ERASMUS Charter
Objectives and priorities of the esaip group
The esaip group is a higher education institution preparing students for professions in the fields of computing, the environment and industrial risks. The training courses are organised around study periods in France and overseas to equip all the students with an international profile. Our founding project offers all young people with BAC+2 (2 years study after A' levels) innovative lessons based on project management, teamwork and to promote the individual career path. By preparing future managers in the field to acquire dual skills both in the trade and overseas, our school intends to continue promoting ERASMUS university exchange programmes.
Our recruitment is deliberately open and diversified both with regards academic profile and the social or geographical origin of the students. More than fifteen different nationalities learn to live and study together. Our courses have been designed to favour life-long training. So the lesson modules, the validation of experience acquired and short training programmes make it easier for all publics, employees and job seekers to integrate. Finally, by working closely with the Montéclair institute in Angers, our school has adapted our resources to receive the visually impaired on our training courses.
For nearly 20 years, the esaip group has actively pursued its training policy, promoting international exchanges and technological know-how. Thanks to a large network of academic and industrial partners, we offer solutions adapted to each student for his or her two compulsory study periods abroad. This original path is part of a quality partnership with more than 50 international partners including 30 in Europe. We encourage each student to enrich his or her period of mobility by doing a professional work placement abroad to immerse him or herself in the culture and language. Our network of industrial partners allows us to offer students (students going abroad and students arriving from overseas) a number of work placement opportunities both in companies and research laboratories.
A signatory of the ERASMUS charter, we strive to promote an ERASMUS culture for everyone. The "ERASMUS promotion" lecture theatres, integrating international students, activities of the ISA the "International Students Association" are just some of the events that help to express the ERASMUS reality on an everyday basis. Furthermore, we have reworked our international policy with educational exchanges between universities, work on research and development and have brought administrative services together. More recently, our academic teams have been working with our colleagues from the universities of Glamorgan and Temperé to set up a European master "ERASMUS MUNDUS" in the specialised field of "Risk management".
Quality of activities to prepare for academic mobility - students, lecturers
Highly attentive to our students' satisfaction in all aspects of a study stay abroad, we have set up an organisation, by linguistic region, that works closely with our partners as well as a rigorous preparation, supervision and evaluation methodology. Before leaving, each regional referent draws up specifications with the school's course leaders. These set out the contents, conditions and evaluation of the study stay, in accordance with 30 ECTS credits aimed at a balance between the speciality, language and culture modules essential for successfully integrating the country. These specifications allow us to ask our partners for a detailed proposal that continues on from and complements lessons taken in France. At the same time, each referent itemises the practical details to welcome students by offering solutions with regards accommodation, catering, and life on campus. The whole offer, both educational and logistic, is the subject of a concerted internal validation. Once validated these offers are summarised in a document and presented to the students. The referent works with each student in turn to finalise the study contracts and administrative files.
Up until the end of the stay, the referent relies on a local correspondent as well as an international delegated student to ensure the study semester is going well and report back to the course leaders. He or she draws up a synthesis of grades and ECTS credits obtained. These results will be incorporated into the final validation of the academic year. Finally his or her visit onsite allows a joint assessment to be written of the semester and to point out areas where progress has been made. This exchange is also the opportunity to work on conditions for welcoming students to esaip in turn and continue to favour the mobility of staff mainly in their specialities.
Quality of activities linked to student industrial work placements
Our school strongly encourages students to continue their study stays abroad by a local work placement. The work placement offers are available online, via a management tool allowing each student to optimise his or her research. Working closely with graduates on the one hand, partner companies on the other as well as with our network of private state-recognised school members of the Lasallian network in 85 countries around the world allow us to maintain a diverse database. Finally the esaip group is developing a partnership with departmental and regional authorities to open its network to companies and universities from partner towns from the Maine et Loire and Les Pays de la Loire: Veszprem - Hungary, Covasna - Romania, Yantai - China and Montérégie - Quebec. Each work placement is formalised by a tripartite convention between the student, the company and our school clearly defining the objectives, relations between the student and the company as well as assessment conditions. During the orals, carried out in a foreign language, company representatives and lecturers from the esaip group join forces.
Genuine partnerships spring up from these exchanges with our research centre that is developing its know-how in the fields of biological and medical engineering overseas. This research have not only lead to research teams being brought together but also shared publications notably with the universities of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Kuopio in Finland, Lancaster in Great Britain but also with the functional diagnostic departments from Moscow and technological development and electrical engineering from NASA.
Thus our approach to renew the ERASMUS academic charter is an integral part of our educational values that has been promoting an openness to the world for 20 years, creating a positive collaboration between future company managers.
