Health, Inclusion, Prevention

Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is committed to equal opportunities as a mission-driven society: obtaining a diploma is not an end in itself but a step towards a fulfilling career. Health, inclusion, and prevention are among our focus points throughout students’ lives at GEM.

 

Health, Inclusion, Prevention

Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is committed to equal opportunities as a mission-driven society: obtaining a diploma is not an end in itself but a step towards a fulfilling career. Health, inclusion, and prevention are among our focus points throughout students’ lives at GEM.

 

Acting for a peaceful academic experience and a sustainable professional future

True to its status as a Mission-Driven Company, GEM takes concrete and committed action to promote:

GEM works to ensure that every student can enjoy a balanced, inclusive, and respectful academic experience within an environment that values diversity and living together. The goal is to enable each individual to make informed choices and achieve sustainable, high-quality professional integration aligned with their aspirations and skills, regardless of their personal, health-related, family, or financial situation.

  • Helping students and their parents plan for the financing of their studies and explore the various options available to them: loans, grants, work-study programs, jobs, etc.
  • Offer a financing solution tailored to the student’s needs
  • Explain the financial vocabulary and implications of each decision

Health & Prevention

GEM provides students with access to Qare, a telemedicine service offering medical consultations (general practice and specialties), as well as on-campus psychological support consultations.

In addition, GEM carries out prevention initiatives in collaboration with its Student Health Ambassadors, who act as peer representatives across four key areas: mental health, physical health, festive health, and sexual health.

GEM also operates a dedicated listening and support unit for victims and witnesses of sexual and gender-based violence, discrimination, and harassment (SGBV-DH).

Academic arrangements: disability support and student caregivers

GEM supports students facing situations related to disability, mental health, physical health, neurodiversity, or family responsibilities when these have a temporary or lasting impact on academic success. This support is available throughout the entire academic journey, including during periods spent in companies, and extends through the transition into professional life.

The support framework is built around four core missions:

  • Facilitating academic success by implementing course and exam arrangements.
  • Preparing for professional life by helping students identify and use appropriate compensatory solutions and technologies, and by supporting them in expressing their needs constructively.
  • Proposing reasonable arrangements that are compatible with those likely to be implemented in the workplace.
  • Adapting assessment methods without ever compromising academic standards.

Accessing academic arrangements

To benefit from arrangements, students are encouraged to contact the Health & Inclusion team  as early as possible, ideally during the admissions phase.

All personal and health-related data are handled with strict confidentiality. Only information relating to the arrangements themselves is shared with the relevant teams.

Meeting our partner companies committed to disability & inclusion

GEM relies on strong, long-term partnerships with companies committed to inclusion and disability awareness. These collaborations help fund arrangements, tailored support measures, and disability awareness initiatives.

Networking and recruitment events are organized throughout the year, notably with Bpifrance , CGI Business Consulting, Dassault Systèmes, Groupe SEB, Schneider Electric, Wavestone, and other committed partners.

Diversité & Inclusion

Preventing and combating sexual and gender-based violence, discrimination, and harassment

GEM deploys a structured and ambitious policy, notably based on:

  • A partnership agreement with the Grenoble Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Departmental Directorate of Public Security (DDSP), and France Victimes 38, ensuring a secure legal framework for handling reports of SGBV-DH.
  • A collaboration agreement with all student associations, including the appointment of SGBV-DH referents, awareness-raising initiatives, and the dissemination of informational materials.
  • The implementation of a reporting platform and a dedicated listening and support unit.
  • Annual training and awareness initiatives for students, as well as coursework focused on workplace behavior and psychosocial risks.
  • The publication of dedicated barometers on sexism, gender-based and sexual violence, as well as violence, discrimination, and harassment.
  • The annual organization of exhibitions, workshops, and discussion forums focused on equality and social cohesion.

Inclusion of LGBTQ+ communities

The inclusion of LGBTQ+ individuals is a fully integrated pillar of GEM’s Diversity & Inclusion strategy, including:

  • Explicit integration of LGBT phobia within the SGBV-DH reporting and support framework.
  • Awareness initiatives for students and staff on inclusive practices.
  • A network of student allies.
  • Annual exhibitions on campus.
  • Dedicated resources (practical guides, reference materials, contacts, associations) via the student portal and the library.

These initiatives are complemented by the publication of a “Violence, Discrimination, and Harassment” barometer to assess students’ lived experiences and strengthen prevention, support, and continuous improvement efforts.