Students

How to Start your Project

Have an idea to make campus more sustainable or socially responsible? The S&O Center is here to help you make it a reality. We have partnered with students to organize the Fashion Revolution Conference, promote Mental Health Week, and support the creation of a documentary on the future of food, among other initiatives. 

Please contact us at snocenter@hec.fr, specifying: 

• The project or event objectives and impact potential
• Content/ schedule/ speakers/ partners involved
• How you plan to communicate on the event 
• Estimated budget and what you would like the S&O Center to contribute
• Logistical needs 
• Team contact information 
   

Want to join the S&O Student Council on campus?

• Join the Facebook page to be informed of all events: https://www.facebook.com/groups/netimpacthecparis/
• Join the following student organizations:

Net Impact

Net Impact, a global non-profit organization, is a progressive and influential network of new generation leaders who use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. HEC students started the HEC Paris chapter of the organization in 2005. The student association works to inspire, educate and empower students to create a more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable world through business. By doing this, they emphasize how it is possible to make a net impact that benefits not just the bottom line – but people and planet as well.

Association ESP'R

ESP'R is a student association (Law 1901) created in 2009. Its role is to promote social economy on the campus of HEC Paris through advocacy and student engagement.

The main activity of the association is the accompanying program of social entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs from disadvantaged neighborhoods. Each year, it offers students (by pairs) to work for 4 months (February to May), with a social entrepreneur on the issues of business creation or business expansion. These missions are an opportunity to take part in a concrete adventure and help dynamic and creative people to realize their project. Until 2013, ESP’R has supported nearly 80 entrepreneurs from various networks of social entrepreneurs and disadvantaged areas. ESP'R now supports the creation of companies and associations throughout France.

ESP'R also organized every year the Social Innovation Fair, a jobs fair like no other. Innovative start-ups, large cooperative or mutual groups, associations and foundations of all size and corporate foundations come to the fair to offer internships and jobs carrying values and meaning to students.

And throughout the year, ESP’R organizes conferences, challenges and other multiple events with its partners (Babyloan ProBono Lab, the SOS Group…) to raise campus awareness of the issue of social economy.

Action pour le Bénin

This student association was established in the north of Benin Natitingou almost 15 years ago. It aims to improve the development and the education of the local population through a variety of activities: micro-credit, cultural and educational activities in an orphanage, literacy and computer classes for minor prison inmates, library management, prevention campaigns against AIDS.

Action pour le Benin also organizes various events on campus all along the year in which students participants can play a part: collecting money, books or condoms…

APB has received many prizes such as Ernst & Young prize, Nicolas Campard prize.

cHeer uP!

cHeer uP! was founded by a preparatory class of HEC students in 2002 to help young patients with cancer. The association has a group of 300 volunteers in 14 schools and universities in France. It adheres to the vision of “to fight for one’s project, is also to fight against illness”. Every week, volunteers visit young patients between the ages of 15-25 at Gustave Roussy Institute to help them realize projects.

Equiterre

Equiterre is an association that promotes fair trade on campus. Its activities include: organizing a fair trade, publishing a newsletter, organizing conferences, selling its partners’ fairtrade products. The Christmas market at the end of the fall semester is one of Equiterre’s biggest events. Equiterre also launched a project to expand its collection of fairtrade clothing products (sweaters, shoes, boots).

Good Morning Vietnam

Good Morning Vietnam is an association specialized in micro credit. The project of the association is to develop a permanent presence in Vietnam, with student teams who take turns throughout the year.

HEC Débats

For over 20 years, HEC Débats has organized on-campus meetings with people that discuss economic, political, and cultural news. The aim of the conference is to engage in a neutral, but lively debate born from the encounter between experience and youth.

Involv’EU

Involv’EU is the European club of HEC, and its one objective is simple: talk and have people talk about Europe. The association is not a political group. Students want to nurture a European civic and cultural awareness on campus, and to have French and foreign students to work together. Last year, Involv’EU had main projects such as:

• Conferences and debates about EU-Russia relation, European elections
• Thematic dinner where students cooked typical dishes
• Presentations / workshops in French high schools/middle schools/elementary schools in underprivileged areas
• Participation of a delegation from HEC in the model EU organized by the SUNY in Brussels.

Le Salon

Le Salon regularly organizes conferences on diverse topics generally related to science, arts, philosophy, literature, or history. Le Salon seeks to provide knowledge and questioning about some specific issues by inviting well-known specialists. We all met once some people that changed our life by their powerful convictions and inspirations. Le Salon organized such meetings.

Mission Cambodia

Mission Cambodia is a students’ association aiming at sending HEC students in various Cambodian orphanages during the summer to take care of those disadvantaged children. This association is Children of Asia representatives in HEC. The project is prepared throughout the year by organizing breakfasts, selling kramas (traditional Cambodian scarves), or participating to financial aid competitions. Mission Cambodia won the Gala du Campus de la Solisarite award in 2013.

More information on the dedicated Facebook page.