International Experience Program: India
Faculty of Business
Topic Area: Social Entrepreneurship Impact Project
“To love being outside my comfort zone and my nice, little home bubble for so long and coping as well as I did has been a real eye opener for me. I’m at a point where I want to be back there right now. I miss the simplicity amidst the chaos, living and working in a country where everyday turned out to be completely different, new and exciting”.
40K Globe program participant 2013
In a unique program delivered by 40K Globe students will learn about life in India with the goal of creating useful, sell-able products or services using only local resources. They will be trained in the principles of social entrepreneurship at an induction weekend prior to departure and, when in India, will actually go about building this social business in a team. This could be working on a supply chain issue of a new product or service. It could mean figuring out the legal and health implications of an idea. The Impact Project takes students into the streets of Bangalore (and possibly around India) transacting with locals to get the business going.
Profits from the 40K Globe Social Entrepreneurship Impact Projects subsidise the operation of 40K PLUS – an after-school education program created for kids living in poverty or with limited access to a good education. Through this program numerous 40K PLUS Pods (or centres) have been set up in pre-existing buildings to provide kids with a dynamic learning space for 1 hour every weekday.
Students will also work in the 40K PLUS pods each afternoon between 4-6. They will be helping to give kids the one-on-one attention they need on building their literacy and numeracy skills. In terms of leaving a lasting legacy, one of the most important things you will do will be to work on your very own Life PLUS module.
Program Dates: 5 January - 1 February, 2014 (four weeks)
Eligibility: You must be an enrolled Business degree student (either Internal or Distance mode) at CSU in 2014. International full-degree students are eligible to apply to participate in all CSU Global programs, where they meet the program eligibility requirements and provided that the study experience is not undertaken in their home country.
Credit: Students who successfully complete this program will be eligible for subject credit in MGT363 (an open elective subject for all Business courses). This will require payment of the subject tuition fee and satisfactory participation and completion of specified assessment items. Where students have completed this subject they are encouraged to discuss with P K Basu their participation in the program. All questions on subject credit should be directed the program coordinator, Associate Professor P K Basu (pbasu@csu.edu.au).
Number of places available: 10
NB. This program will require 10 students to proceed.
Program Cost: approx $800*
*The $500 Vice Chancellor Travel Grant (for eligible students) is not awarded directly to students but has already been included in program costings. Postgraduate students will not be eligible to receive the grant. Therefore the cost to these students will be $1300. Further details regarding the Vice Chancellor Travel Grant can be found here.
Costs should include: 3-day induction weekend in the Blue Mountains (food, accommodation, resources), accommodation in Bangalore, breakfast and dinners in Bangalore (including team dinners), supervision from team leaders
Costs do not include CSU subject fees, flights, insurance, visas, immunisations, passports, other meals, sightseeing costs, transport costs to induction weekend and in-country transport.
Please note: This is an individually ticketed program (students to purchase their own flights, travel insurance, visas and passports).
Students may also be eligible to obtain the Australian Government's OS-Help loan to assist in paying for this program. Further details on OS-Help is available here.
Application Timeline:
- Application closing date: 27 September, 2013
- Successful students notified (email): within one week of application closing date
- Non-refundable full payment date:4 October, 2013
(You must have a valid passport, or be in the process of applying for one by the final program payment date. Your passport must have a minimum of 6mth validity from the program's return date) - Compulsory induction weekend: 6 December - 8 December
- Compulsory pre-departure modules (online) - TBA
Click here to download an application form [pdf]
Applications should be submitted by the due date to:
Alice Wood
CSU Global
Charles Sturt University
Bathurst
Phone: + 61 2 6338 4068
Email: alwood@csu.edu.au
Click on the image to read about other students' 40K Globe experiences.
You can also watch videos on the 40K projects here