Graduate Program: Event Manager
LéCOLE - The Event Thinking School
Key Information
Campus location
Paris, France
Languages
English, French
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 6,930 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* if you register on the admission process before March 30th, benefit from an early bird rate of 10 % on the tuition fees
Introduction
«Events management isn't a role that can be fully learned or mastered in a conventional 50m² classroom»
Each student becomes familiar with the sites and comes face to face with the venues that are the "raw materials" of any event.
Classes are held in locations that change every week. Days or weeks are "hosted" by various event sites (Convention centers - Expo parks - Hotels - Theatres - Advertiser campuses - Stadiums - Concert halls - Public places, etc.). Students and contributors will spend time in these places. The educational benefits of this mobile school are multiple:
- Discovering new places, their strengths, their weaknesses and how they work,
- Working on practical case scenarios,
- Never turning school into a routine, providing students with continuous opportunities for discovery,
- Introduction to technical staging (stage design, sound, light, and video),
- Anchoring this educational program within a tangible professional reality that will one day make up the everyday lives of the future events management professionals.
These sites are chosen for their events potential. Students and speakers can check the schedule on the App - specially developed for LéCOLE - daily updated. They can find on it the places for every day, with the address, a map if needed, and all the useful information. If certain sites or events require more than a Navigo pass to reach them, a transfer will be organized by LéCOLE.
The mobile school principle is essential. It provides a particularly practical approach to Event Thinking.
Our program is open to holders of a bachelor's degree.
The program is composed of know-how (technical skills) and know-how-to-be (transferable skills)
Program Outcome
A school at the service of its sector
The strength of this school lies in its structure and governance: The two main sector associations, UNIMEV and LÉVÉNEMENT will be the largest shareholders alongside the founders of l’Institut de l’Événement. There are also many events players involved in the school's resources and governance.
This representation ensures that educational content and skills will be delivered in perfect harmony with the needs expressed by the industry. The employability of graduating students will be optimized by close and constant exchanges between the teaching staff and players within the events market.
This is not just a school that provides events industry training but a school that is specifically formulated for future roles within the events industry.
Employability of the certified students of LéCOLE (2019-2021)
Overall employment integration rate 6 months after release:
79 % on all certified
89 % two-three years after their certification.
There are variations:
2019: 88 % (before the pandemic)
2020: 63 % (promotion impacted by COVID)
2021: 94 % (back to normal thanks to the resumption of activity and a strong business demand).
Job access rate all promotions combined:
83 % of the certified got a job as Event Manager.
Return to work rate:
83 % of unemployed job seekers before their certification have returned to work, in the intended job, thanks to certification.
status 6 months after leaving school:
Employee: 75% of which 70 % under limited-term contract and 30% under a permanent contract
Freelance: 25 %
For employees, a portion of limited-term contracts passes from 30% to 100% spent a period of 2 years.
Job access rate in the intended job (after one to 3 years after the certification):
2019: 71 % - 2020: 84 % - 2021: 94 % - giving an average of 89 %.
Average earning:
It increases by +16% between the recruitment and 2 years of experience, to reach 34.050 euros
Curriculum
Years 1 and 2
- The know-how
- Planning
- Client relations
- Project management (production)
- Strategic planning
- Project management (content)
- The events economy
- The economy of the event owner
- The added value of event formats
- The brand experience
- Event marketing
- The digital event
- Event safety - the safety of the public and teams
- Live event techniques
- Image processing
- Events law
- Stage design
- CSR and the event
The know-how-to-be
Year 1 and 2
- General knowledge
- Creativity workshop
- Stress management
- Curiosity workshop