Connecting Student and Society
Collaborate with our students
Collaborating with Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) means getting to know our students, your future employees. Through recruitment activities, internships, projects, theses, cases, and other forms of externally engaged learning, students gain experience of real-world contexts while organisations gain meaningful ways to engage with the school and our students.
LUSEM works strategically with a long-term perspective to connect academia and the business community. Through close partnerships, meeting places are created where companies can engage with the talent of the future and contribute valuable insights, while students gain a concrete understanding of the opportunities offered by working life.
Whether you are looking to meet students around career opportunities or collaborate around broader challenges and learning activities, this is where to start.
Contact Career Services
Stina Vikingson
Careers coordinator
Pernilla Thellmark
Careers coach
+46 46 222 78 09
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Recruit our students
Connect with students through internships, career opportunities, recruitment activities, and employer visibility.
Future Hubs @ LUSEM
Collaborate with students and colleagues around projects, theses, cases, internships, and real-world challenges.
Why this matters
Our collaboration activities help students connect academic learning with society and working life. They also create opportunities for organisations to contribute to education, meet talent, and build valuable connections with LUSEM.
Examples of Connecting students and society and related initiatives
Our broader student-to-society work includes initiatives and formats such as:
- Extra-curricular activities such as
- Case-based collaboration and learning
- Guest lectures
- Coaching and Mentoring – Get involved as a LUSEM alum
- Thesis writing and society challenges
- Internships: regional, national and international
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Guest lectures
Partner companies can make a meaningful impact by sharing their expertise through guest lectures at LUSEM. This engagement allows organisations to showcase real-world insights, trends, and best practices directly to students, bridging the gap between theory and practice.
Through guest lectures, companies not only contribute to high-quality education but also build long-term connections with future leaders and the academic community, creating value for both students and the organisation.
Thesis writing and society challenges
Our students write theses in the final phase of both bachelor’s and master’s programmes. Some programmes have the opportunity to write their thesis in collaboration with a company or an organisation to meet current society challenges.
Company presentations
Partner companies can engage with students by delivering company presentations, providing an opportunity to introduce their organisation, culture, and career opportunities directly to the next generation of talent. Through company presentations, organisations not only promote themselves effectively, but also contribute to a dynamic learning environment where students gain practical insights and inspiration from real-world business experiences.
Job shadowing a manager
Master’s students enrolled in the Master in Management program are given an assignment designed to provide a practical understanding of management. As part of the assignment, students shadow and observe a manager for a period of three to five days. This is followed by reflective discussions on leadership and on what the student has observed during the experience.
Company visits
Partner companies can host company visits, giving students a firsthand look at their operations, culture, and business practices. These visits create a unique opportunity to showcase the organisation beyond traditional presentations. They allow organisations to showcase their business in action, inspire students, and create a pipeline of engaged, informed, and motivated future talents.
Roundtable discussions
Students will have the opportunity to engage in informal conversations with representatives from partner companies within a specific industry. Through open dialogue and interactive discussions, students gain valuable insights into the industry, while common myths and realities are explored. At the same time, companies gain a deeper understanding of what matters most to the next generation entering the workforce.
Case teaching and learning
The case method of teaching and learning, as applied at LUSEM, helps students develop ways of understanding a corporation’s problems and contributing to their solution. Working with cases in general, and case competitions in particular, provides a natural intersection for university students to engage with society and learn about business in different contexts and industries, and vice versa. Examples of case-related co-operations include judging, live cases and production of cases.
Mentor
The mentorship programme enables mentors to share their professional and personal experience and expertise with current LUSEM master students. As a mentor, you have the opportunity to share your expertise and experience to inspire LUSEM students as they embark on their career journeys.
Student coach
A student coach support, guide and inspire students at the beginning of their journey in the Bachelor's Programme in Business Administration and Economics. A student coach will contribute to the students professional development, helping bridge the gap between academic studies and working life. Proficiency in the Swedish language is required for a student coach.
About LUSEM student coaches (in Swedish) – ehl.lu.se
Extra-curricular activities
Living the Sustainability Idea
Living the Sustainability Idea is a voluntary track open for students in MSc International Strategic Management and MSc in Management at LUSEM and is constructed to challenge the participant to really live sustainable. Partnership with the programme Living the Sustainability Idea gives companies a direct contact with the students, their thoughts and sustainability priorities. It is also a great way to help strengthen the connection between academia and the business sector in a sustainable way.
Living the Sustainability Idea
Leadership academy
Leadership Academy has been offered at LUSEM since 2007. The programme is taught by teachers from LUSEM and is offered to full-time employees in student organisations at Lund University.
By engaging with the Leadership Academy, partner companies can help future leaders and equipped them with practical leadership tools, strong self-awareness, and a long-term leadership mindset. The programme strengthens participants’ capacity to lead change, collaborate effectively, and navigate uncertainty. Partnership with the Leadership Academy enables companies to contribute to leadership development at an early stage, strengthen their employer brand, and connect with future talent prepared to lead both today and tomorrow.