Editor's note: The integration weeks are a defining moment in a student's life. It's THE time when high school life comes to a definitive close. Once more a time of "initiation" (and its excesses) than real integration, they are now a time to get to know your future classmates and join forces for the first time on a CSR and Sustainable Development project.

In everyone's opinion, a great way to start.

For the start of the 2024 academic year, ESSCA has chosen to offer its first-year students an innovative integration experience to forge links and build a collective while taking action for tomorrow's world.

From August 27 to 30, all new students at the École de management's six campuses (Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Bordeaux, Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg) will be mobilized for meaningful actions, encouraging them to become players in the transition.

In partnership with Splash Projects, students in the Bachelor and Grande École programs will be carrying out solidarity projects for residents of nursing homes for the disabled, medical and educational institutes and ESATs.

This experience, in line with the school's values - humanism, responsibility, efficiency and agility - gives baccalaureate students the opportunity to take part in a unifying and impactful project right from the start of the school year.

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New this year: some 500 first-year students in the Bachelor in International Management program will also be taking part in the experience, with a new format: " Go Karting with a purpose ". They will be contributing to this solidarity project by working in teams to build go-karts, small four-wheeled vehicles. After a fun and competitive race, the students will dismantle the go-karts and transform them into furniture, thus completing the constructions previously made by the Grande Ecole students.

Solidarity and education

In addition to the new buildings, ESSCA has introduced a new teaching innovation: a project management module which will be integrated into the curriculum of all first-year Grande Ecole students. Students will work through the various phases of project management, acquiring the practical and theoretical skills essential to their professional future.