This module ensures students:

• Can use key accounting and financial management tools to produce a financing plan.
• Have and can apply knowledge of business and taxation law in the workplace.
• Master the basics of marketing research and strategic marketing: notions of growth, competitive advantage, choice of strategic principles and market
  potential.
• Can identify and analyse distribution and logistics needs in order to introduce new supply strategies.
• Can optimise a company’s potential by using basic negotiation techniques and sales team leadership and designing a communications strategy or a marketing plan for a given market.

This module ensures students:

• Can use management techniques to motivate employees and build an effective team.
• Have an understanding of interpersonal communications allowing them to assess and manage conflicts.
• Can organise and choose optimal communications methods and tools to create a positive social climate within a company.
• Can build a simple organisational structure capable of changes and growth.
• Can develop a company culture and change it by making managerial, structural, systemic and cultural changes.
•  Can use socioeconomic management tools and conduct a quality-assurance strategy.

Based on 2 modules this unit ensures students:

•  Have knowledge of international law (international contracts, intellectual and industrial property rights and anti-trust laws).
• Understand the technical aspects of international business, particularly transport, logistics and import-export.
• Have a good knowledge of international finance, especially as regards futures markets and credit risks.
• Understand international marketing and its globalisation strategies.
• Understand the context of the managerial environment.
• Can conduct human resources management using internal communications tools.
• Understand the various aspects of upsteam and downstream marketing so as to devise strategies for sales, communications and innovation.

A strong point of FEDE European master’s degrees is the requirement for students to consolidate their learning and gain a careers head start through hands-on work experience.
The first-year professional project addresses management issues encountered during an internship or the work portion of sandwich training. The student produces a dissertation outlining the strategy adopted and the strategic tools employed.
In the second year the student undertakes a three-month internship and produces a professional dissertation on issues relevant to decision-making strategy. The student analyses a business’s environment and makes orientation and strategic recommendations.
The two dissertations are presented orally.

This module ensures students:

• Are conversant with issues surrounding concepts of business, competition and markets, as defined by EU legislation and decrees issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union;
• Can demonstrate the importance of changes to rules concerning the behavior of companies and concentrations between undertakings;
• Know the role of the authorities in charge of applying business competition rules;
• Are familiar with processes to ensure products comply with European internal standards

This module ensures students:

• have CEFR level B1 (writing and speaking) in a modern European language;
• It results in the awarding of the FEDE Language Certificate; the Certificate is based on the CEFR and is recognised by the IFEF.