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The Foundation in action

More than € 84,000 in donations collected during benefactor evenings

For the second consecutive year, the Audacieux (daring) evening galas organised by the Foundation – in Nantes and Paris – helped to stimulate the generosity of the school’s Alumni with over € 84,000 in donations collected.

More than 1,000 solidarity meals ordered



Throughout October, Audencia’s cafeterias, in partnership with the Foundation, organized the “cafét solidaire” a solidarity operation, aiming to raise awareness of the rising cost of student living and the Foundation’s actions to tackle it.


Disability Scheme 1st roundtable




To promote inclusiveness, in 2022, Audencia and its Foundation launched “Mission Handicap” to pave the way to success for all. In order to raise awareness and inform students and employees about the issue, “Mission Handicap” organised its 1st roundtable on the theme “How to cope with, and support disability in the workplace”.

1 new partner for the Sirius program


Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée joined Audencia’s Sirius social inclusion program as a benefactor, to allow high school leavers in the region, access to higher education with greater peace of mind.

2 new research projects at the Foundation



In addition to the existing 6 Research Chairs, the Foundation is developing new projects to meet the needs of businesses. These includethe “Virtual Reality & Marketing” and “Sports Hub” projects.


1 unprecedented solidarity operation with Audencia’s student union: “BDE” 




Throughout the month of November, the Audencia BDE joined forces with the Audencia Foundation to organise a charity tombola in favour of students. In total, more than 250 people took part and more than €700 was raised for the Foundation.

250 students supported in 2023
More than 1,071 scholarships awarded since 2009
Diversity and inclusion

SIRIUS program

  • 23 motivated and talented young people assisted.
  • 3 areas of progress: self-confidence, asserting professional ambitions, and cultural as well as international openness.
  • 80% success rate in the Bachelor’s entrance exam.
  • 1st meeting to signal commitment between students and the program’s partners to promote mentoring.
Diversity and inclusion

Disability Scheme

  • 2.27% of students with disabilities at Audencia (compared to 1.57% on average in other graduate colleges).
  • More than 100 students assisted.
  • Support from school entry to professional integration.
Diversity and inclusion

BRIO program

  • Launch of the 18th BRIO program group.
  • 120 high school pupils from 15 partner high schools.
  • 38 student-tutors from 5 graduate colleges: Audencia, Centrale, IMT Atlantique, Oniris VetAgroBio and the Beaux-Arts fine arts graduate college.
Diversity and inclusion

Social scholarships

  • A multi-cultural and inclusive school with more than 100 countries represented.
  • Support during internship experiences abroad.
  • Emergency scholarships to help students in precarious situations.
Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship grants

  • More than 112 student entrepreneurs assisted.
  • More than 30 virtuous projects supported each year.
  • More than 100 flourishing businesses still active.

Chaire impact positif

With the aim of making CSR a lever for innovation and performance, the Chair aims to support the definition and implementation of a CSR approach at the heart of corporate strategy. It supports businesses with this approach and promotes innovative practices.

THE CHAIR’S ACTIONS:

Family Entrepreneurship and Society Chair

Renowned for its expertise in France and abroad, the Chair contributes to supporting the growth of family businesses and consolidating their long-term viability. Its unique positioning provides a psychosocial perspective on family businesses, focusing on 3 major themes: imagining the future of family businesses, intra-family succession and family entrepreneurship: sources, behaviors, and impacts.

THE CHAIR’S ACTIONS:

Town Quality Chair

The aim of the Chair is to share a new vision of town building through useful and innovative research, and to open up debates by bringing together a community of players and medium-sized towns to promote positive development of their territory.

THE CHAIR’S ACTIONS:

Purchasing & Digital Innovation Chair

The chair is a center for expertise on the purchasing function, a dynamic link between businesses, research, and training. It brings together lecturers, professionals (businesses and consultants) and students. Its aim is to contribute to producing knowledge and key concepts to enable description, explanation and recommendation of strategies, management methods and purchasing skills to be developed in businesses, especially focused on three areas: digitization, CSR impact and innovation.

THE CHAIR’S ACTIONS:

Multi-Capital Global Performance Chair

The aim of the “Measurement, Control & Audit of Multi-Capital Global Performance” Chair is to reinforce the systems for multi-capital measurement and control through innovation, to take part in international standardization in the domain, and to assist teams and professions with this transformation. To ensure a global approach, the Chair uses a dual working methodology. On the one hand, the Chair works with businesses and encourages them to set up the study fields needed to test its work. On the other hand, it conducts research for the common good by collaborating with public and private institutions that create multi-capital accounting standards.

THE CHAIR’S ACTIONS: