Centrale Lille continues its commitment to the socio-ecological transition by signing the Grenoble Agreement. It thus joins the 74 higher education institutions that have already signed the text.

With this signature, Centrale Lille undertakes to engage the following actions over the coming months and years:

  1. Strengthen governance actions in terms of sustainable development and social responsibility: 
  • Formalisation of the SD & SR policy and a 5-year roadmap,
  • Inclusion of SD & SR objectives in the objectives of the functional departments,
  • Establishment of an SD & SR committee,
  • Integration of SD & SR issues in the internal regulations,
  • 2-year target for SD & SR certification.
  1. Systematically integrate sustainable development and social responsibility issues into training: 
  • Raise awareness among all learners through fresco-type actions (climate, diversity, waste, etc.), tests (e.g. Sulitest – sustainability literacy test) and MOOCs,
  • Regularly provide resources for self-training,
  • Send observers to the next COP conferences,
  • Question each activity (project and internship) on its impact in relation to the 17 UN SDGs,
  • Make gap year recommendations with an SD & SR focus,
  • Launch a thought process at the scope of each school to make SD & SR issues a common theme in training,
  • Strengthen the position of low tech and green IT,
  • Transform the RITES project into a think tank.
  1. Strengthen the position of future graduates: 
  • Suggest actions such as mapping controversies,
  • Support the awareness of engineering students that their training naturally leads them to commit to SD & SR topics (in particular consideration of interdisciplinary aspects),
  • For each student, integrate an a posteriori reflection on the SDG impacts of internship or project-type activities,
  • Raise awareness among student associations; for example, training in their activity’s carbon footprint (with incentives to do so).
  1. Develop research that contributes to the UN SDG objectives:
  • Implement the scientific policy approved at the end of 2021 in full compliance with the transition objectives,
  • Question the impact of each allocation of resources in terms of SD & SR.
  1. Staff training:
  • Actions to encourage participation in fresco-type actions,
  • Strengthening of the continuous training offer in this sphere,
  • Launch of an institution-wide information and awareness campaign on the 17 SD objectives defined by the UN.
  1. Take action to ensure universal access to Environmental and Social Responsibility (ESR): 
  • Strengthen knowledge of support systems (exemption from tuition fees, scholarships, etc.),
  • Develop student employment,
  • Strengthen medical monitoring,
  • Continued investment in the “Cordées de la Réussite” scheme,
  • Maintain the quality of accommodation in student residences.
  1. Engage the transformation into an eco-campus and reduce greenhouse gas emissions: 
  • Increase the efficiency of the waste sorting system,
  • Re-vegetate the campus,
  • Establish the establishment’s carbon and consumption footprints,
  • Establish a travel impact assessment,
  • Implement technical management of buildings,
  • Finalise investments in the thermal insulation of buildings.