2024 Graduation Ceremony - Friday 13 December 2024

* programme subject to to modification, notably with regard to timing of speeches and the hour of closure

1.15: Welcome to graduates and their guests

• Foyer 2000 doors open
• Cloakrooms open

1.15: Sign in for graduates

• Foyer 2000: invitation checks and sign-in for graduates

1.30 - 2.00 pm: Seating

Auditorium 2000:

• graduates seated in the dress circle by study programme / specialisation
• guests seated in the stalls

2.00 pm: ceremony begins

• Introductory words from Jean-Baptiste AVRILLIER, Director of Centrale Nantes, and the Class Patron
• Graduates are called up onto stage by programme (order subject to change)

• PhD
• Masters
• Bachelors
• Double degree (France and International)
• ITII degree apprenticeship
• Engineering Programme (by final year specialisation)

(time t.b.a): class photo

• Class photo on stage for all graduates

(time t.b.a): drinks reception

Graduates, their guests, faculty and staff are invited to a drinks reception marking the conclusion of the ceremony  - Foyer 2000

► Programme in full

• Each graduating student wishing to attend the ceremony must register on the Centrale Nantes Alumni (CNA) platform*
• Each graduating student may be accompanied by up to 2 guests.
• After registration, you will receive a confirmation email that you are required to present upon arrival at the Cité Nantes Congress Center.

Graduates are grouped by study programme and/or specialisation in the dress circle:

• 'IMPAIR' DRESS CIRCLE: PhD - masters - OUTGOING double degree and mobility in France: engineer-manager, engineer-architect, Groupe des écoles Centrale, INSTN; OUTGOING double degree and mobility abroad.
• 'PAIR' DRESS CIRCLE: Degree apprenticeship programme in partnership with with ITII engineers (MÉCA, BTP and SEC) - engineering programme by final-year specialisation. NB: INCOMING manager-engineers, architects-engineers, GEC mobility entrants, fasttrack and international double degree by final-year specialisation.

• You will be called backstage as a group
• Backstage, you will be placed in alphabetical order and are expected to wait in SILENCE
• When your name is called, you will enter the stage (left/garden side).
• One or more representatives of the teaching staff will hand you your ‘diploma tube’. Be careful not to stand with your back to the audience for the photographer.
• Move to the platform at the back of the stage.
• The photographer will take a photo of the group.
• The student or students who have been asked to give a talk, come forward to the lectern at centre stage to give their speech.
• The whole group leaves the stage quickly (on the right/courtyard side).

You will then be taken back to your seat with the other graduates (in silence).
PLEASE DO NOT HANG AROUND IN THE PASSAGEWAYS, CORRIDORS OR FOYER 2000. Another event is taking place in the main gallery, so please take care not to disrupt it.

To ensure that the ceremony runs smoothly, we would ask everyone to respect these instructions.

The Board of Examiners Graduation Board for the Engineering Programme will meet on 8 October 2024.  We urge you to check your graduation requirements on OnBoard so that you can make the necessary arrangements in good time. As you know, the end of the academic year is 30/09/2024. If you do not meet meet all the graduation requirements by this date, you will have to re-enrol and pay the corresponding fees.

• Languages (certificate to be sent to Mme PARC, Anne-Isabelle.Parc@ec-nantes.fr)
• Work experience in a company (the number of weeks varies according to the year in which the internship was carried out)
• International (experience abroad + submission of SERSE report. The requirement is validated by the International Relations Department)
• Double-Degree (a document attesting to your successful completion of the partner university's degree must be submitted on OnBoard)

Outcome of the Graduation Board

• To access your results and any relevant decisions, connect to OnBoard:
  • in the "ma scolarité" section under "décision de jury', for your final year results
  • in the "Groupe", section for the graduation decision. If you have graduated, you can download your certificate of achievement in the "mes documents administratifs" tab.
• For students whose status reads "en attente de diplôme", the diploma requirements that have not been met, as of 8 Obtober 2024, are also available on OnBoard in the "ma scolarité" section, under "Conditions de diplôme".
• In accordance with the Board of Governors deliberations on 6 October 2022, students who have already met all the diploma requirements (except DD) and only these students, have until 30/11/2024, at the latest, to upload their supporting documents to OnBoard, to validate their mobility and/or their double-degree without having to re-enrol.
• The remaining students not covered by this decision will have to re-enrol for the 2024-2025 academic year (a non-enrolled student cannot be awarded a degree) and pay the corresponding fees.

APPEAL PROCEDURES AND DEADLINES

Degree certificates will not be distributed at the graduation ceremony on Friday 13 December. They will be available for dispatch in the first half of 2025.
Please refer to the detailed instructions to collect your certificate after the ceremony: Degree certificates