UM campuses "ALiVE!

Following the "ALiVE" call for projects launched last October by the University of Montpellier, fourteen projects for the renovation and creation of student facilities have been selected. Relaxation areas, restaurants, bike shelters or sports fields... there's something for everyone on the UM campuses.

A.L.i.V.E, for Amélioration des lieux de vie étudiante: a call for projects that lives up to its name! Launched by the UM last October on the idea of student vice-president Alexis Vandeventer, the call invited students and administrations of the various UFRs, Schools and Institutes to take advantage of the CVEC (contribution vie étudiante de campus) to improve student facilities. And many of them responded, playing the game of consultation... demonstrating, in the process, a certain originality in seizing this opportunity.

In the end, fourteen of the fifteen projects submitted were selected by the committee on January 21 and will see the light of day, subject to budgetary approval by the Board of Directors. The majority of these projects involve the creation or redevelopment of catering facilities. At its Nîmes and Perpignan sites, the Faculty of Education will see its cafeteria and foyer restored and their capacity enlarged. At the Faculty of Economics, the renovated K-Fet will become the Eco'Chill, while at theBéziers IUT, a chalet will house the Coffea house, and theNîmes IUT will focus on outdoor conviviality with the creation of the Chill' Lab.

Chalet, terrace or pine forest...

The Faculty of Education in Montpellier will also be playing hooky by landscaping the gardens and terrace in front of the cafeteria. The same applies to the Faculty of Medicine, Nîmes site, where an unused 1,000 m² pine forest will become a modular outdoor space. Pharmacy students, meanwhile, will see the large ground-floor hall refurbished to create the Hall You Need, a 50 m² space dedicated to meeting and relaxing.

The Polytech students, in their Born to be alive! project, have also redesigned the student office and outdoor areas, which will be fitted out with fixed furniture. This is similar to the project undertaken by students at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, for whom the premises of the Tutors' Association were in need of a little refurbishment. In odontology, the aim is to create an outdoor space.

Sports and mobility

We'd expect nothing less from Stapsians, who are asking to invest in soft mobility on their campus. A cycle path will be laid out on the ground, with signs indicating distances and travel times; parking spaces will be increased; and ergocycles will be installed to charge students' computers, telephones and batteries for scooters and electric bikes, for a connected, eco-friendly campus. Soft mobility will also be encouraged at the Montpellier site of the Faculty of Medicine, which will see the completion of a secure bicycle storage area. And there's even more sport at theMontpellier-Sète IUT, where students have voted in favor of the creation of a multi-sports field, where they can play pétanque, volleyball or mini-football.

Alive will enable us to continue the momentum that students are instilling on our campuses, and to foster the social ties that are so crucial to university success. ALiVE, a fine call for projects that didn't go unheeded!