Innovation in Teaching at Centrale Nantes

The SATURNE team - Service d'Accompagnement des Transformations et des Usages des Ressources Numériques pour l'Enseignement (Support Service for Digital Resource Transformation and Use in Education) - works with faculty members to encourage educational innovation at Centrale Nantes.

Its role is to:
  • support the professional academic development of teachers 
  • assist Academic Affairs with forward planning
  • provide support for the production and use of teaching resources
  • promote and disseminate teaching initiatives

Examples of projects carried out at Centrale Nantes

Skills-based approach

Objective: to adopt and integrate the skills-based approach into our teaching as part of the work carried out by the Centrale Schools Group by leading work sessions with teachers.

Choosing an elective

Objective: To help first-year students, who since 2016 have been discovering the elective courses, make their choice thanks to concrete presentation videos, with feedback from 2nd and 3rd year students.

Exploring options

To guide students in their choices, and make course content available to eligible students, companies, teachers and staff.

Published on March 9, 2017 Updated on August 22, 2025