Alumni 2023

The highlights of 2023 were:


- Student onboarding on 5 and 6 September 2023
Julien Villalongue, President of Centrale Nantes Alumni, was present along with class patron Sandra Roche (1994), Vice-President of Health and Safety at the ENGIE Group.

- Publication of the 2023-2024 yearbook.

- The publication of 2 liaison newsletters and 4 Hippocampe magazines with the 1st part of the ‘Nantes à Brest’ dossier for the Brittany and Pays de Loire regions in September and the story of Maxime Courtoison and Lucie Cuadrado who spent 8 months cycling in the Andes Cordillera with their son Léo, aged 2.

Social initiatives

2023 was an exceptional year in this respect, with an unprecedented amount of aid to students: €15,000 in loans allocated to 5 students.

The Life and Well-Being Pro Committee, led by Clotilde Nicolaÿ, put on around twenty events:
 

• Two webinars on the Process Communication Model and Google's management research by Olivier Varteressian (1993).
• A workshop on burn-out
• A workshop on feedback, by Fabrice Mézieres (2003): ‘Pratiquez le feed-back efficace’.

and Clotilde Nicolaÿ accompanied nearly twenty alumni in addition to the participants in the 5 co-development sessions. 

The mentoring system was revamped, mobilising a team of 5 active volunteers throughout 2023 to facilitate matches and offer more opportunities for mentors and mentees to exchange ideas, particularly on:

• sectors of activity, professions and/or functions
• international placements
• study abroad
• degree apprenticeships
• entrepreneurship
• further studies (master's and advanced master's programmes, PhD, MBA, etc.)
• cross-disciplinary themes (work/life balance, being a woman engineer, interculturality, inclusion, managing an older team, changing career paths, etc.)

Group events, in particular:
 

• the Défi Centralien, with 2 Nantes boats on the podium.
• Participation in the RICSA 2023 intergroup meetings in Cologne at Whitsun.
• The 2023 WEN (Nantralien Weekend), which began with the graduation ceremony, followed by lectures on cybersecurity and the traditional student gala evening at the Château de Saz.
• The main event of 2023 was the creation of the Groupe 5050 agir pour l'égalité group, launched with the Round Table - 'Femmes centraliennes, quel leadership?' on 08/03/2023. Two Networking evenings were organised during the year, as well as a Weekend between #Centraliennes: sharing, developing confidence and learning to recharge your batteries.

At the end of 2023, the CNA platform had 1,000 members (up from 1,000 in 2023), making it easier for Centraliens to interact with each other.

New features are regularly added, such as the new online home page in 2023.
 

Social networks

Centrale Nantes Alumni is present on Linkedin, Instagram and Facebook.

Nantralian portraits are regularly published on Instagram and the www.centraliens-nantes.org website. In 2023, a new format will present the launch of Antonin Chapot's project #Au fil de l'eau.

CNA was awarded the grand prize for the most committed community (<30000 members) by AlumnForce and stands out alongside the Centraliens in Lille thanks to the 550 face-to-face or distance learning events offered by the Centraliennes communities. Particular mention should be made of the Centrale Energies Group conferences and the success of the many events organised by the IDF Group in 2023.