"As part of the  Ropes of SuccessIn 2017, 68 high school students and 14 middle school students benefited from weekly tutoring from around 50 Arts et Métiers students. This support mainly focuses on science subjects and learning good study skills.

But above all, we must strive to build confidence in the young people we mentor, who are often struggling in school, take an interest in them, and encourage them to be more ambitious.

Our students act as both tutors and coaches. It is a very rewarding experience that allows them to develop their interpersonal skills. Feedback from tutors is the best way to motivate new students to sign up for the program.

This year, as part of our Open House, we organized a special welcome for our mentees and their parents. Everyone was interested and delighted to see their tutors at their engineering school. One high school sophomore was so excited that she asked us to let her spend a day "immersed" on campus. She was thrilled with the experience, which helped her confirm her choice of major.

Participating inArts et Métiers social mobility missionArts et Métiers exciting. It opens your eyes to cultural and social diversity. The positive feedback from young people, both mentees and mentors, is very motivating.

"I have been coordinating every year for nearly 20 years on the Lille campus teams of student volunteers to participate in hands-on approach (Science and Technology Support in Primary Schools). They visit primary schools (preschool and elementary) to conduct scientific experiments with children: what causes an object (bottle, piece of steel, etc.) to float or sink? How does a gear work? How can you build a cardboard bridge that can support the weight of a dictionary?Children quickly become fascinated by these experiments. The students also get caught up in the game. They enjoy interacting with the children and learn how to share their knowledge with them. Every year, I recruit about 20 volunteers, and it is extremely rare for any of them to drop out of the project.
The Lille campus is also participating in the "My Machine" project. Primary school children dream up a machine; higher education students design it and high school students build it. This year, Arts et Métiers partnering with Boufflers Monge elementary school and Baggio high school. The challenge was to design a robot that collects waste. Four Arts et Métiers students Arts et Métiers on the project.
These initiatives show young people that science and technology are accessible to everyone! What's more, they enhance the image of the campus and, more generally, the institution among academic partners."

As a public school, Arts et Métiers a duty to implement measures to promote equal opportunities. This is the objective of Handimet, a week of awareness-raising on managing people with disabilities, organized since 2010 on the Angers campus.

This project is organized with a team of students who are dedicating their second-year project to it. The week begins with a lecture presenting the different types of disabilities and the legal obligations to which companies are subject. It is structured around workshops during which students interact with professionals with disabilities. Finally, students are presented with a management case study proposed by a disability officer from a company (Assystem, Colas, CAP GEMINI, etc.), for example: "Welcoming a person with a disability," "What to do in the event of rejection by a team," etc. The program is punctuated by conferences with involved speakers, such as Jean-Michel Saget, a fencing master who participated in the Paralympic Games, Philippe Révillon, a Paralympic swimming champion, and Nacer Zorgani, a strategy analyst and comedian with visual impairment. All of them show that disability is not an obstacle; it is prejudice that must be overcome.

Finally, the week ends with a meal with people with disabilities, attended by staff and students.
This initiative is appreciated both internally and externally. Every year, 60 to 80 students take part, thanks to adjustments to their timetables. Similarly, academic partners appreciate this initiative, which enhances the school's image.  I think it's a real "plus" for our future managers."