Since September 2020, Meanwhile Boutique has been collaborating with Flora, Mélissa and Célia, three engineering students. They are volunteers for NOISE, the committed student association that supports projects with a positive environmental and social impact. Discover this association that invites you to study differently, its initiatives and the experience of its volunteers at Meanwhile Boutique.
NOISE: making noise for a better future
“It was better after” is the student association's motto.
Since 2011, the New Observatory of Social and Environmental Innovations, or NOISE, brings together many students to make noise around initiatives on social and environmental issues.
Their goal? To raise awareness and implement concrete actions to propel these projects while encouraging students to take action.
After 10 years of existence, the association is now present in 10 grandes écoles, including ECE, with whom we have been collaborating since the start of the 2020 academic year.
With more than 1000 active members, NOISE offers many actions and events throughout the year.
Building a sustainable future through impact projects
NOISE believes that you can be a student while taking action for your values.
It promotes dialogue, exchange and creation in a positive dynamic with the desire to do things differently to reinvent education and build a sustainable future.
Members get involved in projects and events throughout the year:
- The Noisy Blog, a positive journalism blog that offers interviews, articles and reports to stay informed in a positive and committed way
- Bim Bam Boom, meetings and events across networks to discover projects, places, meet inspiring people in a friendly atmosphere
- Try an Teach, workshops to educate differently on an interesting topic, through conferences, meetings
- EKKO, a support program for entrepreneurs and projects committed to the ecological and social transition
- Génération Changement Forum, an annual forum that connects committed students and equally committed companies
Of course, in addition to these 4 levers of action, each school in the network has its own events and actions.
Noise supports Meanwhile Boutique
Since September 2020 Meanwhile Boutique participates in EKKO, the NOISE ECE project to support committed entrepreneurs.
Mélissa, Flora and Célia are 3 volunteers from this engineering school who give their time to support our project.
They chose to support us in managing social media to learn more in a field very different from their studies.
Mélissa and Flora on Instagram and Célia on our Pinterest account.
After a year working with Meanwhile Boutique, here are their testimonials:
Célia: " Working with Meanwhile Boutique allowed me to discover the world of communication and entrepreneurship, while helping to promote responsible brands. Manon, the founder of Meanwhile Boutique, is dedicated and knows how to share her knowledge in a warm atmosphere. I am delighted to have been able to participate in her project and to have discovered so many committed brands."
Flora: “My experience at Meanwhile Boutique allows me to make use of my free time by helping committed brands, creators and designers for the environment. I discovered many alternatives that are respectful of the planet and its inhabitants, both human and animal, especially in the sustainable fashion world. This volunteering also allowed me to realize the importance of brand communication through social media and to discover the multiple features that Instagram offers to professionals and creators.”
For Meanwhile Boutique, welcoming volunteers brought us a fresh perspective, new ideas and valuable help throughout the year.
Engineering and communication are two very different fields, yet it was our ecological values that brought us together and allowed us to collaborate together.
Their motivation and curiosity helped them adapt to new tools, new practices, which, we hope, will be useful to them in the future.
A big thank you to them and to NOISE, for their support and all the initiatives they put in place 😊
Are you an entrepreneur committed to the ecological and social transition? A student eager to get involved? Curious to discover NOISE's activities? Visit the association's website to learn more:
