EDITORIAL

ALREADY TEN YEARS!

The European Club of corporate universities will begin in October its tenth year of operation! Almost a decade of a very exciting and intellectual human adventure among peers gathered around goals, rituals and shared principles for action!

Over 60 companies and 200 people participated in the work of ECCU during these nine years!
50 meetings were held including a two-day annual seminar every year from 2006. 50 files of about fifty pages a piece have been produced since the creation in 2002 of ECCU. And I have not counted the number of files made by Business Digest and films made by Palmis Productions for ECCU!

A tightly knit membership base of quality, unable to be replaced by colleagues or staff, on top of the protection of members from market pressure, all help to prolong membership loyalty in a profession where turnover is considerable.

For my part, I led this club with great faith, because there is still so much to do to promote corporate universities and academies at the strategic level which should be their priority. Many leaders have not yet grasped the significance of the powerful tool of change and transformation that internal educational structures could be.

Given the experience gained during those nine years, as well as a paradigm shift in the time management of CLOs, we decided at the preparatory meeting for the next season, held on June 28 at Campus Orange, to somewhat modify the format of ECCU by instating:

  4 meetings per year and two thematic Happy hours,
  Automatic CUCP membership, the Corporate University Community Platform in which an ECCU Community will be incorporated,
  The removal of the hard version of the participant's file in order to meet environmental requirements (it will now be uploaded in digital format on the CUCP platform and read during the meetings on tablets or laptops).

Welcome to this truly unique community of practice, all those who lead a University / Academy / Campus / Institute of management and look to progress with others through fruitful discussions and quality contributions!

Annick Renaud Coulon
Founder and President

THE FOUNDING VISION

The founding vision of the European Club of Corporate Universities is to provide an influential network that is recognized by Corporate University directors, academies and corporate institutes:
  For the quality and dynamism of its members;
  For the vitality and pertinence of its work, research, and innovative proposals for the future.

AMBITIONS

The Club aims to bring together Corporate University professionals in a convivial and efficient effective network, enabling them to:
  develop fruitful and meaningful interchanges with other members,
  strengthen the identity of their job and internal educational organization,
  question their own strategies and develop them in line with the demands and concerns of contemporary society,
  innovate and optimize their resource management,
  and continue creating value in their organization.

The aim is to help member companies save time and money by managing, dynamizing, or creating their Corporate University through various initiatives:
  by preparing theme-based meetings and dossiers,
  by getting specialists to intervene in the analysis or illustration of the working themes,
  and by organizing work through member networks.

The Club also encourages the development of the cultural and organizational aspects of Corporate Universities in every major region of the world, in order to aid member companies integrate the market contingencies in which they operate into the management of their University or project to establish one. This can be achieved:
  by helping them to work on the differences and complementarities within their own organizations,
  and by facilitating exchange between Corporate University Directors from different cultures, and enabling them to collaborate on the experimentation of new learning methods.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Company members agree to act in accordance with a club spirit—relationships are based on contribution, active interchange, trust, reciprocity, confidentiality, respecting differences, and collaborative exchange between peers, who are all Corporate University, institute, or academy Directors.