TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL -TBS

Their core work

Toulouse Business School (TBS) is a French Grande École in Toulouse specializing in management education and applied business research. In H2020, they contributed research expertise on international workforce mobility, expatriate career development, and the organizational dynamics of employee mobility across borders — areas directly aligned with their academic faculty competencies. They also participate in European University alliance frameworks, bringing a business and management school perspective to research collaboration ecosystems. Their work sits at the intersection of human capital, international careers, and the organizational dimension of research-to-business knowledge transfer.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earliest H2020 involvement (2018), TBS focused squarely on the individual level: how employees move across borders, build careers internationally, and manage expatriation — classic management school research territory. By 2021, the focus shifted upward to the institutional level: European University alliances, the European Research Area, and how knowledge moves between research communities and business. The trajectory is a deliberate expansion from studying mobile people to enabling mobile institutions, which likely reflects both a strategic repositioning of the school and the availability of EU funding in the European University Alliance programme.

TBS is moving from individual-level HR and career research toward institutional research collaboration frameworks — expect them to seek roles in European University or ERA-related consortia going forward.

How they like to work

TBS has not led any H2020 project, always joining as a participant or third party — a pattern consistent with a business school contributing specialized management expertise to consortia led by research universities or technical institutions. With 27 unique partners across 9 countries from just 2 projects, they embed themselves in large, multi-partner networks rather than tight specialist teams. Their third-party role in Beyond UNIVERSEH suggests they can contribute expertise at arm's length without deep operational involvement, which makes them a flexible addition to consortia that need an organizational or business management perspective.

TBS has engaged with 27 unique consortium partners across 9 countries — a notably wide network given only 2 projects, indicating participation in large, geographically diverse consortia. Their Toulouse base places them within reach of major aerospace and research institutions in southern France and the broader European South.

What sets them apart

TBS offers something genuinely rare in technical or science-heavy consortia: a business school perspective on the human and organizational dimensions of research — workforce dynamics, career capital, knowledge transfer governance, and business-academia interface. Located in Toulouse, Europe's aerospace capital, they carry informal proximity to Airbus, CNES, and a dense cluster of aerospace SMEs, giving their participation in space-adjacent projects practical grounding. For consortium builders who need to satisfy broader impact requirements around mobility, employability, or industry engagement, TBS fills a gap that pure research universities cannot.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GLOMO
  The only directly funded project (€334,436) and the clearest signal of TBS's core research identity — a multi-country MSCA training network studying global employee mobility, expatriation, and career capital, squarely in their management science wheelhouse.
• Beyond UNIVERSEH
  Participation in a European University Alliance focused on space and earth sciences shows TBS's ability to operate beyond their management core, contributing business-academia collaboration expertise to an institutionally ambitious, cross-disciplinary initiative.