DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
SDG 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
Mobility Policy
Sustainable mobility package
Following the decision of the Institut Mines-Telecom’s Board of Directors on June 26, 2020, employees may benefit from a reimbursement of up to €200 per year. This sum may be used to cover all or part of the expenses incurred by commuting between their usual residence and their workplace when they are carried out by bicycle or carpooling (Instruction n°06-2020).
The campus is equipped with bicycle parkings and a secure bicycle storage room.
For employees who travel by public transportation, the School will reimburse 50% of the cost of their ticket or pass.
Interest-free “Bicycle” loan
This loan is intended to help all Institut Mines-Telecom staff members who wish to purchase an electric bicycle, or a city, road or mountain bike. This loan is not subject to a means test.
Institut Mines-Telecom will take in charge all of the loan’s interests which will be calculated by the partner bank.
Electric vehicles
The School campus is equipped with four electric vehicle charging stations. The school is also engaged in the renewal of its car fleet with hybrid and electric cars.
Business travels
IMT-BS encourages the limitation of work-related travel when meetings can be held via video-conferencing. All staff members are provided with the necessary equipment and video conference rooms are also available on campus.
With its local partners (University of Evry Val d’Essonne, ENSIIE, the CROUS and the Evry-Courcouronnes town hall), IMT-BS is participating in the development of an inter-establishment mobility plan. This plan aims to optimize and improve the daily transportation of the staff and thus reduce emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, as well as also improve their quality of life. The mobility plan promotes the use of other modes of transportation than the individual car, such as the bicycle, public transportation or carpooling.
Reseach and international projets
Publications
Patricia Baudier, Chantal Ammi, Matthieu Deboeuf-Rouchon, “Smart home: Highly-educated students’ acceptance”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 153, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.06.043
Alahakoon, D., Nawaratne, R., Xu, Y. et al. Self-Building Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Empower Big Data Analytics in Smart Cities. Inf Syst Front (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-020-10056-x
Ramzan, S., Liu, C., Xu, Y., Munir, H. and Gupta, B. (2021), “The adoption of online e-waste collection platform to improve environmental sustainability: an empirical study of Chinese millennials”, Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 32 No. 2, pp. 193-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEQ-02-2020-0028
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan, Sam Dzever, Jacques Jaussaud, Robert Taylor, Sustainable Development and Energy Transition in Europe and Asia, Volume 9, First published: February 24, 2020. Print ISBN:9781786305701 |Online ISBN:9781119705222 |DOI:10.1002/9781119705222
Fabrice Flipo, Camille Rondot, Antonella Tufano, Smart cities: vers de nouvelles organisations ?, Presses des Mines, 2020, Collection: « Management Des Technologies »
Smart Cities are starting to emerge. The digital transformation they rely on combines technologies and new uses. This fundamental change can be approached from different perspectives: that of visitors, citizens, local authorities, user companies or companies that provide technological solutions. The Smart City fields are multiple and concern mobility, technologies, urbanism, energy, infrastructures, housing, etc. The generation and management of data play a major role in the Smart City.
Erasmus+ UniverCity Action Lab project
The University-City Action Lab (UCITYLAB) is a European-funded Erasmus+ project that fosters initiatives and programs between universities and governments to solve modern urban issues. It is intended to strengthen the links between higher education institutions and city stakeholders by asking students to solve urban issues through a series of challenge projects in Paris, Barcelona, Porto and Ljubljana.
The university partners design a series of “Urban Challenge” projects, in which students will develop solutions to local urban problems. The main achievements include facilitating knowledge exchange and resource flow, improving the societal relevance of the higher education institution programs of study through civic engagement, helping to develop relevant skills among students, empowering universities by increasing their knowledge and practice in building urban partnerships, and promoting the adoption of models of city engagement in European higher education institutions. The project started in 2018 and ended in 2021. During that period, it helped to better understand how universities and governments work together, as well as to develop eight Challenge projects in four different higher education institutions.