ESSCA Budapest celebrates 20th anniversary

2013 marks the 20th anniversary of ESSCA (École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers) Budapest. To celebrate "á la mode," the school hosted a conference on education and a mini gala event serving French delicacies.

Today an important representative of both French-Hungarian economic relations and French business education worldwide, ESSCA (École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d’Angers) opened its Budapest campus in 1993. To celebrate the 20th anniversary, the school organized a conference on October 4, discussing higher education in Central Europe and the effects of the global economic crisis on European countries. Among guests speakers were Ágnes Ducrot, director of the Hungarian-French Chamber of Commerce, Hervé Ferrage, director of the French Institute in Budapest, Régis Haudecoeur, director of Gustave Eiffel French School in Budapest, Chrishtophe Gourlet, regional manager of SANOFI, Dr. Tamás Matura from ESSCA, Gergely Prõhle, assistant undersecretary in charge of EU-relations, Prof. Ádám Török, Member of the Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Dr. Gyula Zilahy Gyula, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, Corvinus University. Following the roundtable discussions, fine food and beverages awaited guests, who were warmly greeted by Catherine Leblanc, Dean of the ESSCA Group and Dr. Zsuzsa Deli-Gray, director of ESSCA Hungary Foundation.

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Created in 1909 by the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of the West on the model of French Grandes Écoles, ESSCA has become, over the course of the twentieth century, a highly selective graduate business school, with campuses in Angers, Budapest, Paris and Shanghai. The Budapest campus has welcomed and educated more than 1,000 students so far, from Central Europe alongside those from the entire world to take up responsibilities later on in sales, management or finance.