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Welcome to the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM), the leading centre for economics and management in the French Community !
The Solvay Brussels School has been created through the merger
of the SBS and the Economics Department of the ULB.
A high performance entity
The new SBS-EM has become an entity of 2700 bachelor’s and master’s students, of which more than 1700 are undergraduates, making it the largest school of its type in the French Community. The School is proud to announce that it now has 51 full-time and 70 part-time professors, eight Competence Centres and three renowned research centres: the Emile Bernheim Centre, Ecares and the Dulbea.
Our fundamental mission
The mission of the SBS-EM is to generate and share knowledge in the disciplines of economics and management in order to train professional and responsible actors and to fulfil the needs of governance, efficiency and innovation in our constantly mutating society.
One vision
The SBS-EM aspires to become the reference for students, businesses and institutes seeking the very highest levels of teaching and research in the disciplines of economics and management in Europe.
A single identity
The SBS-EM’s identity is built on five dimensions:
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1. A tradition of excellence, based on rigorous and selective teaching and quality research
The search for scientific excellence is translated by a strong accent on research in decisions of recruitment and in the definition of lecturers’ and assistants’ responsibilities (50% of their time must be devoted to research), as well as the creation in the near future of an International Scientific Council. The search for pedagogic excellence, on the other hand, can be found in the high standards demanded for the Bachelor’s, Master’s and MBA programmes, the systematic evaluation of our teaching staff and student participation in all programme reform as well as in the School’s governance.
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2. A tradition of openness to the socio-economic environment
This tradition of openness is seen above all in the large number of lecturer practitioners at the School, their role in the School’s governance, our strong tradition of applied research, the role of our Strategic Council composed of top level managers, and the importance we attach to in-company practical work during the Master’s programme. Since its creation, the School has always taken great care to avoid being inward looking.
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3. Our location in Brussels, Capital of Europe and headquarters of many international and multinational institutions
Many of our lecturers play a role in the European institutions and participate in the activities of the ULB’s Institute of European Studies. In two years’ time, a new Master in Business and Economics will be launched with a specifically European perspective. Our summer school, meanwhile, remains firmly focused on Europe.
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4. Being part of a full university with an international reputation that offers synergy with other disciplines
Since its creation, the School has always made sure that it provided its management students with a solid scientific training. This is why students in the Bachelor in Management programme also receive a sound training in physics, chemistry, maths, statistics, law, taxation and technology. The School has also launched a joint programme with the Faculty of Applied Sciences in the field of new technologies. A number of lecturers from within other departments of the university, notably the Institute of European Studies, also participate in the School’s programmes. The SBS-EM thus intends to take full advantage of its privileged position at the crossroads of a vast collection of scientific disciplines.
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5. The combination of management and economics
Our respective histories having prepared the groundwork, the merger of the two departments represents as much an opportunity in terms of research as in terms of teaching: for management, the contribution of sound foundations in economics, and for economics a window onto the reality of business. For the student in management, the merger provides the opportunity to position business within its economic and institutional environment and to develop a global perspective; for the economics student, it enables models to be anchored within the understanding of effective behaviour of economic and institutional actors; and for both, it ensures the intellectual requirement to constantly articulate local and global in models and the reasoning behind them. |
The impact on the masters’ programmes
The objectives of the merger are to decompartmentalize our programmes, to strengthen the offer of courses available, thanks to the resulting synergies, and to reposition the masters’ degrees. Over a two-year period, the offer in SBS-EM masters will undergo important changes, since the course contents will need to be adapted in function of the development of competencies, the needs of the economy and internationalization objectives.
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