On July 07th 2021, emlyon business school and the École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon) signed off a Memorandum of Understanding aiming at undertaking common actions serving their respective student populations.

Students from the Grande École Program of emlyon business school will be able to access a macroeconomics program at the ENS de Lyon, and students from the ENS de Lyon, will be able to access courses in mathematical finance at emlyon. This exposure to other domains, will allow them to develop analysis skills and a systemic understanding of social, economic and organizational issues.

Both tracks pave the way to the creation of other hybrid programs in domains of expertise the two institutions are renowned for. The ENS de Lyon is made of 11 training departments covering hard and experimental sciences, literature, social science and humanities, and 22 research laboratories. It provides teachings based on an interdisciplinarity-open research. emlyon provides 16 expert tracks in management and organizational sciences, and its know-how in entrepreneurship, applied artificial intelligence, and in business and market finance. Several modules are being considered, notably based on management and areal analysis.

This partnership will allow to reinforce academic cooperation and favor crossover approach of scientific issues. It will also provide common seminars and conferences.

This agreement marks the first collaboration between emlyon business school and the ENS de Lyon, which shall soon be neighbors, with the upcoming implementation of the new campus of emlyon in the Gerland district of Lyon.

For Isabelle Huault, President of the Executive Board and Dean of emlyon business school: “emlyon and the ENS de Lyon share common values of academic, pedagogical and research excellence. Our common will is to hybridize knowledge to develop creativity and support our students' skills improvement, to address the socio-economic issues. We are delighted to sign this agreement which augurs a promising collaboration.

For Jean-François Pinton, President of the École normale supérieure de Lyon: “The ENS de Lyon has been reinforcing its programs and research in economics for several years now. This partnership with emlyon is to develop an hybridization of analyses to address society's issues.”

About the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon:

In the tradition of écoles normales supérieures, the ENS de Lyon provides training programs of excellence for students looking into working as teachers, researchers, but also contributes to the training, via research, of executive managers of administration and businesses. To that effect, its teachings cover all of humanity and science domains, and research as well as scientific culture, knowledge and information output. The school draws on 200 international partners. www.ens-lyon.fr

Press contact:

ENS de Lyon: Aude Riom – aude.riom@ens-lyon.fr - 06 30 14 08 38

About emlyon business school:

Founded in 1872 by the Lyon CCI, emlyon business school has an enrollment of 8,900 students of 121 nationalities. The school operates on 7 different campuses (Lyon, Shanghai, Saint-Etienne, Casablanca, Paris, and Bhubaneswar and Mumbai), draws on a network of 190 international academic partners and runs a community of 35,700 alumni spread out in 130 countries. emlyon business school's mission is to reveal “early makers”, to train lifelong learning responsible leaders, managers and entrepreneurs, with a solid international experience and intra/entrepreneurial capacities, able to address the complexity of the world, to make it meaningful, to shape and transform the businesses and society they live in, in a collaborative approach. The proposition of emlyon business school is to develop such competences within a unique pedagogy, combining academic research output of excellence and the elaboration of innovative learning tracks based on experimentation. www.em-lyon.com

Press contacts:

emlyon business school: Julie Guillot- guillot@em-lyon.com - 06 45 23 23 04
KBZ Corporate for emlyon: Laurence Martin - lmartin@kbzcorporate.com - 06 47 69 85 99
Karine Zimeray - kzimeray@kbzcorporate.comkzimeray - 06 09 15 65 14

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