As part of its scientific policy, in 2021, Centrale Lille had the choice of contributing to the emergence of new paradigms in the institution’s four flagship themes (health, energy, the environment and digital), for a sustainable future that places people and their environment at the centre of concerns.
By placing itself within the general framework of the sustainable development goals defined by the United Nations, the institution thus firmly integrates Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility (SD & SR) into its research and innovation strategy.
Today, Centrale Lille intends to strengthen its action to significantly contribute to supporting society in its transition to a “sustainable culture”, where decisions and actions taken today must not compromise the future of future generations.
In a political text presented at the meeting of the Board of Directors on 15 December 2022, Centrale Lille specifies the principles and rules that will guide the institution’s action in the coming years.
Centrale Lille is committed in the fields of training, research, promotion and innovation from an institutional point of view.
Training
Centrale Lille is committed to upgrading all its training courses so that they systematically integrate the issue of sustainable development and social responsibility.
Accordingly, Centrale Lille’s ambition is to enable all its graduates to:
- be able to ask questions needed to understand the sustainable development issues associated with its future activities, both as professionals and as citizens;
- acquire the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills specific to sustainable development;
- responsibly design sustainable solutions, regardless of one’s business area and position.
Research, promotion and innovation
Centrale Lille will promote:
- the granting of its support to research and to research and innovation activities that help to achieve the sustainable development goals defined by the UN;
- the commitment of its researchers to national/international activities or actions whose objective is to promote or develop a sustainable research activity;
- the emergence of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects and actions, and will commit to open science that allows access for all advances and new knowledge, especially in SD & SR.
With regard to the institution
Centrale Lille will promote:
- the use and development of travel modes that reduce its carbon footprint and that of its staff and users;
- the reduction of its overall energy requirement, all energy sources included, through the implementation of technical solutions as well as changes in working methods;
- the transformation of its working methods to effectively reduce – at the source of its production – all types of waste (“household”, food or from its technological activity). Reuse shall be favoured and recycling systematised where possible. Similarly, the institution undertakes to reduce pollution situations and to systematise and optimise its treatment of polluting and hazardous waste;
- the transformation of its campuses to make them pleasant places to live and work; moreover, the institution will ensure the preservation of terrestrial ecosystems;
- the possibility for all its stakeholders, and within the limits of its scope of action, to live with dignity, to go about their studies with peace of mind and, for those who wish, to personally engage in a sustainable development approach;
- diversity, among both staff and students, and promoting this diversity in society. The institution fights all forms of discrimination and all forms of harassment.
