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The emlyon business school strategic plan 2024-2028
emlyon business school, an engaged school for engaged students, wants to train “makers” who can explore alternative futures to build and take action.
The maker spirit has constituted emlyon's DNA ever since it was created. The maker spirit is at the heart of its academic model and strategy. That is why our strategic plan is built around the five qualities a maker is expected to demonstrate: academic excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, engagement, hybrid knowledge and resonance.
The maker spirit is at the heart of our academic model and our strategy.
Academic excellence
Our ambition: Provide the latest scientific output and the best teaching to each student.
- Making major investments in the recruitment of top world-class professors-researchers: 50 new positions by 2028.
- Launching the Healthcare Innovation, Technology & Society Institute (HITS).
- Ramping up in signing of research chairs with the best companies in energy and health-related subjects.
- 100% of our degree programs integrating an initiation to research.
Entrepreneurial spirit
Our ambition: Allow each and every one to become action-driven leaders.
The surface dedicated to the makers' lab was doubled on our Lyon's campus.
100% of our students training is based on an action learning pedagogy: learn to do and do to learn.
Provide the support and guidance of our incubator, a front-runner in France over the past 40 years, and that of our Institute for Impactful Innovation & Entrepreneurship, launched in 2024.
Creating a fund with impact with the support of the emlyon alumni.
Reinforcing the leadership of our programs designed to support High-Level Athletes from the start of their career through to their professional retraining.
Engagement
Our ambition: Increase our impact, reduce our footprint.
Transformation of all our teaching, with SDGs inside, driven by the Associate Dean for pedagogy in the Anthropocene.
Creation of an Academy of the Transition, to reinforce the impact of all experiential pedagogical projects (Responsible Commitment Program, makers' projects, TEM, etc.) in which students are committed to address the ecological crisis, with a specific perspective on decarbonized neo-industrialization.
Training of 100% of our students, professors and staff members in social and environmental issues.
Consolidation of all these initiatives related to social diversity within a Solidarity & Inclusion Center to take actions from education orientation to integration and up to professional insertion.
Scholarships dedicated to the Global BBA students providing up to 100 free tuition fees.
Implementation of our Climate Plan and contribution to a net zero by 2030.
Hybrid knowledge
Our ambition: Develop openness and multidisciplinarity in connection with society and the planet.
- Systematic hybridization (Artificial Intelligence, Data, Arts, Social Sciences, Design Thinking, soft skills).
- Creating new double and triple degrees (European Master in Management, Finance & Technology with Politecnico di Milano and Bayes Business School; schools of the Galileo Global Education Group - Cours Florent, Strate, Penninghen, Istituto Marangoni…).
- Accelerating the development of a Global Management University, primarily in Europe.
Resonance: openness and exchanges
Our ambition: Allow each student of emlyon business school to interact at the very heart of the city in connection with other ecosystems and the rest of the world.
- Transferring the School's activities to Lyon city-center as of September 2024 to develop student engagement, reflexivity, employability, creativity, projects...
- Increasing our presence in Paris and acting for the international outreach of Lyon.
- Reinforcing our international attractiveness, especially in Africa and amplifying our historical cooperation with China and India.
- Developing and promoting the outreach of the alumni community across the world.
- Providing companies with a comprehensive and collaborative service offer.
- Creating connections with executive leaders as part of the Leadership Academy For New Futures.
2024-2028 Main objectives of “Resonances”