2021 Student Engagement - Grenoble École de Management - France

2021 Student Engagement - Grenoble École de Management - France

Students got the power!

Student empowerment and engagement in the co-construction and deployment of Grenoble École de Management’s (GEM) sustainability strategy and governance are key to transforming our organizational culture and our curriculum to respond, contribute and innovate for a sustainable future. 

Like many higher-education organizations, GEM has struggled to maintain links, the awareness of initiatives and policies which nurture and mature projects in sustainability, from one year to the next.  We often found ourselves starting from scratch or “reinventing the wheel” each academic year due to the natural turnover of students.

To respond to this challenge, we have developed a student engagement model and tools based on 4 pillars: LISTENING, CO-CONSTRUCTION, RESPONSIBILITY, and INITIATIVE.  Through this innovative, holistic, and transversal model, we are able to help our students to be actors in their own education, in their own institution with faculty and staff, their future careers and in the future of GEM for a sustainable world.

Top 3 learnings:

1. We empower students to be catalysers for sustainable institutional transformation and beyond!
2. Our students actively drive the sustainability strategy and governance of our school!
3. Our students ensure knowledge and power transfer from one year’s cohort to the next!

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• Students got the power! (click to hide)