CBS Kontinuum
CBS Kontinuum (or CBS K for short) is a strategic initiative at the Copenhagen Business School that aims to identify, design, and deliver new kinds of shared learning experiences for individuals across generations and across the career-span.
Bowline has partnered with CBS K (Article →) to explore new kinds of action research and learning that can exert a positive impact — not only on the restaurant industry, but also on the urban environments and local communities that restaurants serve, and that sustain restaurants in turn.
The Bowline/CBS K Partnership brings CBS faculty and students out of the classroom and into the community to support Bowline initiatives, to engage with new kinds of partners in novel ways, and to mobilize the creativity, diversity, and passion of the culinary community to generate fresh kinds of research and innovative forms of lifelong learning, development, and change.
“CBS K offers an organizational interface between CBS and external partners to identify, mobilize and design shared learning opportunities.”
“The general trend in higher education and especially in continuous education is a focus on a higher degree of flexibility in skill acquisition and upgrading.
CBS K offers an organizational interface between CBS and external partners to identify, mobilize and design shared learning opportunities. It works strategically with nurturing a life-long commitment to learning for CBS students and CBS alumni by offering a platform for explicit engagement with grand societal challenges. As a meeting ground for CBS learners across generations (full-time, part-time and alumni), it is to become the go-to place for external and internal stakeholders seeking to explore transformative learning experiences. The overall ambition with CBS K is to collect various stakeholder communities in Denmark to develop resilient systems with a well-trained workforce and society engaged in lifelong learning.”
Rasmus Johnsen, Associate Dean for Lifelong Learning, CBS
Bowline and CBS K are working together to supervise a number of masters thesis research projects on issues central to the restaurant industry in the midst of the crisis. We are forging connections between restaurant industry stakeholders and CBS faculty to conduct and publish more such research, and to work on Bowline initiatives like CONNECT. We have designed a masters level course at CBS—to be taught with both CBS faculty and restaurant folk—on the broader lessons to be learned from the impact of the COVID crisis on this vital creative industry. And we are working with the NORDIC CASE HOUSE at CBS to develop and publish case studies on the restaurant industry for use in a variety of teaching and learning contexts.
