The annual IPBS fall meeting was hold this year in the beautiful Italian city of Piacenza. The IPBS partner school Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore was a great host for all the representatives from all the different universities of the IPBS consortium.

A highlight of the meeting was the formal induction of the University of Business and Economics in Beijing, China into the network, making the first partner in Asia to join the network.

Over the course of four intense days, discussions focused on the future of the academic partnership, aiming to strengthen dialogue among the universities in order to offer students programmes increasingly orientated towards internationalisation.

The IPBS community will meet in mid-April 2026 the next time at Elon University in the USA.