Valued Citizens program in South Africa

When the program was set up in 2001, it concerned 10 primary schools in the pilot region of Gauteng.

Seven years after the program's launch, the results in 2007 are positive. Valued Citizens has been rolled out in 2,385 primary and secondary schools in urban, rural and ghetto areas in Gauteng, Free State and Limpopo. These multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual schools are representative of the "rainbow nation". Renault is proud to contribute to the expansion of the program, which has reached 395,000 children and more than 3,350 teachers and heads of school since its launch.

Renault’s commitment to training low-skilled young people in France

Six of the Group’s plants in France are participating, and the program has been extended to the regions around the plants with support from local institutions. In 15 years, more than 2 600 young people, one-fourth of them women, have already taken part, with 80% receiving a diploma and 80% finding a job.

The Renault Foundation

In just six years of existence, the Renault Foundation has trained 320 grant students, mainly from Japan. The Foundation pays all the costs of their stay and their training programmes. 

The Renault Foundation currently offers four innovative training courses: 

• the Dauphine-Sorbonne-Renault  MBA:

Set up in 2002 in partnership with the University of Paris-Dauphine and the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne's corporate management institute (IAE), this is an intercultural management course delivered by the two French universities. It inducts 25 grant students from the Renault Foundation every year. 

• the ParisTech Renault Foundation Master's in Transportation and Sustainable Development:

This national master's diploma is conferred by ParisTech under the auspices of three of France's most prestigious engineering schools (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Ecole des Mines de Paris and Ecole Polytechnique). The course brings together – for the first time – research professors in transportation and sustainable development, thus creating a forum for debate on these apparently conflicting global issues. Set up in 2004, the course inducts 20 grant students from the Renault Foundation for three terms. Each intake comprises a maximum of 30 students, including 20 from the Foundation.     

• Renault Majors Cycle:

Set up in 2006, this cycle gives post-graduate students from Japanese universities an opportunity to complete a year of Masters-level study at one of the programme's partner institutes in France: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, for students of Social Sciences, Economic Sciences or Political Sciences, and, for students of Engineering Sciences: Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, and Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon.

• The "Multicultural Management and Corporate Performance" chair

This chair was created in June 2007 in partnership with Ecole Polytechnique and HEC. Its aim is to develop the capacity of final-year students at HEC and Polytechnique to understand and implement managerial practices geared to economic realities and to all types of cultural diversity.

Find out more about these training courses.  

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Student testimonials

Read the testimonials of students from the ParisTech Renault Foundation Master's program in Transportation and Sustainable Development:

• Atsuko Nakasone, 24, from Tokyo, Japan,
• Fabricio Cardoso, 23, from Limeira, Brazil.