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For almost 15 years, SKF and INSA Lyon have maintained a long-term collaboration through the existing partnership between INSA's Contacts and Structure Mechanics Laboratory (LaMCos) and SKF's research and development teams.
In May 2013, SKF and INSA Lyon confirmed their cooperation by announcing the creation of a 6-year Teaching and Research Chair dedicated to the study of lubricated interfaces. Since then, SKF has been meeting with the students of the engineering school and with the teaching team, for example by participating in Trades Day.
With common skills and values, SKF and INSA Lyon decided to go further and signed a sponsorship agreement for the Mechanical Development Engineering (GMD) promotion 2014-2017 to develop, together, their knowledge of mechanics.
Putting innovation at the heart of this partnership, SKF is committed to offering students subjects of high technical value, to accompany them throughout their studies through the intervention of collaborators during their courses or industry cafes or through professional internships. SKF also wants to participate in the development of their associative life.
On the occasion of the signing of this sponsorship, the students of the promotion were able to exchange on concrete themes (trades, responsibilities, career opportunities, mobility, research and development and innovation), directly with the SKF employees present.
In an effort to engage in participatory action, they were also able to build their sponsorship program over three years with the SKF teams.
For Daniel Mazzoleni, SKF's director of human resources in France, this partnership is "a real opportunity to build together the innovation of tomorrow and to learn from each other through regular exchanges on concrete themes."
Camille Dayot, technology development engineer at SKF Aerospace in Valencia and former GMD of INSA Lyon, confirms: "We shared a lot on this day, which suggests a close relationship with the students. The company's life, innovation and career opportunities were of course at the heart of the exchanges. We are already building, together, the strong actions of our sponsorship. It is now up to us to create the link between INSA's learnings and the reality on the ground. By "demystifying" the company's issues, we prepare the engineers of tomorrow.
Eric Maurincomme, director of INSA Lyon, said: "Sponsoring a promotion is a real added value for our students as well as for the corporate godmother. INSA Lyon is the largest engineering school in France with 6,000 students, and each year nearly 100 students graduate from the mechanical engineering development department. They are versatile and open mechanical engineers for the innovation, upstream design and research and development trades, engineers who will have benefited from the involvement during their 3 years of training a leading company in its market. »
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