INSTITUT DE PREPARATION A L'ADMINISTRATION ET A LA GESTION

Their core work

IPAG Business School is a Paris-based French grande école focused on management and business education. In EU research, they contribute as a specialist partner bringing business school expertise — particularly in entrepreneurship pedagogy and professional skills development — to interdisciplinary consortia. Their participation in MedReset added a management and socioeconomic perspective to a Mediterranean social research project, while their role in prodPhD was squarely in their core competency: designing methods to develop entrepreneurial skills in doctoral researchers. They sit at the intersection of higher education, business training, and academic-to-industry career pathways.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 project (MedReset, 2016–2019), IPAG participated in broad social science research on the Mediterranean region — a relatively distant fit from their institutional identity as a business school, with no subject-specific keywords recorded. By their second project (prodPhD, 2021–2023), their focus had shifted entirely to their natural domain: entrepreneurship training, doctoral skills development, and pathways from academia to industry. The trajectory is clear — from peripheral contributor in social science research to specialist partner in exactly the kind of education-entrepreneurship work a business school does best.

IPAG appears to be consolidating around its core institutional strengths — business education applied to doctoral training and researcher-to-industry transition — which makes them a natural fit for future projects on academic entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer, or researcher mobility.

How they like to work

IPAG has participated exclusively as a non-coordinating partner across both projects, suggesting they seek out consortia where they can contribute a defined specialist role rather than lead the overall project. Across just two projects they have engaged with 15 distinct partners in 10 countries, indicating they join diverse, broad European consortia rather than working repeatedly with the same small group. A potential collaborator should expect IPAG to contribute a focused business education or entrepreneurship training component rather than drive project management or coordination.

Despite only two projects, IPAG has built a surprisingly wide network of 15 unique partners across 10 countries, suggesting participation in sizeable multi-partner consortia. Their reach is European in scope with no evident geographic concentration beyond their French base.

What sets them apart

IPAG offers something few research-heavy H2020 partners can: direct institutional expertise in business education, entrepreneurship curricula, and management training grounded in a French grande école tradition. For consortia working on researcher mobility, knowledge commercialisation, or doctoral training reform, a business school partner adds credibility with industry-facing stakeholders and brings practical tools for skills development. Their modest project footprint means they are an available, flexible partner rather than an oversubscribed research heavyweight.

Highlights from their portfolio

• MedReset
  Their largest project by budget (EUR 189,776) and an unusually broad collaboration — a Mediterranean geopolitics and social research project that placed IPAG in an interdisciplinary context well outside a typical business school's comfort zone.
• prodPhD
  Directly aligned with IPAG's institutional identity, this project on entrepreneurial skills in PhD programmes represents their clearest statement of what they can uniquely offer to research consortia.