Conference on Sustainable Innovation - 2019
Partnership for
the UN Sustainable
Development Goals
# WHAT IS THE SDG CONFERENCE?
Future decision makers must understand their impact and responsibility when planning their social and economic development. Since 2016 an increasing number of companies have integrated the UN Global Goals of Sustainable Development (SDGs) into their business activities. Partnerships with NGOs and/or political institutions allow them to reach more sustainable results.
ESCP is committed to the Agenda 2030 and has integrated the SDGs into the curriculum to train future managers. We believe future decision makers must understand their responsibility in relation to their social and economic impact.
The Conference on Sustainable Innovation is part of this training. Since 2017 it has allowed businesses, political institutions, and civil society to reflect on their projects related to the SDGs and sustainability, and to contribute to the education of young talents.
# Conference Participants
We welcome stakeholders from the Politics/Government, Business, and Civil Society spheres to work together on the Agenda 2030. Over 1,5 days we will share and discuss challenges from our unique perspectives. This will help us learn from each other, to expand our networks, and to develop new collaboration strategies.
Join us to share your projects and to generate new ideas in workshops and discussions. We encourage you to also contribute to a workshop or to participate in the workshop jury.
Key figures:
- 350+ ESCP students
- ESCP faculty members from various disciplines
- Students and faculty members from other universities
- 80+ experts from the corporate, political and NGO worlds
# Testimonials
"The conference is a great means to educate young talents in sustainability in innovative and practical ways. They get an immediate impression of challenges and successes, moreover they meet a lot of people working on the subject. For us, the conference is a great way to reflect on our sustainability activities, discuss with students and meet with other experts."
Axel Bachmann
General Manager of Sustainability, Coca Cola European Partners Deutschland
"The conference is an excellent occasion to bring people from business, academia and civil society organizations together. The direct exchange with students and business representatives in workshops on sustainability topics is very valuable to learn and to develop concepts together."
Florian Landorff
Head of Innovation, Welthungerhilfe
# Experts & Sponsors 2019
We are grateful for the following sponsors and their experts who participated in the conference. Thank you for making this one of the biggest sustainability-related career conferences in Europe.
Day 1
Understanding SDG Partnerships & Business Transformation
Access the Day 1 live stream here starting at 13:00!
| 13:00 | Welcome Coffee & Check-in | |
| in front of the Brandenburg Gate | ||
| 13:30 | Welcome Speeches: Conference Chairs, Andreas Kaplan and Jan Ehlers: "Introduction to the Sustainability Debate - Understanding the Importance of the SDGs and Agenda 2030" | |
| 14:00 | Key Note from representatives of the Business, Government & NGO/Society sectors: | |
| Jörg Mayer-Ries, Head of Division, Sustainable Development and Citizen Participation, Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Luca Crisciotti, CEO, DNV GL Susanna Krüger, CEO, Save the Children | ||
| 14:30 | Panel Discussion: Challenges of implementing sustainability | |
| 15:00 | Audience Reflection | |
| 15:15 | Networking Coffee-Break | |
| 15:45 | Best Practices of Trilateral Projects - Project Flashlights: | |
| Franck Vogel, Photojournalist Gènica Schäfgen, Head of Ecosia Germany Florian Hoffmann, CEO & Founder, DO School Thomas Schindler, CEO & Founder, delodi Dr. Joana Breidenbach, Co-Founder, betterplace.org Yvonne Löwenstein, Sustainability Manager, Share | ||
| 17:00 | Closing debate: Digital interaction – What did you learn? | |
| 17:30 | Closing remarks & Check out | |
| Moderation: Andrea Thilo |
Day 2
Implementing – Group work on a specific work stream
| 9:00 | Welcome & Registration | |
| 9:30 | Workshop Session I: Tackling problems | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Workshop Session II: Finding Solutions | |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 | Preparing the Pitch Session | |
| 17:30 | Finish & Expert Get together |
# Workshop Sessions 2019
Bio-economy and Sustainability
Moderator: Stan Muraczewski
Experts/Coaches
Wouter Moekotte (BeO Bottle), Martin Clemesha (Braskem), Kristy-Barbara Lange (European Bioplastics)
Workshop Description
Industry, innovation, infrastructure : What are the top 3 best innovations in the bio-economy today? Pick 1 and write a strategy to make it become public mainstream. Responsible consumption and production : What are the pros and cons of bio-plastics? Give 3 precise solutions to tackle the negative impacts in the experts' perimeter. Climate action : How can the bio-economy help to fight climate change? According to your findings, prepare a pitch to convince business angels to invest in the bio-economy industry.
Sustainable Value Chains
Moderator: Erik Gloy
Experts
Wolfgang Baum (Fairventures Worldwide), Julia Breidenstein (HUMANA Kleidersammlung GmbH)
Workshop Description
Real sustainability can only be truly achieved when all parts of the value chain work together. The Circular Economy, use and re-use of materials as a concept improves the environmental impact of the entire value chain, meaning not onlyl ow environmental impact but also positive societal impact. Customers and suppliers need to work together with all the stakeholders along their value chain to further improve the overall footprint of the value chain. How can we enhance a value chain in order to contribute not only to new innovations, value proposition development and advancing sustainability metrics, but also to sustainable development?
Tech for Good
Moderator: Ruby Hawliczek
Experts/Coaches
Prof. Dr. Phillip Meissner (ESCP Europe), Thomas Schindler (Delodi)
Workshop Description
Exponential technologies (drones, sensors, etc) are reshaping every aspect of our lives and disrupting every industry. The accelerating pace of change is unfamiliar and unprecedented. How can we leverage the opportunities the advancement of technologies provides us with for the solution of the Global Grand Challenges of Sustainable Development?
Food Waste in Germany
Moderator: Marei von Götz, Sumaya Sadek
Experts/Coaches
Sascha Rieth (Bio Company), Frederic Goldkorn (Querfeld), Gregor Raimann (Raimann Concepts)
Workshop Description
According to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, around one-third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or disposed of along the value chain. The topic of food waste is becoming increasingly urgent, as the pressure on global resources is increasing due to a growing world population. In Germany alone 18 million tons of food waste are generated annually, of which 9.9 million tons could be avoided. Although we are facing hunger on one side of the world, we are still throwing away a huge chunk of the food we produce. Framed by SDG 12 (sustainable production and consumption) and SDG 2 (zero hunger) students will work in groups to look at different parts of the supply chain to evaluate what actions can be taken to reduce food waste. The outcome will be the get a holistic understanding of the problem and develop action plans for different stakeholders.
Fashion: Upstream Supply Chain
Moderator: Martina Saiu
Experts
Maria Ledous (Uniqlo), Nora Vehling (Fashion Revolution Germany), Beth Greenaway (Zalando)
Workshop Description
The fashion industry employs millions of people worldwide and it is increasingly facing scrutiny regarding transparency and disclosure of information about its supply chains. In this workshop we aim to look at the upstream supply chain of the fashion industry, considering the social implications, such as working conditions, that result from the fast pace required to deliver up to 50 collections a year for major fast fashion brands.
E-waste
Moderator: Valentin Bouvier
Experts
Phillip Buddemeier (Accenture Strategy), Nico Pastewski (Accenture Strategy)
Workshop Description
In this workshop, we will tackle the pressing issue of E-waste, and see how it could be prevented or used at an advantage, through principles of the Circular economy. With the help of two expert consultants from Accenture and a representative of Grover, a company whose business model is changing the way we consume electronics, students will be encouraged to think of ways to integrate the Circular economy in the business models of leading electronics producers.
Supply Chain Intricacies of a food-specific products: From Farm to Consumer
Moderator: Wyatt Ball
Experts
Sarah Budke (Chérie Chocolat), Ömür Kasap (Unilever Germany - Ben & Jerrys)
Workshop Description
This workshop looks to facilitate a discussion and analysis of the different steps within the supply chain of bringing a food product (in this case, chocolate) in a sustainable manner. The experts will provide an overview of the different steps within the chocolate supply chain and discuss briefly (in presentation format) how the base-product is cultivated and shipped along its supply chains to the consumer end. The participants tasks will be to highlight the difficulties along the supply chain and discuss in detail where and in what innovative manners can the associated environmental, social, and economic variables the product creation and consumption can be altered or changed.
Workshop on Sustainable Consumption within the Beauty Sector
Moderator: Sandra Pekle
Experts
Anna Lucuk (Coty), Paul McNeillis (DNV GL)
Workshop Description
The Beauty industry has lot of consumers and influencers. It is therefore well suited for raising consumers awareness through numbers of consumers as well as social medias. Engaging in consumers topics has mass appeal. The workshop will thrive to answer the following question : How can the beauty sector raise consumers awareness of sustainable issues in order to drive actions in the supply chain or other sustainable development? The workshop will also work on a short case study on how “CoverGirl” became the largest beauty brand to earn cruelty free International’s “Leaping Bunny” certification.
Waste Management Systems in Mass Events
Moderator: Andrea Bragagna
Experts
Andrea Bragagna (Regatta ESCP Europe)
Workshop Description
The workshop will have the objective to give students the chance to employ their creative mindsets to find a solution to the unavoidable production of waste during such a large event. The students will be prompted to follow a design thinking approach to developing a waste management system from a circular economy standpoint. In doing this they will be supported by the knowledge of an expert in the field.
Sustainable Mobility and Delivery Systems workshop
Moderator: Solène Tobler
Experts
Matt Stewart (DO School), Phillip Tettenborn (DO School), Marc Watine (PwC Germany)
Workshop Description
The ocean represents 90% of the earth’s biosphere. It's sheer size and rich diversity represent a wealth of opportunities and resources in times of rapid population growth. But the continuation of current unsustainable business practices is jeopardizing it all. In this workshop, we will explore impactful innovations and put our creativity to work for the oceans!
Sustainable mobility: How can individuals and businesses reduce their carbon footprint?
Moderator: Solen de Kervasdoué
Experts
Alexander Schmid (Bearing Point), Julia Epp (WZB), Pascal Bock (Volkswagen AG)
Workshop Description
The purpose of the workshop is that futures managers gain some knowledge about sustainable transportation and to make them rethink about their practices and that of organizations with regard to mobility. First, an overview of the subject and its importance for sustainable development will be given, and each experts will introduce themselves and their role within the mobility sector. Then, we will start the design thinking process, in which students will be asked to participate to didactic games and answer questions, in order to develop solutions together with experts, regarding a specific topic in sustainable mobility.
Challenges of sustainable paper packaging for consumer goods
Moderator: Emilie Grytte Eikeland
Experts
Dominique Kathe (Mars Petcare), Ulrich Malessa (FSC Deutschland), Larissa Gleich (Consulting & Organisation)
Workshop Description
Packaging plays an important part in both protecting products and communicating product features, but have you ever thought about the environmental and social impact of packaging production and consumption? We will in this workshop explore the sustainability related challenges concerning paper packaging for consumer goods and how we can overcome these challenges.
Blockchain
Moderator: Tom Caponiti
Experts
Joséphine Quioc (GIZ Blockchain Lab), Sven Edgren (DNV GL), Marta Ghiglioni (Italia FinTech)
Workshop Description
Almost everyone has heard of blockchain by now, but it's not just a buzzword. Distributed ledgers are an increasingly disruptive technology, changing the way businesses operate and interact. Blockchain can even be used to tackle environmental and social needs, while covering the scope of everything from energy to supply chain management.
Creating and Improving Access to Sustainable Healthcare in an Innovative Approach
Moderator: Yin Shi Pang
Experts
Joanna Pawlik (Reckon Digital), Dr. Sebastian Winkler (Thalamed)
Workshop Description
The healthcare industry is experiencing its most rapid pace of innovation ever. The shift is accelerated by technology innovation from the important dimensions including public health outreach, consumer and service experience, personalized care, remote patient management systems, patient information security in a more integrated and comprehensive manner. Welcome to join us if you are interested in the challenge and opportunity of the healthcare industry and eager to create new or significantly improved business models, organizational models, processes, methods of service delivery to develop a sustainable healthcare.
Recycling and Sustainability in plastic packaging
Moderator: Masooma Shrivastava
Experts
Miriam Melcher (Procter & Gamble), Clara Burow (Impact Revolution), Claudi Vietta (Leef)
Workshop Description
In 2015 the world produced more than 380 million tonnes of plastic. For context, this is roughly equivalent to the mass of two-thirds of the world population. Moreover, a recent report highlighted that an average person eats 70,000 microplastics (small disintegrated pieces of plastic) each year. Presently, our production and consumption of plastic is far greater than our waste management capacity. Given the global scale of plastic pollution, there is an immediate need of action from both businesses and consumers to control our dependence on plastic. In this workshop we will tackle the issue of plastic waste and see how businesses can innovate and disrupt their product or business model.
Sustainable Business School – Designing Tomorrow?
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Florian Lüdeke-Freund
Experts
Prof. Dr. Florian Lüdeke-Freund (ESCP Europe Berlin), PD Dr. Remmer Sassen (University of Hamburg), Elisa Gansel (University Duisburg-Essen)
Workshop Description
Florian Lüdeke-Freund is Professor for Corporate Sustainability at ESCP Europe Berlin and Academic Director of the Master in Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Innovation. His teaching and research deal with sustainable entrepreneurship, corporate sustainability management, and sustainable business models. Florian founded www.sustainablebusinessmodel.org in 2013, an international hub for sustainable business model research.
Impact Measurement
Moderator: Janine Schnabel
Experts
Janine Schnabel (TomorrowIsNow), Alena Klatte (Value for Good)
Workshop Description
The workshop gave the students the possibility to dive deep into the topic of impact measurement. After a short introduction into the IOOI model - the students developed themselves business models which have profit but at the same time have an impact on society. The next step then was to measure the positive impact. It was surprising for the students to learn that impact always goes alongs with negative consequences. The students were astonished by the results one can achieve only in a few hours.
Smart Living
Moderator: Daniel Schmitt
Experts
Marguerite Bellec (Viessmann Group), Michael Werner (Scholz & Friends)
Workshop Description
Current debates on resource scarcity or climate change are intrinsically linked with energy production. The energy system is undergoing a fundamental change with increasing shares of renewables and an emergence of innovative business models. While technologies and incentive schemes on the production side are broadly discussed, everyday energy consumption on the demand side is focussed less. The smart living workshop entails this discussion and aims at tackling both the benefits of such techology development (and how to communicate them) and the challenges they are facing.
Energy
Moderator: Alice Grillon
Experts
Plug & Play, Solarkios, Golfstrom
Workshop Description
Understanding the challenges actors in the renewable energy sector are currently facing in order to expand and make it easily accessible to people. Among those challenges : cost, market availability and stockage.
Green Banking – A New Strategy to Regain Legitimacy for the European Banking Sector?
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Rolf Brühl
Experts
Prof. Dr. Rolf Brühl (ESCP Europe), Benedikt Kapteina (ESCP Europe)
Workshop Description
by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the demands of millennial investors. In in the eleventh year after Lehman’s bankruptcy, banks need to consider different societal expectations by developing new strategies and business models. Additionally, the EU Action Plan to finance sustainable growth, commissioned by the EU-Commission, has put forward proposals for the future design of a European financial system. This initiative aims to foster sustainability in the banking sector.
Sustainable Cities
Moderator: Team of Urban Desing Thinking.com
Experts
Simon Steiner & Jan Fritsche & Hilde Rosenboom (Urban Design Thinking)
Workshop Description
Clear view in the urban jungle? With the human-centered Urban Design Thinking approach we will develop an exemplary site close to Berlin in this workshop. We will connect different expertise and set a framework to cope with complexity and to open up sustainable potentials.
Storytelling for Sustainable Fashion
Moderator: Clara Camesasca
Experts
Isabelle Laurencin (Plug & Play Netherlands and Director of Fashion for Good), Rune Orloff (Parley from the Oceans), Lucas Klocke, (Uniqlo Germany), Marie-Sophie Vorbrodt, (Share)
Workshop Description
Exploring the role of marketing, communications and storytelling in shaping consumer behavior and accelerating the shift towards sustainable and circular business models in the fashion industry .
Sustainable Finance - Developing transparent and long-term oriented investments & The relationship between climate change and financial risks
Moderator: Theresa Gerdes andNathan Raynouard
Experts
Manuel Ehlers (Triodos), Cosima Stahr (adelphi), Klaus Hagedor (Analyst, 2degree Investing Initiative), Yvonne Zwick (Hub for Sustainable Finance), Katharina Latif (Allianz SE), Prof. Houdou Basse Mama (ESCP Europe Berlin)
Workshop Description
In order to achieve the EU’s 2030 sustainable development targets, the European Commission developed a roadmap to boost the role of finance in achieving a well-performing economy that delivers on environmental and social goals as well. This roadmap has three main objectives: reorienting capital flows towards sustainable investment, managing financial risks stemming from climate change, and fostering transparency and long-termism in financial and economic activities. In this workshop, we aim to develop ideas how to enhance transparency coupled with a long-term orientation.
# Past Conferences
# Your contact
Recruiting Days 2020
# WHAT IS RECRUITING DAYS?
Recruiting Days is the largest recruiting event at ESCP Berlin.
The two-day event attracts more than 700 students from all six ESCP campuses and 40+ top employers from various industries.
What sets Recruiting Days apart from other career events?
Recruiting Days is more than the average career fair. Through various interactive individualized and large group formats top ESCP talents and employers can connect and find the perfect match. Companies can even directly recruit candidates here! The ESCP Career Development Office coordinates personalized schedules, advising and lunch for all company and student participants. Recruiting Days conclude with the Linking Talents Community Party on Friday night at a Berlin club.
Don’t miss out on your chance to find your next top internship/job or intern/employee!
40+ top employers in 2019:
Accenture Strategy
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders.
With approximately 482,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.
Bloomberg
Born in 1981, Bloomberg is the world's primary distributor of financial data and a top news provider of the 21st century. As global information and technology company, they use their dynamic network of data, ideas and analysis to solve difficult problems. Their customers around the world rely on them to deliver accurate, real-time business and market information that helps them make important financial decisions.
Bloomberg harnesses the power of data and analytics to organize, understand and improve our world.
EY Parthenon
Parthenon joined Ernst & Young LLP in 2014. EY-Parthenon is a strategy consultancy, committed to bringing unconventional yet pragmatic thinking together with their clients’ smarts to deliver actionable strategies for real impact in today’s complex business landscape. Innovation has become a necessary ingredient for sustained success. Critical to unlocking opportunities is EY-Parthenon’s ideal balance of strengths – specialized experience with broad executional capabilities – to help you optimize your portfolio of businesses, uncover industry insights to make investment decisions, find effective paths for strategic growth opportunities and make acquisitions more rewarding.
ODDO BHF
ODDO BHF is the first independent Franco German financial group located all over the world. As a modern private bank, ODDO BHF is geared to the needs of very wealthy private customers, internationally committed medium-sized companies as well as demanding medium-sized entrepreneurial families and institutional investors. It is one of the leading asset managers in the German-speaking region. Many of their employees are involved in the company and thus understand how entrepreneurial customers think. Their unique Franco-German business model is geared towards quality that meets the highest standards.
Société Générale
Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to the positive transformations of society and the economy. Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 149,000 members of staff in 67 countries and daily supports 31 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors.
Accuracy
Accuracy is the sole totally independent international player in its field of expertise. Accuracy can offer company management and their shareholders a global reach in financial consultancy services.
With over 450 consultants Accuracy is present in 12 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, Middle East and Africa and leads engagements all over the world. We boast a full range of skills in the economic, financial and accounting fields, and combine these skills to reach a single goal: to validate figures by analyzing them, questioning them, verifying their reliability and providing recommendations to facilitate effective decision-making. To achieve this, we combine extensive know-how in areas such as auditing techniques, valuations, financial modelling, financial forecasting and market analyses. This helps our clients in a wide range of situations including acquisitions, disposals, restructuring, litigation and dispute resolution.
Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group, as a worldwide leader in strategic consulting, stands for the innovative solutions that are carried out in collaboration with clients. Founded in the US in 1963, BCG today maintains offices in more than 90 cities throughout the world of which eight are located in Germany and Austria. Globally, BCG generated revenues of $7.5 billion in 2018 with a total of 18,500 employees. BCG seeks exceptional graduates in all fields as well as young professionals eager to learn continuously and take on new challenges. They are looking for people with self-initiative, curiosity, and keen perceptive faculties. Abstract, analytical reasoning and confidence in working with numbers are just as important for consulting work as communication skills and a deep desire to make a difference.
HDI Group
HDI is a major European insurance group. The HDI Group is active inside and outside Germany, and in Industrial Lines and Retail Insurance. It operates under the umbrella of the Talanx Group, which generates premium income amounting to EUR 34.9 billion (2018) and has a workforce of around 20,000 employees worldwide. Further brands of the Talanx Group include Hannover Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, Targo insurers, PB insurers and neue leben, the latter all specialised in bancassurance, as well as the Polish insurer Warta.
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is one of the largest and most successful consumer goods companies with annual sales of US$ 67.7 billion. The P&G Recruiting Team has a strong collaboration with the ESCP Europe with several alumni working in the team coming regularly to the campus to keep in touch with the school and get to know top talents interested in internships or entry-positions. P&G is very well known for its Marketing careers, but also offers great opportunities for anyone interested in Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Analytics & Insights, or Human Resources.
Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria, a European leader in consulting, digital services and software development, helps its clients drive their digital transformation to obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. It provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a fully collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to making the most of digital technology to build a positive future for its clients.
Argonas
ARGONAS Corporate Finance Advisors is an independent advisory firm based in Berlin. Our team combines complementary experience in the areas M&A, financing and private equity. Based on that, we offer integrated advice on Corporate Finance transactions and non-deal related projects. Independent from the characteristics of the specific project, we add value through the provision of focused and flexible support to management, finance department and company owners by complementing the resources and expertise of in-house teams.
Coca-Cola European Partners
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, based on net sales, and a major fast-moving consumer goods company in Europe. CCEP makes, sells and distributes non-alcoholic drinks to 300 million people in 13 countries. They proudly source 90 percent of the resources needed to produce beverages such as Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Mezzo Mix and ViO from local suppliers. CCEP is an international company with a regional character and strong local ties. Their corporate culture combines innovation with tradition and is shaped by the commitment of their employees.
Henkel
Henkel has leading positions with their innovations, brands and technologies in three business areas: Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care. Henkel combines the best of both worlds: the heritage of more than 140 years’ experience and the entrepreneurial spirit of an innovative family business! For more than a century, they have been making the lives of theircustomers and consumers easier by what started as a three-man business in 1876 and grew into an international company with more than 53,000 employees worldwide.
Prophet
Prophet is a different kind of consultancy that helps clients find better ways to grow their brand and business. The global team of 400 + thinkers, makers and doers combine its diverse skills to create fresh thinking, actionable ideas and beautiful design. International teamwork, exciting and demanding business challenges, and a path to growth that immerses employees in the work ever deeper, is what makes this place special. The work they deliver challenges them to think faster, act smarter and continue to stay curious about the world.
S&P Global
The world looks to S&P Global for essential intelligence. It is a leader in credit rating, benchmarks, and analytics for capital and commodity markets around the world. With a career at S&P Global, you will become an integral part of thwir team of best in class financial capabilities including S&P Global Rating, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Platts and S&P Dow Jones Indices. The work you do will impact global markets and the clients they serve every day. The valuable data and insights provide clarity to complex systems, so their customers can make their decisions with conviction.
Atlantic Food Labs
Atlantic Food Labs is a place where new food companies are built. This comaany cares about food & health and seeks to make a long-lasting impact. They surround themselves with extraordinary startups and entrepreneurs that pre-define the way we eat and live healthy in the near and far future.
Deloitte
As one of the leading professional services firms, Deloitte focuses on more than just the classic tasks of an auditing and consulting firm. The firm provides services in the areas of Audit & Assurance, Risk Advisory, Tax & Legal, Financial Advisory and Consulting for companies and institutions from all industries. As pioneers, innovative solutions for their clients are developed and they open up opportunities for our talents. No matter whether business management or MINT - diversity promotes innovation through different perspectives and personalities.
IWC Schaffhausen
The legacy of IWC Schaffhausen was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland with the philosophy to imbue a passion for watchmaking, untiring enterprise and perfect craftsmanship into every innovative watch produced. Numerous competent specialists in many departments contribute to the fact that the IWC Schaffhausen brand and the name of the city of Schaffhausen are known all over the world today - from the Creative Center to Finance, Human Resources, Infrastructure & Risk Management, IT & Security, Marketing & Communications to the various areas of Operations and Sales.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
PricewaterhouseCoopers, worldwide known as PwC, is Germany's leading auditing and advisory firm. As we move into the digital era, clients rely on our interdisciplinary expertise, global networks and high integrity. PwC is committed to building social trust and solving important problems. In Germany alone, clients are supported with around 600 partners and a total of over 11,000 experts from 21 locations with high-quality, industry-specific services in the areas of auditing, tax and management consulting. More than 250,000 employees in 158 countries worldwide belong to the PwC network.
Textron Aviation
Textron Aviation Inc. is the leading general aviation authority and home to the Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker brands, which account for more than half of all general aviation aircraft flying. For more than 90 years, the Textron Aviation brands have represented unrivaled innovation, performance and leadership in the industry, offering an unmatched value proposition rooted in the total ownership experience. Leveraging unparalleled speed-to-market, Textron Aviation provides the most versatile and comprehensive business and general aviation product portfolio in the world.Upon completion, employees are equipped with the tools required for success in their permanent field-based roles.
Axel Springer SE
Axel Springer SE has undergone a profound transformation from a traditional German newspaper company to Europe's leading digital publishing house. Their next goal? They want to become the global market leader in digital content and digital classifieds - a media and technology company that remains true to itself and its values, while at the same time undergoing a radical cultural change.
DHL Consulting
DHL Consulting is an essential part of the world’s leading mail and logistics company, Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL Group), with unparalleled access to its most important people – the top management of this prominent global organization. DHL Consulting combines business experience and logistics expertise to effectively answer the multifaceted business challenges of DPDHL Group and provides strategic advisory services to help the Group’s businesses to run better, adding value and delivering internal objectivity.
Kearney
Kearney is a leading international management consulting firm with offices in more than 40 countries. As global partners, their employees make them who they are. As individuals, each brings different passions and strengths to the table. What unites them is that they all enjoy their work as much as those they work with. And just as they promise their clients advancement so do they keep this promise for every member of the global Kearney team
Roland Berger
Roland Berger is one of the leading players in strategy consulting and provides tailored solutions for their diverse clients in all major international markets. Roland Berger has collaborated with ESCP Europe for many years. Being a globally operating consultancy with international engagements and clients, they especially value the cosmopolitan mix of students at ESCP Europe and the strategic and analytical content of our studies.
Total
Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with Total. With over 500-plus professions in 130 countries, they offer high safety and environmental standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and wide-ranging career development. Be part of the global team whose mission is already shared by 100,000 employees : to become the responsible energy major.
Bain & Company
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 58 offices in 37 countries, they work alongside their clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. The company complements their tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster and more enduring outcomes. Since the founding in 1973, they have measured their success by the success of their clients. Bain & Company proudly maintains the highest level of client advocacy in the industry, and their clients have outperformed the stock market 4-to-1.
DNV GL
Each day, you will find DNV GL at work with over 100,000 customers, in more than 100 countries, building the invisible infrastructure of trust. The firm is the leading provider of risk management and quality assurance services to the maritime, oil and gas, and power and renewables industries. Also they are global leaders in certifying management systems of companies across all types of industries, including healthcare, food and beverage, automotive and aerospace.
For over 100 years, L'Oréal has stood for beauty. With its unique international portfolio of 36 different and complementary brands, the group achieved sales of €26.9 billion in 2018. L'Oréal employs 86,000 people worldwide. As a global leader in the beauty industry, L'Oréal is present in all distribution channels. The group's mission is to provide the best in cosmetics innovation to women and men around the world with respect for their diversity. L'Oréal's sustainability strategy "Sharing Beauty With All" defines ambitious sustainability targets to be achieved by the Group by 2020.
Scholz & Friends
Scholz & Friends Group is one of the leading agency groups in the German-speaking world and, as the “Orchestra of Ideas”, unites all communication instruments under one roof. In addition to their German offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Düsseldorf, the network operates in all major European markets. Alongside the Group’s full-service agencies, it also comprises a number of specialist agencies for PR, digital, design, dialogue or event marketing communication needs.
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is the premier global developer and operator of flagship shopping destinations, with a portfolio valued at €65.0 Bn as at June 30, 2019, of which 86% in retail, 7% in offices, 5% in convention & exhibition venues and 2% in services. Currently, the Group owns and operates 92 shopping centres, including 55 flagships in the most dynamic cities in Europe and the United States. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield distinguishes itself by its Better Places 2030 agenda, that sets its ambition to create better places that respect the highest environmental standards and contribute to better cities.
Bayer Strategy & Business Consulting
Business Consulting (BC) is Bayer’s inhouse management consultancy and an established partner for the Bayer Group. They are the preferred partner when it comes to developing and implementing projects relating to strategy, organization and performance optimization. BC has customers in all parts of the Bayer Group around the world, including the subgroups and service companies, performing their services from their base at Bayer’s headquarters in Leverkusen and their offices in Shanghai and Pittsburgh. More than 160 consultants offer consultancy on strategic, organizational and operational topics, develop custom solutions and sustainably promote their implementation.
E.ON Inhouse Consulting
At E.ON Inhouse Consulting, the most important strategic challenges facing the energy market are being mastered as well as the personal and professional development of their consultants and a unique business culture are supported and lived. With around 100 consultants, they are one of the leading internal management consulting firms in Europe and the preferred strategy and implementation partner of the E.ON management team
Mazars
Mazars is an internationally integrated partnership, specialising in audit, accountancy, advisory, tax and legal services. Operating in 91 countries and territories around the world, we draw on the expertise of 40,400 professionals – 24,400 in the Mazars integrated partnership and 16,000 via the Mazars North America Alliance – to assist clients of all sizes at every stage in their development.
Accenture Strategy
Shell is one of the leading energy companies in the world. It employs around 86,000 people in more than 140 countries. They use the most advanced technologies and aim to play a part in the development of sustainable and future-oriented forms of energy. Shell offers various career opportunities, such as Shell Graduate Programme, Assessed Internship Programme, or Cross Business Talent Track.
Wayfair
Wayfair Inc. is the leading furniture and home accessories e-commerce company. Wayfair generated $6.8 billion in net revenue for the twelve months ended December 31, 2018. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with operations throughout North America and Europe, the company employs more than 13,000 people. Wayfair is growing and committed to hiring analytical, entrepreneurial, and results-oriented graduates to become the next generation of leaders across the business. These individuals will demonstrate their leadership skills, quantitative mindset, and will execute strategic and cross-functional projects for their respective teams.
Bearing Point
BearingPoint is an independent consulting firm with European roots and global reach. They are committed consultants with adaptive intelligence. The consulting firm knows that the world changes constantly, so thry offer real, tailored solutions for complex business environments. They help their clients realise their goals by applying deep industry and functional expertise to understand and address their specific needs. The consultants are passionate and highly engaged with a pragmatic yet innovative mindset.
Ernst & Young (EY)
Ernst & Young, globally known as EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The delivered insights and quality services help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies over the world. They develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on their promises to all of their stakeholders. In so doing, EY plays a critical role in building a better working world for their people, for their clients and for their communities.
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that is the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. They work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Their scale, scope, and knowledge allow them to address problems that no one else can. They have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach and are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to their clients and, often, to the world.
Siemens Management Consulting
Siemens Management Consulting (SMC) is a global consultancy with headquarters in Munich, Germany. Their international teams work jointly with their clients to master the challenges presented by this age of digitalization and their consulting portfolio is broad: What do pioneering mobility concepts look like? How can we best make use of digitalization in areas like infrastructure, energy and healthcare so as to develop innovative business models and products? What types of energy will be used in 2050 – and what role will decentralized energy solutions take? SMC has long-standing strategic expertise in digital transformation, business development, innovation, M&A and benchmarking.
Zalando
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, they bring head-to-toe fashion to 32 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty. The logistics network with 12 centrally located fulfillment centers allows to efficiently serve their customers throughout Europe. Different ways are used to connect all players in the fashion industry and cater to their individual requirements. Their team of young talents from more than 100 countries is constantly reinventing their products, their services and themselves.
Prescheduled
Interviews
Join companies for first-round interviews and introductory conversations! Take the first step towards an internship or job - directly on campus.
Career
fair
Connect with companies and network with employers, including ESCP alumni.
Round table
Discussions
Meet company representatives to learn about the company's business, application processes or special topics. Be prepared and stand out!
Company
Presentation
Attend presentations by companies to learn about company culture, current projects and initiatives, and job or internship opportunities. No application required, simply register on Jobteaser!
Company
Speed dating
Break the ice in five minutes with at least four companies. Participants are selected by the Linking Talents team.
Networking
lounge
Need a break? Chat with friends, companies and alumni while enjoying refreshments.
February
March
May
15
June
October
7
October
21
November
12 & 13
Registration opens for partner companies
Registration opens for all companies
Early Bird Discount ends
Registration
deadline
Student application deadline;
candidate selection
Deadline to
select candidates
Recruiting Days
September
1
October
6
Week of
October 22
October
30
November
1
November
12 & 13
Applications open
Applications close
Schedule sent
to all students
Deadline to
confirm schedule
Final schedule sent
to all students
Recruiting Days
# Testimonials
"The Career Events at ESCP Berlin are the best that I experienced at a university. The support we received from the Berlin campus is fantastic - I can always make an advising appointment or contact an advisor with a question, even though I’m currently studying in Paris."
Catalina Schweitzer
Student, Master in Management, 2021
"The Berlin Career Development Office were my partners in finding a job in Germany. Their advising helped me apply for jobs. Their events connected me with top employers and alumni. Thanks to them I now have my dream job in Germany."
Amil Bansal
Middle Office Officer Supply Chain/Bio, Total
Alumnus, Master in Business Administration, 2018
"ESCP is an important partner for us. We don’t just recruit students here, but also train our employees on current topics like New Work or Diversity."
Svenja Spranger
Director of Human Resources, Mazars
# Impressions
# Your contact
European Summer Night
# let's celebrate
ESCP Business School is 200 years old!
Our yearly European Summer Night is the traditional kick-off of the semester in September which brings together the entire ESCP community – students, alumni, professors, staff and corporate partners.
# what to expect
5 pm: Welcome Drinks
5.30 pm: Welcome Speech, Andreas Kaplan (Dean)
From 6 pm: A culinary journey through Europe
6 pm - 8 pm: Our student associations hold a few surprises for you
8 pm - 10 pm: Music with live DJ
11 pm: The End
Important: meet our cooperation partner Plan A at the European Summer Night. Plan A is the first data- and community-driven action platform in the fight against climate change. They will be at the campus helping us offset the carbon footprint created by the event. It is vital that we understand, measure, and mitigate our impact as an institution and as individuals - Plan A has the technology to do this and they will help us neutralise the negative impact of our event.
Location
Organiser: ESCP Berlin
Berlin - Germany
Date
13/09/2019
Start time: 5:00 PM
End time: 11:00 PM
