Three axes for the 2026-2030 Strategic Plan of the Bocconi School of Management

The Bocconi School of Management's Strategic Plan 2026-2030 focuses on three fundamental aspects to meet the challenges of the moment: strengthening the centrality of science, investing in human skills that are more difficult to replace, and preparing for the transformations of artificial intelligence.
Many novelties on the educational front: the revision of the first year of the three-year degrees is coming, with a common first year for degrees in the economic-managerial areas, two new compulsory courses in AI and cognitive sciences, an Advisory Committee on AI and ethics, an increase in investments in High Performance Computing and data infrastructure. By 2027, the Department of Cognitive Science will be established.

These innovations are intertwined with the Campus 2030 project, which envisages the construction of the new Bocconi 6/8 building and the construction of a 50-60 place crèche that will also be available to local citizens. In addition, after 2030, the reconstruction of the building in Piazza Sraffa 11 is planned. Economic support measures will also increase, with the goal of supporting one in three students by 2030, with the University's investment, again by 2030, exceeding 80 million per year."Combining technology, human skills and the scientific method", the guidelines indicated by Bocconi president Andrea Sironi, who emphasised how "technological transformations require a realistic rethinking of the way we prepare new generations".

"With the Strategic Plan we want to reaffirm our desire to look to the long term. This is why we have to combine attention to what is happening at the moment with the desire to look to the future and give shape to this tomorrow", explains Bocconi's rector, Francesco Billari.
"Artificial intelligence, the revolution that is taking place, must be a central point for a university that started out as economics and business and, more generally, forms part of the social sciences and law. The scientific part will always be central, but for Bocconi it remains important to put people at the centre. The challenge is to combine the scientific-technological part with the ability of human beings. This is what we want for our students. And we do this not by shunning the tools that have been devised, but by teaching students how to become ethical users, how to use artificial intelligence to do their jobs well and improve the world. For example, we don't ban the use of AI to write an essay or a thesis, but we have decided to challenge students by asking them to declare that they use it and demand that the product is better with AI.

"Bocconi has become much more international over the past decades, there is continuous acceleration. But we are very much rooted in Europe and in Milan, which is a border city that combines the best of Italy and the best of Europe. From the research point of view, we are very active in the European research council part of Horizon Europe and in a network of social science universities called CIVICA. But ours is a Europe that is not entrenched, that wants to be attractive and welcome students from all over the world. We have succeeded and we want to continue to do so. That is why we will increasingly make use of the English language'.

"For us, it is crucial to remain and become more and more attractive to the best talent in Italy, with an increasing effort for scholarships. For us, the selection of talent remains important, then it is important that these boys and girls have the ability to get involved with the rest of the world. Equally important is that some return and others come from abroad. Our effort is based on creating an ecosystem around Milan. We have recently sanctioned the merger of our business accelerator into a foundation created with the Milan Polytechnic (an alliance between two major Milanese universities and private actors) precisely for the creation of new businesses. We think this is a central element that is not yet at the level we would like it to reach, that can help to retain and bring back young people who want to innovate. For those young men and women who have the dream of creating a business or working in a highly innovative enterprise. To date we do not yet have this ecosystem and Bocconi wants to help create it".