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EM NORMANDIE

March 2015

SUMMARY

1-History ...... 3

2-Key figures ...... 5

3-Mission statement and vision ...... 6

4- Statutes and governance ...... 7

5-Portfolio of programmes ...... 8

6-Focus on the Grande Ecole Master’s Programme and its strengths ...... 10

7-Centres of expertise ...... 15

8-Campuses ...... 16

9-EM Normandie alumni network ...... 18

1-History

Thanks to its long-standing tradition and rich history, EM Normandie is a well-established and at the same time modern business school.

Created in 1871, the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce du Havre was one of France’s first commercial schools formed as a result of Le Havre Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s desire to train the type of staff local businesses and industries needed in the very international context of what was already a major port in France.

A century later, in 1978, the Chamber of Commerce and the Port of Le Havre Authority created IPER (Institut Portuaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche), whose mission is to train executives and CEOs from the international port community in administration and management of port structures.

In 1982, the Chambers of Commerce of Caen and Le Havre jointly decided to form the Groupe ESC Normandie and consequently to open a second campus in Caen. SUP EUROPE C.E.S.E.C, a strongly international undergraduate programme was to be based on the new campus in 1987.

EM Normandie was formed in 2004 through the merger of the three existing schools.

In 2006, the merger was officially acknowledged by the French Ministry of National Education that granted a ‘Visa’ and the ‘Grade de Master’ awarding rights for the new “Grande Ecole Master’s Programme”, under the official EM Normandie brand name. This programme is still unique in the French HE context as it offers access to a 5-year degree at three different entry levels. Accordingly, the programme may vary in length from to 2 to 5 years depending on the student’s initial level at entry.

In January 2007, the ‘preliminary association’ was turned into a fully-fledged association, and was open to new stakeholders, such as companies and other institutions that could bring further impetus.

Since 2011, both the transformation and extension of the governance have been fully achieved. Moreover, since the association was initiated, EM Normandie has gradually extended its portfolio of programmes, and is now offering in addition to its flagship programme, two Bachelor’s programmes, ten specialized Masters (MS) and MScs, together with a degree-awarding Executive MBA and executive education programmes.

Initially located on two main campuses in Caen and Le Havre, as well as a satellite campus in Deauville since 2005, EM Normandie opened two further campuses in Paris and Oxford, respectively in 2013 and 2014, in order to meet its growth and development of new activities.

At the same time the school has extended its research activities, through massive recruitment of faculty researchers, with special emphasis on its fields of expertise such as logistics, port and maritime management, CSR, sustainable development, economic intelligence and entrepreneurship.

In this context, two research and teaching institutes were founded in 2011 and 2012 (IDéT – Institute for Territory Development and InsIDE – Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute), which enriched the offer by the school’s longstanding institute, IPER.

Over the last ten years, EM Normandie has undergone a marked change in scale and reputation in all its activities. The school has set out to be one of the business schools of reference on the UK - Greater Paris - River Seine Valley economic axis. This positioning is original in that it combines both a marked international orientation and embedment in a local territory. The school is thus in a position to contribute to the influence of its 'extended' territory through its international focus.

Accreditations

In 2011, EM Normandie obtained the EPAS accreditation delivered by the EFMD for its “Grande Ecole Programme”. This accreditation was renewed for five years in October 2014. In May 2014, EM Normandie earned AACSB accreditation for 5 years. In early 2015, the ‘Visa’ and the “Grade de Master’ of the “Grande Ecole Programme” delivered by the French Ministry of National Education are renewed for 5 years.

2-Key figures Work force  2,846 students and business professionals in the degree programmes  More than 470 participants in open and customised executive programmes per year  64 full-time faculty members and 4 associate faculty members  75% of faculty with a PhD  576 adjunct-faculty  224 staff members (academic and administrative) International  Over 220 international partners in some 50 countries  700 international students from foreign partner universities hosted in 2014-2015  25% international full-time faculty  60 visiting professors from international universities  6 programmes taught entirely in English  9 foreign languages taught (English, German, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese) Research  A research laboratory: METIS  3 main research axes: Management and Entrepreneurship ; Logistics – Land – Sea – Risk; Management of Cultural Interactions  A sponsored chair on “Entrepreneurship, Project, Innovation” in partnership with CERFRANCE, leading consultants and chartered accountants association Corporate relations  Close relationships with over 1,000 companies annually  Over 450 Junior Consulting Projects carried out by students at companies in 2014- 2015  An “observatory of tomorrow’s employment opportunities and management pedagogies” Resources and facilities  5 campuses in Caen, Deauville, Le Havre, Paris and Oxford  €25m budget in 2015  2 libraries and media centres in Caen et Le Havre  A bilingual collaborative portal for students (SchoolBox)  300 PCs in free access rooms, 900 tablets offered to Grande Ecole Master’s students  WiFi access, video conferencing facilities and video projectors on all campuses

3-Mission statement and vision

Mission

“Ecole de Management de Normandie has made it its core mission to meet the needs of the business community by educating young future executives who are able to efficiently address change and project management challenges, to display genuine managerial capabilities, and who are fully aware of cross-cultural issues and corporate social responsibilities. Also, EM Normandie has a duty to contribute actively to the lifelong learning of those employees and executives already in business. Through institutional research support schemes, EM Normandie promotes intellectual contributions, academic, applied and pedagogical, to guarantee high added-value in the learning process of its learners. Furthermore, to enhance its regional legitimacy and play a significant role in the attractiveness of its home areas, EM Normandie wishes to be instrumental in the regional development and competitiveness of Normandy and the ‘Arc Manche’ area (1)”.

Vision

EM Normandie seeks to be “an educational institution of undisputed standing that fulfills successfully all the duties of a Business School, servicing businesses and a wider territory”. In January 2013, EM Normandie launched its new strategic plan ‘Values & Performance’ for the 2013-2017 period. This plan enhances the school’s strategic consistency, notably its multi-campus administration, the implementation of active learning pedagogies and a contribution to strengthening core activities in Normandy in partnership with the region’s business community. This shows a marked shift in the scale of its ambitions and profile, thanks to major pro-active differentiations, such as innovative projects like La SmartEcole® and closer partnerships with Université de Caen Basse-Normandie and Grenoble Ecole de Management in France and international universities abroad.

1 Arc Manche is a transnational area covering the British and French territories along the English Channel. The “expanded” Arc Manche area extends as far as Paris.

4- Statutes and governance

EM Normandie is a stand-alone, non-profit association (1901 Act), operating under a private law contract. While the business school comprises several governance bodies, full managerial responsibility is exercised by Jean-Guy Bernard, Dean, whose prerogatives include the implementation of the policy approved by the Board of Trustees. EM Normandie thus enjoys full autonomy in all its activities, in particular with regards to financial management, recruitment, marketing, academic authority over programmes (in compliance with national and European frameworks of reference).

EM Normandie is managed by a Board of Trustees chaired by François Raoul-Duval, CEO of SCRD, whose role is to lay down the overall policy of the association, to submit it for approval to the general meetings and to delegate implementation to the Board of Trustees Executive Committee. The Board is composed of representatives of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry who were involved in the founding of the school, delegates from the business community, representatives of the partner institutions of the school and the alumni network President.

The Strategic Orientation Committee, composed of representatives from the economic and academic worlds, and currently chaired by Philippe-Pierre Dornier, Professor at ESSEC Business School and President of Newton Vauréal Consulting, helps the school in its academic and strategic thinking.

The Executive Commitee (COMEX)

It comprises the Director General, the Deputy Director General and Dean for programmes, the two associate Deans for programmes, the Academic Adviser, the Administrative and Financial Director, the Dean for Faculty, the Dean for Research, the Director of Marketing and Corporate Relations. They define and make decisions on the school’s strategic issues, for which they set policies and overall procedures in accordance with the orientations decided by the Board of Trustees.

The Steering Committee (CODIR)

26 managers form the Steering Committee which is in charge of the day-to-day running of the institution, maintaining its financial balance and the implementation of the overall policies.

5-Portfolio of programmes

1- Degree Programmes EM Normandie offers a range of both undergraduate and graduate degree-awarding programmes. All in all, these programmes currently host some 2,846 students in 2014-2015.

Bachelors  Bachelor in International Management (3-year programme) – Le Havre, Caen, Paris  Bachelor in European Management (1-year programme) – Caen

Generalist graduate programmes  Grande Ecole Master’s Programme (2, 3 or 5-year) – Caen, Deauville, Le Havre, Paris, Oxford  Grande Ecole Master’s Programme (continuing education) (1 or 2-year) – Le Havre or by e-learning

Specialized Masters (1-year programmes)  MS in Entrepreneurship – Caen, Le Havre  MS in Territory Development, Marketing and Innovation – Caen  MS in Competencies and HR Management – Paris  MS in Marketing, Communication and Agrifood Products Engineering – Rouen (with ESITPA)  Post-graduate degree in Information Systems Management – Caen (with EMSI – Grenoble Ecole de Management)  MSc in Cross-Cultural Marketing and Negotiation – Caen  MSc in International Events Management – Deauville  MSc in Tourism and Leisure Management (e-learning)  MSc in International Logistics and Crisis Management – Le Havre

 MSc in Supply Chain Management – Le Havre

MBA  Executive MBA, Maritime Transport Logistics and Project Management (1-year programme part time) – Caen, Deauville, Le Havre, Paris and abroad (UK, Belgium and Brazil).

2-Executive Education The school offers a range of executive education programmes, aimed at practicing professionals. Specialized seminars are designed by the three institutions: IPER in port management and logistics, IdèT in territory development, economic intelligence, substainable development and CSR and InsIDE in entrepreneurship and innovation. Generalist programmes in management sciences or personal development are designed by the marketing and corporate relations office.

 Inter-company programmes (“open programmes”), pre-designed and offered from a catalogue. Participants come from a variety of companies for a common topic, for an on-campus seminar;  In-company programmes (“customized programmes”), specifically developed for one company, on a topic defined jointly with the school to cater for their specific needs. Such programmes are taught in a class in France or abroad;  IPER offers, in addition to the above types of programmes, training programmes specifically developed for the IMO (International Maritime Organization).

In the short term, EM Normandie wants to develop its executive education activities and especially to use its expertise acquired in e-learning as a growth leverage.

6-Focus on the Grande Ecole Master’s Programme and its strengths

EM Normandie stands out from other Grandes Ecoles as it is the only one to offer 3 entry levels via 4 different national competitive admissions exams: SESAME for “post-bac” applicants, BCE for “classes préparatoires” applicants, and Passerelle 1 & 2 for applicants who already hold a 2-year diploma or 3-year undergraduate degree. Fee-paying international students are recruited either through the standard French competitive exams or the Pass-World specific route operated by the Passerelle national test centre. Exchange students nominated by foreign partner universities come for a semester or a year under relevant agreements. The programme also offers a credit-awarding executive education track, taught on campus or by e-learning. Its target public is composed of managers, employees, private individuals or unemployed people, whose goal is to develop further expertise in management and acquire a Master’s level degree, with a view to progressing in their careers or switching occupations.

Pedagogical model

Management cycle 2 M2 Management, specialization* and professionalisation in an international context Internship (5 to -6 months) 2nd cycle – Off-Campus Elective Year (12-month internship in France or abroad)

Semester 1: Management cycle 1 M1 Management, Organisation & Cultural Environments Semester 2: Academic semester abroad Internship (1 to 3 months) Business Administration cycle 1 & 2 U3 Economics, Administration, Foreign Languages & Culture ENTRY LEVEL Internship (2 months) 3/4-year degree

Semester 1: Academic semester abroad U2 Semester 2: Business Administration cycle 2 ENTRY Economics, Administration, Foreign languages & Culture LEVEL Internship (2 months) 2-year diploma Business Administration Cycle 1 U1 Economics, Administration, Foreign Languages & Culture Internship (2 months) ENTRY LEVEL French or international Baccalaureate

* 14 final year options: Auditing and Financial Management/ Corporate Finance/ Marketing and Sales Strategy/ Cross-cultural Marketing and Negotiation/ Entrepreneurship/ Supply Chain Management/ International Logistics and Crisis Management/ Territory Development, Innovation and Marketing/ International Events Management/ Competency-based HRM/ International Business/ Information Systems Manager/ Internet Strategy and Web Management/ Marketing, Communication and Agrifood Products Engineering. A new one in Digital Management will be offered in Paris in September 2015.

Programme objectives The main objective is to meet the needs of the business community by educating young future executives who will be able to efficiently address change and project management challenges, to display genuine managerial capabilities, fully aware of cross-cultural issues and corporate social responsibilities.

A new pedagogical ecosystem: La SmartEcole® Launched in 2013, La SmartEcole® was designed to move away from traditional methods of learning to allow students to be actors in their education and to become progressively co- creators of their knowledge. With this new scheme, EM Normandie has implemented an innovative organization that integrates multimodal learning and mobility, supported by a collaborative platform comprising a private social network, a digital work domain, an open- source training platform, an e-portfolio to administer competencies, with on-line courses and events operating systems, and even content-creating tools. Thus, study tracks allow more space for collaborative work and project management, as well as simulations, case studies, content creation and co-writing.

The school has given all year-3 undergraduates a tablet to make their involvement in the project easier and to facilitate information transfer flows both during and after class. 20% of all courses of U3 are currently given by faculty whose course material has been re-designed and put on-line. In September 2014, all Master 1 students have been equipped with tablets. In September 2015, Master 2 students will also benefit from this new teaching method.

Faculty, who are the true motors of participative pedagogy, also have customized equipment, tablets, modular rooms, interactive walls, etc. and benefit from technical support in order for the most adapted pedagogical tools to be applied and interaction to be fostered. This is a key project that involves heavy human resources and technical investments, as well as important financial means.

EM Normandie is however attentive in maintaining a suitable balance between the various pedagogical modes applied to the Master’s Programme. Traditional teaching methods are

11 preserved and supplemented with application sessions. Diversity in teaching modes is viewed as a guarantee that an all-round education is given to students.

Professionalization with Junior Consulting Projects (JCP) and contests EM Normandie applies active learning to all levels of the programme by which students are immersed regularly in companies to work on issues selected by professionals.

JCPs are commissioned to groups of 3 students whose fellow workers are chosen for them. These periods of 4 to 5 weeks spent within a company are an excellent complement to traditional teaching. Learners must look into issues identified by a professional in the company concerned and return recommendations.

The contents of the brief given by the host company are validated by the head of the programme year concerned. Students are thus assigned to organizations of very different sizes and fields of activity on pre-defined projects. Topics vary in accordance with the level of studies and are relevant to the year’s course contents and in keeping with the option chosen for Master 2 students. On completion of the project, students defend their recommendations before a panel of experts in the field concerned and submit a written report which is graded by the in-company supervisor. Student contests are another form of learning experience whereby teams of students work for 10 days on a real issue submitted by a company. All these practical exercises enable students to cope with business issues.

Cooperative track This scheme, offered to M1 and M2 students in Caen, Le Havre and Paris, alternates periods of academic teaching at the school (1 week) and periods working at a company (3 weeks) during 1 or 2 years. The students can thus develop professional competencies and acquire knowledge at the same time. The increased emphasis given to this scheme has two goals: promote the programme’s social outreach (students who opt for it benefit from a total or partial tuition waiver), as well as better professional placement of graduates. 97 students opted for the apprenticeship track in 2010-2011. There are 312 in 2014-2015.

International aspects The international dimension of the programme is one of its main features. The prime objective is to generate added-value for the students that take it up: immediately, since it allows them to acquire language skills, autonomy, open-mindedness and to benefit from a cross-cultural experience not only with national students, but also with other international students on the welcoming campus or at home; and in their future professional life, working abroad or managing intercultural teams in France or dealing with foreign markets. Many

12 opportunities are available for students to have direct experience with cross-cultural issues and develop empathy and understanding:

 Cross-Cultural management courses allow to raise students’ awareness of cultural differences and to prepare them for working relations in an international context;  Many management courses in English. For instance: the first semester of M1 (Master in International Management) located in Le Havre and Oxford, is taught exclusively in English as well as 6 M2 options;  9 foreign language and culture courses. English is mandatory for all and in order to graduate students must score 750 minimum on the TOEIC Test. Moreover, a second foreign language is compulsory as well, and a third foreign language is also offered as an elective;  Students are given courses in preparation for foreign language certificates, as well as an introduction to the way courses are organised in foreign countries whose teaching approaches are somewhat different from what they are in France;  Student societies manage projects with an international dimension, whether they focus on charity, sports or culture.

Moreover, all students have to spend at least a semester studying abroad with a partner university during their graduate M1-year. Those who had joined the programme in the undergraduate year-1 must spend two semesters abroad (one during the U2 year and a second one at the M1 year level). In addition, students can spend one year more in an international university during their graduate M2-year to obtain a double-diploma (MBA, Master…).

Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility In 2012, the school launched a “Responsible Manager Track”, whose aim is to make students more aware of sustainable development, competitive intelligence, and CSR issues. This new track plans to set up a step by step programme throughout all years of the Master’s Programme, comprising lectures, keynote lectures and professional seminars linked to those topics. (84 class hours plus 24 hours attending conventions and seminars).

Career placement services In order to meet the increasingly strict requirements from recruiters, the school extended in 2013 the support given to students towards employment with the creation of the ‘Career Path’. This scheme aims to involve students in a pro-active and carefully thought-out approach. It is based on the gradual acquisition of core knowledge: discovery of occupations, drafting of

CVs and motivation letters, simulated interviews, acquisition of a network and mastery of traditional and web 2.0 tools.

Students progress thanks to a support scheme which ensures that they get a clear idea of their individual offer of services at every step in their study paths; they build consistent professional projects, (internships, specialisation, employment); they compare them to the economic environment to project themselves in the future in a concrete and realistic manner thanks to the clarification of their notions on one or several professional projects. This initiation relies also on professional coaches and resorts in addition to personality tests such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or the TalentToday Test to help them view themselves in functions.

In parallel, students have access via the Schoolbox tool and an on-line Career Center, in partnership with www.JobTeaser.com, whose objective is to put at students’ disposal a tool that meets their expectations. This enables them to get better knowledge of companies and the occupations they offer, to take part in recruitment events, to exchange on-line with recruiters and operators, to access internship and job offers.

This multi-modal scheme alternates e-learning sessions and class-contact hours, to allow students to acquire knowledge upstream, and offers training videos and experience sharing workshops, podcasts to illustrate contributions by experts, as well as a wiki where students can exchange on recruitment issues.

Closely linked, all these components aim at allowing students to build a relevant career project, in accordance with their ambitions, their competencies, their qualities and market realities.

7-Centres of expertise

IPER With 40 years of experience, IPER is now a prime actor in continuing education and research in the logistics, maritime and port management world, both in France and abroad, thanks to close partnerships with such prestigious references in the industry as the International Maritime Organization (IMO). This expertise also translates into EM Normandie’s degree- awarding programmes in the field (MSc in Supply Chain Management, MSc in Interntional Logistics and Crisis Management and the EMBA option in Maritime, Transport and Logistics), which is also relevant to the leading economic activity of the territory in which the school is located.

IDèT The Institut du Développement Territorial (Territorial Development Institute) was created in 2012 as a training, research and territory forum focusing on current issues in local development. IDéT is a fully-fledged service within EM Normandie, whose missions are carried out within the framework of a sharing of knowledge, competencies and know-how brought together by a team of researchers and a network of professionals.

There are 3 main specialisations within its activities: territory strategies and economic intelligence, project management and public administration, sustainable development and public administration. IDéT is a single entry point to access EM Normandie’s offer of training, research and expertise.

InsIDE Created in 2014, this new institute is positioned as a real accelerator of skills and business. Combining innovation, training and research, InsIDE federates, coordinates and clusters all the school’s actions in favor of entrepreneurship: initial and continuous training to raise awareness, initiate and train all public entrepreneurship and innovation, students incubator to support their initiatives for business creation, partnerships with regional incubators, entrepreneurship-related events (Startup weekends symposium,...), sponsored chair on “Entrepreneurship, Project, Innovation”, research projects, etc.

8-Campuses

Spanning across two French regions – Upper Normandy (Le Havre) and Lower Normandy (Caen and Deauville), EM Normandie is deeply rooted in a richly diverse territory, while it is also open to the rest of the world. Both sides of the River Seine have cultural differences on which the school has come to capitalize: Lower Normandy, formerly mainly agricultural, has now made a breakthrough in tertiary activities, whereas Upper Normandy has always been one of the main French centers for port and industrial activities.

The Caen Campus is at the heart of the Caen Normandie Technopolis, on a site that gathers all the main actors in Lower Normandy Higher Education. As per the School’s Strategic Plan, extension work to raise the surface available on this campus by another 1,800m², financed by the Caen Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other local actors, began in February 2015 and is to be completed by September 2016.

The Le Havre Campus is located in the heart of the city, 200m from the marina and main entrance to the Port of Le Havre. A major construction development project for a new building for EM Normandie, in partnership with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Marine Marchande (ENSM), which would be situated at the city’s entrance, is currently under consideration. This would bring the school supplementary premises that would prove useful to its growth.

In Le Havre and Caen, the premises are owned by local Chambers of Commerce, which put them at EM Normandie’s disposal when the association was first created. To date, the total usable surface EM Normandie has available on these campuses is around 17,000m².

The Deauville campus includes 600m² of redeveloped premises right in the city centre of the world-famous seaside resort. These premises are made available to the school by the city of Deauville.

To continue its development, EM Normandie opened in October 2013 a 1,916m² campus in Paris, extending over 3 storeys, in partnership with Grenoble Ecole de Management. The two schools both manage joint activities (colloquia, conferences, development of an Economic and Strategic Intelligence Think Tank, etc.) and they offer separate programs and teaching activities. In a first stage, EM Normandie located in this venue an extension of the “professionalization track/ cooperative scheme” offered in the Grande Ecole Master’s Programme. Non-credit awarding executive education programs are also delivered there, as well as some seminars of its Executive MBA and summer schools for international students.

Finally, as an extension of the same strategic axis, EM Normandie opened a campus in Oxford in September 2014, covering 400m² in total. Thanks to a local partner, the British Study Centres (BSC), the premises are right at the heart of historical Oxford. This choice offers the opportunity to share a range of student services, such as accommodation in university residences, a cafeteria, a library, a PC cluster, etc. This campus currently hosts 80 students from the Grande Ecole Master’s Programme M1 year. Furthermore, M2 year options that are taught in English will then be organised there as well. A full-time Campus Director has been recruited, as well as an administrative support staff. This deployment in Great Britain is fully in line with the school’s internationalisation objective and with its intention to develop the Arc Manche area.

9-EM Normandie alumni network

Réseau EM Normandie, which was launched in 2008, is a result of the merger of the three programmes SUP EUROPE C.E.S.E.C, ESC Le Havre and IPER. As a result, their graduates became members of one single association with a life membership fee. Moreover, with the institution of the life membership concept right from the moment students enter the school’s programmes, the new structure federates all alumni and students from all EM Normandie degree programmes, currently a network of around 13,000 alumni in the world. This life membership registration system has enabled the association to increase its membership significantly and to acquire the financial means to fund the deployment of a rich and varied range of services for the benefit of its members.

Réseau EM Normandie is a non-profit association directed by a Board of Directors chaired by Claude Changarnier, EM Normandie (1982), Vice-President International Finance, Microsoft International.

This board includes 21 members, with 3 seats reserved for the school’s Director General, the founding chairman of Réseau EM Normandie and a student representative. The composition of the entity reflects the association: women and men of all ages, whose careers are rich with experience and who are all united around strong values, such as solidarity, respect, loyalty to the school that educated them. The association is headed by a Chief Executive Officer assisted by permanent staff.

The network focuses on two priority axes:

1) Maintaining the link between the school, its students, and its alumni:

* Updating access to the on-line directory for all the school’s students and alumni on the association’s website; * Publication of a printed directory once a year, also available on its website; * Posting and access to job offers, internships and Volunteers for International Assignments (VIE) in companies, with clear indication of offers coming from alumni via the school’s portal; * Organisation of events in all major cities in France and abroad: thematic talks, testimonies by professionals, sports events, buzz events, cohort homecomings, etc. * The setting up of on-campus network days to make students even more aware of the Réseau EM Normandie; * The organisation of student mentoring by alumni to help them in their professional choices; * Professional Clubs (Club Entrepreneurs, Logistics Club).

Guided by Frédérique Clavel, a specialist in women start-ups and entrepreneurship, this new network has been launched in 2014 to promote professional equal opportunities and gender diversity. This new circle wishes to develop networking activities between female members of the association and with other entities active in this field. The intention is also, thanks to militant communication, to encourage and valorize the success of EM Normandie’s female graduates, make students more aware of such issues in order for them to uphold professional equal opportunities between men and women in the corporate world.

2) Accompanying students in their search for employment and graduates throughout their careers:

Along the same lines as the 'Career Path' developed by EM Normandie to foster its students' professional insertion, the alumni network has launched in 2014 a scheme for the benefit of all alumni who are searching for employment or being retrained. Thematic meetings, group coaching sessions, co-development workshops as well as training modules by e-learning are currently being offered to them. The network’s strategy is thus wholly relevant to the school’s mission, especially as regards professional insertion for students and young graduates.

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