Het Groningen Digital Business Centre (GBDC) zoekt kandidaten voor de derde GDBC Thesis Award Digital Business. Deze prijs zet het belang van digitalisering in business in de schijnwerpers. Wil je meedingen naar deze prijs? Stuur dan je deelname in voor 1 juni 2023. Lees meer in onderstaand artikel van het GBDC (in Engels).

The importance of digitization in business has increased significantly in recent years. These developments build on existing themes such as Information Systems and e-commerce, but also contain more technological and methodological elements as data science, block chain and artificial intelligence.

Given the importance of this field, the Groningen Digital Business Centre (GBDC) has organized a Digital Business thesis award. This award is intended for graduate Master students of the University of Groningen who have written a thesis on a subject related to the field of 'Digital Business'. The field of Digital Business is interpreted broadly. The subject can be related to all disciplines within business and management, including accounting, finance, HRM, innovation management, marketing, supply chain and operations.

The Thesis Award 2022

The thesis award is awarded annually. For the GDBC Digital Business Thesis Award of a specific year (e.g. 2022), the thesis must be completed in that year (2022) and defended in that year or in the beginning of the next year (2023). In principle, three theses are nominated. Subsequently, these three students are invited to present their work at the GDBC spring conference in September. Ultimately, there is of course one winner and she / he receives the thesis prize and an amount of 2000 euros. There are also honourable second and third prizes, of 1000 and 500 euros. The three winners will also be given the opportunity from partner NOO to access the NOO platform with knowledge and experience in the field of Digital Business.

Participation

·        Participation in the thesis award is open to any recent or nearly graduated student at the University of Groningen (all faculties) who has successfully completed his or her master's thesis or graduation project in the relevant calendar year.
·        The closing date for the submission period is 1 June of the following year, so now 01-06-2023 for the 2022 thesis award.
·        The student or graduate must send the thesis as a PDF file by e-mail to the GDBC: gdbc@rug.nl

The submission for the thesis prize must be accompanied by the following information:

-          name, address, telephone number (s), e-mail address, date of birth of author
-          faculty, name of the study program, title of the thesis, the grade with which the thesis was assessed and graduation date (intended)
-          names, titles and e-mail address of the thesis supervisor (s).