Local CSR Impact & Networks

Since 2017, TBS Education has been supporting the Ligue contre le cancer (League against cancer).

• During the tobacco-free month, TBS Education gives employees the opportunity to take part in “Stop smoking” discussion groups presided over by a tobaccologist from the Ligue.
• Our students are co-organizers of the Oncorun Toulouse, a race organized in support of the fight against cancer). They also organise a conference on cancer and returning to work, based on a study carried out by students of the Specialized Master’s in Health and Social Structures Management, which resulted in a report on the professional reintegration of employees suffering from cancer.
• Our employees and students take part in the Pink October Run, in support of breast-cancer screening.
• Our employees take part in various awareness-raising campaigns on tobacco and taste.
• Our students can take part in the “Cancer and Employment” serious game during the ANEDD.

“L’Escabel” (a café run by a student association) aims to act as a meeting place that responds to certain needs among the local community’s residents.
Since its creation, TBS Education students have contributed to developing a cultural programme while involving other TBS Education associations, which come to the café and organise workshops and events for seniors: film-debate, bingo, museum visits, etc.

TBS Education is a partner of Pur Projet, an association to promote agroforestry, and tree planting in the agriculture and/or livestock breeding sector.
Since 2015, TBS Education has been planting a tree for each student who enrolls in the Bachelor’s programme as part of the “Women of the Rif” project in Morocco, in conjunction with the TBS Education Campus in Casablanca.
The partnership with Pur Projet also involves research seminars organized by TBS Education. Participants in seminars are given the opportunity to offset their travel costs through the funding of trees as part of a “Pur Projet” in the field of agroforestry.

Through its partnership with the A Croquer association, TBS Education promotes the concept of “eating well” by sourcing fresh local fruit on behalf of its employees.
For the purchase of each basket of fruit, one euro goes to planting trees as part of agroforestry projects in the Occitanie region, in order to “give something back to nature, which gives so generously to us”.
Awareness-raising workshops about eating more healthily and home-made food are also organized for staff.

TBS Education has set up a “responsible purchasing” process with GAREM (Consortium for responsible purchasing in the Midi Pyrénées) and Synethic. For each new call for tender, TBS Education includes social, economic and/or environmental criteria in its assessment grid.

TBS Education is a partner of the Adaptathon, a “marathon” of innovative activities organized by Ambition Toulouse Métropole. The aim of the event is to come up with new ideas and develop tangible solutions to help companies adapt their working environments to people with disabilities.

Since 2015, TBS Education and T3C (Toulouse Change Communication Conference) have been organizing discussions and debates focused on more effective and responsible communication:

• Communication, transition and neurosciences: moving towards the end of advertising?
• Faced with an advertising model that hinders transition, how can neurosciences design new, more responsible communication practices?

In 2015, TBS Education joined the Collective for the integration of social responsibility and sustainable development in Higher Education (CIRSES), a network that promotes the incorporation of social responsibility and sustainable development in higher education.
Patricia AUBLET, TBS Education’s Director of Societal Transition, is actively involved in CIRSES, which is at the origin of the SD & SR Label.

TBS Education is a signatory of CGE’s Charter for gender equality, which contributes to the deployment of a common policy in terms of gender equality.

In June 2020, the CGE published a white paper entitled “Egalité Femmes/hommes : de la déclaration d’intention à l’expérimentation[WH1] ” (Gender equality: from the declaration of intent to experimentation) with 2 contributions from TBS:

• Chapter 2 “Faire vivre la stratégie égalité au quotidien”[WH2]  (Driving the equality strategy on a daily basis), based on an interview with Stéphanie LAVIGNE, the Dean of TBS Education.
• Chapter 3 “Agir avec et pour les étudiant.e.s”[WH3]  (Acting with and for all students), entirely coordinated by Isabelle ASSASSI, Head of the EQUAL ID gender equality programme.

TBS Education has participated in the Midi-Pyrénées regional sustainable development network since its creation, as part of the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées.