Luxembourg School of Business signs a partnership agreement with H-FARM in Italy

Luxembourg School of Business is proud to announce a strategic alliance with its new corporate partner H-FARM, one of the most important and influential innovation centers in Europe. 

Vision 

The partnership between Luxembourg School of Business and H-FARM will create opportunities to bring young and ambitious students together with a mission to fuel financial enterprises with innovation and lead to their transformations. Through the partnership with H-FARM, one of the largest innovation platforms in Europe, LSB students will have the unparalleled opportunity to pursue a specialization in Digital Business and Finance, among the most leading-edge and sought after fields globally. The LSB/H-FARM partnership capitalizes on the strengths of both — innovation and entrepreneurship — bringing academia and business together to encourage and support innovation.

Empowering innovation and practice 

Luxembourg School of Business Master in Management program integrates a strong theoretical foundation while emphasizing practice-based learning and employability.  Graduates specializing in Digital Business and Finance will have amazing career opportunities, leading digital transformations within their organizations as well as launching enterprises based on their own business ideas. 

Connecting Luxembourg and Italy 

The unique partnership between LSB and H-FARM strengthens the connection between Luxembourg and Italy across several dimensions that are crucial to economic development — Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Both countries are leaders in these domains and will continue to drive innovative solutions through digital transformations of business. Luxembourg is an international financial centre where the Fintech industry is evolving rapidly. Both Italy and Luxembourg are highly involved in Fintech, investing more and more into digital and technological tools. LSB will extend its brand into one of the most interesting and influential parts of Europe which already has strong connections to Luxembourg; approximately 500 Italian companies are located in Luxembourg.

Students from Europe and around the world now have the opportunity to complete a Master in Management degree while studying in both Luxembourg and Italy. The first year of the program is held in Luxembourg, at LSB’s new Château de Septfontaines campus, in a historical area close to the center of Luxembourg-city. The Château is the former porcelain manufactory of Faïencerie Villeroy & Boch. Students spend the second year at H-FARM’s campus at the entrance to the Venice lagoon, giving them the opportunity to complete an internship in one of the most modern and innovative campuses in Italy. The H-FARM Campus covers 51 hectares of land, including 42,000 square meters of buildings and more than 40 hectares of parks and woods. These two campuses will allow Luxembourg School of Business students to collaborate in international and local environments with unique, historical and innovative contexts.

Dr. Dino Dogan, Dean of Luxembourg School of Business 

«Luxembourg School of Business (LSB) is proud to partner with H-FARM, one of the most important and influential platforms in Europe, bringing together innovation, entrepreneurship and education.  The partnership with H-FARM will provide an exceptional hands-on experience to our Master in Management students, preparing them for careers in the dynamic Fintech industry. Through this partnership, students will build life-long relationships and gain experiences that will support them throughout their successful careers in a highly globalized and digitalized world.  

The Luxembourg School of Business Master in Management Program with a new Specialization in Digital Business and Finance has been designed to help students understand the impact of digitalization and finance by laying the foundations for their own business ideas, while experimenting innovative enterprises, or leading innovation from within a company, emphasising a startup mindset. This specialization within the Master in Management program will prepare students from all around the World for their future careers in a highly globalized and digitalized world». 

Luxembourg School of Business (LSB)

Luxembourg School of Business (LSB) is the first Luxembourgish graduate business school. The School was created by a team of academics with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a successful track record of creating internationally accredited (AACSB) business schools. Our professors are academics and business leaders: some of them are executives from multinational organizations while others are affiliated with internationally ranked institutions such as M.I.T., University of Michigan, Cornell University, Duke University, ESADE Business School, and more. Luxembourg School of Business offers a full-time Master in Management, a part-time Master in Business Administration (Weekend MBA), as well as short specialized programs for individuals and tailor-made programs for companies (Executive Education). The Master in Management and the Weekend MBA programs are recognized and accredited by the Luxembourg Ministry of Higher Education and Research and our institution is a member of the AACSB International (AACSB), the leading global business education network.

H-FARM

H-FARM is the innovation platform that supports the creation of new business models and the digital transformation and education of young people and companies. Founded in January 2005 as the first startup incubator in the world, H-FARM has been able to re-invent itself and adapt to market needs without ever losing sight of its core values that lie in seizing the opportunities created by digital innovation and in maintaining a Human-centric approach. Today, it is the only place in the world that unites in a single place investments, services for businesses and educational programmes. Structured as a campus minutes away from Venice, H-FARM spreads out over 51 hectares, 20 of which is woodland, and is the most important center for innovation in Europe. Counting over 600 employees across Italy, H-FARM is an unequalled ecosystem at an international level. 

For more information please contact our Academic Director, Julie Felker, at julie.felker@luxsb.lu or our Master in Management Admissions Manager, Hakima Seguer, at hakima.seguer@luxsb.lu.