The first edition of the Master in Innovation and Sports Business Management taught by the Faculty of Business Studies of Mondragon Unibertsitatea and WATS Team will have the support of LABORAL Kutxa

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The first edition of the Master in Innovation and Sports Business Management taught by the Faculty of Business Studies of Mondragon Unibertsitatea and WATS Team will have the support of LABORAL Kutxa

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The first edition of the Master in Innovation and Sports Business Management taught by the Faculty of Business Studies of Mondragon Unibertsitatea and WATS Team will have the support of LABORAL Kutxa

This innovative Master, which combines business training and entrepreneurship aimed at the sports sector, will have the collaboration of LABORAL Kutxa to promote the business projects of the students

2020·09·14

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Next October, the first edition of the innovative Master in Innovation and Sports Business Management will start at the Bilbao Campus of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, taught together with the startup WATS Team. Aimed at young recent graduates who are true people passionate about sports and have concerns about the business world and entrepreneurship, this Master is based on the Mondragon Team Academy methodology "team learning by creating", so students / As they will create their own sports company from the first month and will travel learning to different countries working on real projects.

It will precisely be at the time of starting their sports company where the students will find the support of LABORAL Kutxa, a strategic collaborator of the Master who will provide initial financial capital for the constitution of these companies and their operation in the first months of life. In addition, it will provide participants with all its knowledge and advice as a banking entity with extensive experience in the world of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and the support of young talent and innovative and entrepreneurial business projects in the Basque Country.

The objective of the Master is to train professionals so that they acquire the necessary skills to understand and develop business in the sports business sector, as well as the management of sports teams; being able to create and manage entities that are part of the sports industry. In addition, through learning trips to the US and Asia scheduled for mid-2021, students will acquire a global vision of the sector through international experiences. The development of your own business project will contribute to learning based on working with real projects in your day to day.

The training is face-to-face, based at the Mondragon Unibertsitatea Business Faculty in Bilbao, and will take place between October 2020 and July 2021, with a schedule from Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 17:00. However, the University has a contingency plan for COVID-19 with the ability to redirect training to a semi or completely online format if necessary. The academic load of the Master is 60 ECTS credits and the teaching staff is made up of outstanding professionals with extensive experience in the field of sport and business organization, where some highly recognized figures linked to WATS Team stand out, such as former footballers Julen Guerrero and Xabi Prieto, the renowned sports psychologist Patricia Ramírez or the ex-boxer and “older brother” Jero García, along with other experts from the world of sports, business, innovation and the University itself.

Enrollment for the last available places in the Master continues open in this month of September, and can be done from the web www.wats.team/master and for this the students must be university graduates in disciplines such as Physical Activity Sciences and Sports, Business Administration and Management, Teaching, Psychology, Marketing or Law.