Renault School

[Edilma Howard]

TheRenert School building is designed to reflect the progressive educational vision of the school, providing a fun, visually stimulating environment that students want to come to every day. It is a hybrid school and community centre, featuring studio spaces for art dance, martial arts, music, and yoga.

Montigny-le-Bretonneux, October 24, 2023 - Faced with a shortage of talent and a lack of young people graduating from scientific training, the Software Rpublique, an open innovation ecosystem for intelligent, secure, and sustainable mobility launched by Dassault Systmes, Eviden, an Atos business, Orange, Renault Group, STMicroelectronics, and Thales, presents for the first time the achievements of its "Talent Academy," with the goal of enhancing the employability of talent and the competitiveness of companies.

As part of the European Year of Skills 2023, the presentation of this collaborative training ecosystem took place in the presence of Mr. Jean-Nol Barrot, Minister Delegate for Digital Affairs to the Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, and Mme Marianne de Brunhoff, Deputy Coordinator of the European Year of Skills, Ministry of Labor, Full Employment, and Inclusion.

Unique in France and Europe, the "Talent Academy" addresses the challenges of training and skills development in the field of digital and engineering sciences, serving young people and employees of companies in the Software Rpublique. Its objective is to guide young people, especially young women, towards scientific and technical careers, attract future talent to the Software Rpublique ecosystem, and promote the development and upgrading of skills through training and retraining programs.

"This initiative will interest first-year and final-year students specializing in Science of Engineering (SI), as well as high school teachers and CPGE1 students and their professors. Concepts related to AI and learning are new in SI programs in high school and CPGE, and many colleagues are looking for applications to illustrate their courses," said Sbastien Gergadier, President of the Union of Teachers of Industrial Science and Techniques (UPSTI).

"Talent Incubator": This program aims to promote the use of apprenticeships as a recruitment lever for candidates with tech skills. The ambition for 2025 is to achieve 20,000 recruitments through all programs. In partnership with the training ecosystems of the members of the Software Rpublique and with two schools, cole 2600 and EFREI, a community of apprentices was launched in 2022 with two certified training programs in cybersecurity (from Bac+3 to Bac+5). Today, this program has been extended to other schools and other areas, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)/data or software development. It now brings together 600 apprentices (young people between 20 and 25 years old) within the community led by the "Talent Academy." This program also offers engineering school students the opportunity to work on projects directly related to the industrial challenges of Software Rpublique members.

"Talent Accelerator": The goal of this program is to consolidate skill development and retraining courses for employees from the moment they join the founding companies of the Software Rpublique. This program is a complementary pillar to the training policies already implemented by each of the groups by sharing their corporate university training programs. Several of these programs have already been shared among its members, such as excellence-certified training in cybersecurity with the Polytechnic Institute of Paris and Orange Cyberdefense, to support skills transformation. The ambition for 2025 is to contribute to the training of around 40,000 Software Rpublique employees in tech-related fields.

In support of this program, the Software Rpublique participates in events such as the 14th national final of the "Olympiades de Sciences de l'Ingnieur" (Mobility Award for All - June 2023) and the "Viva Technology 2023" event (Mobility Innovation Prize 2023), and organizes numerous testimonials from leaders of major companies or startups, engineers for schools (IPE), and female engineers with the "Elles bougent" association, for example.

Thus, with its innovative approach that facilitates access to knowledge, the Talent Academy is the first collaborative training ecosystem established by large companies, demonstrating the actions they have been able to implement in each of these three programs.

This book, Annie Goes to Catholic School, is partly true. Anna definitely attended grade school at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. This is the same school where her mother attended school after moving to the country from Baltimore City.

While the book is about a girl going to Catholic school and it is a fundraiser for Catholic education, it is appropriate for all students preparing to go off to school for the first time, especially little girls.

It is an easy read for children and adults. Hopefully it will make you smile and perhaps even laugh out loud a time or two. Perhaps there are some things in the book that will tug at your heartstrings too!

The Rowland Unified School District is committed to equal opportunity for all individuals in education and in employment. Rowland Unified prohibits discrimination,harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity,genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical information, national origin, parental status, pregnancy status, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, orassociation with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. If you believe you, or your student, have been subjected to discrimination, harassment,intimidation, or bullying you should contact your school site principal and/or the District's Chief Compliance and Title IX Officer, Silvia Rivas, by phone at (626)854-8392, by email at[email protected], or in person at Rowland Unified School District at 1830 Nogales Street, Rowland Heights, 91748.

To give an idea of the scale of the problem, according to research by the British Lung Foundation and Asthma UK, more than 8,500 schools, nurseries and colleges in England, Scotland and Wales are located in areas with dangerously high levels of pollution.

Back in April, IFP School played host to Philippe Brunet, Alliance Senior Vice President, Powertrain and EV Engineering, Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, member of the Management Board at Renault Group and a graduate of the school (APP 1988), for a lecture on mobility.

He agreed to answer our questions and provide an insight into the main challenges currently facing companies operating in the mobility and automotive sectors.

Philippe Brunet: Rather than simply an evolution, as far as mobility and transport sector players are concerned, it is a fundamental revolution that is taking place.

Environmental issues now take center stage, covering two aspects:

- on a local level, particularly in towns and cities, standards aimed at reducing particle emissions to manage air pollution and preserve air quality;

- secondly, on a planetary level, there is the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases and the resulting impact on global warming. Countries apply and adapt regulations designed to reduce CO2 emissions, such as Corporate Average Fuel Economy (known as CAFE) standards in the USA, with equivalents also applied in Europe, as well as in other countries, including China (CAFC) and Korea (CAFK).

Against this backdrop and following on from dieselgate in 2015, manufacturers now have to tackle both issues at the same time.

The following observations can be made:

- an unprecedented tightening-up of emissions standards, particularly in Europe, with the introduction of the RDE (Real Driving Emissions) test, which reinforces measures and broadens the test conditions to incorporate real driving scenarios;

- an acceleration in terms of the frequency with which standards are revised;

- unprecedented media pressure, driven, in particular, by new players (NGOs, municipalities, etc.), which is becoming increasingly global in nature, a new phenomenon.

This marks a radical shift from the context observed previously. And it concerns all automotive manufacturers!

For private vehicles around the world, the challenges are driven by European and Chinese markets, which have some of the toughest environmental regulations. It is essential for manufacturers to take into account new standards and develop new technologies.

Philippe Brunet: In a context whereby traffic restrictions in cities are increasingly frequent and emission levels during the cold-start phase of vehicles are set to fall, it is necessary to reinforce exhaust gas treatment and electrify powertrains.

Managing IC engine emissions requires investment in after-treatment technologies, representing around 30% (or more) of the cost of the engine! In addition, the cost of the battery currently accounts for around 50% of the overall cost of the car (and not of the engine!).

In this context, hybridization may be seen as a transition technology as we wait for the cost of the batteries to fall below the costs of after-treatment technologies. The challenge lies in reducing the cost of batteries, while increasing their capacity and range and reducing charging time!

Also, since the performance of a hybrid powertrain depends on the performance of the IC engine, the gasoline engine still has a role to play! This is primarily true for the reason just given, but also because some markets are almost exclusively dominated by a demand for gasoline engines. Such is the case in Russia, for example, where CAFE regulations are yet to be deployed.

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