MSc Family Firm Succession (Poland)

Academic Overview

Succession fails in silence, in unequal siblings, and in a founder who will not let go until a health shock. This MSc starts there, in Polish legal and cultural context: land, limited companies, and the politics of keeping a name above the door. You will design a conversation architecture and a capability plan, and you will state when the family must instruct licensed advisers. Dual-pathway parity lets a son running night shift in a Fife plant study beside a daughter in an Warsaw practice. Identity-checked assessment. Faculty mark whether you can write a board paper that is kind and still true. The award is not an MBA clone and not legal advice. No private-bank or family-office logos. Capstones must not identify living families without consent and anonymisation. You will practise the conversation in which a founder is told that capability, not blood, has to sit in the managing-director chair, and you will document when licensed advisers must enter the room. Polish land, company, and partnership cultures are treated as distinct without turning the degree into a solicitor qualifying course. Identity-checked assessment applies on campus and online. MSc Family Firm Succession (Poland) is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Farms, Firms, and Professional Partnerships through Farms, Firms, and Professional Partnerships; Ownership Vehicles Literacy for Non-Lawyers; Place, Reputation, and Community Obligation; Family Councils, Boards, and Role Confusion; Fairness, Gender, and Non-Family Talent; Mediation Literacy without Therapist Claims, and finish on Writing for Founders and Incoming Generations. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Map ownership, roles, and conflict without giving legal advice Design next-generation capability plans that survive founder identity Write anonymised case papers a family board can use Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.

Curriculum & Core Modules

The curriculum comprises 36 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:

Teaching & Assessment Methodology

Career Trajectories

• Family-firm director / successor (academic award)
• Non-family managing director
• Governance and family-council coordinator
• Adviser’s analyst (not licensed via this MSc)
• Enterprise succession programme officer

European Campus & Academic Facilities

Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.

Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.

Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.

Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.