OSE is our equal opportunities programme supported by the Groupement des Industriels Français de l'Aéronautique et du Spatial (GIFAS) and the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation, which is committed to educational equity and better professional integration for all.
Our equal opportunities programme
Created in 2006, the ” OSE l’ISAE-SUPAERO ” equal opportunities programme, awarded the Cordées de la Réussite label in 2009, aims to promote and encourage access to higher education (engineering, master’s, Specialised Masters®, doctorate) for all by encouraging success through hard work.
The programme is aimed at secondary school students from priority neighbourhoods and isolated rural areas who have demonstrated outstanding motivation. It helps them to build and succeed in an ambitious academic and professional project.
The actions are carried out on a voluntary basis by students and alumni who initiate a wide range of educational activities based on their knowledge and skills.
This multi-faceted educational scheme helps to create synergies between secondary education, higher education and the professional world.
schools in the Toulouse Academy
secondary school pupils benefiting
ISAE-SUPAERO students involved as volunteers
A commitment in 5 areas
- Supporting young people from priority neighbourhoods and isolated rural areas in their training and career choices,
- Promote scientific and technical careers and engineering among young girls,
- Encourage the integration and success of disabled students in higher education courses,
- Support girls and scholarship holders during their CPGE years up to the competitive entrance exams,
- Promote and encourage the civic and community involvement of ISAE-SUPAERO students and alumni.
Dedicated godmothers and godfathers
We are proud of the benevolent commitment of the programme's sponsors:
- Sophie ADENOT, ESA Astronaut;
- Thomas PESQUET, ESA Astronaut (European Space Agency);
- Matthieu PONIN-BALLOM, Fighter pilot;
- Ines BELGACEM, Planetologist at ESA;
and GIFAS (Groupement des Industriels Français de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace) to promote equal opportunities in access to education for all.
A team of 6 dedicated people
- Programme manager :
- Cécile Latournerie
- Project managers :
- Emilie Teyssedre
- Charlotte Soulié
- Julie Devaux
- Isabelle Pillant
- Consultant :
- Joël Daste
Actions throughout the year
All the activities are carried out throughout the school year by volunteer students from ISAE-SUPAERO, who each year initiate a wide range of educational activities using their knowledge and expertise!
Tutoring, local support
In the current climate, many young people need support with their schooling. The ISAE SUPAERO OSE programme offers weekly face-to-face tutoring sessions in 4 secondary schools in Toulouse.
From November to June, the students share their methodological tools and their scientific knowledge with around a hundred secondary school students from the second to the final year of secondary school, in the context of three-hour weekly sessions.
Long-distance tutoring is also offered to overcome the isolation of students from rural areas and those with reduced mobility.
Read more on this subject: Samuel Falcou , a 20-year-old student in his 2nd year (class of 2024) of the ISAE-SUPAERO general engineering course, and Tristan Ducéré, a 17-year-old student in his final year at Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec.
Meeting young people, talking to them about the different paths they can take in their studies, deconstructing stereotypes about higher education, coaching them for important exams, answering their questions about their choice of course and simply sharing great moments with them have been my main activities with OSE l'ISAE-SUPAERO during my years at the Institute!
Victoria Da Poian Alumni of ISAE-SUPAERO, working at NASAMajor events in the programme
In partnership with the higher education establishments that are members of the Midi-Pyrénées Social Opening Group (Groupe d’Ouverture Sociale Midi-Pyrénées) – INSA, IMT Mines Albi, INP Toulouse and ISAE-SUPAERO – there are two highlights during the school year.
It's a day of sharing and exchange, with the programme's sponsors, organised around raising awareness of disability!
Watch the video!
Meetings about training and careers with high-level professionals from different sectors who are themselves from diverse backgrounds.
Two Campus au féminin days are being organised in partnership with the ISAElles student club at ISAE-SUPAERO:
- meeting women engineers,
- discover scientific and technical courses
- visits to ISAE-SUPAERO's research departments and campus,
- meetings with the Institute's students and staff,
- immersion courses in ISAE-SUPAERO's research departments and in partner companies,
- information and guidance sessions on higher education in schools,
- visits (Cité de l'espace, Aéroscopia Museum).
OSE INGÉ, our scheme for CPGE students
OSE InGÉ is ISAE-SUPAERO’s new Student Social Opening programme for students in the scientific CPGE.
The scheme provides personalised support for girls and scholarship-holders throughout their CPGE course to help them build their future plans and develop their ambitions.
The scheme has been running since 2022 thanks to
- the collaboration of the teaching teams at the partner lycées in the Académie de Toulouse: Lycée Bellevue, Lycée Déodat de Séverac and Lycée Pierre de Fermat in Toulouse, Lycée Jean Dupuy and Lycée Théophile Gautier in Tarbes, and Lycée Ferdinand Foch in Rodez;
- the mobilisation of graduates and students from ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC;
- the support of our partners: the Occitanie Regional Council, the Occitanie Academy, the Dassault Systèmes Foundation, Airbus, Elior, the Occitanie Commissariat à la lutte contre la pauvreté, and the Toulouse CREPS.
All about OSE INGÉ
Tailor-made mentoring
Students receive personalised, one-to-one support from an alumni mentor, depending on their availability and needs. They are supported right up to the competitive entrance exams by an alumnus of ISAE-SUPAERO or ENAC who, thanks to his or her experience, support and listening skills, helps them answer their questions and reinforce their choices.
Mentors receive training to help them provide the best possible support to CPGE students.
Immersion courses at ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC
These internships are an opportunity to discover the campus of a Grande École, talk to former CPGE students and professionals with inspiring backgrounds, meet your mentor, consolidate your knowledge and learn how to manage your CPGE years more effectively.
Two immersion courses in 1ʳᵉ year:
One immersion during the autumn holidays devoted to:
- Group cohesion
- Getting to know your mentor
- Meeting other students
- Reflecting on academic and professional projects
- Personal development workshops
- Exchanges with second-year CPGE students
An immersion course during the spring holidays dedicated to :
- Determining TIPE subjects
- Consolidating skills in non-scientific subjects
- Work on oral skills
Two immersion courses in 2ᵉ year:
One immersion during the autumn holidays allows:
- More in-depth preparation for competitive exam orals
- Finalisation of TIPE work
- A presentation by the CROUS on the assistance available
- Discussions with students about the competitive examinations
- Information from the CROUS on available grants
A final immersion course in February to :
- Enjoy a privileged working environment on the ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC campuses
Special events at partner high schools
- Career guidance evenings
- Testimonials from inspiring professionals
Target audience: girls and/or students with CPGE scholarships
6 partner schools in 2023-2024: Pierre de Fermat, Déodat de Séverac and Bellevue in Toulouse, Jean Dupuy and Théophile Gautier in Tarbes, Ferdinand Foch in Rodez.
A total of 91 pupils have been included in the scheme since September 2022:
- 42 students supported, including 36 girls, all with grants, all in the first year of CPGE for 2022-2023
- A total of 79 students in 2023-2024: 30 in the second year from 2022 and 49 in the first year
- Support these students throughout their CPGE years and up to the competitive entrance exams
- Support students in developing their career plans and aspirations
- Help students gain a better understanding of the world of the grandes écoles, scientific careers and the world of engineering
- Helping students to develop and exploit their full potential
- Support from mentors for oral examinations
- Democratisation of education linked to profound rather than structural changes
- Greater social openness in the grandes écoles and the engineering field
- Creation of an innovative scheme for an Occitanie region
Our challenge is to provide an opening to the grandes écoles and the professional world to offer motivating prospects through mentoring by working engineers who are alumni of ISAE-SUPAERO and ENAC.
Cécile Latournerie Programme managerOur partners and sponsors
Our partners
Our sponsors
The ISAE-SUPAERO OSE programme is sponsored by former ISAE-SUPAERO engineering students!
Thomas Pesquet, ESA astronaut
Thomas joined ISAE-SUPAERO after an MPSI preparatory class in Rouen.
After working for several years at CNES, he became an airline pilot. In 2009, he was selected by ESA to train as an astronaut.
His first mission to the International Space Station took place in November 2016.
” For me, getting involved with OSE l’ISAE SUPAERO is first and foremost about showing solidarity. I feel I’ve received a lot in life, because my parents and teachers gave me the greatest gift of all: education, and now it’s my turn to share it.
It’s important that everyone should have the same opportunities: girls and boys, from all backgrounds and origins, with disabilities or with difficulties at school. Everyone can make a contribution.
My role as a sponsor is first and foremost to tell the children that anything is possible, that you can achieve your dreams, and that even if you don’t achieve them, simply doing your best to try will inevitably get you somewhere.
I want to pass on to them my conviction that we shouldn’t be afraid of the future and that life in a country like ours is full of opportunities; the worst thing that could happen would be not to try, to seize them for lack of confidence or information.”
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you don’t spend your whole life in a cradle. –Tsiolkovski
Photo ®Nicole Fischer
Ines Belgacem, Doctor of Planetology
Inès joined ISAE SUPAERO in 2012 after two years of preparatory classes in Physics and Chemistry.
She is currently a planetologist at ESA.
” Schemes like OSE are a particular opportunity for all the students they supervise to come into contact with a world to which they would not necessarily have access otherwise. OSE and, in particular, the dialogue with the students enable them to discover new things and to be supported in their projects in a spirit of openness, sharing and solidarity.
I therefore see my role as sponsor as a privileged relationship with the students supervised by OSE to encourage them to pursue their projects, whatever they may be, and to show them that the greatest barriers we face are often those we impose on ourselves, that we can all go beyond them and that the game is definitely worth the candle!
People build too many walls and not enough bridges. – Newton
Sophie Adenot, astronaut at ESA
Sophie graduated from ISAE-SUPAERO in 2004.
She is a helicopter test pilot and now an ESA astronaut.
” My motivation for this commitment is to give a little boost of motivation: to all the young people who are still hesitating to embark on the adventure of aeronautics, to those who put barriers in their way before they have even tried, to those who have tried and who need a little more support, to those who, because they are disabled, think that the aeronautical community cannot offer them a small place.
My role as godmother is to talk to the young people and their teachers/mentors, to answer their questions, and to help them launch a career in science and aeronautics“.
It’s not because things are difficult that we don’t dare, it’s because we don’t dare that they are difficult. –Seneca
Photo ®ESA
Matthieu Ponin-Ballom, fighter pilot
Matthieu first joined the Ecole de l’Air in Salon de Provence, where he became a pilot.
In 2014, he graduated from ISAE SUPAERO. He is now studying at the war school in Lourdes.
” Every year, the OSE association sponsors hundreds of young people and encourages them not to set themselves limits that would be due to their origin, social condition or disability. This essential action to promote equal opportunities for young people is underpinned by the values of cohesion, sharing and surpassing oneself, which are also very dear to the Air Force and the basis of our commitment. The honour of becoming a sponsor of the programme is a very strong link through which I hope to continue, with all the team involved in the adventure, to promote these values that unite us “.
The future is only ever the present to be put in order, you don’t have to foresee it, but to allow it. –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
At ISAE-SUPAERO, thanks to the support of our institutional, industrial and association partners, we are committed to ensuring educational equity and better professional integration for everyone!
Emilie Tota Deputy Managing DirectorThey support us
The ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation
The ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation was created in 2008 with the mission of supporting the development of ISAE-SUPAERO by contributing to the financing of projects for students, teacher-researchers and professors.
The Foundation works to develop the influence and global leadership of ISAE-SUPAERO by proposing and accelerating innovative projects that contribute to a sustainable world.
Find out more about the Foundation.
GIFAS (French aerospace industry association)
A word from Philippe Dujaric, Director of Social Affairs and Training
” Promoting the engineering professions to a wide audience of secondary school students in all regions is a core concern for GIFAS and has been a permanent and important focus of our partnership with the ISAE-SUPAERO Group and the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation since its inception. The awareness-raising and discovery initiatives developed with perseverance and professionalism throughout the Occitanie region by ISAE-SUPAERO teachers and students on a voluntary basis are exemplary in this respect. They also reflect GIFAS’s concern to maintain real social diversity in aeronautical schools, and therefore in the future generations of engineers who will join our industry. I would like to thank all those involved in the OSE programme, ISAE-SUPAERO and the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation, for fulfilling this mission with enthusiasm and efficiency throughout the year.
Our institutional partners
Our private and community partners
How can you support us?
Individuals
OSE ISAE-SUPAERO is asking companies to get involved!
From now on, you can support solidarity initiatives in favour of access to education for all.
Host conferences, share your experience and expertise or take part in events: discover the different types of cooperation possible with ISAE-SUPAERO and make your choice!
For a company
OSE l'ISAE-SUPAERO invites companies to get involved. Join the network of partners!
From now on, you can support solidarity initiatives in favour of access to education for all.
Open the doors of your company, host conferences, share your experience and expertise or take part in events: discover the different types of cooperation possible with ISAE-SUPAERO and make your choice!
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