Campus Life Department
Director: Valérie Rabia
Assistant Director: Vanessa Bontems
The Campus Life Department comprises five services focusing on the following areas: social action and leisure, art & culture, disability, quality of life at work, and student life. These departments share a common goal: to work to improve the study, work, and living conditions of UM students and staff. This department also helps to strengthen the sense of belonging to the university and promote cohesion within the university community.
Responsibilities:
- Make the workplace a place where students and staff can thrive and flourish, and promote student success.
- Participate in defining and implementing CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy, in particular by developing and rolling out:
- Master plans on disability and student life.
- Programs to improve quality of life at work (QLW) and prevent psychosocial risks (PSR).
- Roadmap for contemporary art and culture.
- Social benefits scheme specific to the University of Montpellier.
- Action plans for gender equality in the workplace.
- System for reporting any acts of violence, discrimination, psychological or sexual harassment, sexist behavior, etc.
- Building a more inclusive university:
- Promote diversity and combat discrimination and gender-based or sexual violence.
- Promoting gender equality.
- Welcoming, supporting, and including students and staff with disabilities.
- Support student associations and assist with their initiatives, in accordance with UM values.
- Make the university a place of culture rooted in the local community.
- Organize, coordinate, and manage campus events, such as Open House Day (JPO), Donner des Elles à l’UM (a series of events organized in March around International Women's Rights Day), Anti-Racism and Anti-Semitism Awareness Week, staff parties, ceremonies honoring retirees, Christmas parties for staff children, LGBT+phobia awareness week, orientation days for new students, and other events for students and staff, in line with the University of Montpellier's diversity and inclusion objectives.
