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Creating your own venture or selling across borders
Two programmes speak to whoever wants trade as their ground. One builds the venture and its business model, the other the operations of exchange across borders. Here are their durations, weekly loads, credits and fees, in one table.
Two ways of doing business
Entrepreneurship builds the venture: validating the need, business model, funding plan, incorporation, first customers, first hires, cash steering. International trade builds the transaction: sourcing, incoterms, transport, transit and customs, documentary finance, negotiating with counterparts from other cultures. The first makes you a founder, the second an operator of exchanges. They meet the day your venture starts exporting.
The figures of both programmes
| Criterion | Entrepreneurship | International Trade |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | 18 months | 2 years |
| Pace | Self-paced | Compatible with a job |
| Weekly workload | 13 h per week | 20 h per week |
| Teaching blocks | 6 | 7 |
| Supervised hours | 600 h | 1200 h |
| Credits | 60 credits | 120 credits |
| Fees | 4 400 000 GNF per year | 5 000 000 GNF per year |
The outcomes listed in the catalogue
Entrepreneurship
- Business founder
- Business acquirer
- Business development manager
- Incubator support officer
International Trade
- Import-export manager
- Customs declarant
- International logistics officer
- International buyer
How to choose yours
Your starting point
An idea you want to turn into a company: entrepreneurship. A flow of goods to organise: international trade.
Your working pace
The table gives both regimes: one is steered by you while your venture advances, the other follows a session calendar.
Your horizon
Eighteen months to set up a venture, or twenty-four to gain full command of the exchange chain: both are in the table.
What candidates ask
Does the entrepreneurship programme cover exports?
It covers business development and market search; the international trade programme makes it its main subject.
Can you found a company during the trade programme?
Yes, its pace is compatible with an activity, and the capstone project may address your own venture.
Which programme opens customs and transit roles?
International trade prepares for them, and the occupational titles catalogue names these roles precisely with their blocks.
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