{"id":4017,"date":"2024-11-22T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:27:55","slug":"companies-6-good-reasons-to-take-part-in-the-2025-convergence-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/companies-6-good-reasons-to-take-part-in-the-2025-convergence-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies: 6 good reasons to take part in the 2025 Convergence Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See you April 24-27 for the 2025 edition!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6 good reasons to participate as a corporate partner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Benefit from the wide-ranging skills of around 50 students from the eight IMT schools and its partner schools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Propose a sustainable innovation problem related to a specific local area that is a challenge for your company (launching a new product, process or service, difficulties with procurement, sustainability or impact, risk management, deploying new skills in innovation management, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Follow a mixed team of students (engineers and managers) who will work on your issue to propose innovative, creative, practical and sustainable solutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coach the Challenge teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Attend the final project presentations as members of the jury<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promote your business and commitment to creativity and sustainable innovation to high-potential students and the IMT ecosystem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow the team working on your issue and challenge them to come up with innovative, creative, practical and sustainable solutions!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The IMT challenge dedicated to sustainable innovation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched in 2022, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/formation\/challenge-imt\/\">Convergence Challenge<\/a> provides an opportunity for students at IMT to innovate by taking a resolutely sustainable approach to <strong>concrete and local business issues<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of this annual event is to train future engineers and managers to be informed, responsible and well-equipped, especially by drawing on impact-based research around the challenges of the ecological transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This year&#8217;s <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/formation\/challenge-imt\/\"><strong>Convergence Challenge<\/strong><\/a><strong> will take place from April 24 to 27, 2025, in the Agde and S\u00e8te region of Occitanie.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"3479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PictoMainRobot-150x150.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3479\" title=\"PictoMainRobot\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">INNOVATION<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Carbon neutrality, biodiversity, circular economy, low-tech, cognitive sciences\u2026 <strong>Students learn to innovate by embracing a strong and locally sustainable approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PictoFormation-150x150.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3482\" title=\"PictoFormation\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">EDUCATION<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A curriculum punctuated by key educational milestones and the guidance of <strong>experts from the professional world<\/strong>. The objective? To train the engineers of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PictoReseau-150x150.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3485\" title=\"PictoReseau\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">IMMERSION<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Over <strong>72 hours<\/strong>, participants work in project mode, experience <strong>collective intelligence<\/strong>, and engage in an intense yet stimulating marathon to bring an idea to fruition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your financial support can be in the form of sponsorship. This way, up to 60% of your donation is deductible from corporate tax within the limit of 0.5% of your turnover. A tax incentive backed by the Fondation Mines-T\u00e9l\u00e9com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button btn-primary\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"paul-guilhem.meunier@imt.fr\">Contact us!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of this annual event is to train future engineers and managers to be informed, responsible and well-equipped, especially by drawing on impact-based research around the challenges of the ecological transition.<br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s Convergence Challenge will take place from April 24 to 27, 2025, in the Agde and S\u00e8te region of Occitanie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imt.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}