Creation of the RELIEF network and renewal of a partnership between HES-SO and USMB

July 17, 2018 12:00 am - July 17th 2018 13:00

To round off the 4th International Summer School on Renewable Energies, which runs from July 8 to 17 in Chamonix, two agreements will be signed on Tuesday July 17 at 12pm, at the Chamonix Music School, 381 Rue du Lyret, 74400 Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France.

RELIEF (Réseau d'Échanges et de Liaisons entre Institutions d'Enseignement Supérieur Francophones) convention signed

Building on shared values and several years of collaboration, notably in the organization of international French-language schools, theUniversité Québec à Trois Rivières (UQTR), the Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO) andUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB) have created the RELIEF network (Réseau d'Échanges et de Liaison entre Institutions d'Enseignement Supérieur Francophones).

The signature by Luciana Vaccaro, Rector of the HES-SO, Daniel McMahon, Rector of the UQTR, and Denis Varaschin, President of the USMB, marks the determination of the three establishments to pursue the actions already underway, while developing new collaborative projects with other partners, associated on a project-by-project basis. In this context, the RELIEF network has just organized its first seminar on renewable energies, in Senegal, involving theÉcole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar, theUniversité Gaston Berger and the2IE engineering school in Burkina Faso.

HES-SO(University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland) and USMB sign agreement

The signing of this renewed agreement reaffirms the importance of the links between the two establishments and the actions they undertake jointly.

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Contact: Laurence Vignollet, Vice-President in charge of International Relations at USMB