The fourth edition of the Ecological and Digital Transition Festival provided students with insights into Dijon’s transition goals through the RESPONSE project, highlighting future career opportunities in sustainable innovation.

The fourth edition of the Ecological and Digital Transition Festival took place from 4 November to 8 December 2024. It featured 90 events in a variety of formats, which aimed to understand the challenges of the ecological and digital transition, and to help people discover the trainings and careers that contribute to it in Burgundy-Franche-Comté thanks to a tailor-made programme around these challenges: exhibitions, conferences, hackathons, and visits of companies or laboratories. 

The festival is particularly aimed at “learners” (secondary school students, university students and apprentices), including people undergoing career change and job seekers, teachers and employees. 

This was the context in which the Green City – Campus des Métiers organised the second ‘” Your Job of Tomorrow, a sustainable, low-carbon city ‘’ forum in Dijon from 2 to 4 December.   

This forum is an experience during which visitors are given a mission that will lead them to work together to identify and mobilise key skills for a project that contributes to decarbonisation. 

EDF and Dijon Métropole presented the RESPONSE model and the city’s civic services demonstrated the “Draw your Positive Energy District” board game developed as part of the project, to introduce students to the context of the city’s decarbonisation. 

Using the example of RESPONSE in Dijon, the students learned not only about the objectives of the city’s transition, but also about the career opportunities, it offers. Encouraged by this introduction, they then discovered the jobs of the future in several workshops run by schools and companies.