ESC DIJON BOURGOGNE

Their core work

Burgundy School of Business is a French Grande École that brings management science, behavioral economics, and organizational research to applied EU research consortia. Rather than building sensors or running field trials, they study how farmers, advisors, and industry operators actually make decisions — and what prevents them from adopting new tools. In IPM Decisions, they contributed multi-actor engagement research to crop protection decision-support; in PrimeWater, they provided business analysis for how water-dependent industries can act on medium-to-seasonal forecasts. Their core value in a research consortium is translating scientific outputs into adoption-ready business insights.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

With only two projects both starting in 2019, there is no meaningful timeline to trace an evolution of focus — this is a snapshot of a single period of H2020 engagement, not a multi-year trajectory. The keyword-rich project (IPM Decisions, 2019–2024) points to agri-food decision science with an emphasis on open tools and multi-actor processes; the second project (PrimeWater, 2019–2023) yielded no extractable keywords, making comparison impossible. Any claim about directional change would be speculation, not evidence.

With both projects running simultaneously from 2019, the trend is lateral diversification across agri-food and water sectors rather than a sequential shift — suggesting BSB positions itself as a generalizable social-science partner across environmental and agricultural consortia.

How they like to work

Burgundy School of Business consistently joins as a participant rather than leading consortia — they have never held the coordinator role across their two H2020 projects. Despite this, their reach is disproportionately wide: 39 unique partners across 14 countries from just two projects, indicating they joined large, multi-country RIA consortia rather than small focused teams. This profile suggests a well-connected institution that is sought out for its social-science and management expertise in diverse European networks.

Despite only two projects, BSB has connected with 39 distinct consortium partners spanning 14 countries — an unusually broad network for such a small H2020 footprint, reflecting the large-consortium nature of both RIA projects they joined. No geographic concentration is evident from the available data.

What sets them apart

Burgundy School of Business is one of very few business schools in French H2020 participation, which makes them a rare source of management science, adoption research, and organizational behavior expertise in technically-dominated consortia. Their positioning bridges the gap between scientific tool development and real-world industry uptake — a function many engineering-heavy consortia lack and struggle to add late in the project lifecycle. For a consortium coordinator building a project that needs to demonstrate market relevance or end-user adoption, BSB fills a specific and often under-resourced role.

Highlights from their portfolio

• IPM Decisions
  The larger of the two projects (EUR 162,930) and the source of all extractable expertise signals — its multi-actor, open-source, agro-meteorological framing reveals BSB's clearest research identity in H2020.
• PrimeWater
  Demonstrates BSB's ability to move beyond agri-food into environmental and Earth observation contexts, contributing business analysis for seasonal water forecasting tools used by industry.