emlyon and BPAURA renew their partnership until 2030
Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes (BPAURA) and emlyon business school announce the renewal of their strategic partnership for a further five years. The regional bank is thus committed to continuing its support for the School’s strategy for the benefit of its students.
Initiated in 2018 and extended for an additional five years, the partnership between BPAURA and emlyon business school pursues one key objective: to foster lasting connections between the cooperative banking sector and higher education. It aims to support students’ future employability, enrich academic programs with financial expertise, strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem (incubation/acceleration of start-ups), and promote shared commitments in terms of social inclusion.
Our renewed commitment alongside emlyon business school illustrates BPAURA’s determination to promote high-quality education in our region. By combining our banking expertise and regional roots with emlyon business school’s academic excellence, we aim to provide students with concrete insights into economic, financial, and climate transformations, and to accelerate the emergence of entrepreneurial projects that create jobs and generate positive impact.
A partnership to train, recruit, and support innovation in the region
Over the next five years, BPAURA and emlyon business school plan to roll out a shared roadmap benefiting the School’s students, the bank’s teams, and more broadly the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region:
- Recruitment & employer branding: BPAURA will take part in recruitment events to meet emlyon business school students and offer them career opportunities within the bank. At the start of the 2026 academic year, BPAURA will also host a conference for emlyon students focusing on supporting environmental transitions, with a particular emphasis on water resource management and preservation—one of BPAURA’s strategic priorities.
- Expertise for students: BPAURA experts will contribute to several academic programs (financial markets, financial engineering, structured finance, careers and challenges in future banking, organizational climate strategy—in connection with the Energy Transition Bank, CSR, etc.).
- Entrepreneurial ecosystem: Involvement with emlyon venture labs, the School’s incubation and acceleration structure created over 40 years ago (participation in pitch juries, office hours for entrepreneurs, workshops on financing, etc.).
- Social engagement: Annual scholarships awarded to GBBA students from the region. This support is complemented by participation in admission juries and by hosting interns from the La Toile emlyon program. This program, which reflects emlyon business school’s commitment to social inclusion, aims to provide access to qualifying training for individuals far from employment, career switchers, and young people who have left the school system.
- Skills development: Access for BPAURA employees to emlyon business school’s executive education offering (short programs or certificate/degree programs) as part of the bank’s talent development policy.
This collaboration builds on the longstanding partnership between BPAURA and emlyon business school since 2018. BPAURA has supported the School’s development, particularly the creation of the Gerland campus. In this context, the outdoor amphitheater and the student association hub at emlyon business school are named “Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes.”
This partnership embodies the close relationship between emlyon business school and the economic stakeholders of its region. By extending our commitment with BPAURA, we reaffirm our mission: to train talents capable of supporting business and societal transformations.