The School is determined to increase its expertise in identified domains of specialization in territorial poles of competitiveness and axes of the Polytechnicum de Normandie. Since 2003, the School has organised the development of its research resources and the structuring of its research activities. These efforts have led to a considerable increase in the number of publications and in the quality of contributions.

The structuring principles of research

They are based on the will to:

• Create and to maintain a framework which favours the development of research activities, both at individual and collective levels.
• Integrate research activities into a territorial network.
• Establish a coherence between the distinctive skills of the School in term of pedagogy (Entrepreneurship, International & multicultural, Territorial development, Logistic and Harbour Management) and the research axis chosen.
• Emphasize practice - symbolized by the name chosen for the Métis laboratory - which insists on the decompartmentalization between theory and practice.

Four strategic research axis

As a result of several audits of the Ecole de Management de Normandie’s areas of expertise, its researchers’ individual backgrounds and the focus of its programs, it was possible to define 4 different research areas.
Each area has its own means and is autonomous in the fixing of targets, which are then validated by the head of research.
The fulfilment of these targets is checked and the projects to come are determined through reports written and validated every year.