Past Tours – Ascent Swiss Business Management AG

*Participants of the 2017 study tour to Tirana (Albania)*

Recent study tours

Study tour to Bari, 23-29 April 2023

For students of the “Management & Law” – Bachelor

Southern Italy has major challenges to tackle to develop its economy and society. We present successes and what remains to be done.

Study tour to Romania, 23-29 April 2023

For students of the “Supply Management” specialization in the Bachelor program

We get insights into the management of transnational, local business and humanitarian supply chains in the cities of Bucharest, Pitești and Brașov.

Study tour to Warsaw, 3-9 September 2023

For students of the Master «Social Entrepreneurship»

The focus of this tour lies on the role of social enterprises in Polish setting

Study tour to Bari, 1 – 7 May 2022

For students of the “Management & Law” – Bachelor

For two decades, Italy’s economy was stagnant. Paradoxically, it was the Covid-pandemic that awakened the Italian society, and today, everyone is speaking about a new departure in business, politics and society.

Study tour to Sofia, 29 May – 4 June 2022

For business psychology students of the module “Economic sociology”

Economic sociology allows insights into the contextual conditions of economic behavior, which is always embedded into culture, institutions, structures and relations of power. The approach of “estrangement” in an unknown environment is a fruitful method for intellectual advancement. Students will conduct short research in the form of a survey of the local population, in cooperation with students of the host country.

Study tour to Warsaw, 11 – 17 September 2022

For students of the Master «Public and Nonprofit Management» and of the ISA – module

The focus of this tour lies on the functioning of the public sector, the role of NGOs receiving aid from Switzerland and the conditions for foreign companies doing business in Poland.

Study tour to Kiev, 5 – 10 April 2021

For students of the Master «Public and Nonprofit Management» and of the ISA – module

The focus of this tour lies on

Reforms of the public sector
Switzerland’s assistance in the peace process in Eastern Ukraine
The role of NGOs receiving aid from Switzerland
The issue of corruption

Study tour to Poland and Ukraine, 19 – 23 April 2021

For students of the “Management & Law” – Bachelor

The tour aims to illustrate the necessity to choose radically different business strategies in a country with legal certainty as compared to one, in which the judicial system is deficient – which can result in the insecurity of property rights and contractual agreements.

The tour starts in Warsaw and will lead us in a journey by train through the Polish city of Lublin and across the border to Ukraine. The trip ends in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Visits to foreign companies in both countries and to institutions of the judicial system are part of the program.

Study tour to St.-Petersburg, 16 – 22 May 2021

The objective of this tour is to obtain a short but deep glimpse into Russian reality.

For this purpose, participants actively participate in all elements of the program. This means that passive listening to lectures or mere sightseeing is avoided. Instead, participants engage in active searching, researching, producing, playing and communicating activities, which allows them taking part in the foreign environment and will lead to stronger didactic results.

A one-day trip to the countryside (“real Russia”) will complete the experience.

Study tour to (Ukraine or Bulgaria), May 30 – June 5, 2021

For business psychology students of the module “Economic sociology”

The perspective of economic sociology allows insights into the contextual conditions of economic behavior, which is always embedded into culture, institutions, structures and relations of power.

After an introduction to the work of eminent economic sociologists, old and new, students apply this perspective to chosen aspects in a foreign country. This approach of “estrangement” in an unknown environment is a fruitful method for intellectual advancement.

The tour abroad represents the last part of the module. In order to obtain supplementary insights into the reality of a foreign environment, we will cooperate with economic sociologists in the host country.

Students will conduct a short personal research in the form of a survey of the local population, in cooperation with students of the host country.

Study tour to Bucharest, September 2021

For students of the Master «Public and Nonprofit Management» and of the ISA – module

The focus of this tour, which is a partial rerun of our previous tour from 2019, lies on

The functioning of the public sector on different federal levels
The role of NGOs receiving aid from Switzerland in modernizing Romania’s societal and political environment
The conditions for foreign companies doing business in Romania