A new milestone for the "Circular Mobility Industries" Campus in Flins, dedicated to training for the professions of the future

Flins (France), 14 December 2022 - Roland Lescure, French Minister for Industry, Charline Avenel, Rector of the Versailles Academy, Valérie Pécresse, President of the Ile-de-France Region, Alain Bui, President of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Luc Chatel, President of the Automotive Platform, in the presence of Jean-Dominique Senard, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Renault, and Thibaut Guilluy, High Commissioner for Employment and Business Commitment of France, officially launched the "Circular Mobility Industries" (ICM) “Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications” located at the Renault plant in Flins today. On this occasion, the ICM received the French ministerial label "Campus of Excellence" for a period of 5 years, a sign of recognition of the quality of the actions it carries out to strengthen the links between the educational world and the economic world.

Thanks to a network of academic and industrial partners, the campus will offer training to 8,000 students and professionals by 2027 in professions related to the mobility industries and the circular economy, at the heart of the Renault ReFactory in Flins, and will benefit from funding of up to 19 million euros over 5 years.

To meet the challenges of decarbonisation, the automotive industry has begun a major transformation of its products and services, but also of its production model, by integrating the fundamentals of the circular economy. This transformation is accompanied by new skill requirements.

A unique training centre

The ICM campus will be based on an 8,000 m2 space open to pupils, students and professionals wishing to train in the new mobility professions.  It is designed to support the transformation of the Renault site in Flins as part of the ReFactory project, but is also open to the outside world, with innovative training content and learning experiences, thus supporting the transition from the linear economy to the circular economy.

The ICM campus has designed - as a Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications (CMQ) - an offer in 3 axes:

• Theoretical training in the fundamentals of the circular economy, to understand the key concepts of the circular economy, such as the life cycle of a product, the difference between reuse and recycling, or the understanding of new value chains.
• Technical training to prepare for new professions (vehicle renovation diagnostician, retrofit technician, ecodesign engineer, eco-responsible buyer, etc.).
• Orientation courses to identify these new professions and find one's professional path.

With these programmes, the campus is already helping employees at the Flins plant to retrain and upgrade their skills as the ReFactory's industrial activities change. The campus is in line with a logic of educational innovation (diversification of trainee profiles, flexibility in the duration of training, adaptation and agility of training modules, etc.).

This will allow, in particular, students from professional high schools in the mobility sector to benefit from a campus designed to support them in their training and professional integration.

Funding to meet the challenges

The financing of the CMQ, estimated at 19 million euros for 5 years, will come in part from public funds, allocated within the framework of the Recovery Plan (DEFFINUM), the Future Investment Programmes (PIA 4 - Future Skills and Professions), the PIA Leader Regional Call for Projects for Large Innovation Sites, and financing from the Versailles Academy and the Ile-de-France Region.

A network of institutional, academic and industrial partners

• The Ile-de-France Region will support the transformation of the site's technical facilities via a €5 million investment by the SEM Ile-de-France Investissements et territoires. It is also strongly committed to the conversion of the Renault Flins site to make it the leading European hub dedicated to the circular economy in the mobility sector in terms of support for innovation, incubation and professional training.
• The Ile-de-France academic region and the academies of Versailles, Créteil and Paris are strongly committed to adapting and transforming their programmes to support access to the jobs of today and tomorrow for all.
• The University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is the host university of the Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications (CMQ), which is closely involved in its governance as well as in the development and implementation of training programmes (in particular through its IUT in Mantes-en-Yvelines and several research laboratories concerned by the CMQ's themes).
• Renault Group provides the Campus with an experienced operational director to manage it, as well as space on its ReFactory industrial site in Flins (78).
• The PFA (Plateforme Automobile), which plays a leading role in the national coordination of the automotive industry, is also involved in the Campus.