Author: Solvay Alumni

The House of Training, Chamber of Commerce and Solvay Lifelong Learning are pleased to invite you to the “Are you prepared for the 10 sustainable challenges ? / Luxembourg Sustainability Management Series: be on board” conference on 23 February 2023, from 18:00 to 21:00. Register here.

The conference will introduce training initiatives from the Chamber of Commerce aiming to introduce decision-makers to the major issues of sustainable development and their concrete application in a company’s strategy, in reference to the 10 Luxembourg Sustainable Business Principles established by Chamber of Commerce.

Moreover, the conference will be welcoming Julia Jadin, Research Assistant in Sustainable Development at Solvay Brussels School, as a guest speaker. Her research area focuses on carbon footprint and sustainable development.

Where: European Convention Center Luxembourg, 4 Pl. de l’Europe, 1499 Luxembourg

When : 23 February 2023 from 18:00 – 21:00

Programme :

• 18h00-18h10: Welcome Remarks by Anne-Marie Loesch, Head of Business development and CSR, Chamber of Commerce
  
• 18h10-18h15: Opening speech by Franz Fayot, Minister of the Economy of Luxembourg
• 18h15-18h30: Presentation of new training initiatives by Muriel Morbe, CEO House of Training, and Karin Doguet, General Manager de Solvay Lifelong Learning :  MBA Highlights & Luxembourg Sustainability Management Series by House of Training and Solvay Business School
• 18h30-19h30: Keynote Speech by Julia Jadin, Research Assistant in Sustainable Development at Solvay Brussels School
  • The role of Businesses at the center of SDGs
  • How to decouple growth from environmental degradation 
  • Different industry transformation drivers
  • The circular economy as an example of industry transformation 
  • Zoom-in on resources for circular business models 
  • Leverage points: Systems-thinking for policy an industry transformation
  • Meet the climate challenge: 
  • Mitigation pathways
  • Carbon budgets
  • Ambitions versus action
  • The KAYA equation and its variants
  • Different scopes and system perspective
• 19h30-19h35: Closing Remarks, by Frederic Girs, Business Development Manager, House of Training
• 19h35-21h00: Networking Reception and walking dinner

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General Management and Sustainability Programme – MBA Highlights

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Luxembourg Sustainability Management Series (LSMS)

These 11 modules programme is based on the intervention of specialised professionals, who will share their expertise with the attendees on the major issues of sustainable development and their concrete application in a company’s strategy.

Being introduced the Luxembourg ecosystem, a brief History of Fintech was presented by Pascal Bouvier, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Middlegame Ventures.

Welcoming the Advanced Masters in Financial Markets to an exclusive Tomorrow’s Talent Forum at UBS Wealth Management.

This is an exclusive forum offering thought provoking, cross disciplinary and institutional level discussion with UBS and industry specialists on specific financial markets and services topics, such as the “Year ahead 2023: A year of inflections” publication, an outlook on the European energy and their Global family office report.

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Are you ready to join us for our annual summer gathering?

This year no Barbeque at House 17, but a cocktail at the Belgian Ambassador’s residence.

We had the pleasure to award to Nicola Menardo the first prize for successfully winning the 2022 edition of the Solvay Finance Tour in Luxembourg this year.

The award ceremony was hosted at Cercle Munster with the participants of the 2022 edition as well as the host of the current and previous tours.

Nicola was awarded the prize in a ceremony that hosted H.E. the Belgian Ambassador for Belgium to Luxembourg, Thomas Lambert.

Having the pleasure of representatives of LFF, LPEA, and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange we thank the public bodies for their continued support.

Under the patronage of His Excellency, the Belgian Ambassador to Luxembourg, we celebrate the 4th successful completion of the Solvay Finance Tour on April 26th at Cercle Munster.

We would be here now and until the masks came off. For both the Alumni and future graduates as the 2022 Solvay Finance Tour illustrates.

This year we have received 47 candidates from which we selected the best 20 students of which 15 withstood the strong selection criteria and program.

Many thanks to Luxembourg for Finance, the LHoFT, PwC Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, as well as UBS, ING Luxembourg, Arendt and Aperam to host the 7 workshops this year.

Our beloved ambassador Thomas Lambert is becoming a seriously fast runner! 🚀

He shows it’s not all luck but skill running up the Itzig hill ⛰

Fifty years ago, our alumnus Jean Hamilius made it to the Helsinki Winter Olympic Games. He qualified for the final 400m and 4x 400m relay, making 6th and 5th place!

Do you have what it takes to wear the Solvay Alumni Running Team shirt?

Get your size today! Gifted to all Solvay Alumni in Luxembourg 🇱🇺

Making running look easy 🏃

Under the patronage of H.E. Thomas Lambert and First Advisor Emmanuelle de Foy, we gathered with befriended associations that help maintain and foster the strong relations between Belgian and Luxembourgish communities in the Grand Duchy.

This forum continues to allow us to share our projects, ideas as well as opportunities from next year and build a vision to 2024, allowing us to strengthen the opportunity set for Solvay Alumni in collaboration with LA LIEGEOISE and URB-BKV as well as VCL – Vlaamse Club Luxemburg.