The Director, Mathias Vicherat, announced by telephone to the only students elected as the financing of scholarships by TotalEnergies would not be renewed.
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Since January 1, TotalEnergies has no longer part of the patrons of Sciences Po. The decision not to renew an almost twenty-year partnership has been communicated only the first week April, without discretion. Mathias Vierat, the new school director, has himself phoned the student representatives, including Titouan le Bouard, UNF. “He told me that Total stopped and was looking for new financing with other companies,” says the student.
In the world, management reports that it is a “joint decision” not to renew the Convention without “no specific reason”. “It’s the classic life of Sciences Po partnerships, there is a form of turnover,” we add.
This great modesty questions the reasons that led to ending this collaboration. History goes back in the early 2000s, when the former director, Richard Descoos, creates a new entrance route to impose more social diversity in the school. From high schools of priority education, new recruits selected by an oral are equipped with scholarships funded in part by the French oil giant, total.
Gradually, the patron made his place by financing, through his foundation, scholarships of excellence for international students of the Master Public Affairs and the Europe-Africa program. From 2011, Total “actively participates” at the Omer Club (World Issues and Risk Observatory) and “supports” the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), recalls a press release of the establishment, which then welcomed the signing of a new “strategic partnership” over three years. More recently, between 2017 and 2021, the company has participated in the launch of the “First Campus” program for high school students to prepare their entry into higher education.
Double speech
“The Convention had to end in December 2020, but at the request of Sciences Po, we extended it by a one-year amendment to deal with the precariousness generated by the sanitary crisis,” Accurate Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier, General Delegate of the Foundation Foundationnergies, which figure 200,000 euros the annual intake of the company. “Sciences Po felt that the implementation of the priority education conventions could perpetuate with other partnerships,” he continues. In more than fifteen years, we made very beautiful things together and we will now benefit from Other structures of our allowances. “The door remains open, adds the General Delegate, who said to” sit again around the table if the management of the establishment wishes “.
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