Over 50 students from Germany, Russia and the USA played TOPSIM – Scale Up in the international seminar. The complexity of the business simulation was just right to link the theoretical business aspects of the lectures and to apply them in practice. The students were able to get a feeling for complexity and recognize which aspects of the management of a company are interconnected.
Education Projects
Our business simulations can be used in a variety of ways. Read more about exciting concepts for the use at educational institutions and which courses of study, forms of learning and examination performance harmonize particularly well with the respective simulation.
Practical Experience at Schools with TOPSIM – easyManagement and ALWIS Saarland
Getting to know working life and economic contexts at an early stage is becoming increasingly important for students, and this is exactly what ALWIS helps with. In Saarland, the association therefore offers all secondary schools the use of the business simulation TOPSIM – easyManagement.
Learning with TOPSIM instead of an internship
The Department of Economics at Kiel University of Applied Sciences, represented by Ann-Christin Schweers, found an alternative for the internship together with the teachers of the Max Planck School: TOPSIM – easyManagement. With this business game, the eleventh grade students were able to get a realistic insight into business and its operations despite homeschooling.
Strategic Management with TOPSIM – Going Global in the Bavarian Alps
Corporate management and decision making – as part of various seminars for students at Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM), professors Prof. Dr. Christian Greiner, Prof. Dr. Dominik Hammer and Prof. Dr. Thomas Peisl use TOPSIM – Going Global. In this article we explain why this seminar is conducted high up in the mountains.
Virtual seminar at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences
The exchange with partner universities from all over the world is one of the highlights of studies for many students. Prof. Dr. Dietrich Darr from Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences uses a virtual business game seminar with TOPSIM.
Digitalisation in schools: TOPSIM at the Linz International Business School
Due to their high flexibility, online business simulations are a great asset for digitalisation in teaching. The Linz International Business School used TOPSIM – easyManagement in its graduating class, in the course Marketing and Controlling, and got consistently positive feedback from the participants!
EUREL International Management Cup with TOPSIM
For more than 10 years, the non-profit Convention of National Associations of Electrical Engineers of Europe (EUREL) has organized a Management Cup, in which electrical engineering students from different European countries come together. The goal is to become the winning company in the business simulation.
TOPSIM – Business Simulations at Griffith College in Ireland
Klaus Walter uses various business simulations from TOPSIM for his courses at Griffith College. Established in 1974, Griffith College is one of Ireland’s largest independent third level institutions with 7,000 students and offers a variety of programmes, from Business and Law to Design, Media Studies and Pharmacy – and many more.
TOPSIM – Manufacturing Management for non-business students at the University Hamm-Lippstadt
The city of Hamm was one of the COVID-19 hotspots in late summer, and a fast shift to online teaching formats was necessary at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences (HSHL). In this article we show how Prof. Dr. Johanna Moebus adapted her simulation-based seminar for non-business students to distance learning.
Distance Learning with TOPSIM: from the First Semester to the Master at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
At the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, three TOPSIM – Business Simulations are played in different semesters and study programs. Until last summer, all seminars took place in classroom format, and the shift to distance learning due to COVID-19 pandemic opened up entirely new...
TOPSIM on Demand – Business Challenge: International Course at the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, courses in this year's International Business Consulting Program at the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg had to take place entirely online. Prof. Dr. Fischer was looking for a suitable opportunity to make an introduction into business studies and found it in...
Developing management skills with TOPSIM – Production & Services at trainM
trainM specializes in supporting employee development in organizations as well as designing and conducting leadership trainings. For various companies trainM regularly offer in-house-seminars, in which they use, among other things, business simulations powered by TOPSIM. In this article, Stefan...