Energy, risks and the environment (ERE)

Energy, Risks and the Environment Department, apprenticeship-based training delivered on the Bourges campus

An apprenticeship-based engineering course

Graduates completing the Energy, Risks and the Environment (ERE) programme are awarded an engineering degree from the INSA Centre Val de Loire in partnership with the Hubert Curien CFSA of the Cher Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The programme is taught over three years via apprenticeship. It is free and apprentices receive remuneration.

3 specialities are available from the first year of the course:

• Risk Governance and Engineering (IGR)
• Quality Engineering (IQ)
• Energy Efficiency Management (MEE)

The Energy, Risks and the Environment course is work-linked, alternating between academic study periods at INSA and working periods in the host company.
The 1800 hours of academic teaching includes lectures, tutorials, classroom-based teaching and projects for example.
Apprentices must take modules covering the core syllabus for 3 specialities as well as specific modules to each speciality.
The in-company periods give apprentices the opportunity to put the academic skills acquired during their study periods at INSA into immediate practice in the workplace.

A unique work-linked training course put together for apprentices

Over the three-year course, apprentice engineers only have 7 return trips to make between the INSA Centre Val de Loire and their company and, what’s more, the periods spent in the school are always shorter than the in-company periods.
Overall, apprentices spend around 2/3 of the course in a company, working in their department at regular intervals alongside their apprenticeship supervisor. The last six months of the course are spent entirely in the company.
To be awarded their engineering degree, apprentices must develop 10 professional skills in their company – the acquisition and assimilation of which they must prove through a report and viva.
For that, they receive guidance not only from their apprenticeship supervisor but also an academic tutor at the CFSA, a risk, quality or energy efficiency professional.

International mobility: compulsory two-month study period in a foreign culture.

The core syllabus

The ERE programme teaches both a core syllabus and speciality modules. The core syllabus focuses on corporate management and sciences, thereby enabling future engineers to develop a double skill set as both an engineer and a manager.