Press Releases
Energy transition: HEC Liège puts flexibility at the heart of the debate - October 2025
The energy transition hinges on one key word: power system flexibility. On Wednesday, October 8, 2025, HEC Liège and the RESA Chair in Energy Economics will bring together researchers, industrial players and public decision-makers to discuss this topic.
HEC Liège launches the 2nd Welcome Sprint: 3 days to integrate, create and engage. With the presence of Noir Artist - September 2025
Following the success of the first edition in 2024, HEC Liège - École de gestion de l'Université de Liège is organizing the second edition of its Welcome Sprint from September 15 to 17, 2025, an original and unifying event designed to welcome its new 1st bachelor students.
HEC Liège - Business School of the University of Liège and the German-speaking Community sign a new strategic partnership for 2025-2028 - August 2025
At the headquarters of the Minister-President of the German-speaking Community in Eupen, the German-speaking Community of Belgium and HEC Liège - École de gestion de l'Université de Liège officially signed a renewed partnership agreement for the period 2025-2028. This alliance aims to strengthen links between the academic world and the economic fabric of the German-speaking region, while offering students unique professional opportunities.
Gala HEC Liège 2025: a unifying evening reflecting the economic and entrepreneurial vitality of HEC Liège and the region - May 2025
We could talk numbers - and we will, a little - but that would be missing the point. On Friday, May 23, at the heart of Liège Expo, an entire ecosystem vibrated to the rhythm of entrepreneurship, art and positive energy. 1.050 guests, over 100 tables, entrepreneurs as far as the eye can see, old hands who have lost none of their enthusiasm, and a certain idea of the future: incarnate, inspired.
HEC Liège confirms a global impact of 165 million euros for the region - April 2025
HEC Liège-École de gestion de l'Université de Liège has been awarded the BSIS label for the fourth time, by EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) and FNEGE (Fondation nationale pour l'enseignement de la gestion des entreprises). BSIS assesses the overall impact of a business school on its environment through seven key dimensions: financial, entrepreneurial, educational, intellectual, regional, societal and image.
The new 2024-2029 Strategic Plan of HEC Liège - University of Liège School of Management is published - March 2025
HEC Liège's new 2024-2029 Strategic Plan, the fruit of collective reflection by all the stakeholders of the University of Liège's School of Management, has just been published. It is a roadmap for the coming years to further strengthen its impact and become a major economic player in societal transformations.
HEC Liège engages 600 first-year bachelor's students in the "2 Tonnes" workshop as part of the new course "Sustainability and Transition" - February 2025
Starting this academic year, all faculties at the University of Liège are offering the "Sustainability and Transition" course to all 1st baccalauréat students.
In addition to a compulsory multidisciplinary online course, each faculty tailors this course to the specificities of its field of study.
Durabilité, et si on arrêtait de se raconter des salades ? A conference proposed by HEC Liège Executive Education Liège - October 2024
The agri-food sector is at the heart of a number of major problems - overexploitation of resources, human rights violations, degradation of human health and the environment, etc. - for which it is the source, but which also contribute to its fragility. This model is showing signs of crisis and needs to reinvent itself. At the same time, SMEs have to deal with complex issues, notably the arrival of new regulations (CSRD, CS3D...).
To illustrate this necessary transformation, HEC Liège Executive Education decided to explore this fast-changing sector.
HEC Liège - Management School of the University of Liège receives six-year renewal of AACSB accreditation - September 2024
HEC Liège, and through it the University of Liège, has obtained the renewal of its AACSB accreditation, a prestigious international recognition that attests to the quality of its programs and impactful research. This six-year renewal confirms the School's compliance with the highest international academic standards, as well as its expertise and commitment to continuous improvement. The Université de Liège is the only institution in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation to hold this recognition of quality.
Smart City: a portrait of the dynamics in Wallonia - September 2024
On September 26, the Smart City Institute (HEC Liège, ULiège) published a new report. A total of 28 key players in sustainable and intelligent transition in Wallonia were interviewed for this new study.
A new academic year like no other at HEC Liège - September 2024
The start of the new academic year is just around the corner, and HEC Liège, the University of Liège's Faculty of Management and Economics, has decided to innovate to make the welcome for new undergraduates different, inclusive and participative.
Launch of "Pulse": the HEC Liège research podcast - September 2024
HEC Liège is pleased to announce the launch of its new podcast, PULSE, designed to showcase the innovative research and ideas coming out of our academic body. An acronym for "Podcast for the Understanding of Leadership, Strategy and Entrepreneurship", the first episode of Pulse will be available on September 9, 2024.
HEC Liège Advisory wins the Best Improvement award at the Junior Enterprises Belgium national summit - May 2024
Every year, JE Belgium organizes this competition, in which network companies compete for three different prizes. The jury was made up of top executives from prestigious companies.
Blockchain demystified: conference - April 2024
Blockchain technology offers a powerful lever for digital transformation for all organizations, but is it within everyone's reach? This conference will enable the public to discover the applications of such a technology, take advantage of it and overcome its limitations.
Formations Enzyme - Le Catalyseur de la transition durable des PME - November 2023
ENZYME is a catalyst for SME sustainability, offering innovative training focused on activating and accelerating SME sustainability. It also positions itself as a facilitator of networks, experience and knowledge for learners.
The German-speaking Community and the HELMO Gramme University of Applied Sciences sign a cooperation agreement - September 2023
Following on from the existing collaboration between the German-speaking Community and HEC-ULiège, a new cooperation agreement has been signed with the Haute École HELMo Gramme. The agreement will be signed in the presence of Minister-President Oliver Paasch and Danièle Bayers, Director of the IT & Technical Department of the
Haute Ecole HELMo, and Wilfried Niessen, Managing Director and Dean of HEC Liège - ULiège.
Official launch of the new inter-university certificate in management of social economy enterprises - September 2023
On Thursday September 28, the Vice-President, Walloon Minister for the Social Economy, Ms Christie Morreale, and the 4 Walloon university chairs in social economy were pleased to inaugurate the official launch of the inter-university certificate in management of social economy enterprises at HEC Liège.
Launch of a new University Certificate focused on the uses and managerial challenges of the Blockchain - May 2023
HEC Liège Executive Education announces the launch of a new University Certificate focused on the uses and managerial challenges of Blockchain. This high-level training program comes at a time when the European Parliament recently voted in favor of the MiCA regulation on cryptocurrencies, making Europe the first jurisdiction to regulate the crypto-asset sector.
More than 330 young people and their parents expected this Wednesday, March 15 at the Open Day of HEC Liège-Ecole de gestion of the University of Liège - March 2023
More than 330 people registered for the HEC Liège Open Day on Wednesday, March 15. This is a great turnout of young people, eager to glean as much information as possible about higher education and to discover what will perhaps be their working environment in the next 5 years.
HEC Liège - Management School of the University of Liège obtains the renewal of the international EQUIS accreditation for the quality of its teaching, research and governance - March 2023
HEC Liège - Management School of the University of Liège has just obtained the renewal of its EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation following an audit held last November.
A new victory for the HEC Liège team which wins the final of the CFA Research Challenge 2023 Benelux - February 2023
Adrien Colmonts, Antoine Duysinx, Arthur Fossion and Corentin Werenne, students of HEC Liège - School of Management of the University of Liège, are the winners of the Benelux final of the prestigious CFA® Institute Research Challenge. The results were announced on Monday, February 20th at the Euronext offices in Amsterdam.
Wallonia invests in social economy research and education - November, 2022
Based on the virtuous dynamics of the escap project, the results of the ULiège chair in social economy for more than 10 years and the international reputation of the Centre d'Economie Sociale of HEC Liège created in 1992, three new chairs specialized in social economy - or chairES - have just been launched at the beginning of the 2022 academic year at UCLouvain, UMONS and ULB. The Centre for Social Economy is coordinating this project.
Le burn-out comme deuil sociétal, l’introspection comme antidote - November, 2022
Artist photographer, author, lecturer, Pedro Correa will be present at HEC Liège this Wednesday, November 09, for a conference on the theme "Burn-out as a societal mourning, introspection as an antidote".
L’ULiège première université belge membre de l’alliance mondiale GRASFI en finance durable Liège - September, 2022
The University of Liege (ULiège) becomes the first Belgian university to be part of GRASFI (Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment), a global multidisciplinary academic research alliance in sustainable finance.
A New Campus for a bigger Impact - May, 2022
HEC Liège - Management School of the University of Liege is proud to present its new enlarged campus which is articulated around a brand new building, designed by the architects of Atelier 229, and the renovation of the adjoining buildings of Sainte-Julienne.
L’art au coeur du Campus - Le Cherche Lumière, sculpture en acier inoxydable de Serge Gangolf - May, 2022
To dress the skylight, the central element of the north façade of its new building, HEC Liège called on the Belgian sculptor Serge Gangolf. A true craftsman of materials, especially metal, the simplicity of his works and the purity of his forms resonate with the geometric lines of the building, its noble materials and its refined character.
« KELFAK ? » made in HEC Liège - May, 2022
When the Corporate Relations, Alumni & Career Development team of HEC Liège (Aurore Tilkin, Sandra Delforge and Louise Mercier) visits the Grand Poste and meets Gérôme Vanherf, Alumni and CEO of this new institution in Liège, the result is... the KELFAK!
Troisième édition du HEC Liège Business Game : deux challenges sur les thèmes de la transition climatique et de la mobilité - March, 2022
Eleven students from HEC Liège have just organized - in collaboration with BDO Belgium and Liege Airport - the third edition of the HEC Liège Business Game, which brought together 60 participants. This project, created in 2019, attracts more and more students each year. It is an opportunity for participants to hone their skills, to surpass themselves, to meet new people and, above all, to have a privileged contact with representatives of partner companies.
BSIS Label : Etude d'impact de HEC Liège - Ecole de Gestion de l'Université de Liège sur son environnement - February 2022
HEC Liège has obtained the renewal of the BSIS (Business School Impact System) label, which measures its impact on its local and regional environment as well as its contribution to the development of its region. HEC Liège is the only Business School in Belgium to currently hold this label. Last October, HEC Liège stakeholders (professors, students, graduates, companies) met with two BSIS experts, Prof. Debra Leighton (UK) and Jérôme Caby (F). The exchanges had allowed to highlight in a very relevant and efficient way the impact of the School but also the collective work done by the whole HEC Liège community.
Anticiper l’après-crise du Covid-19 : quels enseignements en matière de télétravail et de formation à distance? - October, 2021
In many companies, the health crisis has precipitated the generalization of telework. In contrast to what was practiced until now in some companies - a limited, voluntary and carefully supervised telework - this massive telework experience has turned out to be total, imposed and spontaneous. Here are some of the results of a recent survey conducted by the LENTIC (Laboratoire d'Etudes sur les Nouvelles formes de Travail, l'Innovation et le Changement) - HEC Liège-ULiège, which questioned the attitudes and perceptions of managers and HRDs towards telework.
New research highlights employee dissatisfaction in Private Equity buyouts - September, 2021
Oxford Saïd Business School and HEC Liège (Management School of the University of Liège, Belgium) have published research giving insights into the effects of Private Equity buyouts on the satisfaction of employees. In the first paper of its kind, Ludovic Phalippou Professor of Finance (Oxford Saïd), Marie Lambert (Professor of Finance HEC Liege) and two PhD researchers from HEC Liège, Alexandre Scivoletto and Nicolas Moreno, focus on employees concerns in: Employee Views of Leveraged Buy-Out Transactions.
"Sens et Responsabilité en temps de crise" - Conférence de Julia de Funès, Philosophe et conférencière de renom - September, 2021
The period we are currently going through will forever and deeply mark the way organizations and workers operate. In order to help companies adapt to these changes, the Académie de la Vente, in collaboration with HEC Liège Executive Education and in partnership with the Cercle de Wallonie, is organizing a conference on the impact of crises on our societies, entitled "Meaning and Responsibility in Times of Crisis". Julia de Funès, a renowned philosopher and lecturer, will honor us by leading the debates.
Bienvenue à Urbanpolis ! Un cas conçu par deux professeurs de HEC Liège accepté par la prestigieuse Centrale des Cas et Médias Pédagogiques à Paris - May, 2021
Imagine... You live in Urbanpolis, a European city of about 500,000 inhabitants, in a country divided into several regions and with a volatile political climate. The city is strategically located but faces major challenges..
Création du Benelux Corporate Finance Network - April, 2021
16 universities and business schools from Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Northern France (Lille) are working together to set up a corporate finance network. Marie LAMBERT, Director of Research and Professor of Finance at HEC Liège - School of Management of the University of Liège, is part of the management committee.
HEC Liège : Speed meeting ces 2, 3 et 4 mars 2021 Plus de 60 entreprises inscrites pour partager avec les étudiants une centaine de problématiques de gestion - March, 2021
Throughout their academic career, the students of HEC Liège-Ecole de gestion of the University of Liège have the opportunity to work closely with companies and to experience professional reality. Whether through guest speakers invited to courses, conferences, job preparation days, career events, etc., the privileged contact between students and companies is permanent.
« Et pourtant elles tournent ! La place des femmes dans le cinéma belge » Une conférence inspirante organisée par le réseau Alumni de HEC Liège le mardi 9 février 2021 en soirée - February, 2021
In 1906, a young actress from Liège named Berthe Bovy went to Paris to make movies! She was the very first of a long series of Belgian women who would light up the big international screens... And today, where are we?
