With a Director for Sustainable Development in the Centrale Nantes management team, to coordinate strategy, support project leaders, and contribute to the promotion of the actions undertaken by the school, its teachers, researchers, staff, students and the ecosystem.
Since October 2020, staff, students and graduates have been able to sign up to become sustainable development representatives. This role is put in writing by the line manager. There are currently 31 representatives whose role is to:
Centrale Nantes was included in the new Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings in 2019 and was ranked again in 2020. The rankings measure institution performance against the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. The results of the rankings are disseminated internally and posted on the school's website. Grand Baromètre de la Transition écologique: Centrale Nantes responded to the national survey proposed by the student collective and initiative "Pour un réveil écologique" (Manifesto for an ecological awakening). The objective is "to accelerate transformations by encouraging institutions to ask themselves the right questions and to report more regularly on their approaches to ecological transition.
September 2020: Awareness-raising lecture on sustainable development.
A new course opened at the start of the 2020 academic year for first-year engineering programme students. Climate collage workshop for first-year engineering programme students.
A new group of students updated Centrale Nantes' carbon footprint and proposed visualization and management tools to highlight individual contributions and collective approaches.
EDYCEM - Centrale Nantes Chair on sustainable concrete (since 2019) and ANR project CO2NCRETE - CO2 Uptake by Accelerated Carbonation of Recycled Concrete Aggregates: CO2 capture by deconstruction waste.
POSYTYF project (POwering SYstem flexibiliTY in the Future through RES), a European project coordinated by Centrale Nantes: "Routable renewable energy sources for a modern electricity grid model".
Energy transition: Energy Research projects to explain and promote the contribution of research projects to the energy transition. Six areas (energy, mobility, materials, cities, industry, CSR) have been identified and promoted according to the same pattern: Global issues / Why Centrale Nantes / Solutions / Focus on a project.
Annual energy performance is put on display every year - via a student contract - on all the doors of campus buildings. The aim is to provide transparency to users and also to raise awareness of the need to keep doors closed in winter and summer and to reduce heat loss. It establishes in particular the annual heating consumption per m² to allow comparison between new (T), renovated (E) or non-renovated buildings (B, L, M, etc.). This information can be consulted here.
Centrale Nantes produces energy through its FLOATGEN research facility in Le Croisic. The floating wind turbine produced 6.8GWh in 2020.
The thermal engineering firm Akajoule has been working since the end of 2020 on various scenarios for recovering the heat dissipated by the supercomputer, in particular by using it to heat the site. This project is eligible for the ADEME's Heat Fund. The firm carried out measurements in building D.
Study carried out by an external firm in 2020 with regard to the regulations by sector
Delivery service with local partners: vegetables, fruit, eggs, bread.
Consultation on the management of green spaces, led by the Facilities Department with the support of an external service provider. This consultation led to the production of a management plan for the campus' green spaces.
In 2020, the school organised new editions of this conference series with:
The Horizons Forum is an event organised by students from various engineering schools in Nantes to bring together students, companies and organisations involved in ecological and solidarity-based transition. In addition, debate workshops and conferences on the theme of the transition help to raise students' awareness of the issue.
