The Vision of the Europe-wide University – a Student Perspective

In the view of many students, business and engineering education in Europe today do not sufficiently take into account tendencies of chaos and uncontrollable business behavior, and the lack of mutual trust in business transactions. Therefore the student-run international organization ESTIEM (the European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management) are organizing a whole series of educational activities and programs in parallel to their own university courses. It is based on the concept of Experiential Learning. In this paper it is suggested to develop out of these programs, a series of university-equivalent ESTIEM courses. In the long term, the goal might be to realize the vision of a genuine Europe-wide “ESTIEM University” in its own right, similar to normal universities.