ESMT Berlin brings together students, participants, faculty, alumni, businesses, and academic partners from around the world.
From our home in Berlin, we build international connections that expand opportunities for learning, research, collaboration, and exchange. Our global networks and partnerships bring different perspectives together and help us address business and societal challenges that extend beyond borders.
A global community
International perspectives are part of everyday life at ESMT.
Our students and Executive Education participants learn alongside people from diverse cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds. Faculty, alumni, partners, and visiting experts further connect our community with ideas, organizations, and opportunities around the world.
These connections create an environment where people learn from different perspectives and build relationships that extend beyond their time at ESMT.
Connected through global networks
ESMT participates in international networks that bring together leading business schools, universities, and organizations to advance management education, research, responsible leadership, and lifelong learning.
Academy of Business in Society (ABIS)
ABIS brings together academic institutions and companies to advance sustainable development through research, education, and collaboration.
EFMD
EFMD connects ESMT with an international community of business schools, companies, and public-sector organizations committed to quality and innovation in management education.
Future of Management Education Alliance (FOME)
As a founding partner of FOME, ESMT collaborates with leading business schools to advance innovation in online management education and lifelong learning.
Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM)
As the German member of GNAM, ESMT connects students and faculty with leading business schools around the world through collaborative learning, research, and international experiences.
Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)
Through PRME, ESMT contributes to a global community committed to advancing responsible management education and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
UNICON
Membership in UNICON connects ESMT with leading university-based Executive Education providers around the world, enabling exchange and collaboration on the future of lifelong learning.
Study and learn internationally
Learning at ESMT extends beyond Berlin.
Through academic partnerships and exchange opportunities, students can experience different academic environments, cultures, and approaches to business while building international networks.
Our partnerships with universities and business schools around the world create opportunities for exchange, collaborative programs, and international learning experiences.
Erasmus+
Erasmus+ supports international mobility and academic exchange across Europe, giving students opportunities to experience different academic and cultural environments. In Germany, the higher education strand of Erasmus+ is coordinated by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
ESMT's Erasmus+ network includes 15 partner institutions across 11 European countries, including Bocconi University, HEC Paris, IE University, Nova School of Business and Economics, and the Stockholm School of Economics. Since the 2021/22 academic year, more than 100 ESMT students have studied abroad through Erasmus+.
International academic partnerships
ESMT collaborates with universities and business schools around the world on academic exchanges, joint programs, and other learning opportunities.
- E.CA Economics
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Global Master in Management - GETT, a collaboration between EDHEC (Paris), ESMT Berlin, and Imperial College Business School
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Master-level academic partnerships
- MBA-level academic partnerships
- MARGA Business Simulations
- Technische Universität Berlin
- University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce - cooperation to offer a cross-continental global impact program
Global Executive Education partnerships
ESMT works with international academic and corporate partners to deliver Executive Education across markets and industries.
These collaborations combine ESMT's expertise with local and international perspectives, creating learning experiences that help executives and organizations address complex business challenges.
- 41 North Business School, Turkey, offering joint executive education programs
- China Executive Lead#ership Academy in Pudong (CELAP), as part of the “Bringing Technology to Market” Executive Education program
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), as part of the “Bringing Technology to Market” executive education program
- Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, as part of the “Bringing Technology to Market” executive education program
- Hasso-Plattner-Institut (HPI) Academy
- IAE Business School
- Saint Paul Escola de Negócios, offering a joint executive MBA in Leadership since May 2016
Global connections, lasting impact
Our international reach is about more than geography. It is about connecting people, ideas, organizations, and institutions across borders.
These connections create opportunities to learn from one another, challenge assumptions, and develop responses to shared business and societal challenges.
From Berlin, we contribute to a global community committed to responsible leadership and meaningful impact.