MINIBOSS Family Business Camp 2027 in Portugal

From 8 to 16 July 2027, Portugal will welcome entrepreneurial families from around the world for the MINIBOSS Family Business Camps 2027—an international educational programme where children, parents and business leaders learn, create and develop new ideas together.

The Camp will take place within the international programme of Global Business Week 2027 in Lisbon, Cascais and Estoril. It will combine entrepreneurship education, family development, startup activities, international networking and cultural discovery in one of Europe’s most attractive coastal regions.

Business Education for the Whole Family

Family businesses are built across generations. Their future depends on whether founders can transfer knowledge, values and responsibility—and whether children are prepared to become capable successors.

During the Camp, young participants will study the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, financial literacy, leadership, teamwork, marketing and project management. They will learn how ideas become products, how businesses create value and how responsible decisions influence the future of a company.

MBA: Why Executive Competence Matters

Economic growth depends not only on natural resources, capital and labour, but also on the competence of those who make decisions at the highest level. Ministers, senior civil servants, chief executives and directors of state-owned enterprises manage public budgets, infrastructure projects and international agreements whose effects may last for decades.

The World Bank estimates that around 400 million people work in the public sector worldwide. Yet many governments still provide insufficient professional training or offer courses that do not correspond to the real responsibilities of senior officials. Leadership development should therefore be viewed as an investment in institutional capacity rather than an administrative formality.

Why Executive Competence Matters

Public procurement represented approximately 13% of GDP and 30% of government expenditure across OECD countries in 2024. Even a small improvement in the management of these funds can produce substantial economic value. In an economy with a GDP of £200 billion, a one-percentage-point efficiency improvement in procurement equal to 13% of GDP would theoretically represent £260 million.

INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMA: What Is a Conferred Degree?

What is a conferred degree?
When can you say you have a college degree?
Is it just about taking college classes or is there more to it than that?
Find out what the different terms mean.

What Is a Conferred Degree

Many people have conferred degrees, but not all of them have completed the normal coursework. Others have earned their degree but it hasn’t been conferred yet. Here’s why. 

At the most basic level, the phrase “conferred degree” means you’ve finished all the academic and administrative requirements of your education program.