"He who has ceased to strive to become better has already ceased to be good." Philip Rosenthal.
Thinking that you are good is not enough. Those who want to be truly the best must face the challenge of external quality control in order to critically analyze their own work and develop it through dialogue and discussion. With this in mind, BPN has entered into a partnership with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in 2023.
| The ZHAW School of Management and Law was included in the prestigious Financial Times European Business Schools Rankings 2020 and is one of the best business schools in Europe. |
The main goal of the partnership is to independently verify the accuracy and relevance of the materials of the four core BPN seminars (Business Administration, Financial Management, Marketing, and Human Resources Management); at the same time, the potential for optimizing didactic teaching should be explored.
The certification of the financial management seminar materials is the first significant achievement for BPN on this path. The partnership with ZHAW has proven to be very fruitful for BPN and has brought useful impulses for improvement.
| It is important for ZHAW to support the creation of high-quality content, even for organizations like BPN, whose main interest is not to make a profit. We worked on this project with all our heart, because it is focused on bringing significant results to the world. |
For example, feedback from the ZHAW helped us standardize financial concepts and terminology and make them even more understandable to participants through visualization.
We are already looking forward to the certification of the next three basic seminars by the ZHAW.
Excerpts from ZHAW's feedback on the BPN financial management seminar:
| "What we particularly liked was the emphasis on didactics and practical examples, which are based on the real challenges of the target group." |
| “The seminar covers a wide variety of topics, which, thanks to the right emphasis, are placed in a presentation of “just” 200 pages. The training begins with the topic “Money and Value Creation” and ends with “Total Cost of Production with Break-Even Calculations” – a wide range of important content is spread between them.” |
