Gymnasium de Emlyon Business School

Over 45 sporting activities are currently available on the various campuses and at sites that are either nearby or easily accessible by public transport. Offering students this wide choice of sports, all programs combined, contributes to their well-being and helps strike the right balance between their studies and their personal development.

emlyon business school firmly believes that playing sport helps develop the skills required for a successful career. Through sport, we are seeking to develop soft skills, defined as the personal qualities necessary for a successful career. Adaptability, the ability to work in a team and surpass oneself, rigor, perseverance, self-confidence, the ability to make decisions, to work in complex environments or to manage stress and the risk/security pair are just some of the skills that the team manager or company head of tomorrow will be able to develop by playing sport.

In this context students can validate ECTS credits linked to sport practice at school. It can help them validate their school year, sport class being a requirement to graduate in some programs.

Against this backdrop, the school's competitive sports teams did particularly well this year, with two French championship titles in women's handball and women's basketball, along with second or third places in most of the other sports (football, rugby, volleyball, etc.).

emlyon business school won the title of French Champion Business School for the second time! The overall ranking, drawn up by Business Cool, factors in the participation in the French Business Schools' Cup, the flagship competition in which all of the business schools take part.

The BDS works alongside the emlyon business school Sports Unit to manage the French University Sport Federation (FFSU) competitions, the University Championships and the Grande Ecole French Cups. We also organize regular events during the year as part of the school's sporting activities.The Bureau des Sports has 39 members, manages 28 sports and has over 1,000 registered sportspeople.The Bureau des Sports organizes events throughout the year, such as: the Bol d'air, the KPMG Rhône-Alpes derby, the Game of Gones, the Révathlon and the Bundem.

The Raid Hannibal event was first held in 1999 at the initiative of the Transalpine Committee to support the planned Lyon-Turin rail link. Rally participants (companies, adults and students) follow in the footsteps of the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca, who crossed the Alps riding on an elephant's back in 218 BC.

The BDX was set up by students with a passion for extreme and unusual sports and a taste for adventure. It offers emlyon business school students an opportunity to push back their limits and live out their dreams.