMS skills seminars are integrated into the programme to help students have efficient soft skills. The skills development topics covered during our sessions include, but are not limited to: sustainability, strategy skills, personal and career development, consulting skills, marketing and communication skills, leadership and teambuilding.

As of academic year 2026/2027, a mandatory skill seminar of minimum 0.5 ECTS will be introduced. The Self-Leadership Skill Seminar is a hands-on, experiential module focusing on developing three core components of self-leadership: self-awareness, self-motivation, and self-regulation. As an early component of the CEMS curriculum to be delivered in Term 1, this seminar lays the groundwork for students’ personal development and provides a strong foundation for the concepts and frameworks explored more deeply in the Global Leadership course in Term 2.