An occupational training between source company and university
The programme is designed to ensure optimal development of the management abilities of the trainees.
For the companies which send them, trainees represent an important human resource and investment. During the year of training, trainees are not isolated from their companies. On the contrary, they interact closely with the company in order to complete the specific assignment assigned to them by their superiors, in coordination with the programme teaching staff.
Trainees alternate between university and company during the programme, returning twice to the work at the sponsor company.
An assignment during the course: Design a development project for urban services
Throughout the course, each trainee will work on a development project for a drinking water and/or sanitation service, which will be described in the candidates’ applications presented by their superiors, and which will most likely be the department they will head after leaving the programme, or in which they will at least assume a position of responsibility requiring overall understanding (technical, financial and social) of the department.
This mission will involve independent work by the trainee, carried out during the course, which will serve both as the guideline and the principal component of the programme.
Development of the mission, which continues throughout the course, will be broken up into three phases corresponding to the three sequences of the course:
Work placement agreement
A tripartite work placement agreement between the company (general management and/or regulatory authority), the trainee and AgroParisTech, specifies the department in which the trainee’s mission will be carried out, and any specific topic to be addressed.
This agreement may require trainees to commit to stay for a minimum period of time with the authority or company which sponsored them for the course.
Work carried out by trainees during the placement : ownership and confidentiality
The company or local authorities may require that the mission entrusted to the trainee, related to a drinking water or sanitation service, be regarded as confidential, specifically the reports written by the trainee and, more generally, all collected data and results.
This legitimate request is the subject of a specific clause of the tripartite work placement agreement, between the company, the trainee and AgroParisTech, and is a clause strictly enforced by all the work placement partners.
All the documents related to the missions are then classified as confidential AgroParisTech documents, and cannot be borrowed or consulted without the express agreement of the signatories of the work placement agreement.
Lastly, if the company so requires, the placement report may be defended in front of a jury, the members of which are selected by mutual agreement between AgroParisTech and the company, who undertake to respect the confidentiality of the documents and statements.
