SKF and INSA Lyon have been working together for almost 15 years, through the partnership between INSA's Contact and Structural Mechanics Laboratory (LaMCos) and SKF R&D 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 stepped up its meetings with students at the engineering school and with the teaching staff, taking part in the Journée des métiers, for example.
Building on their shared skills and values, SKF and INSA Lyon decided to go one step further and signed a sponsorship agreement for the Mechanical Engineering Development (GMD) class of 2014-2017 to jointly develop their knowledge of mechanical engineering.
Placing innovation at the heart of this partnership, SKF is committed to providing students with study subjects of high technical value, and to supporting them throughout their course of study through the participation of employees in their lectures or industry cafés, or through professional internships. SKF also wishes to participate in the development of their associative life.
To mark the signing of this sponsorship agreement, the students in the class were able to discuss specific topics (jobs, responsibilities, career opportunities, mobility, R&D and innovation) directly with the SKF employees present.
As part of a participative approach, they were also able to build their sponsorship program over three years with SKF teams.
For Daniel Mazzoleni, SKF's Human Resources Director in France, this partnership is ". a real opportunity to build tomorrow's innovation together, and to learn from each other through regular exchanges on concrete topics
Camille Dayot, technology development engineer at SKF Aerospace in Valence and former GMD at INSA Lyon, confirms that We shared a lot during the day, which augurs well for a close relationship with the students. Corporate life, innovation and career opportunities were of course at the heart of the discussions. Together, we're already in the process of building the strong foundations of our sponsorship. It's now up to us to create the link between what we learn at INSA and what happens in the field. By "demystifying" business issues, we are preparing the engineers of tomorrow.
For Eric Maurincomme, Director of INSA Lyon, "sponsoring a graduating class is a real added value for both our students and the sponsoring company. INSA Lyon is France's largest engineering school, with 6,000 students, and every year nearly 100 students graduate from the mechanical engineering and development department. These are multi-skilled mechanical engineers who are open to careers in innovation, upstream design and research & development, engineers who will have benefited from the involvement of a market-leading company during their 3-year training."
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