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Building on the work of ENSTA Bretagne’s education and professionalization of engineers (FPI) research team, the HOLI-D Blue project is aimed at updating the sustainability education given to future engineers hired by businesses operating in the sea and coastal professions, through the practical uptake of its recent research findings, by designing a concrete process in the context of an engineering school (école d'ingénieurs).
One of the main objectives of this project is to improve the contribution that higher education curricula (at universities and graduate and postgraduate schools, grandes écoles) make to sustainability and social responsibility by empowering maritime engineering students to identify and better understand maritime environmental and societal issues and challenges, so as to tackle them and act in a socially relevant and responsible way through the acquisition of appropriate skills for addressing complex concerns.
With that in mind, the HOLI-D Blue project thus sets out to jointly develop a cross-cutting and interdisciplinary "Maritime and sustainability" option as part of the initial syllabus followed by students embarking on a doctorate in ISblue community institutions, starting with ENSTA Bretagne for the pilot scheme.
The HOLI-D Blue project is co-financed by the interdisciplinary graduate school specialised in marine science and technology, ISBLUE.
Educating engineers capable of taking up the challenges shaping the ecological transition, in the framework of the sustainable development goals, is at once:
HOLI-D Blue is grounded in a cross-cutting educational framework linking all types and stages of education, both formal and non-formal, academic and non-academic, right across a course of study. The aim is to empower students with the intellectual tools and technical skills necessary to tackle these environmental and societal challenges of the maritime sphere, by first understanding the latter then taking action with greater awareness of the impact of their activities.
In that respect, the focus of HOLI-D Blue is the joint development of open and flexible educational approaches with all of the stakeholders involving in engineering education (lecturers and research professors, students, socio-economic partners including local businesses and student associations), which can be adapted to other contexts (engineering schools and partner universities), so as to: