Audencia Delivers Successful Summer Programme

This summer, Audencia welcomed over 260 students from 29 partner institutions for its annual summer programme! This 8-week programme ran from May 16 to July 8 and included 31 different courses, taught by 20 international faculty.

Students had the option of joining courses for one week or multiple weeks. While most courses took place on campus, there were several online courses delivered as well as 2 hybrid courses. Alongside their coursework, students participated in cultural events, tourism activities such as visiting Nantes’ city centre, and company visits.

While there were many exciting opportunities available to students, summer programme highlights included the multiple student field trips in the French as a Foreign Language class and an exclusive study trip to Brussels with 31 students, to introduce students to  European institutions such as the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament. In line with Audencia's strategic plan ECOS 2025, many summer courses revolved around the theme of sustainability in management, such as the courses 'Creating sustainable, Innovative and Digital Business Models' and 'Drivers for Sustainability Transition in Business.'

During the 8-week programme, Audencia welcomed distinguished faculty from partner institutions, including:

• Fergal O’Brien and Donal Palcic, visiting professors from Kemmy Business School University of Limerick, Ireland
• Renate Kratochvil, visiting professor from BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
• Bjoern Schmeisser and Edith Ipsmiller, Assistant Professors, Institute for International Business, Department of Global Business and Trade, Vienna University of Business and Economics, Austria
• Alain Brouhard, international business and leadership expert, and former C-suite Executive
• Jean Christophe Pineau, consultant in digital marketing and social media strategies
• Xavier Ordenana, visiting professor from ESPAE Graduate School of Management, Ecuador
• Marcin Matyja and Boleslaw Rok, visiting professors from Kozminski University, Poland
• Elina Meliou, visiting professor from Aston Business School, United Kingdom
• Whitney Westrich, J.D., and Dong-Gil Ko, visiting professors from University of Cincinnati, United States
• Isabelle Auroux, consultant and general manager at DOLIGHTUP
• Susana Morales, visiting professor from Tec de Monterrey, México-Alibaba Global trainer
• Joey Gawrysiak, visiting professor from Shenandoah University, United States
• Arthur Rubens, visiting professor from Florida Gulf Coast University, United States
• Dorrie Chao, visiting professor from University of Southampton, United Kingdom
• Jessica Pouget, adjunct professor from Audencia

Students joined us from partner universities all over the world, including:

• 10 students from the University of North Florida. These students are studying two courses: Cross Cultural Management and Digital Communications Strategy.
• 10 students from the University of Cincinnati across multiple weeks, studying a total of 7 different courses - one of which included a study trip to Brussels!
• 15 students from Ajou University in South Korea.
• 11 students from ZHAW School of Management Law in Switzerland.
• 5 Norwegian students from Handelshøyskolen BI, 2 Japanese student from Nagoya University International Programs of Commerce & Business as well as students from Italy, Romania, India, Lithuania, Spain, the UK, Germany, the USA and more!

Thanks to all of the students who joined us this summer, to our French ambassadors for supporting the summer programme and to the visiting international lecturers!

We look forward to welcoming more students from across the world for Audencia's 2023 Summer Programme, taking place from May 22 to July 13, 2023.