A BSB student elected President of BNEM

Romain Vismara at the head of the National Office for Students in Management Schools

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Romain Vismara, a Master Grande Ecole (MGE) student at BSB, has just been elected President of the National Board of Management Students (BNEM). Although this structure, created in 2020, is quite recent, it is already one of the most important student associations in France. Its objective is to represent students from management schools to institutions and the media, and to act on issues specific to these institutions, but also more generally on major societal issues. Elected for a term of 18 months, Romain is particularly determined to anchor his action on the ground.

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Anchoring in schools, relaying with the ecosystem

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Today, the BNEM brings together 25 major management schools from the CGE (Conference of Grandes Ecoles). “Unlike engineering schools and their long-standing BNEI, management schools did not have a body representing their students with institutions and the media”, explains Romain. “Our primary objective is to contribute to improving the daily lives of students, by adopting a constructive, collaborative and trusting approach with the school principals.”

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“Above all, as our association was created in 2020 at the beginning of the Covid epidemic, we still need to strengthen our reputation and our visibility on campuses, with the natural ambition to intensify the number of memberships. The other dimension concerns the deepening of our relationship with the media and institutions: the MESRI — with whom we already work very closely — and the other ministries, the CGE, the CDEFM, the APHEC or even the other associations representing students.”

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Specific and societal challenges

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The BNEM is governed by five main committees, two of which focus on issues specific to management schools. “The first, “ERA” (Surveys, Research, Analyses), makes it possible to conduct student surveys in schools on the themes that the BNEM deals with, such as the one conducted on the financing of studies,” explains Romain. “The second aims to promote the management schools sector, with projects under construction alongside of the main actors. The three other committees deal with issues relating to social diversity, gender equality and sociological issues, three major issues identified as major at school but also at the societal level.”

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“In particular, we rely on the pairs elected within each school, who are part of the association's board. Their role is invaluable in applying what is put in place at the national level, but especially in bringing up issues that come from the field and animating their local branch. I was able to realize the importance of this myself when I joined the association within BSB last March: to be as close as possible to our comrades in order to better understand them and better represent them. This aspect will be a priority of my term of office”, concludes the man who will spend a year alternating between now and January at Swiss Post headquarters — with a busy schedule in perspective, but above all an experience that is certainly rich and memorable.