24 hours to find innovative and creative solutions to the subjects proposed by the member companies of the Avenia cluster, the competitiveness cluster dedicated to underground industries. This was the program on November 17 and 18 for 8 Geosciences and Environment engineering students from UniLaSalle, who had travelled to Bordeaux to compete alongside students from other higher education establishments.

In mixed teams, they pooled their ideas and knowledge to respond to future problems posed by companies in the energy and environment sector.

And in this little game, our students were quite successful! With a public choice award, a third place and the final victory for teams including a Lasallian, three of our eight participating students were rewarded.

This edition of the 24 Hours of Innovation at the Center of the Earth was particularly appreciated by the student-engineers involved, who emphasized that it was an enriching experience on a human level as well as on a scientific and technical level.

The subjects addressed by the Lasallian students

• Mitigating water stress by replenishing the water table, a topic led by Suez Eau France - Philippine Belot's team   
• Which innovative solution(s) to develop to reduce the impact of the French/European mining and metallurgy activity, subject led by ASM - team of Clément Bonnault > 1st place   
• How to convince people that surface geothermal energy is one of the future solutions to decarbonize buildings, topic submitted by Celsius Energy - Rémi Champigny's team   
• Development of the energy transition through a card game, topic led by TotalEnergies - team of Théo Dufresne and Camille Baulain
• Innovative strategy methods to better capture geophysical phenomena, topic led by 45-8 Energy - team of Juliette Denudt   
• How to make geology more accessible and fun, topic led by Elis - Anaé Lemaire's team > 3rd place   
• Detection and characterization of circular structure called fairy circle using remote sensing in exploratory perspectives, subject submitted by CVA - team of Côme de Richoufftz > Public's favorite prize