- Sustainable development,
- Study Programme,
- SDG12,
- SDG4,
- SDG9,
1st Low-Tech Forum at Centrale Nantes: a one-day event to showcase Nantes' low-tech ecosystem
On March 21, 2023 All day
Participants from around the region will attend the event to showcase the Nantes low-tech ecosystem and the projects carried out by the students following the new Low Tech engineering programme specialisation opened in 2022 in partnership with EXPLORE and APALA, the Nantes low-tech incubator.
► Register to attend the forum
From 9 am - Coffee
9.30 - Introduction
Conferences
10 am - 12 pm - Lecture theatre A
- Conference with Roland Jourdain, sailor, and innovator with the catamaran We Explore – Founder of the Low-Tech Lab in Concarneau
- Presentation of the Low-Tech engineering project-based specialisation and review of the first year
Stands and demonstrations - throughout the day - Hall A
Presentations of students' projects and local actors- Low-tech training: an engineer against the tide?
- Low-tech, heading towards a desirable future
- Demonstrations: wind turbine, raw earth construction, low-tech dome etc
1.30 - 6.00 pm - Round tables
From 1.30 pm - The pit Hall A
The Low-Tech approach in companies
- Alan Fustec - Entrepreneur des low-techs - Director of Goodwill management - Founder of Low-tech skol
- Elise Hauters, Director of CPM Industrie and co-founder of La Belle-Tech
- Arnaud Crétot, Engineer and craftsman - NeoLoco
- Anne-Sophie Pierre, Engineer at Décathlon, Low-tech expert, as part of the future call for Low-Tech projects
Round table discussion moderated by Quentin Tizon, ADEME engineer, low-tech expert
Teaching low-tech in higher education
- Guillaume Lefevre, Director of Icam Nantes
- Jean-Marc Benguigui, Course supervisor of the Low Tech specialisation and Engineering for Ecological Transition option.
- Delphine Toquet, Professor, Sciences Humaines pour l’Ingénieur, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB)
- Student from the Low Tech specialisation (t.b.c)
Round table discussion moderated by Cécile Le Sausse of Explore
How do you determine if a project is low-tech?
- Jonathan Gueguen, Low-Tech project manager at APALA
- Jean-Baptiste Thony, alumni and Low-Tech expert, Bordeaux city councillor in charge of circular economy, zero waste and local currency
- Anne-Charlotte Bonjean, expert engineer in repairability at ADEME
- Didier Ménard, engineer, Atelier Belenos
Round table discussion moderated Estelle Massi, Centrale Nantes student (t.b.c)
Event organised in partnership with APALA and EXPLORE
