Project 1 International Scholarship Fund

The school offers a range of scholarships, notably Merit and Need Scholarships (via the Ecole des Ponts Foundation – which can be tax-deductible if you are French or part of the EU17). The objective of our scholarship initiatives is double – on the one hand to attract top talent from around the world to our programs, and on the other hand to allow meritorious candidates who could not otherwise manage to finance participation in our MBA programs the ability to take advantage of all that our programs have to offer.  

Key scholarship themes and schemes include:

> Cross-Cultural Diversity 

> Entrepreneurial Talent

> Equal Opportunity

> Excellence & Leadership

> Professionals with Disabilities

> Senior Professionals

> Women in Business

Project 2 Digital Transformation in Action​

There is so much that we can do today to create a “wow experience” in our programs with the help of a new generation of digital tools. It is now possible to use big (and small) data to map the evolution of a participant from admissions to graduation – highlighting on the way the progress made in hard and soft skills, improvements in public speaking, mapping achievement of learning outcomes, adding a layer of gamification and, basically, making the classic “grade sheet” seem like a pre-historic relic. Using these new tools participants can, for example, see every presentation they will have made – whether individually or in a group – and visualize their progress.  

Key project elements:

> Some IT development to add a data visualization layer and a business analytics layer to each program

> Purchase of video capture equipment

> Later, hire a data scientist (programming & meta-tagging)

Project 3 Start-up cluster​

As the school is increasingly focusing on innovation and technology management as well as entrepreneurship, we would like to show thought and action leadership in this domain as well. We would like to build-out a start-up cluster, starting with an incubator and accelerator, that complements initiatives being made by the Ecole des Ponts, ParisTech and Paris-Est . Later we would like to build a crowdsourcing platform that would allow our alumni to invest first in exciting new start-ups developed by participants and graduates of our programs. 

Elements we would like to see as part of a full-fledged start-up cluster:

> Start-up incubator & accelerator

> FabLab and/or Maker Space

> A crowdfunding platform

> A co-working space primarily for alumni

> Later, hire an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR)

Project 5 Itinerant Classroom

The school has always had as its mission “being in business to make a better world”. A project we have been developing for the last few years is a true “feel good” project which brings entrepreneurship education to the streets and the masses. The idea is to create an itinerant “pop-up school” that sets up in public spaces (in front of City Halls for example) for a week at a time to teach anyone interested in entrepreneurship the basics necessary to consider launching a start-up and to give short-term mentoring to those thinking about launching a new business. This is a major social impact project that takes the classroom to the streets and helps to educate the general public on entrepreneurship. We would work with local government and high profile partners. The objective is to cover our costs, get mainstream visibility for the school (instead of spending a fortune on marketing and communications), brand ourselves as thought leaders in entrepreneurship and social impact, while doing lots of good for the greatest number.