Campus Life Department
Manager: Valérie Rabia
Assistant manager : Vanessa Bontems
The Campus Life department groups together five services around the following themes: social action and leisure, art & culture, disability, quality of life at work and student life. These departments share a common goal: to work towards improving study, working and living conditions for UM students and staff. This department also contributes to strengthening the sense of belonging to the university and fostering cohesion within the academic community.
Missions :
- Make the workplace a place where students and staff can live and thrive, and promote student success.
- Participate in the definition and implementation of the company's CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy, in particular with the development and deployment of :
- Master plans for disability and student life.
- Programs to improve quality of life at work (QWL) and prevent psychosocial risks (PSR).
- Roadmap for contemporary art and culture.
- Social benefits specific to the University of Montpellier.
- Action plans for gender equality in the workplace.
- Reporting system for all acts of violence, discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, gender-based harassment, etc.
- Building a more inclusive university:
- Promoting diversity and combating discrimination and sexist or sexual violence.
- Promoting gender equality.
- Welcoming, supporting and including students and staff with disabilities.
- Support student associations and their initiatives, in keeping with UM values.
- Make the university a cultural center rooted in the region.
- Organize, coordinate and manage events on campus, such as the Open Day (JPO), Donner des Elles à l'UM (a series of actions organized in March around International Women's Rights Day), the Week against Racism and Anti-Semitism, the staff party, the ceremony in honor of retirees, the Christmas party for staff children, the week against LGBT+phobia, welcome days for new students and other events for students and staff, in line with the University of Montpellier's objectives of diversity and inclusion.
