- Sustainable development,
- Study Programme,
- SDG12,
- SDG4,
- SDG9,
1st Low-Tech Forum at Centrale Nantes: a one-day event to showcase Nantes' low-tech ecosystem
The 1st Low-Tech Forum will be held on Tuesday 21 March 2023, at Centrale Nantes, bringing together local players, students, teachers from Nantes and regional institutions, and companies interested in the concept.
on March 21, 2023
Participants from around the region will attend the event to showcase the Nantes low-tech ecosystem and the projects carried out by the students following the new Low Tech engineering programme specialisation opened in 2022 in partnership with EXPLORE and APALA, the Nantes low-tech incubator.
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From 9 am - Coffee
Conferences
10 am - 12 pm - Lecture theatre A
- Conference with Roland Jourdain, sailor, and innovator with the catamaran We Explore – Founder of the Low-Tech Lab in Concarneau
- Presentation of the Low-Tech engineering project-based specialisation and review of the first year
Stands and demonstrations - throughout the day - Hall A
- Presentations of students' projects and local actors
- Low-tech training: an engineer against the tide?
- Low-tech, heading towards a desirable future
- Demonstrations: wind turbine, raw earth construction, low-tech dome etc
1.30 - 6.00 pm - Round tables
(programme to be confirmed)
From 1.30 pm - The pit Hall A
The Low-Tech approach in companies
- Alan Fustec - Entrepreneur des low-techs - Director of Goodwill management - Founder of Low-tech skol
- Elise Hauters, Director of CPM Industrie and co-founder of La Belle-Tech
- Arnaud Crétot, Engineer and craftsman - NeoLoco
- Anne-Sophie Pierre, Engineer at Décathlon, Low-tech expert, as part of the future call for Low-Tech projects
Round table discussion moderated by Quentin Tizon, ADEME engineer, low-tech expert
Teaching low-tech in higher education
- Guillaume Lefevre, Director of Icam Nantes
- Jean-Marc Benguigui, Course supervisor of the Low Tech specialisation and Engineering for Ecological Transition option.
- Tatiana Reyes, Lecturer and researcher at the University of Technology of Troyes - Expert in society-technology-environment interactions - (t.b.c)
- Jean-Pierre Llored, Researcher and teacher at CentraleSupélec and Casablanca - Expert in engineering ethics (t.b.c)
Round table discussion moderated by Cécile Le Sausse of Explore
How do you determine if a project is low-tech?
- Jonathan Gueguen, Low-Tech project manager at APALA
- Jean-Baptiste Thony, alumni and Low-Tech expert, Bordeaux city councillor in charge of circular economy, zero waste and local currency
- Anne-Charlotte Bonjean, expert engineer in reparability at ADEME
- Didier Ménard, engineer, Atelier Belenos (t.b.c)
Published on January 24, 2023
Updated on February 6, 2023
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