For sev­er­al decades, Junior (Enter­prise) UTC has been offer­ing its ser­vices to numer­ous com­pa­nies, asso­ci­a­tions and indi­vid­u­als. It pro­vides tai­lor-made sup­port for each project thanks to its diverse skills in sev­er­al fields of engi­neer­ing and IT.

“Be brave, express your desire to inno­vate and be entre­pre­neur­ial with­out fear of judge­ment or fail­ure! Fail­ure builds char­ac­ter and teach­es lessons… and you will nev­er regret to have dared…” With these words, Patrick Dupin, DG of Saint-Gob­ain Group Oper­a­tions and Pres­i­dent of the UTC Foun­da­tion for Inno­va­tion, opened the Junior UTC han­dover cer­e­mo­ny, address­ing the com­mit­ted stu­dents gath­ered under the watch­ful eye of their UTC Alum­ni pre­de­ces­sors on Thurs­day August 28,2025. It proved to be a great show­case of the stu­dents’ com­mu­ni­ty involve­ment and entre­pre­neur­ial spir­it. Dur­ing the event, guests heard tes­ti­mo­ni­als from Béa­trice Bolling, Direc­tor of Mar­ket­ing, Pur­chas­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at RIKA France, a client of Junior UTC and project man­ag­er Valen­tine Lan­glois, as well as film direc­tor Vic­to­rien Druon. “Many UTC grad­u­ates have devot­ed part of their ener­gy to Junior UTC dur­ing their stud­ies. Many talk about it as a for­ma­tive expe­ri­ence, some­times deci­sive in their careers. Each mis­sion car­ried out by Junior UTC shows that our stu­dents are already active play­ers in the pro­fes­sion­al world, capa­ble of inno­vat­ing and trans­form­ing ideas into con­crete achieve­ments,” empha­sis­es Patrick Dupin. “Our con­grat­u­la­tions to the entire out­go­ing team for their remark­able com­mit­ment, and we have every con­fi­dence in the new team tak­ing over under the chair­man­ship of Alex­i­an Sebag, who will con­tin­ue and enrich this won­der­ful dynam­ics! ”

Meeting industrial and societal challenges

Respond­ing to the needs of many com­pa­nies that want to work with the engi­neers of tomor­row is the cre­do of Junior UTC, which cel­e­brat­ed its 50^th anniver­sary two years ago. As a reminder, it is a com­mer­cial asso­ci­a­tion gov­erned by the French law of 1901 and admin­is­tered by engi­neer­ing stu­dents at UTC. Its objec­tive is to meet the needs of pro­fes­sion­als by putting them in touch with skilled stu­dents from the insti­tu­tion. It has many clients, includ­ing gov­ern­ment agen­cies, Cetim, EADS, Pirelli, PSA Peu­geot Cit­roën, Renault, Sanofi Aven­tis, Vin­ci and oth­ers. All of the stud­ies car­ried out have edu­ca­tion­al val­ue and remain with­in the field of study of the engi­neer­ing stu­dents (com­put­er sci­ence, mechan­ics, biol­o­gy, process­es, urban plan­ning). It ben­e­fits from the sup­port of lec­tur­er-research sci­en­tists for com­plex projects and has access to research lab­o­ra­to­ries, pro­to­typ­ing work­shops, fea­si­bil­i­ty stud­ies, life cycle analy­sis, car­bon foot­print analy­sis, appli­ca­tion and web­site devel­op­ment and data analy­sis. For exam­ple, Junior UTC has three flag­ship ser­vices based on UTC’s areas of excel­lence: new prod­uct devel­op­ment, digi­ti­sa­tion of struc­tures by cap­i­tal­is­ing on data and improve­ment of envi­ron­men­tal impact. Since 1982, more than 1 300 mis­sions have been car­ried out. More than ever, UTC is train­ing engi­neers who are ready to take on indus­tri­al and soci­etal challenges.

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