DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
SDG 17: PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
Networks and referentials
The “Principles for Responsible Management Education” initiative was developed in 2007 following the recommendation of the United Nations Global Compact to provide a framework for academic institutions to structure their commitments to social responsibility. Since 2008, IMT-BS has been an active member of the PRME initiative and submits its Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility activity report every two years.
Created in 1973, the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles is a think tank that promotes the collective expertise of its members and the role of the Grandes Ecoles in the higher education and research landscape. It has 285 members, including 227 Grandes Ecoles, all recognized by the State and awarding a Master’s degree. IMT-BS is a member of the CGE and Denis Guibard is President of the Sustainable Development & Social Responsibility Commission, which aims to encourage and coordinate reflection and work on teaching, pedagogy and research, with a view to improving social well-being and sustainable development.
IMT-BS is a member of Comité 21. Denis Guibard is a member of the Board of Directors of Comité 21. This committee’s mission is to create the conditions for exchange and partnership between its members from all sectors, so that together they can better understand and implement sustainable development on a territorial scale.
The Collège des Directeurs du Développement Durable (C3D) brings together more than 200 sustainable development and CSR directors from private and public companies and organizations. Denis Guibard, member of the Board, takes part in the steering of the CSR and digital working group, whose objective is to provide sustainable development managers with the tools they need to impact their institutions in terms of digital responsibility.
ADERSE (Association pour le Développement de l’Enseignement et de la Recherche sur la Responsabilité Sociale de l’Entreprise – Association for the Development of Teaching and Research on Corporate Social Responsibility) is an academic association whose aim is to promote CSR in teaching and research in the management field. IMT-BS hosted the 2021 edition of the ADERSE National Congress in 2020.
Network of student associations that carry out sustainable development projects on different themes such as food, biodiversity, climate, waste, etc. IMT-BS is certified by the REFEDD for the organization of the Student Week for Sustainable Development and the Zero Butt Campaign.
The purpose of the Ostad Elahi Foundation is to promote a real rapprochement between people by focusing on what constitutes the root of all solidarity: the ethical feeling present in every man. The Foundation organizes numerous programs: symposia, seminars, think tanks, research projects, teaching modules, publications, etc. IMT-BS is a partner of the Foundation which delivers courses within the School.
Institut de l’Engagement is aimed at volunteers who have been identified for their potential, the quality of their commitment and the interest of their project for the future. It provides them with tools to reveal their talents and allows them to access training, jobs and support to realize this potential and develop their project. IMT-BS includes students from Institut de l’Engagement in its programs.
The School is a member of the association Article 1 (merger of Passeport Avenir and Fratelli) which provides, in addition to the traditional long-term mentoring, a short-term coaching of 6 to 8 months through its Dema1n program.
Les Cordées de la réussite aim to promote access to higher education for young people regardless of their socio-cultural background, by giving them the keys to engage successfully in courses of excellence.
Intended to reinforce equal opportunities, Internat d’Excellence offers favorable conditions for success to middle school, high school and volunteer students who do not have the best conditions for studying in their daily environment. These support and accompaniment are built on the transmission of pedagogical, educational, cultural, sporting and civic principles. Some IMT-BS staff members were involved in preparing students for the admission oral exams.
This association, of which IMT-BS is a partner, aims to strengthen gender diversity in companies in the industrial or digital sectors.
IMT-BS is a member of the CPED. Created in 2011, it is a space for the exchange of good practices, it addresses the difficulties encountered by our institutions in implementing a policy in favor of equality and submits proposals to resolve them.
SIANA, the imaginary of technologies, is a resource center for digital cultures in Essonne. It is an atypical association that brings together contemporary artistic creation, research in the humanities, technological innovation and the widest possible audience. Established in Evry since its creation in 2005, the association covers the entire southern part of Ile-de-France region and aims at organizing the emergence of digital cultures, in particular by fostering local cooperation between cultural facilities, institutions of higher education and research and popular education associations around ICTs. SIANA is a partner of the Creativity and Innovation Week organized every year by IMT-BS.
As a partner of the Rotary, CGE and UNESCO Professional Ethics Contest, IMT-BS has had 6 winners among its students since 2018 (1 in 2018, 1 in 2019, 1 in 2020, and 3 in 2021). Organized by the Rotary Club and sponsored by the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles and UNESCO, this contest is open to higher education students from Bac+3 to doctoral level. It aims to encourage them to engage in ethical reflection as they prepare to enter the job market, Together with the ethics courses offered at the School, this contest fulfills the ambition of IMT-BS to train responsible managers by integrating responsibility and ethics in all teaching areas.
Cooperation and sharing of good practices for the SDG
IMT roadmap
In 2020, the School actively participated, within a working group, in the co-construction of a roadmap for the ecological transition of the IMT. This roadmap aims to speed up the transition around five objectives, which are themselves broken down into assessment criteria, operational actions and support measures. This roadmap enables us to set a direction and to be able to quickly measure the impacts.
The SD&SR Commission of the CGE
Denis Guibard, Dean of IMT-BS, chairs the SD&SR commission of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles.
The purpose of this commission “is to provide tools and promote the schools’ approaches, to organize collective action in order to integrate sustainable development and social responsibility practices into the organization and missions of higher education and research. As early as 2010, the commission decided to join forces with those of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the REFEDD, the MTES, the CIRSES since 2015, the MESRI since 2017, and the research organizations since 2018, in order to regularly update the self-assessment standard that it had initially developed for its member schools. Initially called the “Green Plan standard” in reference to Article 55 of the Grenelle 1 Environment Act, it has been named the SD&SR standard in line with the SD&SR label since 2015.
Over the years, major players in the field of sustainable development have joined this commission, which now includes students, representatives of the Ministries of Ecology and Sustainable Development, Higher Education and Research, and virtuous associations…
Every year, the commission organizes a two-day seminar (R2D2), which aims to allow all players to meet and exchange best practices, to take stock of the progress made by CGE member schools, of the partners’ results (operator of the SD&SR label, for example) and to set new realistic objectives”.
(source: https://www.cge.asso.fr/commissions/developpement-durable-et-responsabilite-societale-ddrs/).
Participation in Le Grand Baromètre
In 2018, Le Collectif pour un réveil écologique (The Green Awakening Collective) launched Le Grand Baromètre, a student initiative for higher education institutions aimed at assessing their commitments to the ecological transition (including social and sustainable economic issues). In spring 2020, IMT-BS took part in the survey in order to highlight its commitment to the ecological and social transition and to be transparent towards the higher education community and especially towards students who are more and more concerned by these issues. The results and the analysis were released in February 2021.
The AGIR ENSEMBLE program
Since 2019, IMT-BS has been involved in the national operation Agir Ensemble launched by the AFUV (Association des Villes Universitaires de France – Association of French University Cities), which aims at stimulating territorial cooperation in the face of sustainable development challenges. The Agir Ensemble program aims to mobilize users to amplify the impact of the ecological and energy transitions of the campuses and territories in which they are located. The objective is to help campuses and territories launch and develop cooperation on complex sustainable development issues that require working with all stakeholders. The Agir Ensemble initiative:
- promotes the collective dimension,
- responds to the will to engage in high-impact actions,
- is an opportunity to promote what is done by the actors,
- requires working on behavioral change.
IMT-BS created a local alliance with the city of Evry-Courcouronnes, the university of Evry, the engineering school ENSIIE, the Grand Paris Sud agglomeration and the CROUS of Versailles.
The action plan developed by the territorial alliance received the Agir Ensemble label. In 2020, this alliance was extended to Telecom SudParis and the Faculté des Métiers. This action plan includes the achievement of an inter-institution mobility plan to be initiated in 2022. This 18-month project will aim to build and implement an action plan to reduce carbon emissions and promote alternative mobility.
Seminars and conferences
ADERSE CONFERENCE ON “DATA AND CSR: NEW CHALLENGES FOR MANAGEMENT?”
This conference was organized on May 20 and 21, 2021 by IMT-BS and was led by the Head of the Department of Law, Economics and Finance. Over one hundred participants attended the conferences and workshops on data governance and security, ethical management of data and the digital transformation of organizations.
RESEARCH DAY “INNOVATING FOR RESPONSIBLE AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCE”
On November 27, 2020, LITEM (Institut Mines-Telecom Business School and Université Evry Val d’Essonne) and IRG (Université de Paris-Est Créteil and Université Gustave Eiffel) co-organized a research day on the theme “Innovating for responsible and sustainable finance“. The purpose of this event was to discuss how the different forms of innovation carried and used by the finance actors can contribute to a responsible and sustainable finance.
PUBLIC CONTROVERSY
To clarify the stakes and consequences of the deployment of 5G, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School organized a Public Controversy that took place on June 1, 2021. This controversy was conducted by Fabrice Flipo, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Technology at Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, with the participation of:
- Hakima Chaouchi, Professor and researcher at Telecom SudParis / IP Paris / IMT, in the fields of networks and the Internet of Things,
- Jean-Benoit Arvis, Expert in digital technology at the Fondation Concorde,
- André Loesekrug-Pietri, President of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI),
- Hugues Ferreboeuf, Co-founder of Virtus Management, a consulting firm specializing in transition management. Director of the Lean ICT project at The Shift Project think tank.
European projects
BOUNDARY SPANNERS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The Boundary Spanners development program is a European-funded project, run by a group of dedicated partners, focused on university-business relationships.
Starting in 2020, this program aims to develop competencies in border crossing for higher education staff, faculty, and managers to transfer knowledge and innovation across sectors. The program will generate both organizational change and economic and societal impact in the partner regions, and will develop the tools and methodology to be implemented in other contexts.
EREADYMONITOR
There is widespread consensus that the potential of higher education institutions to make meaningful contributions to their cities, regions, and nations remains underdeveloped. The Engagement Readiness Monitor project focuses on measuring the university’s readiness to engagement, rather than just standard indicators measuring only the quantifiable outcomes of university engagement and cooperation activities with companies. It seeks to expand these measures to cover a broader set of engagement activities that include not only traditional research and teaching, but also valorization and governance. The self-assessment tool will allow to measure the readiness of HEIs to cooperate in different activities and, by providing tools, a roadmap and other materials created in the framework of the project, it will help improve their readiness to engage and, subsequently, to transform them into committed universities.
RE‑WORK ‑ FRENCH-GERMAN ACADEMY FOR THE INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE
Even before the current pandemic, the organizational trends were characterized by digitalization, flexibility, openness, decompartmentalization, the promotion of agility, interaction and mobility of people.
The sanitary rules imposed to combat the pandemic require adaptations on site (re-compartmentalization, social distancing, mask wearing, etc.) and off site (e.g. massive use of telework), which may be experienced by workers as “a step backwards” or on the contrary as “a step forward” or even as “a driver” of change, perhaps both at the same time.
- What impact does the response to the current crisis and its effect on workplaces have on the daily experience of workers and employees?
- What adaptations do they involve in the daily work process?
- How do the growing importance of digital communication and the creation of digital workspaces change collaboration patterns and work processes?
- Are the current adaptations only temporary and local, or are they likely to allow for organizational learning and to become more permanently embedded in the practices and workplaces?
The project explores these questions through an in-depth literature review and qualitative case studies in the fields of work experience, processes and collaboration. Special emphasis is placed on qualitative and quantitative changes in work and communication patterns, affects (frustrations, hopes, fears…), imagination and commitment to work.
UNITE 4 HORIZON
The Unite for Horizon Europe, funded by the European Commission, will contribute to strengthening the strategic engagement capacity between European scholars/researchers and SME representatives to increase the proportion of successful collaborative participation in Horizon Europe initiatives. By increasing engagement, the project aims to contribute to a unified approach to societal challenges, as well as to boost the funding capacity of higher education institutions so that they can focus their efforts on the entire innovation cycle, from research to market.