Facilities Management Middle East
Veolia hosts 10 students at its Veolia Summer School
The programme combined visits to Veolia sites, small group discussions, plenary sessions, multicultural group work based on design thinking applied on real business cases
Veolia, the global firm offering solutions for water, waste and energy management, hosted a diverse cohort including 10 students from the Near and Middle East (N&ME) for a week of immersion at the heart of the global Veolia Summer School.
The students, who come from the UAE, KSA, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, shared the global programme with 58 other students from 25 countries. During the digital one-week summer programme, the students took on the task of ecological transformation by solving environmental challenges with the support of Veolia experts.
The students from N&ME comprised the largest and most diverse group in this year’s global programme, accounting for 15% of the total number of global students, 22% of the countries and 21% of the nationalities represented in the programme, and 18% of the total number of universities that participated in the annual project.
Eight of the 10 students from N&ME this year were new to Veolia, while 7 of them were from engineering disciplines – making for a memorable week of creativity, knowledge sharing and commitment to better understand the challenges of ecological transformation, explore the solutions of tomorrow, and create a truly global professional network.
Since 2010, the Veolia Summer School has been a 5-day engineering bootcamp for final year students of engineering or environmental degrees, where they work on a live case study assigned by technical and business leaders in the world’s largest environmental services company. Since 2020, Veolia Summer School has been an entirely virtual project, where students work with their group to solve a real-life challenge.
The programme combined visits to Veolia sites, small group discussions, plenary sessions, multicultural group work based on design thinking applied on real business cases, and inspiring meetings with Veolia experts from across the five continents.