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ESTACA and Naval Group Sign a Partnership Agreement

21 October 2024

ESTACA, a post-baccalaureate engineering school specializing in sustainable transport, and Naval Group, an international naval defense company, have strengthened their ties by signing a partnership agreement.

The goal is to develop the School’s offering in line with Naval Group’s industrial needs, through cooperation on initial and continuing engineering training, research, innovation and development projects, and measures to facilitate hiring interns, work-study students and engineers.

« By signing this partnership with Naval Group, we are pursuing our goal to create strong strategic links with manufacturers in all branches of mobility, including the naval branch recently opened at ESTACA. This partnership is fully in line with our strategic plan, and seals our ties with Naval Group, which supported the creation of the course at the École and is already involved with our students. »

Jean-Michel Durepaire

Managing Director, ESTACA

« The naval industry is constantly changing and there are many areas of development: decarbonization, energy management, digitalization, self-propelled ships, underwater and surface drones... Our special program, launched in September 2021, now trains around 50 students in these current and future challenges and has been largely co-constructed with manufacturers. »

Frédéric Murzyn

Head of ESTACA's naval program

« This partnership with ESTACA extends our commitment by giving future engineers an early, hands-on look at careers in the naval defense industry. Naval Group can therefore offer opportunities to work in a high-tech environment, on some of the world's most complex programs, building the naval ships of tomorrow. The development, transmission and maintenance of skills are essential to the Group's strategy, in the service of French sovereignty »

Jean-Luc France

Director of Human Resources, Naval Group

Acquiring scientific and technical skills for successful professional integration

Naval Group has been working with ESTACA since the naval program was created in 2021 and is strengthening its ties with the school through its commitment to engineering training. Students undergoing initial training will benefit from the scientific and technical knowledge of Naval Group experts, who will speak at the school, host themed conferences, business meetings and debates, and talk about possible careers and professions within the Group. Students will also be able to go on visits to the company’s sites to learn more about the shipbuilding industry.

To meet recruitment needs in the sector, ESTACA is committed to facilitating the hiring of interns, apprentices and graduate engineers, by organizing personalized actions. For its part, Naval Group will support students in their career development by making available internship, apprenticeship and professionalization opportunities, and running recruitment interview simulation workshops.

The scope of this partnership will also apply to vocational training. Naval Group will be able to work with ESTACA to train its employees from technician to engineer level.

Measure already taken in the naval program show that ESTACA’s training programs are well suited to the needs of Naval Group: many of the school’s engineers work for the company and are present at 8 of the group’s 10 sites, in Cherbourg, Brest, Lorient, Saint-Tropez, Ollioules, Angoulême-Ruelle, Bagneux and Toulon.

Developing and maintaining skills in the key naval defense sector

By creating ESTACA’s naval program, and signing this partnership, Naval Group and ESTACA have embarked on a joint initiative to ensure the long-term future of the cutting-edge skills needed in the naval defense sector.

As a company with a long-term vision, Naval Group needs to maintain its skills in more than 200 specific areas (nuclear propulsion, diving safety, submarine architecture, etc.).