20052005-2006 Session
I.
OVERVIEW "Silk Roads" is an association registered under French law which aims at organising in both countries a two-week exchange every year between twenty Chinese students and the same number of French students. It is organised by students for students. The exchange is held alternatively in France and in China every year. The first exchange took place on February 2005 in France, while the return exchange happened in October 2005 in China. The Chinese students involved in this program have been selected among students from the best Chinese Universities, located in Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing. These universities are partners of ParisTech, and the French students belong to engineering schools from this network, including the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole des Mines de Paris, the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées and Télécom Paris, and since this year, the Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers.
Lafarge presentation at Tsinghua University, Beijing (October 2005)
II.
PROGRAM
The goal of the exchanges in France and China is to enable students to discover both industrial worlds, focusing on companies, industrial cooperation and running or future partnerships. The main aim of “Silk Roads” is the realisation of a market research or technical report in partnership with each of the sponsoring companies. This report is realised by a bicultural team, regrouping 3 students of each nationality, supervised by a tutor in the sponsoring company and another one found in the universities taking part in Silk Roads. The purpose of these studies is to bring some external support and expertise to companies on important issues regarding their Sino French opportunities, while enabling these sponsoring companies to test “in real life” the students working on the study in a recruiting perspective. The results of the research will lead to a presentation within the companies. A final report will be written presenting the conclusions of the study. Besides these studies, visits of sponsoring companies willing to present their activities will be held for all participants. Three workshops about Sino French industrial themes will be organised within the universities taking part in the program to present some achievements in this field. These workshops will gather lecturers from universities as well as from the corporate world. Finally some cultural events such as visits to museums will be organised in order to get to know each other’s culture and improve the communication and the working atmosphere amongst the participants.
Visit of the Baosteel-Nippon Steel-Arcelor joint venture in Shanghai (November 2005)
The French session is set to take place from January 28th to February 12th 2006. Indeed, the 2005 session was held from January 29th to February 13th 2005. The following describes the time table of the last session. Day
Morning
Afternoon Arrival of the Chinese students
Friday Sightseeing tour in Paris
Meeting with the host families
Saturday Sunday
Visit of the Palace of Versailles
Monday
Personal presentations Visit of the Ecole des Mines 1st lecture : Industrial Risks Management
Visit of the Eiffel Tower Review of the industrial partners
Tuesday
Visit of Telecom Paris 2nd lecture : Secured Communications
Free Time
Wednesday
Visit of EADS plant in les Mureaux
Visit of Paris
Thursday
Visit of Lafarge in the XVIth district of Paris.
Visit of the Ecole Polytechnique Round Table on the sustainable development and the global warming
Friday
Trip to Toulouse
Visit of Airbus Plants in Toulouse
Visit to Carcassonne (Febuary 2005)
Saturday
Visit of Carcassonne
Visit of a Vineyard
Sunday
Guided tour of Toulouse
return to Paris
Monday
Visit of the market room (headquarters of the Société Générale)
Visit of the ENPC Round Table on project financing
Tuesday
Visit of Saint Gobain Headquarters
Visit of two glass factories (Saint Gobain)
Wednesday
Meeting with the vice-president and with the strategy manager of Saint Gobain
Work in groups on the reports
Thursday
Visit of Areva Headquarters
Work in Groups on the Reports
Friday
Free Time / Work in groups on the reports
Meeting at la Maison des X for the Ending Ceremony Speeches of the president of Silk Roads, and top managers (Lafarge, EADS)
Presentation by Saint Gobain’s Nb 2, at Saint Gobain headquarters in Paris la Défense (February 2005)
Workshop at ZTE, Nanjing (October 2005)
III.
PARTNERSHIP
For more than a decade, China has benefited from over 8% growth rate and already represents a huge market for foreign companies willing to position themselves for the future. Nevertheless, more opportunities are bound to open up with the development of the country. Excellent staff is needed to face these challenges.
Today's “Silk Roads” students might become high potential partners tomorrow, able to bridge the gap between France and China. They are a human resource readily available to achieve your targets involving Chinese and western worlds. The French students of “Silk Roads” have a passion for China and its culture, and are keen to pursue a career linked to that country. They are all eager to work for companies where you can meet the Chinese challenge. Supporting us is a unique occasion to secure the loyalty of future high-profile engineers, who are familiar with Chinese issues and culture. We know Chinese students are hard to recruit for western companies. Therefore, one of our goals is to bring these students to your company, hopefully creating a long term relationship, ideally leading to an internship or recruitment. The Chinese students taking part in “Silk Roads” are all highly skilled with an outstanding background. They are ready to support the development of your company in China. They may become your future partners, a network of high potential in China.
We offer you the chance of making your company better known among the students from the Chinese universities by coming to our campuses to talk about your activities. The participants of “Silk Roads” will write up a report with your help on a topic relevant to your company, involving China and the western world. This study which will last eight months is a great opportunity for you to increase you popularity within the participants. Moreover, we would like to invite you to join the workshops organised in our universities to talk about your experience in industrial cooperation between China and the western world. Finally, you will have the opportunity to come to our universities and talk about your activities, both in China and in France. You will therefore be able to communicate widely, potentially reaching all the students in our universities.
The commitment of our last year’s partners lead to the recruitment of Chinese students and many internships.
IV.
FUNDING
As “Silk Roads” is industry-oriented, the program will be mainly financed by industrial sponsors, to encourage students taking part in the program to establish contacts with companies. The organising party in France is responsible for accommodation in France and for the activities scheduled, whereas the organising party in China will be responsible to the same extent for the return exchange in China.
Designation Administration
Cost per unit (€) Participants 35 40 150
Visas Insurances Various
45 22
Total administration
Total (€) 1575 880 2605
Plane tickets
850
45
38250
Accomodation
500
22
11000
300 155
45 45
13500 6975
Activities Transport Visits
Total activities
20475
Total The average cost is about 1600€ per student For the 2005 session, we have been supported by :
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EADS Arcelor Lafarge Areva Suez Saint-Gobain EDF Proparco/AFD
72400
V.
HOW TO CONTACT THE ASSOCIATION . You can contact the association by the following means: Website : By mail :
http://www.silkroads.org Routes de la Soie - Ecole des Mines de Paris 60 Boulevard Saint Michel 75272 Paris cedex 06 FRANCE
. You can also directly contact one of the members of the bureau of the association :
Gilles ENDERLIN, President
[email protected] 00.33.6.84.21.38.52
Matthieu LEBAS, Vice President
[email protected] 00.33.6.70.10.79.42
Thibaut DUFFE, Treasurer
[email protected] 00.33.6.30.54.09.85
Responsible for the Ecole Polytechnique: Frank MARTIN,
[email protected] 00.33.6.26.33.90.63 Responsible for the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées: Vianney DUPONT
[email protected] 00.33.6.28.04.51.10
Responsible for Telecom Paris: Mikhaïl LEMARENKO
[email protected] 00.33.6.67.88.91.35 Responsible for the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris: Linh DANG
[email protected] 00.33.6.68.34.73.75 Responsible for the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers: Alexandre GERBERT GAILLARD
[email protected] 00.33.6.17.78.17.94
VI. ANNEX : UNIVERSITIES TAKING PART TO “SILK ROADS”
Visit of Chinefarge, Lafarge’s first plant in China (October 2005)
In China Universities in Beijing : Name of the University Beijing University Tsinghua University
Website http://www.pku.edu.cn http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn
Ranking in China 2 1
Number of selected students 4 4
Ranking in China 5 18
Number of selected students 3 3
Ranking in China 4 10
Number of selected students 2 3 1
Universities in Shanghai : Name of the University Fudan University Tongji University
Website http://www.fudan.edu.cn/ http://www.tongji.edu.cn
Universities in Nanjing : Name of the University Nanjing University Southeast University Nanjing Agricultural University
Website http://www.nju.edu.cn http://www.seu.edu.cn http://www.njau.edu.cn
This ranking is taken from the official ranking realised by the Chinese government of the PRC. It is available at http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~mengchi/univ.ranking.cn.html. Agricultural universities, more specialised than the others, do not appear in the general ranking.
In France
All the concerned Grandes Ecoles are members of ParisTech : http://www.paristech.org Name of the Grande Ecole Ecole des Arts et Métiers Ecole des Mines Ecole polytechnique Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées Télécom Paris
Website http://www.ensam.fr http://www.ensmp.fr http://www.polytechnique.edu http://www.enpc.fr http://www.enst.fr
Number of selected students 5 3 5 7 4
Visit of the Louvre in Paris (February 2005)
