Skill Seminars

Skill Seminars are planned for Thursdays and Fridays during March and April 2026 and are half-day (9 am – 1 pm/1 pm – 5 pm) or one-day long (9 am – 5 pm).

Skill Seminars are training seminars in practical skills to kick-start an effective professional career and are fundamental to adjusting easily to an international management environment. The introductory part is mostly theoretical and then the majority of the seminar is interactive, focused on acquiring practical skills, where work is usually done in teams. Capacity is 10-20 students. At VSE, the seminars are mostly held on the company premises in face-to-face format to enable students to better experience the company culture, etc.

Summer Term (Term 2) 2025/2026

Essential Information

Registrations

Registrations

Registrations for Skill Seminars in Term 2 AY 2025-26 will open on Monday, February 16, 2026, at 8 pm CEST.

Applications are based on a first-come, first-served basis. Students must upload their CVs from cems.org (preferably) to finish their registration.

The registration and unsubscription deadline is 1 week before the seminar (e.g., Skill seminar on October 13 has the application/unsubscription deadline on October 6 before 23.55 o’clock). After this deadline, a medical report or other official document is needed; otherwise, a No-Show status is given.

Please note that the school reserves the right to make changes according to the companies’ requirements.

Skill Seminars Global Requirements

CEMS students are supposed to pass at least 4 days in total (= min. 2 ECTS) on skill seminars.

1-day skill seminar (= 8 hours) is equal to 0,5 ECTS. Half-day skill seminar (= 4 hours) is equal to 0,25 ECTS.

Additionally, students have to pass 2 days of the Global Citizenship Seminar (= 1 ECTS), which is always organized in Term 2.

Finally, the student’s profile on cems.org must show at least the following amount of ECTS (to be able to graduate):

Skill Seminar ECTS: 2, Skill Seminar Days: 4
Global Citizenship Seminar ECTS:1, Global Citizenship Seminar Days: 2

I.e., 3 is the minimum amount of ECTS, and 6 is the minimum number of days in the seminar section.

Skill Seminars Local Requirements

Valid for CEMS VSE home students only

Term 1 (eventually Term 2) – minimum 2 skill seminar days (= 1 ECTS) of the skill seminars must be met as 3IG667 CEMS Skill Seminar – any combination of skill seminars that last a total of 2 days passed in Term 1 (eventually in Term 2). Students DO NOT register for the course 3IG667 in Insis. At the end of Term 1 (eventually in Term 2), CEMS office will individually recognize the completion of this course (3IG667) based on the skill seminars entered in students’ cems.org profile (2 days in total; must be passed in Term 1, eventually Term 2). These seminars can be organized by any CEMS university/CEMS Global Office (e.g. Career Forum), can be held in person or virtually, and must be entered into student’s cems.org account. Example: student passes 3 days of skill seminars in Term 1. This student will have the course 3IG667 for 1 ECTS recognized in VSE system INSIS and, at the same time, 1,5 ECTS recognized in cems.org.
Term 1 – 4 (during the CEMS studies at VSE) – students have to pass another 2 days of skill seminars, i.e. you do not have to pass them in Term 1 (eventually Term 2), but later. These skill seminars will be recognized in cems.org only (not in Insis).

At VSE, we don’t require CEMS VSE students to complete 4 days of skill seminars within the CEMS year, students can complete them during their 2-year studies.

Non-VSE Skill Seminars

There are many half-day skill seminars organized during the Cems Career Forum in Barcelona, or CEMS regional events, such as V4 Conference. V4 Conference is organized on a rotating basis among VSE (Prague) – spring 2024, SGH (Warsaw) – spring 2025, and CUB (Budapest) – spring 2026.

Other skill seminars can be found via JobTeaser, which students should be able to enter from their cems.org profile (the number will increase as semesters at CEMS schools begin). Students can also contact directly other CEMS schools.

Skill Seminars NO-SHOW

If a student receives a No-Show, he/she won’t be allowed to register for any future skill seminar during this and next term, which can cause an obstacle to graduation.

Skill Seminars in Previous Terms

Winter Term (Term 1) 2025/2026

Summer Term 2024/2025

Winter Term 2024/2025

Summer Term 2023/2024

CEMS V4 Conference (topic “V4 Data Universe”) was held in Prague between April 10 – 13, 2024. As the skill seminars were an integral part of this conference, there was only one skill seminar organized outside the conference this term.

Plzensky Prazdroj – Craft and Heritage of Plzensky Prazdroj, March 28, 2024, at the company, capacity 15, 0,25 ECTS
Google – Google Analytics 4 (V4 Conference), April 11, 2024, 9 – 12 am, at the university, capacity 33, 0,25 ECTS
Accenture – Generative AI (V4 Conference), April 11, 2024, 9 – 12 am, at the university, capacity 25, 0,25 ECTS
Google – Google Analytics 4 (V4 Conference), April 11, 2024, 1 – 4 pm, at the university, capacity 29, 0,25 ECTS
Accenture – Strategic Thinking (V4 Conference), April 11, 2024, 1 – 4 pm, at the university, capacity 24, 0,25 ECTS
L’Oréal – Value Driven Business (V4 Conference), April 11, 2024, 1 – 4 pm, at the university, capacity 14, 0,25 ECTS
HILTI – Perfect Customer Experience Driven by Data (V4 Conference), April 11, 2024, 1 – 4 pm, at the university, capacity 16, 0,25 ECTS
Procter & Gamble – Shopper Psychology (V4 Conference), April 12, 2024, 9 – 12 am, at the university, capacity 38, 0,25 ECTS
Accenture – Generative AI (V4 Conference), April 12, 2024, 9 – 12 am, at the university, capacity 20, 0,25 ECTS

Winter Term 2023/2024

Summer Term 2022/2023

Winter Term 2022/2023