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Award for best video about sustainable development - World Forum 2011

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:51:00 +0100

ISA Students in 2nd year of the international Master’s program (Sustainable Food Manufacturing Management) together with 5th year Engineering students specializing in quality, safety and environmental management have created a video on the topic of sustainable development (more particularly on “the different facets of the values of a company”). This video was the first project of the semester for this group of 23 students coming from not less than 10 different countries (India, France, Afghanistan, Thailand, Yemen, Vietnam, Fiji Islands, Cameroun, Reunion Island, Spain). To create this video, they’ve worked altogether, shared out their knowledge about good practices from companies where they have done an internship, built up a fictive idealistic but realistic company, then done some creativity activities to imagine the story of this company. All this has been catalyzed within the ISA co-design center. The big challenge was then to put all this into a movie. Stepping back they’ve thought of drawings… tactile screens… the story they had all together imagine… They’ve confronted their first video to the point of view of 1st year Students from the Master’s program… And then MESSTEA was born, with its final motto: “use nature, help nature”. The story of MESSTEA has seduced the World Forum Jury who granted this nice collaborative work with the best video award for the video contest they had organized on this topic. Congratulations to the Students’ team! And thank you to the teachers who also guided them: Mr. Simonnin and Mr. Douglas.
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ISFRADA’s ten years anniversary

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:12:00 +0200

On October 11th, ISFRADA (French-Romanian Higher Institute for Food Industry and Rural Development) will celebrate its ten years anniversary in Bucharest, during the Graduation Ceremony. 160 graduates have been trained in the ISFRADA program in the last 10 years.
This year’s ceremony will be exceptional, with Pascal Codron’s conference-debate “Can the world feed the world?”, in the presence of international companies (Syngenta, Limagrain, Roullier, Caussade, Lactalis…), alumni and the local press.
The French Embassy in Bucharest will also attend.

Erasmus Intensive Program :Sustainable Management of Polluted areas in Europe

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:31:00 +0200

The 13th installment of the EIP “Pollution in Europe” took place in Pau (South of France) from May 26th to June 11th 2011. It was coordinated by Dr Bertrand Pourrut, Professor in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Sciences at ISA.

43 students (selected from 120 applications!) from 15 European partner universities spent 3 weeks in Pau to attend this program of lectures and field trips related to Pollution in Europe.
The growing success of this program consolidates the idea that this could be the first step towards a new English-taught International MSc program in Environmental Sciences offered at ISA. It would be a great opportunity to fill in a large international demand in terms of specialization and to promote the work of ISA’s Soils and Environment research team.
The project is still at an early stage, but could lead to a new international program in environmental sciences in September 2012. To be continued…

The Environmental Sciences MSc video is now online!!

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:13:00 +0200

To learn more about Environmental Sciences at ISA (programs, job opportunities, research, …) click here.

Companies, Students and Sustainable Development Day

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:21:00 +0200

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Codesign session on tomorrow’s trade

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:02:00 +0200

A codesign session on tomorrow’s trade took place in the codesign center on March 19th. It was filmed and the video will be broadcast during the Picom’s general assembly. The Picom is a competitivity center for retail industry’s actors and leaders and aims at developing innovation in the retail industry.

This video has two goals: show the industrialists what codesign methods are, and show the retail industry professionals the students’ point of view on innovations related to trade.

This codesign session was led by Mrs Elodie Collet and participants were students from Lille Catholic University’s Faculties of Medicine, Law and Liberal Arts, students from IESEG and ESTICE business schools, and students from ISEN and ISA Group.

Higher Engineering Institutes Awards

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:09:00 +0100

The ISA Group (along with with HEI, ISEN and FLST) is the winner in educational innovation. Thanks to the "Re-creation workshop" created with HEI, ISEN and FLST in partnership with businesses, the school won the Award in the Educational Innovation category of the prestigious Higher Engineering Institutes Awards from l’Etudiant magazine last Friday.

December 2010 – In the framework of the “Institut Polytechnicum de Lille”, ISA Group, HEI, ISEN and FLST, along with 11 partner companies, created a joint project gathering design and innovation methods called “re-creation workshops”. The goal is to gather teams made up of students, research-lecturers from various sectors and corporate R&D clusters in a common space that is dedicated to co-design. The objective of this collaboration is to be able to conceptualize objects and to design, within a short time, prototypes that are able to meet companies’ competitiveness challenges.

On December 10th, this project won the Award in the Educational Innovation category of the prestigious Higher Engineering Institutes Awards from l’Etudiant magazine.

Research at ISA

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:37:00 +0100

Research at ISA Group is a strong element of the institute’s evolution. Research is essential to ensure a high level scientific training, to ensure the durability of the institute and its international development.
Here is a brief assessment of the action led in 2009-2010 and an opening on the perspectives and research themes for the future years in the different research centers. First of all, our research professors participated and presented their works in many conferences in France and abroad, in Italy (Florence, Bologna, Orvieto), Poland, England, Canada, Thailand, etc. One of the big moments of this year was the FESIA conference on « The future of the dairy territories », national day of meetings between scientists and professionals in Paris.
The goal was to present the results of 4 years of work following the call for FESIA project and the execution of 4 research projects led by teams: “Future of low dairy density areas, « Territories and dairy restructuring », « What happens after quotas ? » and « Breeder, a trade/career in question ». ISA Group’s research professors also led field missions within research projects in Morocco and in Australia. Finally, let’s note that honors were given to Benoît Hubert and Joop Lensink., etc. Regarding perspectives, many projects are about to start.
In the same approach as the “Dynamic of the dairy Territories” program that is now completed, a new call for FESIA project has been made on the theme: “Conception and Evaluation of high environmental performances agricultural systems”.
As of today, the letters of intent have been submitted by the research teams and the leading committee will make its choice. The restitution day will be in 2013 or 2014.
To be continued.

Geological Mission in Australia

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:42:00 +0100

Bruno Mistiaen and Benoît Hubert, from the ISA-Flst Laboratory of Paleontology and Stratigraphy (FRE 3298 Geosystems) participated in a geological mission with researchers from the University of Sydney and from the Northern-Queesland Museum in Queensland from July 9th to August 6th. They started in the Burdekin Basin region (13 deposits and cuts), then in the Broken River region (14 cuts and outcrops). In total, more than 350 kg of samples have been shipped from Townsville and should arrive in France soon. And now? making a fair copy of the numerous field notes and observations, making an inventory, listing and numbering all the samples, defining study priorities in order to publish (from Fossil Cnidaria in Liege in 2011), and finally specifying the goals and focus points for the next field missions.

An International Master’s degree approved as a National Master’s Degree (DNM)

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:34:00 +0100

This approval is another example of ISA’s will to expand internationally, to offer international programs and to train executives for companies in a globalization context.
It is the second international diploma of ISA to be approved as a DNM.
ISA’s « International Food Markets Management » Master’s degree was indeed approved as a National Master’s Degree in 2009.