Erasmus +

The Erasmus + program contributes to

• improving the quality and strengthening the European dimension of higher education
• increased mobility of students, teachers and staff
• transparency and recognition of acquired qualifications

The program therefore promotes mobility initiatives in Europe and abroad for students (periods of study or internship), teaching staff, as weel as all ESAM staff.

Are eligible for mobility grants

• Academic sessions in Europe: from the second year of study for a period of between 3 and 12 months. Students benefit from 12 months of mobility, studies and/or internships, per study cycle (Bachelor, MSc).
• Internships in companies in Europe: from the first year of study for a period of 2 months to 12 months. Students benefit from 12 months of mobility, studies and/or internships, per study cycle (Bachelor, MSc).

The erasmus + program also facilitates cooperation actions through strategic partnerships, knowledge alliances or capacity building projects (etc.) between ESAM and its partner establishments also holders of the Erasmus + Charter.

ESAM, an IGS Group School

For nearly 40 years, the IGS Group has invested in education and training (initial training, work-study training, continuing education) to promote excellence, employability, entrepreneurship, active citizenship and education/education cooperation. business.

The IGS Group has 9 business skill sectors: Human Resources Management and Development / Management Management, Finance, Entrepreneurship / Trade, Distribution, Marketing, Services / Journalism, Communication, Production / International Management / Humanity, Management and Decision Making / Real Estate / IT / Health industry management.

The IGS Group and its schools and training centers are getting closer to partners who offer professional courses, centers of excellence similar to those listed above.

For several decades, the IGS Group has been developing and participating in partner networks (European Management Academy, ESA, BUSINET, EAIE, EFMD, NAFSA). These networks make it possible to identify potential partners with whom the IGS Group is likely to carry out projects to create programs (common European academic semester taught in English, exchanges of students and learners, administrative and teaching staff). These networks also enable monitoring of European priorities and topical issues, gender parity, sustainable development, early school leaving, recognition and enhancement of ECVET professional skills based on formal, informal and non-formal learning, etc.

Apart from the Erasmus system, the Institution is involved in specific programs: Franco-German Office for Youth tri-national project France –Germany-Russia-, regional programs for apprentices, collective educational and professional mobility in little-visited regions of the world, active citizenship programs.

The lines of research for new partners more specifically concern countries that are poorly represented in the Group's existing networks, the lowest levels of qualification among the audiences concerned by the training programs offered, partners involved in European and international programs different from those already practiced for a better transfer of skills.

Within the framework of academic partners, cooperation actions are directed towards institutions:

• whose training is adapted to our audiences in initial training, apprenticeship or work-study,
• interested in the co-construction of titles and training, joint degrees,
• ready to get involved in international cooperation projects on subjects of common interest.

And for connections with professional circles, the initiatives are geared towards organizations willing to commit to cooperation in the broad sense with the education sector.

For all these projects all categories of personnel are concerned and all levels of students as well.

For short cycles and insofar as these audiences are all on a work-study program (employee status under a professional training contract or an apprenticeship contract), internship mobility is possible for a minority when companies are stakeholders in this type of project. One of the priorities is to mobilize companies for the professional mobility of work-study students.

As for geographies, none of them are excluded (except for security reasons). The meaning and nature of the collaboration take precedence above all.

The objectives of all these mobility activities are:

• the development of academic and professional mobility for all individuals
• the appropriation of the European identity
• the acquisition of professional behavior suitable for intercultural environments
• language improvement to facilitate mobility
• enhancing curiosity
• the development of autonomy
• adherence to the “Learning by doing” concept
• involvement in active civic and intergenerational solidarity
• employability
• the prevention of dropping out of school (for people alternating in short cycles)

Erasmus + ESAM Strategy

The mission of ESAM, The School of Advanced Management and Finance, is to train managers, entrepreneurs, business decision-makers of international stature and capable of understanding increasingly complex organizations in a globalized environment.

The international roots of ESAM, which offers diplomas certified by the State at level I (Bac + 5), is an essential component of the school's development strategy. 

All ESAM students have the opportunity to spend up to 27 months abroad between academic semesters with university partners and internships in companies. A minimum of 15 months abroad on the whole course is required.

The geographical areas are determined according to the foreign languages studied and taught at ESAM. 3 languages are compulsory including English and Mandarin. Partnerships are also undertaken with regard to market developments and student wishes.

ESAM orients its academic partnership agreements according to criteria of academic excellence and “business” specialization centers according to the professional orientations of the school.

In addition, ESAM has been able to develop over the years a network of companies abroad likely to welcome our students within the framework of professional internships. At least one 6-month internship must be completed outside our borders by students during their studies.

ESAM has thus set up several cooperation projects with companies, allowing its students to cultivate a more global and relevant vision of professional circles. For ESAM, holding the Erasmus + Charter will lead to the initiation of new projects with European partner companies.

The deployment of ESAM's development actions internationally concerns all countries, both developed and emerging, on all continents, the objective of which is to set up centers of expertise, bicultural paths, double degrees and various international cooperation projects with different institutions.

ESAM currently benefits from a network of more than a hundred partner universities around the world and more than forty in Europe. ESAM wishes to consolidate its current network and expand it in Africa, Asia and South America with specialized institutions in the following areas:

• Audit, Control, Finance
• Business creation and entrepreneurship
• International management
• Business management and development
• Management and legal engineering
• Taxation
• Compliance and security of financial transactions

which constitute ESAM's areas of expertise.

For the past 3 years, ESAM has allowed its 1st year students to complete a three-month study session at its Dublin Campus. 100% of lessons are in English. The purpose of this first experience is to enable them to prepare for an expatriation, to experience interculturality, to improve their level of English, and to get to know each other better.

30% of 2 nd year lessons (semester 3) are taught in English followed by semester 4 of academic studies with a university partner or an internship in France or abroad.

The 3rd year is 100% international: all courses are offered in English in semester 5 at the school. Semester 6 is structured around a 6-month internship abroad or the Intercultural Management Semester (Pacific – Asia route / 100% of modules in English).

For the 4th and 5th years , 30% of the courses are in English (100% for the International management specialty) during semesters 7 and 9. Semesters 8 and 10 lead students to choose between the academic study session, Intercultural management internship or semester.