New international partnerships support Audencia innovations

In a move to meet the needs stemming from some of its recent innovations, Audencia Nantes has signed a raft of new international agreements, more than half of which concern South American partners.

With Audencia’s commitment to global responsibility growing year on year, the formal links recently set up with Brazil’s FGV Curitiba bring two like-minded institutions together. FGV Curitiba like Audencia has signed the UN’s Global Compact guidelines on responsible practices. In addition, the city of Curitiba is held up as an example of how environmentally conscious urban areas can really be.

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC) will give a new dimension to Audencia’s engineer-manager study track which until now had only been offered to French engineering students. Soon, selected engineering students from PUC Rio de Janeiro will be able to finish their studies in Nantes and so gain an engineer-manager double degree.

As for French engineers studying at Audencia, the new partnership signed with Yonsei University Business School, Seoul, gives them the chance to specialise in finance and marketing in South Korea.

The final Brazilian signature, sealed with USP, Universidade de São Paulo, will allow Audencia’s Executive MBA students to benefit from a study period in the top public university. In addition, executive students from USP will make the trip to Nantes.

Elsewhere in South America, the same logic applies to Universidad Austral IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, which will welcome students of the same profile. The fifth new South American accord is with Universidad ESAN in Lima, Peru, where Audencia Masters in Management students will now be able to study part of their programme.

Audencia’s innovations at masters level, with an even stronger emphasis on the arts and cultural sectors, has also prompted the school to strengthen its list of US partners. The latest addition is Boston University where students from Nantes can now study for a graduate certificate programme in arts management.

Signing with Pepperdine University, Graziadio School of Business and Management in Malibu will also permit MBA as well as masters-level exchanges, while the final new partnership with SUFE, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, allows a two-way flow of both faculty and students.