International Women’s Day is a reminder of just how important it is to implement measures to counter all forms of harassment, sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination.
Plans for a fairer and more respectful environment
Over the period 2024-2026, IMT rolled out 2 new action plans to ensure a fairer and more respectful environment for all:
Gender equality plan: IMT is continuing and stepping up its actions around four main areas of focus:
- Assess and prevent wage gaps
- Guarantee equal access to communities and levels of employment
- Encourage a better work-life balance
- Prevent and deal with discrimination and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)
Action plan against harassment, sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination: a strengthened framework to ensure a working and studying environment where everyone feels safe and respected.violences sexistes et sexuelles et les discriminations (HVSSD) : un cadre renforcé pour assurer un climat de travail et d’étude où chacune et chacun se sent en sécurité et respecté.
Taking action everywhere, all the time
The Ambassadrices programme
I’MTech, the IMT’s science news website
Through articles and portraits, the I’MTech editorial team spotlights women researchers and engineers whose work and commitment are helping to reduce inequalities and advance science.
Anne Bergeret is a researcher at the Centre des Matériaux des Mines d’Alès (C2MA), specialising in glass fibres and natural fibres of plant origin used as reinforcements in polymer matrix composite materials. Her career has been guided by research, industry and a passion for reinforcing fibres.
The fluid in which our brains are immersed oscillates with our body’s pulses. Studying these dynamics offers new insights into the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases. Alexandra Vallet, a researcher at Mines Saint-Étienne, is working on this interdisciplinary approach.
Valérie Forest, a professor at Mines Saint-Étienne, was recently recognised as one of the world’s most influential scientists by Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientists. She conducts applied research into the biological activity of inhaled particles, while also heading up the school’s Biomedical Engineering option. We take a closer look at a researcher whose primary aim is to ‘make herself useful’.
Following her first ERC grant, received in 2017, Michèle Wigger has been awarded a second European grant to support her work in information theory. The Télécom Paris researcher is continuing to study the fundamental limits of communication systems, but will focus her efforts mainly on theoretical tools.
The AI Act recently adopted by the EU establishes a legal framework for the safe and ethical use of AI. But what about generative AI? At IMT Business School, Christine Balagué is using real-life incidents to study the risks associated with generative AI, and ChatGPT in particular.
The Fondation Mines-Télécom
The Fondation Mines-Télécom highlights the achievements of students at ITM schools by awarding the best apprenticeship prize and the best end-of-studies internship prize each year.
In 2024, four winners were awarded…
Sarah Ruffier, Mines Saint-Etienne, 1ᵉʳ Prize and Favourite Award in the Apprenticeship category
Audrey Gonzalo, IMT Atlantique, 3ᵉ Joint prize in the Internship category
Jéna Chauvin, IMT Mines Albi, 2ᵉ Prize in the Apprenticeship category
Léna Charbonnier, IMT Mines Albi, 2ᵉ Prize in the Internship category
The ITM-Academy of Science Prize
In 2024, Elsa Dupraz, a researcher at IMT Atlantique, won the Prix Espoir, illustrating the excellence of the Institute’s female researchers.
“I would like to thank the Académie des Sciences and the IMT for this prestigious prize, which highlights a body of work based on methodological developments in multi-scale analysis, applied to the modelling of Internet traffic, cybersecurity and physiological rhythms.”
Other programmes exist locally in the IMT schools!
Training, innovating, transforming: these ambitions can only be realised in a framework where everyone has their place, without obstacles linked to gender or discrimination.
On this International Women’s Rights Day, we reaffirm our commitment to making the ITM a player in the field of equality and respect.
Because building the future means meeting every challenge!
