European Leadership for Safety Education

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• During the #GC68 side event on “Strengthening European Nuclear Safety and Safeguards Education – Training and Tutoring,” co-hosted by the French Permanent Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Commission, the SENSSEtt Project team presented the European training programmes on management and leadership for safety and safeguards : ELSE Project, DMaLSE Project, and SaTE. The SENSSEtt Project will provide sustainability to all three diploma programmes and in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the project will disseminate advanced knowledge through reference documents andnetworks of alumni, experts and academics

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• We are happy to announce that the face-to-face session of the ELSE second edition successfully concluded on Friday, September 13th! From 2 to 13 September 2024, we had the pleasure to host nineteen trainees from fourteen countries, each sharing their unique insights, experiences, and perspectives.A heartfelt thank you to all the trainees, professors and experts who made this journey so rewarding and memorable. Your dedication and contributions have been truly invaluable!

         

      

• We have the pleasure to announce that the ELSE Project will be now integrated into the new consolidation project, SENSSEtt Project (Strengthening European Nuclear Safety and Safeguards Education training and tutoring). SENSSEtt is co-funded by the European Union and will be led by SKEMA Business School in partnership with Université Côte d'Azur and Politecnico di Milano. The project will be carried out over 60 months to further disseminate capabilities for the successful management and leadership in nuclear operations and safeguards:  (ELSE Project and training), nuclear decommissioning projects (DMaLSE Project and training), and to improve the efficiency of actions in the field of nuclear safeguards (SaTE project). The Inception Meeting of SENSSEtt Project was held on Tuesday 18 June in Nice, France.

                                                              

• The face-to-face session of the second ELSE training edition will take place at the EUR ELMI faculty in Nice from September 2 to 13, 2024. This session will host twenty trainees selected from fourteen INSC countries, and one from Europe. The two-week training will be conducted by our pedagogical team, composed of top international researchers and nuclear industry experts.
• In the realm of formalizing and disseminating knowledge, some of the members of our ELSE team have published an open-access article in Safety Science entitled "Building a Conceptual Framework of Organizationally Embedded Tensions to Enhance Leadership for Safety in High-Risk and Highly Regulated Organizations: A Complexity Leadership Perspective" (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753524001620). This research, co-authored by Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva, Yoann Guntzburger, Renata Kaminska, and Catherine Thomas, delves into leadership for safety as a complex, organizationally embedded process and offers a theoretical framework for the dynamic tensions involved. The article reviews and analyzes the outcomes of the international ELSE workshop held in January 2020. This workshop, which gathered 35 international academics and nuclear experts, enabled us to develop the ELSE training syllabus, form an international pedagogical team, and write this scientific paper, which introduces an innovative framework for understanding leadership for safety within high-risk and highly regulated environments.
• In the context of the ENEN Association Special Event, which was held in Brussels on February 29th, 2024, Karima Abidat (SKEMA Business School) presented the content, objectives and future prospects of the ELSE Project. Around 100 #nuclear professionals convened to discuss this year's theme, which focused on "Nuclear Skills in Europe – the impact of Education and Training."
• We would like to inform you that the application period for the upcoming ELSE training session has now concluded. We extend our gratitude to all who have submitted their applications requests. Our team will commence the review of all applications received shortly.
• Following the success of the first 2022-2023 edition of the ELSE training, we are pleased to announce that applications for the upcoming ELSE training session, scheduled to commence in 2024, are now OPEN! The application deadline is February 29, 2024. For more information about the recruitment process, please visit: ELSE Diploma Training - Université Côte d'Azur (univ-cotedazur.eu)
• The ELSE project team had the pleasure to organise the ELSE final international workshop, which took place in Nice on June 13 and 14, 2023. For more information about the final international workshop, please visit : https://univ-cotedazur.eu/european-leadership-for-safety-education/else-workshop
• From June 12th to 23rd, 2023, the ELSE project had the pleasure to welcome in Nice the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) School on Nuclear and Radiological Leadership for Safety. The purpose of this collaboration is to reinforce the complementarity between the two leadership for safety events, the ELSE training and the IAEA School You can find out more about this event, here: IAEA - Building the New Generation of Leaders for Nuclear Safety .
• The Université Côte d'Azur proposes to partner universities to develop a Master module, based on the ELSE syllabus. => Master Module proposition
• This newly published ELSE MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) was elaborated by an international team of professors and experts, world class specialists in their field to offer you an insight, informed by the most recent findings of social and management sciences, into the key concepts and main challenges of leadership for safety. If you what to know more, take a look of ELSE MOOC Teaser and join ELSE MOOC. The ELSE MOOC is now available free of charge by following this link (https://seamonline.insa-toulouse.fr/mod/page/view.php?id=5965) or by scanning QR code: 

• ELSE project is happy to inform about Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva's successful PhD thesis defence. Particular thanks to the PhD supervisors - Catherine Thomas and Renata Kaminska- and to the jury committee - Benoit Journé, Kristina Potočnik, David Denyer, and Jacques Repussard.
  Thesis "Challenges of Developing Leadership for Safety in High-Risk Industries: An Organizational Approach. The case of the nuclear sector." is available to download following this link.

• First ELSE face-to-face training session has been held in September 5-16, 2022 in Nice. Thank you to the pedagogical team and trainees!

• ELSE Project team is happy to present you new ELSE Poster: click the link to download