The first school created around the new professions of the internet and multimedia, IIM has been training digital managers in the heart of Paris-La Défense since 1995.
As schools dedicated to digital technologies continue to emerge, IIM understood the importance of the digital revolution long before others. Founded in 1995, with over 2,100 students, 8 state-recognized degrees, a network of several hundred professional experts, and thousands of alumni, IIM remains the leading school in this rapidly evolving sector.
OUR CAMPUSES
IIM is now present in 3 cities in France: Paris, Nantes, and Montpellier.
EMLV, a post-baccalaureate business school in Paris, trains autonomous and operational executives, capable of thriving in a multicultural environment in the fields of management, business, and leadership.
Focused on businesses, the EMLV program is designed to uncover talents.”
Founded in 1995, EMLV is the 4th post-baccalaureate business school in the rankings published by l’Etudiant, Le Figaro, Le Point, and Le Parisien in 2024-2025. Its goal is to make innovation the core of its teaching and research in order to equip managers with a global and responsible perspective, as well as multidisciplinary skills to meet the challenges of a sustainable and digitalized world. EMLV is accredited by AACSB, EFMD, and AMBA, and is a member of the Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE).
Beyond sharing facilities, students at the Pôle Léonard de Vinci have access to joint activities and programs across the three schools (EMLV, ESILV, IIM): career specializations in entrepreneurship, e-Business, and finance, as well as student life, sports activities, and collaborative study projects.
EMLV is now present in 3 cities in France: Paris, Nantes, and Montpellier.
ESILV was founded in 1995 at the initiative of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council with the aim of training generalist engineers and specialists in digital technologies.
ESILV is the prestigious general engineering school at the heart of digital technologies.
Within a higher education sector where hybrid learning is widespread, ESILV’s mission is to train high-level generalist engineers. By combining scientific and technological excellence, the development of Soft Skills, and mastering the challenges of sustainable development, ESILV trains innovative and responsible professionals, ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow in a globalized world.
ESILV has been accredited since 2003 by the Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur (CTI) to award the title of Graduate Engineer from the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci. This accreditation was renewed in 2024 for a duration of 5 years.
ESILV is ranked in the Top 3 of post-baccalaureate engineering schools and is the #1 engineering school in the Île-de-France region in rankings published by Le Figaro, l’Etudiant, and l’Usine Nouvelle.
Studying at ESILV means acquiring practical skills and operational expertise. It also means engaging with the business world during your training. Small group teaching, teamwork, project-based pedagogy, sports, internships, and international experiences all contribute to the development and success of each student.
Today, ICMP trains over 1,200 students every year. The school has been recognized for the quality of its teaching for almost 40 years, and for being the first school in the UK to offer Music degrees. It is also one of the few private schools to have been awarded “Degree Awarding Power” by the Office For Students, enabling it to offer qualifications recognized by the British State.
Working with the AD Education Group will undoubtedly bring new opportunities to our students and staff, and we look forward to working alongside them to meet new challenges and create additional opportunities here in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Paul Kirkham – ICMP CEO
Curricula
ICMP is based in North West London on two campuses at Kilburn and Queen’s Park, and has over 1,200 students.
Online college of creativity in art and digital technology
Animum Creativity Advanced School is a post-baccalaureate online digital art school with over 15 years’ experience, dedicated to the film and video game professions. ANIMUM was named 4th best 3D animation school in the world in the prestigious Rookies World School Rankings® 2022 and for the third year running 1st 3D animation school in Spain.
Thanks to our exclusively online methodology, every year 600 students from Spain and Latin America are trained by over 200 teachers. It’s a pleasure to work with professionals from key companies in the industry such as Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Double Negative.
David Plaza – Director, Animum
Curricula
Whether our students are passionate about film, animation, special effects or video games, they will find at Animum a wide repertoire of high-level courses and Masters, with which they will develop new skills:
At Animum, we aim to create an international academic space, in which teachers and students are united by curiosity and the desire to learn. The aim is to contribute to the rigorous academic development of knowledge in art- and digital-related fields, applicable to industry.
Why do we
Because we have over 15 years’ experience as a postgraduate center specializing in digital art and technology. Because our academic excellence and training methods have enabled our students (in Spain and Latin America) to occupy positions of responsibility in the entertainment industry, with a successful professional integration rate (80%).
Our alumni projects
Animum graduates work on such world-renowned feature films and series as “The Lion King”, “Sonic 2”, “Spiderman: No way home”, “Aquaman”, “Stranger Things 4”, “Minions: The Rise of Gru”, or “Thor: Love and Thunder”, at such major studios as Walt Disney Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Imageworks, MPC, Illumination Mac Guff, Skydance Animation, El Ranchito, Ubisoft or Mercury Steam …
Condé is a strong, joyful project: a multifaceted, inclusive and committed school, focused on diversity to achieve excellence! Empowering the various sections to work together, firmly establishing our campuses within their regions and opening up our students to international experience contributes towards this same movement: drawing on differences and diverse skills and perspectives.
Condé, a leading school for careers in design, image and heritage, is committed to the environmental and societal transformation that is underway. Multifaceted, inclusive and committed, anticipating changes in careers as they evolve, it prepares for tomorrow’s world.
France Barrois — Executive director of Condé
Our courses
The School has nine campuses in France: Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Nancy, Marseille, Toulouse, Rennes and Lille. With 4,000 students and more than 15,000 alumni, our scale enables us, without ever losing sight of the principle of close relationships with our students, to have the means needed to ensure our School’s recognition in France and internationally:
Train you to become high-level designers and image professionals, able to anticipate underlying socetal trends, engage in the transformation of our world, the digital revolution and major ecological issues. Creation and design are powerful catalysts to invent a completely new world.
Our values
Each campus is a vibrant community, promoting collective intelligence and a sense of initiative. With us, you will be able to develop your experience and share it. Respecting and engaging with each individual in fields that they are passionate about is vital, underpinned by confidence and trust.
Our learning approach
Our School applies an inventive, open-minded, caring and demanding approach, within a culture of excelling and pushing boundaries. It aims to bring together academic and creative excellence and adaptation for real-life cases.
Our courses
They cover the four fields of design: graphic design, interior design, product design, fashion design in areas such as UX / UI digital creation, photography, illustration and comic books, animation movies and heritage restoration. Collaboration between students from these various courses is organised and encouraged, enabling each individual to benefit from rich, complementary interactions.
Diverse pathways
Our courses will enable you to discover and build your own pathway as you study. You will be able to build your professional network, which will facilitate your professional integration.
Businesses
From partnerships to internships and the organisation of several company forums, we always work closely with the business world.
Our school immerges its students within a community of creative students, empowering them to progress.
By opening up this network to its students, the School is able to offer them the best opportunities for integration. At ECV, our students share far more than just a school: They share a mindset and an outstanding community.
The School has five campuses in France: Paris, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lille and Aix-en-Provence. Each year, it trains 2,700 students enrolled for preparatory year, bachelor’s and master’s programmes.
Since it was founded in 1984, ECV has chosen to establish itself in vibrant and creative cities.
Paris
Bordeaux
Aix-En-Provence
Nantes
Lille
Our values
Excellence and high standards of education
ECV is particularly committed to the quality of its training and its teaching team, which is made up of renowned and distinguished professionals in their fields. Our close and privileged exchanges with various agencies feed into our content and enable it to evolve…
Network and recognition
Since it was founded, ECV has established close relationships with leading industry organisations and agencies from the design, animation, game and digital sectors; these links are further strengthened through the presence of its graduates in many different sectors around the worl
Professionalism and partnerships
ECV’s learning approach is focused on work on real-life cases with corporate partners. Chosen for their interesting opportunities for collaboration between our School and the various businesses, these projects enable our students to gain first-hand experience of the professional realities faced and the high standards required
Daring and creative
Bringing together different areas of know-how and cultures, knowing how to take risks and experimenting to help new creations and ideas to emerge: these are values that guide us and that we share with our students in order to enable them to become excellent.
International
In a career that has become freed up from borders, it is essential to train creatives who are mobile and open to the world. At ECV, we reflect this by encouraging our students to take up international internships and to make the most of the various agreements for university exchanges, capitalising on our partnerships with schools and universities and being part of our international networks and events.
School life
The foundations for learning at ECV are built around the human values and dedication of our training teams. A school is a community of learning and sharing that must support its students to fulfil their potential, work as a team and develop their sense of initiative. This enables our students to build their future and their professional network with confidence.
The School immerses its students within a community of creative talents, inspiring them and helping them to progress.
Nothing is more important than believing in yourself and followingyour passion. I studied at SAE, where I learned that if I really like something, I can be very good at it and succeed in it. The best thing about my job is being able to share this experience with future generations and helping them to transform their passion into a profession. It is always a moving experience for me to meet graduates and talk with them about their personal achievements with a gleam in their eyes.
Christian Mueller — Managing Director, SAE G/S/A
SAE Institute is a global education leader for creative media. Students have access to courses leading to a range of qualifications, alongside a selection of short training programmes. Each campus offers opportunities for students, overseen by professional experts, to continue studying in a vibrant environment, with access to outstanding professional facilities.
Steffan Davies — Managing Director, SAE UK South West Europe
Our courses
SAE Institute offers a range of long and short qualifying programmes, training students for careers in the audiovisual, film, music industry and media sectors.
SAE campuses are located in the heart of Europe’s major cities and close to the key players in the audiovisual and digital industries. Based in 10 countries, SAE schools offer courses developed with the advice of leading educational partners and industry professionals.
Allemagne, Autriche, Belgique, Espagne, France, Grèce, Italie, Pays-Bas, Royaume-Uni et Suisse
Our values
Our project
The SAE programme has been carefully put together with advice from leading educational partners and the best industry professionals to prepare students for the needs of the global creative industry. SAE offers a comprehensive range of creative media courses (audio, film, animation, video games and music industry), with a long tradition of practical-based training and outstanding recognition from businesses in this sector.
SAE Alumni Association
This is the network of SAE students and graduates, enabling them to benefit from the personal experience of students who have completed their first-class training with SAE. It also offers an active and diverse programme of resources, events and communications for students and graduates to find jobs, helping them to keep in contact with one another and continue to be part of the SAE community.
Our partners
Our links with the industry are at the heart of our learning process. SAE Institute is committed to supporting our students and ensuring that they are perfectly equipped to be part of the creative industries
Enter a creative world where the only limit is you.
Since 1927, ESP hast trained its students on the fascinating world of communication, marketing and digital.
Today, ESP trains more than 1,200 students each year. We offer them all of the skills needed to become true professionals for communication, advertising, digital, marketing and management careers with communications agencies, media companies, advertisers…
ESD trains complete, multidisciplinary profiles at ease with technical, creation and strategy aspects.
Whatever their expertise, ESD students all benefit from a core foundation of skills : the ability to create, code and develop innovative projects. Thanks to the combination of these three areas of expertise and our strong focus on soft skills and personal development, our students have profiles that are highly sought-after on the market…
Whatever their expertise, ESD students all benefit from a core foundation of skills: the ability to create, code and develop innovative projects. Thanks to the combination of these three areas of expertise and our strong focus on soft skills and personal development, our students have profiles that are highly sought-after on the market…
École Supérieure du Digital is a place for experimenting and creating. Project-based learning is an integral part of our School’s approach. Projects in groups, projects based on corporate partnerships, projects with other schools, such as École Supérieure de Publicité and École de Condé.
International focus
Each year, all ESD students have the opportunity to be part of an exceptional “bespoke” study trip to discover the country’s latest digital trends and most innovative companies
Egality, diversity, secularity
At ESD, diversity is central to our learning approach. We firmly believe that the more diverse profiles we have, the better our students progress. They learn from one another, they create higher-value projects, they develop their potential for innovation. Lastly, they are better positioned to take on board all of the issues and challenges facing society and businesses, today and tomorrow.
Thanks to the combination of these three areas of expertise and our strong focus on soft skills and personal development, our students have profiles that are highly sought-after on the market…
ESILV was founded in 1995 at the initiative of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council with the aim of training generalist engineers and specialists in digital technologies.
EMLV, a post-baccalaureate business school in Paris, trains autonomous and operational executives, capable of thriving in a multicultural environment in the fields of management, business, and leadership.
The first school created around the new professions of the internet and multimedia, IIM has been training digital managers in the heart of Paris-La Défense since 1995.
Represents 50 years of expertise, support and innovation. The teams harness their passion to support training in the publishing, press, culture and communication sectors.
ISCOD (Institut Supérieur des Compétences de Demain) enables its students to be competitive on the job market with a view to becoming true stakeholders in the transformation of business.
