VŠE and L´Oréal extended Cooperation Agreement

Mr. Laurent Boukobza, CEO for the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and prof. Hindls, President of the University of Economics, Prague signed the Cooperation Agreement for the academic year 2012/2013.

L´Oréal is a long term corporate partner of the University of Economics, Prague supporting a lot of projects in the field of international cooperation and talented graduates´ upbringing. There are partnerships such as CEMS MIM International Management Master´s programme organized by the Faculty of Business Administration. L´Oréal´ s managers take part in the process of students´ selection by Assessment Centre, business projects, skill seminars and lectures. L´Oréal decided to support the activities of Honors Academia programme in which talented students are educated.

The support of international scientific workshops for the Ph.D. students of the Faculty of International Relations illustrates the cooperation as well. The workshops are organized in video-conferences in the cooperation with Jean Moulin – Lyon 3 University, Magellan research centre and Business Faculty EU Bratislava. Its outcome is joint conference proceedings and papers.

L´Oréal is one of the most important employers of VŠE graduates in Master´s degree programmes and MBA Master Management et Administration des Entreprises programme organized by the VŠE French-Czech Institute of Management.

The interview with the the L´Oréal CEO for the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary can be found in the first issue of Central European Business Review (CEBR), a scientific journal published by the Faculty of Business Administration.