Course assessment and credits (ECTS) for Summer School

The BSE Summer Schools offer participants the possibility of being assessed for the purpose of requesting official credit transfers (ECTS).

General conditions for course assessment and credits in all Summer School programs

It will be up to the participant's home institution to decide how many credits will be awarded, but the BSE Summer School office will:

  1. Provide any necessary information to help the university of origin evaluate the courses by giving a recommendation of the equivalence in our institution
  2. Provide the participant with a transcript stating the courses attended, the number of hours completed, and the grade obtained in the assessment.

Participants who wish to join the Summer School under this scheme will be asked to request ECTS during the standard application process

The deadline to confirm your seat on the courses and to apply for credits recognition, is June 1, 2023.

Upon conclusion of the Summer School, assessments will be graded, and transcripts sent to participants in a timely manner. It will be the responsibility of the students to contact the Registrar/Academic Secretary/Study Abroad Office of their home institutions to check how the hours completed and the grades obtained can be transferred into official credits.

Participants not interested in credit transfer will instead receive a Certificate of Attendance, stating the courses and number of hours completed. These students will be neither evaluated nor graded.

General Conditions for course assessment and credits

Requisites:

  • Attend at least 80% of the course
  • Pass the assessment with a grade of C or above

The assessments will be graded on an A - F basis, based on the following scale:

9.5 - 10 = A+ (Extraordinary Achievement)

9.0 - 9.4 = A (Outstanding)

8.0 - 8.9 = A- (Excellent)

7.5 - 7.9 = B+ (Very Good)

7.0 - 7.4 = B (Good)

6.0 - 6.9 = B- (Good)

5.0 - 5.9 = C (Pass)

4.0 - 4.9 = D (Fail)

0 - 3.9 = F (Fail)

Conditions for course assessment and credits by program

Select a program to view its assessment type and credit equivalencies.

Banking Summer School

  • For a Transcript equivalent to BSE’s: 1 ECTS per course (10 lecture hours)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a short summary of a paper one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of a critical summary of a published paper, around 3.4 pages, 1.5-spaced, font size 11. The critical summary will need to follow these guidelines: expose what are the main ideas of the paper, how they are addressed, strengths and weaknesses of the paper, methodological approach, theoretical or empirical background, and suggestions for improvements.

Data Science Summer School

  • For a Transcript equivalent to BSE’s: 2 ECTS per course (20 lecture hours)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a short final project one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist in solving a final problem that will include the practical and empirical issues worked on in class.

Development Summer School

  • For a BSE's Transcript equivalent to BSE’s: 1 ECTS per course (10 hours lecture)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a short research proposal one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of 3-4 pages, 1.5 spaced, font size 11, with a clear research question, a motivation (introduce the question and its policy relevance), a discussion of the existing literature and how your paper relates to that, and an explanation on how you would approach the questions (empirical strategy and/or theoretical model).

Digital Economy Summer School

  • For a BSE's Transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per course (10 lecture hours)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a short research proposal one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of 3-4 pages, 1.5 spaced, font size 11, with a clear research question, a motivation (introduce the question and its policy relevance), a discussion of the existing literature and on how your paper relates to that, and an explanation on how you would approach the questions (empirical strategy and/or theoretical model).

The project will be graded on an A, B, C, D, F basis.

Energy Economics Summer School

Requisites:

  • Attending at least the 80% of the lectures and practical lessons
  • For a Transcript equivalent to BSE’s: 1 ECTS per course (10 lecture hours)

Students will deliver a problem set one week after the summer school finishes. The problem set will require students to develop one of the open questions that are proposed at the end of each practical session, develop the idea and analysis in around 3-4 pages, 1.5 spaced, font size 11. Students will need to provide the accompanying code.

Finance Summer School

  • For a BSE's Transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per course (10 lecture hours)

Assessment type:

Corporate Finance

Grading will be based on the presentation of business case studies discussed in class.

Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivatives

An exam will take place during the afternoon session of the last day. The exam will consist of general questions covering the basic contents of the course.

Hedging Strategies with Equity and Commodity Derivatives

An exam will take place during the afternoon session of the last day. The exam will consist of general questions covering the basic contents of the course.

Advanced Portfolio Management

An exam will take place during the afternoon session of the last day. The exam will consist of general questions covering the basic contents of the course.

Labor Economics Summer School

  • For a BSE's Transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per course (10 lecture hours)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a short summary of a paper one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist in a critical summary of a published paper, around 3-4 pages, 1.5-spaced, font size 11. The critical summary will need to follow these guidelines: expose what are the main ideas of the paper, how they are addressed, strengths and weaknesses of the paper, methodological approach, theoretical or empirical background, and suggestions for improvements).

 

Macroeconometrics Summer School

  • For a BSE's Transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per course (10 lecture hours)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a short final project one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist in solving a final problem or assignment that will include the practical and empirical issues worked on in class. The project will be graded on an A, B, C, D, F basis.

Microeconometrics Summer School

  • For BSE's Transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per course (10 lecture hours)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a short final project one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist in solving a final problem or assignment that will include the practical and empirical issues worked in class.

Energy Summer School

  • For a BSE's Transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per summer course (10 hours of lecture)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a problem set one week after the summer school finishes. The problem set will require students to develop one of the open questions that are proposed at the end of each practical session, develop the idea and analysis in around 3-4 pages, 1.5-spaced, font size 11. Students will need to provide the accompanying code.

Development Summer School

For a BSE's transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per summer course (10 hours of lecture)

Assessment type:

In the courses ``Randomized Control Trial (RCTs) in Development Economics: Design and Data Analysis’’ and ``Complex Network Analysis: Tools for Development Economics,” students will be evaluated with problem sets . In the course ``Geospatial Tools for Development: Data and Inference,” students will deliver a short research proposal one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of 3-4 pages, 1.5 spaced, font size 11, with a clear research question, a motivation (introduce the question and its policy relevance), a discussion of the existing literature and on how your paper relates to that, and an explanation on how you would approach the questions (empirical strategy and/or theoretical model).

Mega Trends Summer School

For a BSE's Transcript equivalent: 1 ECTS per summer course (10 hours of lecture)

Assessment type:

Students will deliver a short final project one week after the summer school finishes. It will consist of solving a final problem that will include the practical and empirical issues worked on in class. 

CREI Macroeconometrics Summer School (NO ECTS)

 

Evaluation policy for all programs

Assessment Policies

No re-takes and no deadline extensions are possible. Students can ask for a review of the grade obtained within the following 15 days (calendar days) after the grades are sent by email.

Academic Integrity 

Academic integrity is violated with any activity that is likely to undermine the integrity essential to scholarship and research. It includes plagiarism, collusion, fabrication or falsification of results, and anything else that is intended to achieve credit for those committing it that they do not properly deserve.

Plagiarism is the presentation of the ideas, work or words of other people without proper, clear and unambiguous acknowledgement. It also includes the submission, in whole or in part, of a student’s own work — ‘self-plagiarism’ — where, for example, such work may have been previously submitted for a different assessment.

Collusion occurs when a student or students collaborate inappropriately or illicitly with another student or students with the intention of improving the mark or grade of an individual or group.

Fabrication or falsification of data or results by individual students or groups of students is the presentation or inclusion in assignments of figures or data unsupported by verifiable or documented programs of research; this may or may not additionally involve instances of plagiarism and/or of collusion.

Penalties

If a student’s work violates the standard of academic integrity, the penalty imposed will be a mark of zero for the entire summer school.

Mix and match your summer courses!

Remember that you can combine courses from more than one BSE Summer School program (schedule permitting).

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