EDHEC Business School

EU Legislative Interests

- Management & Humanities Faculty is involved in a consortium with EDHEC as Coordinator, University of Galway (Ireland) and European Whistleblowing Institute (Netherlands). The project, funded by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency through the CERV grant call CERV-2023-CHAR-LITI-WHISTEL, is named BRIGHT (Building Resilience through Integrity, Good Governance, and Honesty Training). It started in March 2024, and it relates to the promotion and awareness raising about the EU Directive (2019/1937) on whistleblowing. The project has ended in February 2026. - Management & Humanities, is also part of a consortium working on a Transnational Research Proposals on “Enhancing well-being for the future”. This project, funded by the Norface grant call, started in March 2025. The project ‘Paradox mindset for individual well-being & societal impact: The role of leaders in social purpose organizations (PM4IWSI), aims to help leaders in social purpose organizations navigate the tension between well-being and well-doing thanks to learnings from paradox theory. - Foresight, Innovation, and Transformation (FIT) Chair was involved in the Strategic Foresight for Sustainability (SF4S) Erasmus+ funded research project from 2023 until May 2025, a collaborative effort involving partners from HEI, VE and VT providers, innovation networks, and business entities within the Agri-food, Health, and Mobility sectors. This project relates to the European Green Deal framework. - Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Operations Faculty is part of a consortium working on a Horizon-funded research project called SAFARI (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D6-01). This project, started in May 2024, aims to develop a generic digital platform for resilient port infrastructure. Our role in the project is to develop governance models and measures for socio-economic impacts of extreme weather events on ports eco-systems, working with existing regulatory frameworks. Overall, the project's activities have influences directed at the EU institutions in relation to EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. - Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Operations Faculty is also part of another consortium working on a Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership funded research project called ‘Launch Game’. The consortium will work to digitise an existing start-up launch game. The project started on 31st December 2025. - EDHEC Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship is part of a consortium working on a project funded under a European call (EIT Higher Education Initiative - EIT Mobility - October 2024). The project contributes to EU priorities related to innovation ecosystems, higher education transformation and entrepreneurship (aligned with Horizon Europe and broader EU innovation policy frameworks). The first phase of the project was conducted from April 2025 to December 2025. The phase 2 started in January 2026 and will last until April 2027. - Augmented Law Institute is contributing to an Erasmus+ funded project named DEO4PA (Digital Ethics Officer for Public Agents), under the KA220-VET call for cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training. This collaborative partnership involves six European institutions, led by the Italian Ministero dell’Economica e delle Finanze. The project has ended in October 2025. - The EDHEC Climate Institute conducts research on climate change and its interactions with the economic and financial spheres. Through its Climate Regulation and Policies programme, it examines the normative and regulatory landscape shaping the assessment and management of climate-related risks, with the objective of providing actionable, evidence-based insights to support their effective integration into financial decision-making and to facilitate the transition to low-emission, climate-resilient economies. In this context, the Institute may contribute to public consultations and other policy-related initiatives at EU level.

Communication Activities

Whistle-blowing: Sept 2025: Presentation of SUSA findings, Whistleblowing seminar, Prosecutor-General Office, Vilnius; Oct 2025: our professor led a seminar on EU Whistleblowing Directive (2019/1937) and SUSA, WU Wien; Feb 2026: presentation of SUSA Benchmark (seminar at University of Greenwich) EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030: (2026), Prioritizing Sustainability and Resilience in European Port Supply Chains under Climate Risks. International Association of Maritime economics conference, (IAME), Singapore; (2026), Operationalizing Climate Resilience in Container Port Logistics: Evidence from the Lisbon Pilot, International Symposium on Logistics (ISL), Vietnam; (2026), Towards an Integrated Governance Model for Climate-Resilient Ports: Evidence from a Europe Horizon Project, European Academy of Management (EURAM), Norway; (2026), Risk-Informed Climate Resilience in Port-Centric Supply Chains: Insights from the Seville Port. International Conference of Supply Chain Management, Japan. Reports: 2025, European Port governance for Resilience: A literature review and conceptual developments; 2025, A socio-economic impacts model development for Safari ports; 2026, Port Specific Governance for Resilience: An abductive model development for the ports of Seville, Lisbon and Dunkirk; 2026, Towards a socio-economic assessment methodology for European ports: A multiple case report. EU competition law: Unfair Trading Conditions —The Revival of a Dormant Concept of EU Competition Law, Journal of Competition Law & Economics ‘EU Antitrust Enforcement: Law, Economics, History, Policy & Practice by Wouter P. J. Wils’ (Paris: Concurrences, 2024), (2025) 62 (5) Common Market Law Review; Google, l’application des lois antitrust et l’avenir de la souveraineté numérique européenne, The Conversation, April 2025; Google, antitrust enforcement and the future of European digital sovereignty, The Conversation, April 25;“L’éthique du numérique au cœur de la maîtrise de l’IA – L’importance de la formation à l’éthique du numérique pour la conformité au règlement sur l’IA », Village de la Justice, 2025 (AI Act) “Silent Reforms of the GDPR in the EU Digital Market Legal Revolution”, inRóisín Á Costello and Mark Leiser (eds), Critical Reflections on the EU’s Data Protection Regime: GDPR in the Machine, Hart Publishing, 2025;“Data and Data Governacne (Art 10)” in Malgieri G, González Fuster G, Mantelero A and Zanfir-Fortuna G (eds), The EU Artifical Intelligence Act: A Thematic Commentary, Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2026 Training Programmes: Digital Ethics Officer programme, Certification, EDHEC ALI that includes dimensions related to EC regulations (AI Act, GDPR, Data Governance Act). From Feb until June 2025; AI for Lawyers and Attorneys programme, EDHEC ALI certificate, that includes dimensions related to EC regulations (AI Act, GDPR, Data Governance Act). Workshops: IPoP workshop, April, in Paris, "Bridging AI development and governance", including dimensions related to the AI Act and GDPR. Conferences ; “Unfair Trading Conditions —The Revival of a Dormant Concept of EU Competition Law”, Center for Competition Policy (CCP) Workshop, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, Feb 2025; “‘Other’ Unfair Trading Conditions —The Revival of a Dormant Concept of EU Competition Law”, presentation and panel moderation at the 2025 ICN Unilateral Conduct Workshop, Rio, March 2025; “Data Sensitivity before the Court of Justice”, Presentation at the DPSN International Data Protection Day work-in-progress event, Jan 2025; “Draft guidelines for Article 102”, panel discussion at the Bergen Competition Policy Conference 2025, Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economic (BECCLE), Bergen,Norway June 25; “From Data tot Models: Governing Personal Data in the Age of AI”, Lecture at the Summer Academy for Global Privacy Law 2025, June 2025; “The impact of the DMA and the draft Article 102 guidelines”, special policy session at the 19th Annual CRESSE conference, July 2025, Crete

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

EDHEC Business School is a member of the following: 1. Association of MBAs, https://www.associationofmbas.com/ 2. Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), https://www.aacsb.edu/ 3. Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA), https://caia.org/ 4. CFA Institute, www.cfainstitute.org/ 5. Conférence des Directeurs d’Écoles Françaises de Management (CDEFM), https://cdefm.fr/ 6. Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE), https://www.cge.asso.fr/ 7. Collectif pour l’Intégration de la Responsabilité Sociétale et du développement durable dans l’Enseignement Supérieur (CIRSES), https://www.cirses.fr 8. EURECOM graduate school and research consortium: https://www.eurecom.fr/en 9. European Federation for Management Development (EFMD), https://www.efmdglobal.org/ 10. Fédération d'Ecoles d'Ingénieurs et de Cadres (FESIC), https://www.fesic.org/en/ 11. Future of Management Education Alliance (FOME), https://www.fome.group/ 12. Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), https://www.garp.org/ 13. Global Business School Network (GBSN), https://gbsn.org/ 14. Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), https://www.gmac.com/ 15. Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), https://sustainablefinancealliance.org/ 16. Quantitative Techniques for Economics and Management (QTEM), https://www.qtem.org/en/ 17. Réseau ALLIANCES Entrepreneurs de croissance responsable, https://www.reseau-alliances.org 18. United Nations Global Compact, https://unglobalcompact.org 19. UN PRME, https://www.unprme.org/ 20. Programme Live Tree de l’Université Catholique de Lille 21. Signataire des Accords de Grenoble

Organisation Members

EDHEC is an independent higher educational institution, registered as a not-for-profit association in France. It has no member organisations or associations.

Additional Information

In ERASMUS+ and HORIZON amounts reported, we have indicated amount received for funded European projects received from the coordinator of the consortium (not directly from the EU) when EDHEC is partner. For NORFACE projet, funds are received via ANR