DEAUVILLE GREEN AWARDS 2020: A SILVER TROPHY FOR THE FILM “TOUJOURS PRÈS” (ALWAYS CLOSE)

We are proud to announce that our film “Toujours Près” received an accolade at the Deauville Green Awards 2020.

Among the 500 films from 35 countries focusing on sustainable development and social responsibility, the film “Toujours Près”, produced by Groupama Group’s Internal Communication department, was awarded a Silver Trophy.

A superb outcome for a fine collaboration between NGO Toujours Près, the Groupama Foundation and Groupama Immobilier.

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GROUPAMA’S FORESTS ON TV

On Friday, 13 March at 9 pm, the show Tambour Battant on DemainTV (channel 31 of the TNT bundle) focused on the theme “Une forêt peut en cacher une autre” (~ There’s more to a forest than meets the eye).

The documentary put the spotlight on French forests and their role, as seen by various experts – notably Eric Donnet, CEO of Groupama Immobilier (which manages the forest properties of Société Forestière Groupama), and Laurent Piermont, Chairman of the Scientific Council of Groupama Assurances Forêts.

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ESPI – GROUPAMA JOINT PROJECT

A hundred Master’s students of the French school of real estate ESPI visited the 13,000 m² public building Diamant in Puteaux.

In small groups, these students specialising in Valuation & Auditing, Finance Engineering, and Real Estate Administration & Management discussed various strategies for creating value with the building. They will present their work to a jury made up of ESPI teachers and professionals from Groupama Immobilier and Groupama Supports & Services.

Good luck to all!

AGILE CITIES: AN URBAN INNOVATION HACKATHON

Green Soluce, a real estate consultancy specialising in the sustainable cities of tomorrow, took a forward-looking approach to reflect on Villes AgilesTM (Agile Cities) during a week-long seminar organised in partnership with the ESSEC international business school, the ENSA-v school of architecture and the EIVP engineering school.

This hackathon experience brought together the complementary profiles of students from three prestigious schools, which made it particularly productive. Using an agile methodology, future managers, engineers and architects analysed and discussed the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow’s cities. They had five days to develop forward-looking scenarios based on strategic transformation challenges suggested by five major players in the urban economy, including Groupama Immobilier. Their ideas on these challenges – which included entering new markets, transforming professions and business models, innovative approaches and partnerships for new products & services, etc. – had to take into account the underlying issues and trends of the urban transition over the next 20-30 years.

In interdisciplinary groups, the students:

  • acquired the basics of forward-looking approaches and agile methods
  • learnt more about the dynamics of urban change and how to anticipate them
  • identified levers of change and innovation opportunities for companies, to design strategic transformation scenarios and assess their impacts.

Groupama Immobilier, as a stakeholder in the event, was pleased to make premises at 150 avenue des Champs-Elysées available to the students, teachers and coaches for the Villes AgilesTM hackathon.

What better setting than an emblematic Haussmann-style building to spark ideas on the future of real estate and of the city’s production?