Student life

Social projects

Throughout the years, our students think, innovate and amount of projects that benefit disadvantaged populations, students of neighborhoods, people with disabilities ... struggle against discrimination and work to improve the living environment.

Among the many projects include a jumble:

• creation of a brain gym for seniors;
• development of a Community platform dedicated to the problems of movement of persons with reduced mobility in urban areas (winner of the Challenge Projects Entreprendre ® 2008);
• organization of the "Festival without  Alcohol" of students - May 2010 in Paris;
• production and dissemination over the air of recordings for students of preparatory classes to assist in their orientation;
• entrepreneurship development in Africa and Latin America through a network of french students;
• creation of a consulting firm in ethical finance ;
• participation in sustainable development project of AIESEC;
• the launch of a structure combining patrons and sponsors to enable young people to express themselves while placing them at the center of sports and educational aspirations;
• organizing a 2CV cruise from Saigon to Paris via New York.

... this is a brief overview of the invention which our students are capable, as volunteers in Philippines or Ben'INT is.

Three students at AIT courses come to the rescue of disaster Filipinos victims.

Frédéric Leduc, Albane Coeurquetin and Fanny Gaborit, three Telecom SudParis students pursuing their studies at AIT are currently alongside Filipinos. They put their education brackets for a few days to respond to the call of "Télécoms Sans Frontières", a humanitarian telecommunications NGO, in order to bring relief to populations affected by Ketsana and Parma typhoons which are slaughtered in the Philippines, 26th of September and 3rd of October.

Read the article on the support of "Télécoms Sans Frontieres" for Filipinos.

Explore the world shares of Telecom Sans Frontières.

Bén'INT won a scholarship STERIA-Institut de France on 3 June 2009

Ben'INT is a students' association wich brings together 9 engineer students from Telecom SudParis around a humanitarian project: to allow access to computers for disadvantaged people. Let them talk about it:

"In our society, it seems natural to use a computer and to connect to the Internet. But then, this is not the same in parts of the world. In Africa for example, the access to the computer is very limited because very expensive.

That is why we decided to install a computer lab at a school in Benin and to introduce young people to information and to share our knowledge, we will create teaching modules."

See the Ben'INT blog

The jury "STERIA-Institut de France" which has awarded the scholarship to Bén'INT, were composed:

Yves Quéré, member of the "Academie des Sciences",
François Baccelli, member of the "Academie des Sciences",
Jean Salençon, member of the "Academie des Sciences",
4 representatives of STERIA.

The project, tied with of another school, received a grant of € 7.5 K to complete the equipment of this room.

See the website of the STERIA-Institut de France foundation

Bén'INT is supported by the association Colombbus, which acts for education and vocational training for disadvantaged populations, through the tools and Internet.

See the website of Colombbus

The "GATE" project is a great opportunity for our 1st year students to engage in the social adventure, while meeting the educational requirements for graduation.

"GATE" means "Gestion & Apprentissage du Travail en Equipe" for "teamwork management & learning".

Learn more about the "GATE" project

Find the activities of humanitarian associations on campus.