CIVIC PROJECT

The citizenship projects are undertaken during the students’ 1st year. The aim is initiate students in piloting a project through action. Students will thus work in teams (approx. 6 to 10 students) carrying out the project in response to a customer demand. The team must identify and respond to the customer’s needs, leading to a concrete realisation of the project after following the different project management phases (drafting project specifications, establishing the planning schedule, budget management, communication). While succeeding with the project remains an objective in itself, the learning efforts of the students and assessments will relate essentially to the management of the project and the team work.
The students are expected to commit themselves fully to the project, and will be able to choose their theme. These themes can be linked to science, social issues, humanitarian projects or culture. The projects should allow students to open up to others, to be confronted by various actors, to discover inter-culturality and to integrate a social, citizenship or solidarity dimension.

Free choice of project themes (3 should be formulated by the students during the month of October). 
The groups will be formed during November.

At the end of the project students will be asked to produce, individually, a summary of 2 to 3 pages referring to the management of the project, the team work and the inter-personal relations within the team and with the different actors of the project.

Their perceptions will be used to adapt fresher courses in Communication techniques and Project Management.

A 1st year project which allows project teams to be initiated into aspects of project management and the concrete realisation of a client demand, internal or external to the School.

Teams will be subject to a real situation and to the reality of partner structures in the field in which they will work, immersing themselves in a world from which they are more or less distanced (associative, educative, popular education, etc.)

The civic project project will allow students to combine their field experience with engineering skills, such as: adaptation, creativity, coordination, planning, audacity, spirit of synthesis, self-assessment, analytical and critical thinking, conflict management, communication, etc. Basically and in concrete terms the aim is to understand the meaning of these skills.

It could be pertinent at the start of the Creation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship project to benefit from the Experience Feedback reports to identify the analysis that prior teams will have made on their project.