Framework for students

Introduction

More than words, it is a real mission that the Louvain School of Management has set itself.

This mission places you, as a student, at the heart of our project, supported by the teaching staff, who are concerned with the continuous improvement of their teaching, the employers and professional circles, who are looking for talented graduates, and the public authorities, who are promoting the training of actors ready to assume their social and economic responsibilities.

This mission is intended to be very concrete, embodied in the many activities and decisions that mark out your journey as a student.

In order to translate this mission into action, the Louvain School of Management has embarked on the construction of a reference framework of competencies for its Master's programmes. To build it, LSM mobilised many stakeholders: teachers, assistants, students, alumni and representatives of the socio-professional world. From this work, nine competences, which are at the heart of the LSM's training project, have emerged.

This reference system ensures the high quality of the programmes at LSM and meets the requirements of an increasingly international socio-economic world. It is also a valuable guide for your own personal and professional development.

We hope that this first encounter with these 9 competences will be the beginning of a great adventure during which the reference framework will serve as a real compass to guide you throughout your course at LSM.

The course is now set, it is up to you to take the helm...

Why a framework for you as a student?

The competency framework defines the profile of any LSM graduate, the target to be reached at the end of your training at LSM, indicating the goal towards which you should focus your learning efforts.

In this sense, for you as a student, the reference framework is a compass which, as its name suggests, is intended to guide you in your development throughout your course at LSM towards your future professional life.

In fact, the competency framework, by making the target competencies explicit, is a compass to help you:

• help you to better perceive what is expected of you at the end of your training, "what you should be able to do at the end of your studies",
• to guide you in the construction of the meaning you give to your studies by clarifying the knowledge, know-how and attitudes necessary for the exercise of your future profession; and by the same token to increase your motivation in your studies, the key to any success,
• help you to be more responsible and autonomous in your learning by evaluating and regulating your own progress in relation to the target competences throughout your course,
• help you to build and fine-tune your own training pathway according to your personal resources and aspirations as well as your professional project,
• help define your own career plan (choice of work direction),
• help to better communicate the specificities of your profile (skills developed, in relation to relevant experience(s)) and thereby facilitate your socio-professional integration.

Like a compass, this reference framework provides the course to follow: the construction of the path is up to the teachers and the choice of the course is up to the student. LSM's Master's 120 programmes in Management  and Business Engineering must enable all students to develop all the competences in this reference framework. However, each student and teacher decides which competences they wish to prioritise