The University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business has teamed up with Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands on a simple idea with high stakes: a case competition in which the winner will be awarded a full-tuition scholarship to Nyenrode's Master of Science in Management program.

Business and accounting majors scheduled to graduate from Lundquist no later than August 2013 can apply to lead teams. Each competitor will recruit two fellow students and work together to tackle a challenging, internationally-themed business case.

The leader of the winning team will receive the Nyenrode scholarship and head to the Netherlands to begin the program this August.

The competition will take place on Friday, April 5. Judges include André Nijhof, director of Nyenrode's management program, and Albert van Servellen, an alumnus of both Nyenrode and the University of Oregon.

"This is a wonderful opportunity for our students to showcase their talents while competing for a prize that will be truly life-changing," said Collette Niland, assistant dean of the college's undergraduate programs. "We are thrilled to be working with Nyenrode on this remarkable project."

A flyer about the competition is available online.

Nijhof and Servellen will share insights about studying in the Netherlands from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 4, in Room 125 a/b ot the Chiles Business Center on the UO campus. The case competition will then be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 5, in Room 212 of Lillis Hall.

Lundquist's dean, Cornelis “Kees” de Kluyver, attended Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the 1960s and currently serves on the institution's board of directors.

- from the UO's Lundquist College of Business