HIGHER EDUCATION

05/11/2009

Nice-Sophia Antipolis: University to favor diversity and human ecology.

The Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis and the Institut Randstad sign a convention to promote equal opportunity and sustainable development.

The President of the Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis (UNS) and the President of the Institut Randstad Abdel Aissou signed a partnership agreement on Friday, 9 October in Nice. Under the terms of the agreement, the UNS will receive €10,000 from the Randstat Institut pour l’Egalité des Chances et le Développement Durable (institute for equal opportunity and sustainable development), to enable the UNS to offer innovative training courses to help people rehabilitate back into the community. This initiative is based on a sustainable development approach, with a human ecology based on education, adult training and joint research projects.

The Institut Randstad founded in 2005 within Randstat France, is geared at developing partnerships to promote equal opportunity practises, based on a human ecology approach. The institute supports the likes of associations for disabled in the workplace, as well as students or young people from underprivileged backgrounds. It also partners with schools and universities which have adopted an Equal Opportunity program, as well as associations focusing on sustainable development issues.
About Randstad : In 2009, with the acquisition of Vedior, the Dutch group Randstat became the world’s 2nd leading HR services group and Randstat France rose to 3rd place in the French market. *Human ecology is an academic discipline that deals with the relationship between humans, human societies, and their natural, social and created environments.


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