During the award ceremony held last Monday, Claire Lesbros, a 2021 graduate of the École Centrale de Lille, received one of Veolia’s ecological transformation trophies. This event, previously known as the Veolia Performance Trophies, has rewarded the best dissertations by university, engineering, and business school students for over 20 years. This year, 4 categories were honoured: fighting climate change, dealing with pollution, optimising resources, improving the quality of life.
The young double-degree graduate (Centrale Lille/Tsinghua University, Beijing) distinguished herself during the presentation of her thesis to a jury of professionals. She received a prize worth €2,200 for the purchase of a bicycle (mechanical or electric) and its safety equipment.
The subject of her final year internship was the management of non-hazardous waste storage facilities in bioreactor mode. “My objective was to implement this bioreactor process on an existing Veolia site (work, protocols, measurements, and monitoring). This process has environmental and social benefits such as limiting greenhouse gas emissions and degrading landfill waste. Winning this award is a good way to highlight the work I did during my internship. I also hope that it will encourage the implementation of this process on more sites,” explains Claire.
She follows in the footsteps of her predecessor Eflamm Gueguen, a 2020 double-degree graduate (École Centrale de Lille / EDHEC Business School) who received the Performance Trophy at last year’s ceremony.