Sustainable Development & Social Responsibility (DDRS) / Student events

Student Sustainable Development Week

Organised by the French Student Network for Sustainable Development (REFEDD) since 2015, the Student Sustainable Development Week is the campus version of European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW). Held in the first week of April throughout France, this event is an opportunity for students to meet with sustainable development players acting for a more durable society and campus.

The aim is to promote the activities and engagements undertaken by student organisations, to rally students in all regions and raise awareness among the student world of the issues and solutions for sustainable development. This event also strives to increase awareness of the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) across Europe. Participants gave the 2020 edition a score of 8.5/10.

Poster for Student Sustainable Development Week

European Sustainable Development Week

European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW) is an initiative aimed at encouraging and showcasing actions to promote sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals across Europe. It takes place annually from 30 May to 5 June. In light of the health crisis, the 2020 edition took place from 18 September to 8 October and was merged with European Mobility Week (EMW). 20 workshops and webinars attracted 128 participants who gave the event a score of 7.9/10.

European Week for Waste Reduction

Held from 21 to 29 November 2020 and coordinated in France by ADEME (the Agency for Ecological Transition), European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) highlights good production and consumption practices to reduce our waste. As a reminder, in France we produce an average of 590kg of household waste per person per year. At the University, this event took the form of 5 workshops for 116 participants.

Participants gave this edition a score of 8/10.

The ‘Rentrée Climat’ [Climate Year]

An event by the organisation ‘La Fresque du Climat’, Rentrée Climat is aimed at raising awareness among students on the causes and consequences of climate change, through a light-hearted collective intelligence workshop. Université Gustave Eiffel engaged in this process in September 2020 for the second edition of the ‘Rentrée Climat’. In association with La Fresque du Climat, around 25 teachers and staff, in addition to 15 students, received training in leading this workshop and raising awareness among students. The Fresque du Climat was integrated into teaching programmes, to raise awareness for 1000 students. The long-term goal is to generalise this practice for all first-year students.