International
8 Jul 2026
From 29 June to 3 July, the Icam Toulouse site hosted a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) dedicated to the theme “Artificial intelligence and sustainability”. This short mobility programme, funded by Erasmus+, brought together 31 students, 6 teacher-researchers and 4 industry partners from Ireland, Spain and Belgium, alongside the Icam Toulouse teams.
An intensive week bringing students face to face with real-world challenges
Throughout the week, lectures, workshops and group projects followed one another, with a shared goal: to explore how artificial intelligence can contribute to more sustainable futures, through a resolutely transdisciplinary approach. A fantastic week of collaboration, creativity and shared learning.
It had been preceded, between 2 and 18 June, by six online sessions led by researchers from the four partner institutions, to lay the theoretical groundwork for the programme.
A highlight was the visit to the ANITI laboratory (Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute), which gave students the opportunity to compare their work with research being carried out locally on artificial intelligence.
The week concluded with oral defences of eight student projects, presented before leading industry partners: Citi, Mphasis, DSW and Orcawise. A unique opportunity for everyone to put their thinking into practice in front of sector professionals. Three teams made it onto the podium, each winning a prize.
A programme co-designed by Icam Toulouse with four partner institutions
The programme for this BIP was co-designed by six teacher-researchers from Icam, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, the University of Namur and the National College of Ireland, in association with the four industry partners.
At the Icam Toulouse site, it was led and coordinated in particular by Nora Lemouzy-Bouamari, International Partnerships and Development Manager, supported by Catherine Maury, Icam International Programmes Coordinator, along with Charly Pécoste, PhD in cognitive ergonomics and teacher-researcher in AI at work.
This BIP is part of an ongoing drive for cooperation between Jesuit higher education institutions within the Kircher network. Of the four programmes run by this group with European funding over the next two years, two are led by the Icam Toulouse site: this BIP on AI and sustainability, and a Staff Training programme dedicated to meaningful learning and intercultural teaching (“Meaningful learning and intercultural teaching”), which took place from 3 to 5 June 2026 at the Icam Toulouse site and focused on intercultural communication and inclusive pedagogy.
“The aim of this programme is to facilitate encounters and the exchange of good practice within the network, to enable us to work together and organise projects on shared, transdisciplinary themes in order to build up our skills,” explains Nora Lemouzy.
Icam Toulouse warmly thanks all the professors and researchers for their commitment, as well as the students involved in the BIP!
