public interest

When engineers go green

How do we engage students in a career that serves the ecological transition and the common good? This is the challenge revealed by a new kind of partnership, that between an engineering school and a startup that has developed a connected greenhouse to produce its own food. Explanations. More and more

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Common Good

Convergence Awards 2018

After several months of selection, three projects have won the Convergence Awards, which since 2011 reward innovative partnerships for the common good. The winners of the Convergences Prize 2018 WEEECAM, a project led by Solidarité Technologique and its partners, won the Convergences International Prize.

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biens communs

Le bien commun crée son université

  Les ressources naturelles indispensables à la vie devraient être considérées comme biens communs de l’humanité accessibles sans exclusions possibles, à protéger de toute forme de spéculation, de pollution, de surexploitation. Or l’actuel système de gouvernance de la planète paraît en être à l’opposé même. Le 14 octobre prochain commencera

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social innovations

Meeting with Valérie Peugeot

Valérie Peugeot is President of the VECAM association, which works on the societal challenges of information technology, studying the impact of digital technology. Since January 2013, she has been participating in the work of the Conseil National du Numérique (National Digital Council), as vice-president in charge of digital transition issues and the digital society.

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