Final project

Final projects topics proposal :

• FIN    : Deloof - Devolder - Gérard - Grégoire - Sarens - Schwienbacher - Tesolin
• ISYS  : Pirotte - Vandenberghe - Vanderdonckt
• MARK : de Moerloose - François - Kestemont - Swaen
• POGE : Belleflamme - Coeurderoy - Cornuel - de Viron - Defraigne - Dejardin - Janssen - Lassalle de Salins
• POMS : Chevalier - Semal - Tyteca - Van Woensel
• REHU : de Nanteuil - Delobbe - Léonard

Final project

The final project may be defined as a contribution to solving a guenuine problem that currently exists or that might arise in the relatively near future in one or more organizations (private compagnies, public organizations, non-profit-making organizations, etc.).

This may be a problem that is not being dealt with in the organization due to lack of time or expertise, or a forward study anticipating the possible impact of certain structural or environmental changes within an organization.

In more specific terms, there are four conditions that a final project must fulfil :

1. the project must not only analyze the problem, but also devise a solution, if only partial, and, where applicable, should include the implementation of this solution within the organization ;
2. the project must include original processing of genuine data as supplied by the organization or collected by the student ;
3. the project must represent a sufficiently sophisticated application of the specific teaching and methods that relate to the selected subject ;
4. theoretical principles and methodological choices must be presented and discussed.  Under no circumstances may the final project be merely a report of the internship, no matter how detailed, but should represent both a thesis (scientific work) and a project (practical work).

Some award-winning final projects :

Julien Claes : "Evaluation de l’efficacité économique et environnementale du marché européen des permis d’émission de CO2" (prix Electrabel 2007)
Guillaume Collard : "Le rapport entre satisfaction et fidélité en Business-to-Business : le cas L’Oréal Professionnel" (2007)
Guillaune Stocq : "Mieux mesurer et comprendre les causes et conséquences de la satisfaction des clients dans le secteur des services après-vente automobiles : le cas du centre Renault Brussels" (2006)
Caroline Franckx : "Opérations stratégiques et marketing pour l’implantation du réseau de franchise Galler dans le Nord de la France" (2005)
Alexandre Meire (with A. Druetz and Ch.-A. de Radzitzky) : "CERTECO : Spin-off de commercialisation de la propriété intellectuelle du CERTECH" (2004)