The Parisian Junior Enterprise innovates on issues related to environmental protection and, through its impactful projects for industry and higher education, has won the ENGIE Award for Best Higher Education Partner. An example of an initiative to reduce environmental impact with EDF.
Carbon footprint is now a key indicator of companies' commitment to reducing their environmental impact. In response toUN expectations, EDF, France's leading electricity producer and supplier, has set itself corporate responsibility objectives, including supporting industrial customers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"The environment is one of the many challenges of this century. We are doing everything we can to understand, analyze, and advise companies that care about the future. In my opinion, there are two crucial phases in these projects: regular meetings with companies and selecting the best students,"explains Alexandre De Araujo, project manager for this project with EDF.
A benchmark of methods and tools for calculating carbon footprints
AMJE Paris was asked to compare the carbon footprint assessment solutions available on the market.
The first phase of the project consisted of benchmarking carbon footprint calculation methods and tools. Loic Clausse, a third-year student working on this project, selected 30 companies to determine the criteria they use to perform this assessment.
Once these tools had been analyzed, Loïc created tool sheets for the five best companies, ranked according to criteria defined in collaboration with EDF. This enabled EDF to see what really made the difference between these companies.
The final phase involved discussing the results and criteria defined with experts and the Arts et Métiers network of professors, Arts et Métiers made recommendations to determine whether these criteria were truly relevant to the project.
A good contact that enabled us to move forward effectively
"This study went very well: the contact between AMJE Paris and EDF was very pleasant and we made effective progress. From a more personal point of view, it allowed me to deepen my knowledge in a field that is in line with my career plans and to make contact with the professional world in this sector,"concludes Loïc Clausse.
How can you achieve your environmental goals with a Junior Enterprise?
AMJE Paris is a Junior Enterprise, i.e. a student consulting firm, run by a team of more than 20 engineering students from the school. Attracted by the skills and innovative capacity of the school's students, many companies from all fields and sectors call on these Junior Entrepreneurs to address a wide variety of issues.
AMJE Paris offers three categories of services, including one dedicated to environmental issues:
- Product design: technical benchmarking, sizing, CAD modeling, and prototyping.
Product eco-design is also part of their expertise. - Optimizing the performance of the entire company, particularly to reduce its environmental impact.
Students are required to conduct energy audits and carbon assessments, and to assist companies with standards and regulations. - Strategic support, much of which relates to project creation: market research, feasibility studies, industrialization support, etc.
Winning the ENGIE Award for Best Higher Education Partner
Each year, the ENGIE prize recognizes and promotes the Junior Enterprise that has successfully carried out ambitious projects with and for higher education. It reflects the the AMJE's ongoing exchanges with all players in the Arts et Métiers ecosystem to promote the school, its programs, and its values.
Three members of AMJE— Emma Blin Martin Le Nillon and Léo Raut - were also selected for the final stage, which will enable them to become Advisory Auditors within France's largest student movement.
AMJE Paris now has the aims to be recognized as the Junior Enterprise of the industry by 2024. The organization wishes to continue to serve as a partner to the School and its alumni in promoting the professional development ofArts et Métiers students.
