The consortium made up of France Chimie, the Fédération Gay-Lussac and ADIUT was selected as part of the Skills and Future Professions call for expressions of interest for its project targeting the “decarbonisation of industry” priority of the France 2030 plan.
In France, the Chemicals industry is the one that has reduced its CO2 emissions the most, down 65% since 1990. In its last decarbonisation trajectory, published at the end of 2022, it set itself the ambitious target of a further reduction in its CO2 emissions of 36% in 2030 compared with 2015.
The aim of the “Decarbochim” project is precisely to meet this challenge by:
- Providing, throughout all of France, excellence training based on a same skills repository for the benefit of the decarbonisation of the chemical industries;
- Helping to spread the decarbonisation culture among chemistry students, but also more widely among all its employees.
This project is unique in terms of the scale of the consortium involved, as the chemistry and process engineering schools of the Gay-Lussac Federation, and the 22 departments of the IUT Chemistry and Chemical Engineering or Process Engineering, are associated with it. With an overall budget of €8.4 million over the next 5 years, it has 3 components: the development of training content for the decarbonisation (recontextualisation of training modules, new content, etc.) of infrastructures, and of the equipment used to disseminate educational tools (installation of 30 pilots across France, LMS platform), and the dissemination of a culture of decarbonisation and the promotion of professions.