Laurent Prat, Director of Toulouse INP-ENSIACET (the School for the Transformation of Matter and Energy of Toulouse INP), has recently been elected as President of the Fédération Gay-Lussac. He will succeed, for a two-year mandate, Sylvie Bégin, Director of the European School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials in Strasbourg (ECPM), who has held this position since 2019.
Laurent Prat has been Director of Toulouse INP ENSIACET since 2016. He was previously responsible for industrial relations at the school.
Here is his roadmap for the Gay-Lussac Federation:
- To restructure the post-baccalaureate years of study, up until the engineering degree is obtained, through collective workshops in the integrated preparatory classes of the Fédération Gay-Lussac, and with CPGE and IUT teachers to best support the students resulting from the baccalaureate reform.
- To pursue cross-educational projects between schools based on the model of the hybrid teaching platform, a project selected by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation and to be launched next spring.
- To develop a skills approach to strengthen the links between the schools and with the socio-economic world and lead a dialogue on a national scale to work on the future professions and challenges of the sectors the Federation addresses.
- To be a major player through training, research, and innovation in the crucial issues of the coming years: reindustrialisation, relocation, recycling, energy efficiency, decarbonisation, etc. The Fédération Gay-Lussac has a major role to play as a specialist in the material cycle.