E-business

The course will primarily focus on e-business technologies and e-business theories present in the world. We’ll cover development of the e-business threw out history and its beginnings with definition of mainstream fields of e-business. Students will have opportunity to discuss large number of the cases of success and failure. Course will be heavily oriented towards practical implementations of web applications for e-business. In the end of the course students will gain basic practical knowledge for development of their own e-business ideas.

Course leader

Alen Šimec, Ph.D. graduated from the Specialist Graduate Professional Study of Polytechnics, Department of Informatics. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Department of Information and Communication Sciences.

Target group

Undergraduate or graduate students with an interest in computer sciences and e-business technologies.

Course aim

The goals of this course include understanding basic categories of e-business, understanding basic factors of failure and success in the main e-business fields today, understanding of core factors needed for development of successful e-businesses, exploration of different technologies and their potential in development of e-business projects and applications, and writing a project for e-business idea.

Fee info

EUR 1449: The tuition fee includes:

1 course from the International Summer School course list (6 ECTS/3 US credits)
Optional Croatian Studies course (4 ECTS/2 US credits) with visits to cultural and business institutions
4- day study trip to National Park Plitvice Lakes, the city of Zadar with a boat excursion to National Park Kornati and a company visit to Pelagos Net (tuna farm), 3 nights accommodation in Zadar
Moodle E-learning access
All study materials
Rich social program
TOTAL CREDITS: 10 ECTS / 5 US



The tuition fee does not include:

Accommodation in Zagreb
Administrative fees for visa processing and health insurance
Travel expenses
EUR 999: Early-bird tuition fee for payments before April 30th, 2022.

Scholarships

Students from ZSEM partner universities pay a special tuition fee of 800 EUR for the whole program.