The first event in France focused on the emergence of CSR projects and social entrepreneurship dedicated to students, the 2017 ECOLSION Seminar, organised by ENACTUS France, took place from November 23 to 26 on the Reims campus.

This seminar allows each year more than 200 students from around France to develop a long-term vision for their social entrepreneurship projects.

Animated and supervised by 45 professionals and 20 members of the ENACTUS France team, thematic workshops, coaching sessions and conferences were held over these 4 days, which were intended to provide the keys on how to take social action through entrepreneurship.

Thursday evening was devoted to the conference “The audacity of changing the world” where several speakers, one of them being a U.N. representative, discussed their backgrounds and careers and offered their vision of audacity.

Delphine Manceau, Dean NEOMA Business School, opened Friday session. “It is a pleasure for NEOMA BS to host this 2017 seminar. We share with ENACTUS a long history and common values: entrepreneurship and openness. We are proud of the commitment of our students in this association.”

Spotlight on ENACTUS NEOMA BS successes:
2014: The teams from the Rouen and Reims campuses were awarded respectively second and third places at the 2014 ENACTUS competition.
2015: ENACTUS Reims wins the national competition and is awarded entrance in the ENACTUS World Cup 2015 in, Johannesburg, South Africa, to represent France.
2016: It was Rouen’s turn to win the ENACTUS France national title and go on to wear the colours of France at the 2016 ENACTUS World Cup in Toronto, Canada.
2017: Three student projects from Rouen and Reims were chosen among 600 applications submitted by 2,400 students from 175 schools for the first edition of the Coup2Boost, a national competition with a jury of companies that have the goal of identifying and financing the best student projects in France.