Partnership
and expert training.
Our values
Within the 2 pillars of TEACHING and RESEARCH, the values of the trainers, coaches and instructors, researchers, and the pedagogical and research team to which the activities are attached bring together:
- Professionalism, open-mindedness and humility in the face of the complex challenges that our trainees and managers have to overcome in the field in Southern countries.
- Commitments of which “Water and Sanitation for All” is a symbol to offer to all urban populations in the cities of the South, whatever their conditions, access to water and sanitation that will lead them to daily dignity.
- Knowledge sharing, building trust with our trainees, managers and researchers. Listening and abnegation to support our trainees towards greater responsibilities as public service managers.
With ethics and integrity, we consider that the keys to change are also the leadership and management values of a company that leads all human resources to success and sustainable performance.

Our partners

Governance
The governance of the Chair is based on its Strategic Policy Board, its Orientation Advisory Board, its Pedagogical Board and its Scientific Board.
These respective bodies meet 1 to 4 times a year. They examine the results and progress of training programmes, the resources allocated for training, the implementation of research projects and events. There is a coherent and close monitoring of the situation based on an integrated action plan.
The Strategic Orientation Council (COS) has the following missions:
- to define the objectives and strategic orientations of the Chair
- the review and approval of budgets and action plans prepared by the Director of the Chair
- the review and approval of the activity report prepared annually by the Chair’s executive staff
- the review and approval of communication plans and actions
The COS is constituted equally by members of the Founding Academic College and members of the Corporate College.
The Orientation Consultative Council (CCO) constitutes the Consultative Council for the OpT SPECIALIZED MASTER as required by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles regarding the governance of the Specialized Masters.The CCO is an Orientation Council whose vocation is to enrich the reflections of the COS. In addition to the members of the COS, the CCO gathers a number of renowned national and international personalities (academic experts, representatives of the professional world, external stakeholders). Members are appointed intuitu personæ.
Within the framework of the strategic orientations defined by the Strategic Policy Board (COS), the mission of the Pedagogical Committee is to :
- Recommend the content and organisation of the courses and workshops, as well as the general planning of the training programme
- Define the selection and recruitment procedures for the candidates to the International Executive Master’s
- Monitor all the teaching programmes and activities carried out under the Chair, analyse the self-evaluation and external evaluation of the training provided.
- Propose measures to improve the quality of the teaching methods and the forms of continuous assessment.
- Organize the juries of admissions and professional thesis defense and submit the list of eligible trainees to the AgroParisTech authorities for validation.
The Scientific Committee (CS) is responsible for guiding the research policy of the AgroParisTech-SUEZ Chair. Through its reviews, it provides assistance and expertise to the Strategic Orientation Council (COS). Its advices relate to the relevance of the scientific orientations of the Chair with regard to its mission and objectives, and to the opportunity of the proposed actions of the research programme. The Scientific Committee may produce recommendations and suggestions on research actions. It is consulted on the distribution of the financial support provided for the research actions and may be involved in the evaluation of the Chair’s activities.
Become a partner
The Chair is open to partnerships in teaching and research.
In this respect, specific criteria are examined for each partnership.
For Teaching, the reputation and excellence of a partner in terms of the transfer of knowledge in management, particularly in public service management, and with international and executive dimensions, are key strengths.These opportunities are considered according to the Chair’s strategic axes
For Research, the institutions involved in our themes, wishing to build projects in the field in our areas of application and in developing or emerging countries, will meet the same criteria. We favour centres of excellence in the South within such a framework.
Financial partners or sponsors are eligible to collaborate and support our programs. Such approaches are examined by the COS and the founding members if they correspond to the general orientations.

In order to contribute, together, to the sustainable development goals