During the first day, we kicked off the event by welcoming our international guests to the Louvain-la-Neuve campus, setting the stage for a three-day collaboration, and sharing best practices to strengthen our global network.

On the second day, innovation took center stage as we dove deep into corporate synergy and student career development. A special thank you to our corporate partner, AB InBev, for hosting an insightful session focused on bridging the gap between academia and industry.

Finally, on the third and last day, we mapped out the future academic roadmap for the CEMS alliance. To close the event, we proudly passed the hosting torch to our colleagues at the Korea University Business School (KUBS) for the next chapter!

A massive thank you to all the managers, representatives, and the CEMS Global Office team who traveled from all corners of the world to be with us. Your dedication and insights made this week an absolute success. Together, we continue our shared mission: shaping the responsible global leaders of tomorrow.

This recognition highlights the excellence of the research carried out at UCLouvain in the field of management and human resources. It also bears witness to Laurent Taskin’s contribution to contemporary thinking on changes in the world of work and new forms of organisation.

The award is all the more noteworthy in light of last year's recognition: Professor Laurent Taskin has already been honoured by the FNEGE in the ‘teaching textbook’ category and this year, he received the award in the ‘research book’ category – a particularly rare double honour.

The FNEGE Médias platform has also published a video called ‘Le télétravail, un mode de vie’, in which Professor Laurent Taskin discusses the key insights from his book and the changing relationship with work in the era of hybrid working.

It is with great pleasure and pride that Louvain School of Management congratulates Laurent Taskin for his well-deserved recognition, for his work, and for his contribution to the standing of the faculty.

Congratulations to the graduates on this important achievement. We were pleased to mark the occasion together with Prof. Dr. James Thewissen, Associate Professor and Vice-Dean of Corporate Relations at Louvain School of Management, and member of the BMI Executive Institute Academic Council, as well as distinguished representatives of BMI, HEC Paris, and the alumni community:

Prof. Jean-Paul Michel Larçon, Co-Chair of the BMI Executive Institute Board and Professor Emeritus at HEC Paris;  Prof. Dominique Rouziès, Academic Dean of BMI Executive Institute and Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris; Roald Sieberath, entrepreneur, investor and board member of Odoo, and Aerospacelab, Invest Manager at Noshaq, and Université catholique de Louvain graduate; Marie-Pierre Saint Viteux, President of the Alumni Louvain School of Management Association, and Ignace Mullens, Founder of Work-Out and alumnus of the first joint UCLouvain-BMI EMBA cohort.

May this milestone become the beginning of continued growth, stronger leadership decisions, and lasting connections. 

As this chapter closes, the next one is already taking shape: the new International Executive MBA cohort is now forming and will start in January 2027. Join the circle!

More information here.

This partnership was made possible thanks to LSM’s role as a pilot faculty within Circle U., the European University Alliance established to build a deeply connected European campus. This alliance focuses on breaking down barriers to study abroad, encouraging collaborative research, and making high-impact international experiences accessible to our students. 

As part of this initiative, a delegation from the University of Pisa visited our campus in April 2026 to map out details of this new collaboration and in turn, in June, a Belgian delegation with our Dean, Professor Matthieu de Nanteuil, Professor Amélie Jacquemin, LSM International Vice-Dean and Maureen Gillet, LSM Head of International Office, visited our new partner's campus and exchanged best practices on promotion and communication, as well as on master's dissertations.

By enrolling in a Double Degree within the Circle U. framework, students unlock exceptional academic and professional advantages: 

• Two Master’s Degrees: graduates will earn two distinct qualifications—one from UCLouvain and one from the University of Pisa—providing a major competitive edge in the international job market. 
• Cultural Adaptability: splitting time between two historic European universities allows students to experience diverse academic cultures, expand their language skills, and build a truly international network. 
• Global Business Networks: beyond the classroom, the programme aims to connect students with local business incubators and corporate ecosystems in both countries, which allows to expand their career and entrepreneurial opportunities abroad. 

The first recruitment will kick off this September for the upcoming academic year. LSM looks forward to welcoming its news students and thanks again to our colleagues from Pisa for making this collaboration a success.

In response to the constantly evolving environmental and social challenges that businesses face on a daily basis, the faculty has rethought its course offering. The objective is to incorporate student feedback, modernise the content of its courses and align with global best practice through in-house multidisciplinary work, international benchmarking and collaboration with external experts.

In a video interview, Valérie Swaen, Professor of ERS at LSM explains the changes and the new features awaiting students in the Master’s programmes in Management and Business Engineering on the Louvain-la-Neuve campus.

New core ERS courses for all master students in LLN

The new courses replace the former ones on “Corporate Social Responsibility” and “Green Transition”.

The course titled “Ethics, Responsibility, Sustainability: Risk Management” will lay the essential foundations for ERS risk management. It focuses on identifying, preventing, mitigating, and remediating non-financial risks, covering topics such as ethics, corporate governance mechanisms, whistleblowing systems, codes of conduct, due diligence, human and labour rights, anti-money laundering and anti-corruption measures, as well as European and international regulatory frameworks. Students engage directly with practitioners from NGOs and the manufacturing sector to bridge theory and practice. It is aimed at all types of organisations, whether or not they are formally engaged in sustainability work.

The course “Business and System Change” will help students develop systemic thinking in order to understand organisational transformation. It will be tailored to the specific characteristics of each Master’s programme in:

Management Sciences (Strategic Innovation for Sustainability), the focus is on business model innovation and hybrid organisational forms (such as B Corps, cooperatives, social enterprises, and regenerative organisations), alongside governance, stakeholder engagement, and perspectives from the Global South. In Business Engineering (Engineering Sustainable Transformation in Complex Systems), the course draws on students’ analytical skills to model complex systems through causal loop diagrams and feedback analysis, and applies technical tools such as carbon footprint assessment and life-cycle analysis, exploring circular and functional economic models alongside decentralised governance approaches like platform cooperatives and blockchain-enabled systems.

A new major: Sustainability Management

Formerly known as the ‘Philippe de Woot’ major, this major aims to explore the subject in greater depth and includes three new courses:

1. Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship: a course based on active learning, in which students design and develop their own social and sustainable entrepreneurship project, informed by testimonies from practitioners in the field.
2. Finance and Responsible Investment Practices: a course essential to mastering corporate valuation methods integrated with ERS considerations, exploring the relationship between risk, return, and impact. 
3. Sustainability Transition and Social Change: an approach combining psychology and political economy, analysing the roots of climate inaction, the growth-based economic paradigm, paradigm change as a lever for transformation, and the role of civil society and social movements.
4. Measuring and Reporting ERS Performance: fully aligned with new standards (such as the European CSRD directive), this course will teach students how to measure a company’s impact and produce credible sustainability reports.
5. Leadership and Inner Development for Sustainability Transition: inspired by the global framework of the Inner Development Goals (IDG), this immersive and reflective course focuses on the student as a future leader. It will help students develop their interpersonal skills, collective intelligence and ability to navigate the internal and external tensions of leading sustainability transformation.

With this reform, LSM reaffirms its commitment to training responsible leaders who are ready to become true agents of change in our society.

Here below is Professor Valérie Swaen's video interview in which she explains in detail the reform.