Students spend one or two academic semester(s) abroad – either during the fall or spring term. They are integrated in a very international cohort of students, and are exposed both inside and outside the classroom to cross-cultural learning experiences. At each school, the CEMS Club comprising local students is organising an active social life to build the real CEMS network spirit.

« I spent the first 10 weeks working in a French insurance company in Germany. The rest of my stay was spent studying at the University of Cologne. I also completed my business project in a multicultural team, an excellent, formative foretaste of what awaits us in the multinationals where we are going to work. The CEMS MIM, a first-class experience, is of both academic and professional interest. But, it would not be so extraordinary without the interpersonal aspect. Living with a Dutch roommate, working in a team with a Czech and a Hungarian, having a German buddy, partying with Irish, Polish, British, Swedish and Italian people - I have met so many European students that my network now cover all CEMS countries: that's CEMS!
Pierre Santolini, CEMS alumnus from HEC

Internships provide students with a real life professional learning experience by integrating them into an organisation’s culture and processes outside of their home countries. The main objective is to turn academic experience and theoretical knowledge into a professional, multi-cultural experience. Internships can take place at a CEMS Corporate Partner, though not compulsory.

Within the CEMS Curriculum, Business Projects are designed as a real life learning experience for students. International student teams, comparable to mini-consultancy teams, solve a real-life business problem supervised by both a corporate and academic coach. The CEMS Business Project is expected to represent 50% of each student's workload during the Spring Semester. Student teams present the results in a final report and an oral presentation to an academic and corporate audience They reinforce the CEMS partnership between universities and companies in jointly shaping the students’ learning process in international management.