Acting for SDRS: the joint commitment of INSA Hauts-de-France and STELLANTIS

For several years, INSA Hauts-de-France has decided to strengthen the knowledge and skills base of its students in DDRS aspects. This decision was prompted by the growing challenges faced by companies and civil society in relation to energy, climate and environmental issues, and the need to provide sustainable solutions to build a sustainable future.

For INSA Hauts-de-France, this means training engineers who are not only technically competent, but also capable of understanding the needs of the socio-economic and industrial world, and developing concrete solutions in their future professional practices by integrating the technical, human and social dimensions implied by SDRS.

The philanthropic patronage "Sustainable & societal development in higher education @INSAHdF" led by STELLANTIS, fully supports this approach undertaken by INSA Hauts-de-France and reinforces the commitments made by the establishment on these subjects.

It mainly enables us to increase the level of integration of DDRS issues in the training of engineers, while proposing actions that are also beneficial for the territory and its inhabitants.

This is implemented through courses, lectures, projects as well as in-situ case studies to meet three main objectives:

• Objective 1: To promote INSA Hauts-de-France's engineering training by integrating environmental aspects into all its training modules and enhance the employability of its students.
• Objective 2: Create a new teaching module for each new class based on a field study.
• Objective 3: Propose housing improvement solutions to social landlords.

In the same way, this dynamic is fully in line with the values carried by the INSA Group, which has developed educational schemes such as ClimatSup INSA in association with the think tank The Shift Project to raise awareness of socio-ecological issues.

In this dynamic, INSA Hauts-de-France, alongside STELLANTIS, have already been able to put into practice several educational actions and projects for the benefit of student engineers.

Rentrée Climat

This event is offered at the start of the school year, to 1st-year engineering students. It allows them to discover the challenges of climate change in a fun and interactive way. Based on the Climate Fresco format, this participatory workshop is ideal for creating a framework for positive exchange and encouraging the implementation of concrete actions to build a more sustainable planet.

Conferences

INSA Hauts-de-France welcomed several renowned speakers whose work focuses on the impact of technology and human activities on the environment and climate.

• "On the global warming front" with Dr. Heidi Sevestre, glaciologist
• "What transitions for our mobilities?" with Dr. Aurelien Bigo, researcher on the decarbonization of transport. This lecture was organized as part of the SAE "Enjeux climatiques" (Climate issues) for 1st year students to raise awareness of the challenges of the ecological transition applied to transport (sobriety in modes of travel, habits, ...)

Climate sense immersive experience

INSA Hauts-de-France hosted "Climate Sense" on its campus, an immersive experience that lets you physically and physiologically feel the effects of global warming. For 30 minutes, in a space at 50°C, students reproduced everyday activities (physical activity, leisure activities and reflective work) to measure the concrete impact of such a temperature, which could be effective in France by mid-century.

The main aim of this device is to ascertain the bodily impacts of such a temperature rise to encourage people to take action and define possible solutions on a national but also local and personal scale.

Graduation projects

Several final-year student-engineers have been working on innovative DDRS projects. These projects enable them to develop concrete, objective solutions by working through each stage of the design process, culminating in the creation of a prototype. They can also involve studies carried out in situ, on the local territory, to provide answers to problems in the field.

• Intelligent sorting head: this innovative automated waste sorting device aims to optimize this everyday ecogest within INSA Hauts-de-France itself.
• Mobile application for social landlord SIGH: this tool tracks energy consumption, analyzes consumption habits but also raises awareness of ecogestures, while facilitating interaction between tenants and managers.
• "Habiter 2030" project - Energy renovation strategy for buildings in Roubaix faced with precariousness: this study concerns the rehabilitation of two canal-side blocks and a courtyard in the commune of Roubaix. Developed in collaboration with a number of local players, this project addresses the notions of energy performance, integrates the notion of quality of life in the face of precariousness issues, and presents architectural and landscape solutions adapted to a situational reality.

These actions illustrate STELLANTIS' commitment alongside INSA Hauts-de-France to contribute to the training of responsible engineers, actors of transitions, capable of designing sustainable solutions at the service of the territory and society.