2026 Edition
The fourteenth edition of the Global Competitiveness Program for SMEs (GCPyMES) took place over two weeks at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), from July 27 to August 7, 2026. The program brought together 22 participating students: 10 from the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy), 1 from the Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (Germany), 9 from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina), and 2 from the Agency for Cooperation, Investments and Foreign Trade of the City of Santa Fe (ACICE).
This initiative offers students the chance to work alongside real Argentine companies on actual challenges. It provides a demanding experiential setting where participants go beyond their academic coursework to collaborate with international peers within a consultancy-style framework.
About the Program
The Global Competitiveness Program for SMEs (GCP) is an international training program to do consulting work, especially focused on Small and Medium Enterprises that aim to enter into the international competitiveness environment.
This is a joint development program between the School of Economics “G. Fuà” of the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, and the School of Economics of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), and is based on the developed experience of the Italian school with the College of Business at Ohio University, USA, that have been working on this program for 20 (10) years.
The project aims to improve students’ intercultural experience, by working in multinational teams doing business consulting and solving real problems for real companies. Students must prepare a business plan to be delivered, in the last day of the program, to the company’s management. Professors from both schools will be tutors and advisors to the teams.
The proposed assignments will be based on real companies of the region of the School of Economics, UNL, Santa Fe, Argentina, and they will be focused on any aspect of their international performance. Due to its characteristics, the entire program is conducted in English.
Contact information: gcp@unl.edu.ar