Continue your learning with ESMT and develop new skills
Alumni of ESMT Berlin can take advantage of additional opportunities to continue investing in your personal and professional development. With Alumni Advanced Learning, enroll in a single course, delivered entirely online and supplement your degree with specialized skills and knowledge.
Available courses for 2025:
14 April – 22 June 2025
- Doing business sustainably – Prof Raji Jayarman
- Entrepreneurship - Prof Linus Dahlander
- Human factors of innovation – Prof Linus Dahlander
11 August – 19 October 2025
- Embracing technological change – Prof Stefan Wagner
- Mastering negotiations – Prof Martin Schweinsberg
- Platform economics and strategies – Dr. Bianca Schmitz and Dr. Jens Weinmann
Completing one of these stand-alone online courses will earn you 2 ECTS that can be credited towards future degree studies (such as the ESMT Berlin MBA). You will also receive a certificate of achievement and a transcript upon successfully passing each course.
You will be joined in class by students from the highly international Global Online MBA program. Students have, on average, 11 years of work experience.
This offer is available to all our degree alumni, as well as alumni of our Postgraduate Diploma in Management.
Pick your course
Find out more about the individual online courses that are on offer and when they are available.
Each course lasts 10 weeks and participants should expect to spend around 5 hours per week studying. You are expected to be an active contributor to group work and submit assignments on time.
Courses taking place April 14–June 22, 2025
Doing business sustainably
Moving towards sustainability presents huge opportunities for businesses. This program will help you formulate a strategy to take advantage of these opportunities while preparing you for the function-specific challenges associated with implementing sustainable business practices
Professor: Prof Rajshri Jayarman
Cost: € 1,500
Dates: April 14, 2025 – June 22, 2025
Application deadline:
Entrepreneurship
Even the best ideas need strong business acumen to succeed. In this program, immerse yourself in the process of developing a business from an innovative new idea. Explore the ways to pitch, finance, market and scale a new venture and lead it to continued to success.
Professor: Prof Linus Dahlander
Cost: € 1,500
Dates: April 14, 2025 – June 22, 2025
Application deadline:
Human factors of innovation
Innovation comes in many forms. By understanding the innovation landscape and the impact a host of human-led factors have on it, you are empowered to identify new opportunities and capitalize on them.
In this program, you will learn how to identify innovation possibilities within your company and the strategies required to bring them to life.
Professor: Prof Linus Dahlander
Cost: € 1,500
Dates: April 14, 2025 – June 22, 2025
Application deadline:
Courses taking place August 11–October 19, 2025
Embracing technological change
Is your organization adaptable and agile? Are you confident in your ability to keep your organization ahead of the competition when it comes to new technology?
In this program, master the ability to identify, adopt and implement new technologies and maintain your organization’s competitiveness.
Professor: Prof Stefan Wagner
Cost: € 1,500
Dates: August 11, 2025 – October 19, 2025
Application Deadline:
Mastering negotiations
Being an effective negotiator can help open up new doorways for your career and exciting new opportunities or partnerships for your organization. But it is a difficult task to practice on-the-job. This program will unlock your inner-negotiator and help you achieve better outcomes at the negotiating table.
Professor: Prof Martin Schweinsberg
Cost: € 1,500
Dates: August 11, 2025 – October 19, 2025
Application Deadline:
Platform economics and strategies
Innovation comes in many forms. By understanding the innovation landscape and the impact a host of human-led factors have on it, you are empowered to identify new opportunities and capitalize on them.
In this program, you will learn how to identify innovation possibilities within your company and the strategies required to bring them to life.
Professor: Dr. Bianca Schmitz and Dr. Jens Weinmann
Cost: € 1,500
Dates: August 11, 2025 – October 19, 2025
Application Deadline: