The GEnEPI Project (SHS, sports, theater)

The idea behind the GEnEPI Project ("GEn Equipe Projet Interdisciplinaire") is to encourage students to think about the issues facing our world through a wide range of activities and by encouraging time for exchange, sharing and mutual support.

The Project starts in October with two days dedicated to sports and theater, with a performance on the theme of responsible engineering. Then it unfolds during the first year in two scenarios :

The R.U.S.E.E Project ("Randonnée Urbaine/ Sensibilisation aux Enjeux Environnementaux") for Urban Walking/Raising awareness of environmental issues (Semester 1)

It's a project at the crossroads of urban, environmental, energy and biodiversity issues, in which students are the actors and surveyors!

What are the issues involved in the energy rehabilitation of older neighborhoods in the context of global warming?

What have been the consequences of the city's development throughout History on its environment ?

Should our urban spaces be planted more? And how?

Students are invited to "re-visit" the city in the light of current environmental considerations and societal imperatives.

The "Citizen Engineer" Project (Semester 2)

Today's many and complex societal issues are increasingly being addressed by engineering students, with ways of thinking and acting that have more to do with activism than with citizenship and science.

This Project aims to reconcile the specific profile and skills of the engineer with an enlightened commitment to citizenship.

The focus will be on participatory democracy, with the implementation of a popular initiative referendum on a freely chosen theme, and analysis of societal phenomena : systemic analysis, historical perspective, controversies, decoding of inspiring videos, etc...

The Project concludes at the end of May with the traditional trip to Hauteville, with teachers from INSA Sports Center and lecturers/supervisors from the GEn department. Sport and theater are on the program for two days, to develop the human and behavioral skills essential to the future profession of engineer.