Foundation Groupe ESC

The Foundation finances the pedagogical engineering of the ESC Clermont Business School’s new training programmes. To date, the Foundation has contributed to the creation of the courses:

• Business Intelligence & Digital Risk Manager
• Passion Sport
• Sustainable mobility & automotive marketing
• Pedagogical innovations

ESC Clermont Business School has developed a hybrid pedagogy more commonly known as Blended Learning, which results from a combination of distance, online and face-to-face training sequences. The fundamentals of the management courses of the Passion Sport programme have thus been developed in e-learning.

This initiative, led by a group of teacher-researchers from all disciplines, enables students to acquire the 5 skills of the innovator by applying the new pedagogical methods of “learning by doing”.

The creation and development of this design and creativity studio at the service of students and teachers will enable them to experiment, produce and stage design projects, be they graphic, digital, video, photographic, infographic or artistic.

It is both a workspace and a teaching ecosystem, a place for experimentation and innovation in new forms of collaborative teaching and learning. The aim of the Learning Lab is to encourage the development of alternative pedagogies, based on interactivity, practice and creativity. Initially, classrooms will be refurbished with adapted furniture allowing for flexibility and modularity.

• Pre-doctoral scholarships: financing of the registration fees for students in the 3rd year of the Master Grande Ecole Master’s programme for the complementary qualification “Initiation to research in management sciences” offered by the University of Clermont Auvergne. This qualification then enables them to pursue a doctoral programme up to the thesis stage.
• The doctoral programme: the Foundation finances 50% of the salary of a doctoral student recruited by the ESC Clermont Business School in the first year of his/her doctoral programme, the aim being to strengthen the team of teacher-researchers and publications on the School’s priority research and teaching themes.

This contribution from the Foundation is essential in order for the School to remain efficient in terms of the criteria for the awarding of accreditations and quality labels, i.e. to have a Faculty composed mainly of PhDs and publishers.

The Foundation finances the spelling improvement and certification scheme offered to ESC Clermont students. The Voltaire Project is in line with the objective of professional integration, since 81% of companies consider the lack of spelling skills to be an obstacle to retaining an executive’s application. By evaluating and improving their spelling level through numerous exercises and online tests, and by obtaining, if necessary, a certification recognised in the business world, students improve their chances of getting into job interviews.

In addition to the School’s service offer, proposed by the Corporate Relations team, aimed at supporting students looking for a work-study assignment, the Foundation wishes to finance the extension of this support to students looking for their first job at the end of their studies. This support makes sense, particularly for students who have not gone through a work-study programme during their studies.