Future Hubs @ LUSEM

Future Hubs @ LUSEM is our platform for connecting students, colleagues, and external partners around real-world challenges and opportunities. Through projects, theses, internships, live cases, and other forms of externally engaged learning, the hubs create a shared space where academic knowledge meets societal needs.

Organised around the broad themes of startups and innovation, sustainability, and data, Future Hubs brings together activities that help students gain practical experience while providing external organisations with meaningful ways to engage with LUSEM.

For organisations, Future Hubs offers a clear point of entry for collaboration linked to education, student talent, and challenge-based activities. For colleagues across the school, it provides a platform to develop and scale externally engaged teaching and learning.

How to engage through Future Hubs

Through Future Hubs, collaboration can take many forms. Examples include:

student projects
thesis collaboration
internships
live cases
hackathons
guest lectures, coaching, and mentoring
study visits
challenge-based activities linked to the three hub themes

You can also explore related initiatives and formats across LUSEM, including case-based learning, extra-curricular activities, and other ways of connecting students and society.

Contact

Craig Mitchell
Future Hubs at LUSEM

Startup Hub

Entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity in new and established organisations. This hub connects students and faculty with ideas, start-ups, scale-ups, entrepreneurship and innovation support, and corporate innovation initiatives – facilitating collaboration across the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Sustainability Hub

Environmental, economic and social sustainability. This hub brings together courses, projects, and student theses where students and colleagues collaborate with external partners on the green transition, circular economy, responsible business practices, and inclusive growth.

Data Hub

Data-driven questions in which analysis, digitalisation, and AI are central. This hub will connect activities across the school, creating joint opportunities for a wide range of data-driven projects with external partners.

Data Science Hub – student resources

What are Future Hubs @ LUSEM?

Future Hubs @ LUSEM create a two-way pipeline between education and society. They bring together student-driven initiatives, experiential learning, and close collaboration with companies, public organisations, and the wider community within a shared and coherent model.

Building on and boosting existing activities and partnerships across our programmes and departments, the hubs make collaboration more visible, accessible, and impactful.

The hubs:

Offer a shared channel for colleagues who engage external partners in their teaching.
Provide partners with a clear point of entry to collaborate with our students through course projects, thesis topics, internships, project teams, live cases, hackathons, and events.
Act as a catalyst and dissemination platform that spreads good ideas and formats for experiential learning across courses and programmes.

What Future Hubs @ LUSEM lead to

For students

Enhanced skills and employability.
Hands-on experience through real projects with companies and organisations.
Pathways to internships, graduate roles, venture careers, and continued startup support.

For partners

A clear and accessible point of entry to collaborate with LUSEM on projects, theses, internships, and more.
Actionable insights, solutions, and fresh perspectives on real challenges – developed together with LUSEM students.
Access to international talent and future recruits.

For faculty

Easier access to partners and real-world cases for teaching activities.
A platform to share and scale successful formats in experiential learning.
Support from back-office staff in matching courses and projects with external partners.