EUT Teaching Day 2025

April 17, 2025
Should we integrate teaching about Ecological Transition for Sustainable Development (TEDS) into our BUT courses?
The EUT teaching day is a key opportunity for discussion and reflection, which since 2019 has brought together colleagues from the Grenoble IUT1 and IUT2 and the Valence IUT to discuss a topical educational issue.

This year, we addressed the issue of teaching Ecological Transition for Sustainable Development (TEDS) in BUT.

We felt it was important to address this topic this year in light of the discussions and initiatives undertaken by our supervisory bodies (MESRI, UGA) and the initial work carried out within the ACDs in a number of specialties, involving departmental and academic management.

The MESRI's framework and recommendation note, "Training undergraduate students in ecological transition for sustainable development by the start of the 2025 academic year," aims to educate students about ecological transition as citizens and future professionals who will play an active role in the transition. This training must provide a common foundation of basic knowledge for all students and lead to the acquisition of skills by students according to a skills framework.

Initiatives are already underway in each of the departments of our three university institutes of technology, led by a number of you. Regardless of our discipline, this teaching is intended to be linked to the "professional skills" specific to each department. We are therefore all concerned.

Whether you are new to this topic or not, we hope that you have come away from this day with concrete information on why and how to integrate TEDS into our BUT training courses.

Organizing team: Maud Giffard, Gildas Barbot, Augustin Merschein, Catherine Cadet, Sabine Reydet, Mathilde Loretz
With the help of: Claire Tissot, Anne-Line Perriollat, Hélène Castebrunet
 
View the day's results


Here is the program for the EUT's 2025 teaching day.

9 a.m.: Home

PART 1: WHY DISCUSS TEDS?

9:30 a.m.: Opening remarks - Lionel Filippi (Director of EUT) & Mathilde Loretz (Deputy Director of EUT - Training)
9:45 a.m.: The challenge of teaching TEDS in the Ecological Transformation of the UGA - Sabine Lavorel (VP Ecological Transformation, UGA)
10:10 a.m.: The special place of TEDS in IUTs and at EUT - Gildas Barbot (Deputy Director of EUT - CSR and Student Life)
10:30 a.m.: Break

PART 2: HOW CAN WE APPROACH TEDS IN GOALS?

10:45 a.m.: How can you train in TEDS at UGA? Mapping of locations and training facilities for teaching TEDS - Maud Giffard (Pedagogy Project Manager, IUT1)
10:55 a.m.: UVED: resources for training yourself and your students - Delphine Pommeray (Director of the UVED Foundation - Virtual University for Environment and Sustainable Development)
11:10 a.m.: Round table discussion on three inspiring initiatives "made in IUT" moderated by Claire Tissot (HR Support Officer, EUT)
  • The integrated approach to TEDS in Physical Measurements – IUT1 (Anne-Line Perriollat)
  • Resource "Assessment of societal footprint" in 3rd year GEA at IUT2 (Béatrice Allirol and Cédric Cordel)
  • SAE CREA2050, (integration of transition issues into forward-looking work) 2nd year at Valence University Institute of Technology (Gaëlle Despierre Corporon)
12:15 p.m.: Buffet

PART 3: I INCORPORATE TED TALKS INTO MY TEACHING

2:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m.: 3 workshops to choose from
  • WORKSHOP 1: TEDS and teaching, where to start?
    Facilitators: Gildas Barbot (Valence University Institute of Technology) and Hélène Castebrunet (University Institute of Technology 1)
    Who is it for? For Dummies in TEDS... or those who think they are wink

    Sharing experiences on integrating TEDS into teaching: Identifying relevant resources for training and implementing TEDS-integrated teaching, in line with the training program.
    The workshop has been designed to help participants consider how they can evolve their teaching to address certain aspects of TEDS. Where to start? What resources to use? What teaching approach to adopt? The workshop will draw on collective intelligence and successful experiences to answer these questions and encourage you to get started.
  • WORKSHOP 2: Training professionals, key players in the transition
    Facilitators: Maud Giffard (IUT1) and Sabine Reydet (IUT Valence)
    Who is it for? For experts... or those who believe they are wink

    How can we promote teaching methods that empower students to become agents of ecological transition?
    TEDS skills come into their own when they encourage people to take action. The workshop will aim to reflect on the knowledge-action gap in the field of ecological transition and how our teaching methods can reduce this gap, in order to ensure that teaching is effective and to overcome the negative emotions caused by knowing that there is a problem without having the necessary skills to act.
  • WORKSHOP 3: Drawing on local expertise to initiate a transition dynamic in BUT
    Facilitators: Catherine Cadet (IUT1) and Anne-Line Perriollat (IUT1)
    Who is it for? For advanced beginners... or those who think they are and are looking for concrete answers. wink

    The workshop aims to reflect on the educational framework that enables systemic and interdisciplinary teaching of TEDS.
    You will devise ways to implement TEDS teaching in your department and your courses, with input from those responsible for: the Transitions program at Sciences Po Grenoble, the PISTE (Pour une Ingénierie Sobre Techno et Eco-responsable) semester at INP, the integration of TEDS at ENSE3 (INP) and in the first year of Sciences Po, and the Design Factory (to be confirmed).

PART 4: CONCLUSION

4:10 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Review and opening remarks
Published on March 19, 2025
Updated on January 23, 2026