PRESS RELEASE - 3 September 2019

 

The two "Grandes Ecoles" Institut Mines Telecom Business School (IMT-BS) and Telecom SudParis sign this Tuesday, September 3, with mc2i Group, independent consulting firm in digital transformation, and Recommerce Group, leader of reconditioned smartphone in Europe, a convention of sponsorship for the next three years.

Nine hundred students this year enter the Telecom SudParis engineering school and the IMT-BS business school. On Tuesday, September 3rd, they will meet the sponsors who will accompany them in the key moments and innovative educational projects of their two courses: Creativity and Innovation Week, Entreprendre® Projects Challenge, Climate Negotiation Challenge, transversal skills projects, Innovation Game, industrial projects, IS Lab Challenge ... The meaning of this commitment, for companies as for schools, extends well beyond the simple participation in projects.

 

Get involved with common values

Digital transformation, entrepreneurship, innovation, responsibility , are major educational axes for IMT-BS and Télécom SudParis.

" The signing of this sponsorship is symbolic for us, explains Vincent Pascal, Director of Business Development mc2i Group, since as IMT-BS and Telecom SudParis celebrate their 40th anniversary this year, mc2i Group is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is also the logical result of more than 10 years of privileged relationships with these two schools . We look forward to sharing our experience with students, but also to seeing them grow through the many educational projects we will be doing together. "

Proximity and shared trust that have borne fruit. Recommerce Group, founded by Pierre-Etienne Roinat and Benoit Varin, two alumni IMT-BS, was incubated by IMT Starter, the schools incubator . And today, schools are very well represented in both companies.

For Recommerce Group and mc2i Groupe, this sponsorship is the opportunity to get involved in the training of students , who, for some of them, will become their collaborators. It also represents a special opportunity, by supporting their training, to support the education sector, research, initial and continuing training.

" We are honored to accompany these students," explains Benoit Varin, Secretary General of Recommerce Group. On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, sponsoring these two new promotions represents a new dynamic that is close to our heart, around our shared values ​​of entrepreneurship and the desire for a more responsible technology . This partnership is a great opportunity to build with the leaders of tomorrow the foundations of an even more innovative circular economy. "

Telecom SudParis and Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, at the forefront of digital transformation and the challenges of our society, in close contact with the corporate world, are delighted to sign this three-year agreement with mc2i Groupe and Recommerce Group.