Avidsen, firmly rooted in the Centre Val-de-Loire region, is stepping up its investment in the area. Avidsen has signed a two-year collaboration agreement with Polytech Tours, the engineering school attached to the University of Tours. Here are the details.

Why an Avidsen-Polytech convention?

University and company agree

Avidsen is a dynamic company that recruits at all levels of qualification, particularly in the executive category. But as a company specializing in innovation and new technologies, this employment policy is complex. Avidsen is looking for skills in mechanics, electronics and IT. And Polytech Tours, for its part, teaches its students these specialties, which are of great interest to Avidsen.

For its part, the Polytech Tours engineering school has to assist 500 students each year in their search for an internship or professionalization contract. Each year, 60 apprenticeship contracts must be signed between students and companies. At this stage, the majority of students find their internship or job in the Paris or Centre Val-de-Loire regions. Polytech Tours and Avidsen are located in an attractive region.

What are the objectives of the convention?

By signing this two-year partnership, Avidsen and Polytech are pursuing several ambitions:

• Preparing future graduates for working life
• Raise engineering students’ awareness of technological issues and the use of this technology
• Raising awareness of the industry’s professions
• Boosting innovation for intelligent buildings

What concrete commitments?

Polytech’s commitment

The Tours engineering school is committed to :

• Promote Avidsen and its news to students
• Promote Avidsen’s businesses through a variety of channels: theme days, conferences and round tables…
• Develop joint internship proposals, to match company needs with school expectations
• Publicize Avidsen’s job, internship and work-study offers
• Initiate technical projects and scientific studies with Avidsen

And, if the departments concerned are prescribers :

• Avidsen will participate in the development boards of the following specialties: IT, mechanics, electronics.
• Avidsen will provide its expertise in technical, functional, methodological and organizational training.

As part of the relationship between student associations and companies, Polytech undertakes to distribute to student associations any information provided by Avidsen on the life of the company.

Avidsen’s commitment

For its part, Avidsen is committed to three different aspects. Let’s find out the details.

Promoting the professions at Avidsen

To raise awareness of its day-to-day activities, Avidsen can be a driving force behind a number of proposals aimed at helping people discover the jobs of the company’s employees:

• Conferences with generic or technical themes
• Support for students as they develop their career plans: internship and job offers, meetings with former graduates
• Presentation of the IT/mechanics/electronics professions at Avidsen
• Participation in the Polytech Tours forum

Supporting Polytech’s major orientations

As part of the agreement between the engineering school and the company specializing in connected housing, Avidsen is committed to participating in the school’s general orientations. The taxe d’apprentissage can also provide financial support for Polytech from Avidsen. Finally, Avidsen can initiate sponsorship schemes for student engineers.

Participation in teaching content

In terms of the content of the courses given to students, Avidsen can be a driving force behind end-of-study or group projects. The company will also be involved in guidance counselling for certain specialties that correspond to Avidsen’s professions.

Within the framework of student association activities, Avidsen may support projects in line with the values promoted by Avidsen, in terms of corporate life, CSR policy and the company’s core business.