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Confluences

  • Partners: CNAM (lead partner), Arts et Métiers (ENSAM), CESI, ENSAPLV, Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), ESAA Duperré, Les Compagnons du Devoir (AOCDTF), Cap Métiers Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  • Call for projects: “ExcellencES in all its forms”
  • Project budget: €13.3 million, CESI budget: €3.27 million, CESI funding: €2.29 million
  • Project duration: 8 years (2024-2032)

Supported as part of the France 2030 plan’s “ExcellencES sous toutes ses formes” call for projects and operated by the French National Research Agency, this project is part of a dynamic approach to educational, regional, and scientific innovation. The project is structured around three main areas:
Innovating in the development of training programs
ConfluencES’s primary objective is to transform training provision using an innovative public digital tool, Octopilot, which maps skills needs in each region in order to adjust and enrich training programs. Octosyllabus, which complements Octopilot, will be exclusively available to project partners to help them deploy new skill sets.

Transforming learning spaces through the digital revolution
The project aims to reinvent training facilities through immersive and hybrid learning environments:

  • Evolutive Learning Factories (ENSAM) to simulate the industry of the future;
  • Micro Learning Factories (CESI), small-scale learning factories for experimentation and training in Industry 5.0 fields;
  • TransFabriC (Cnam) for sustainable and circular manufacturing;
  • A space dedicated to eco-responsible color and dyeing (École Duperré);
  • Hybrid spaces for co-creation and experimentation (ENSAPLV) promoting interdisciplinary collaboration.

Develop new research activities
ConfluencES also anticipates an increase in research focusing on training issues, regional data, and teaching practices. One flagship project is the creation in France of the first doctoral program in the fashion sector, led by the IFM, with the aim of establishing a strategic industry.

The objectives for CESI mainly focus on:

  • The continued implementation of Micro Learning Factories 5.0 with R&D, educational engineering, and the acquisition and deployment of Micro Learning Factories on new CESI campuses to expand their use in training and research;
  • R&D on training trainers in guidance and individualized learning.
  • The unit’s two research teams are working on this large-scale project.