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SKEMA Business School inaugurates its new Grand Paris campus
The Grand Paris campus, SKEMA Business School’s flagship campus with a surface area of 30,000 square metres, is situated on the banks of the Seine, just outside Paris, in Suresnes. Meant to facilitate networking and knowledge sharing, the campus offers students an exceptional learning environment with numerous modular spaces.
On 19 May, SKEMA's Grand Paris campus in Suresnes was inaugurated in the presence of a host of personalities from the economic, political and academic worlds, as well as the school's alumni.
The event was attended by Frédérique Vidal, (former Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation), Guillaume Boudy (Mayor of Suresnes) and Isabelle Florennes (MP for the Hauts-de-Seine and candidate for the 4th constituency). Jean-Philippe Courtois (chairman of the Board of Directors of SKEMA and executive vice president & president of National Transformation Partnerships at Microsoft) and the well-known entrepreneur and navigator Benjamin Ferré (a SKEMA alumnus) were also present alongside Alice Guilhon, SKEMA's dean and executive president.
During the ceremony, a firework spectacle, which was the highlight of the show, kicked-off the inauguration.
An investment in the future
The result of several years of work and an investment of 150 million euros, the Grand Paris campus has been offering SKEMA students a splendid and innovative setting for learning, discussing and making strong friendships since January 2021. It also has a vast 1,600m terrace, facing the Bois de Boulogne, from which the Eiffel Tower is visible, accessible to all our students.
A place of discussion and peace
More than just a campus where students come and listen to a lecture, it is intended to combine, in the words of Alice Guilhon (SKEMA's dean and executive president), several life experiences. "The campus today combines the experience of co-living and co-working. It is becoming a place for creating communities, a place for physical interactions that reassure, facilitate links, and consolidate trust," said Alice Guilhon, during her speech. She added: "We will continue to build and inaugurate campuses with a single mission: to help our students become transformers of society, free, responsible, ethical and aware citizens. Perfectly modular, the Grand Paris campus offers large open spaces and multiple possibilities for modularity."
A student residence in the immediate vicinity
Currently under construction, a student residence and services centre will be built behind the campus in 2023. It will include a sports hall, a space for student associations and shops.
