At Mines Nancy, we believe extracurricular activities are as much a part of your education as coursework and placements in industry. How you choose to spend your time away from your studies can make a real contribution to your personal development as an engineering student and to the school’s reputation.
Whatever your interests – rock music, symphony orchestra, film, photography, sport, circus skills, drama – at Mines Nancy, extracurricular activities are integral to student life. Choose from 40+ clubs and societies.
Key figures
- Number of clubs and societies: 40
- 200+ events each year
- Involvement rate: 77.5% 2022-2023
At Mines Nancy, extracurricular activities might not be assessed but are just as important for your education as coursework and work placements. And how you choose to spend your non-study time can make a real contribution to your personal development as an engineering student.
The best of studies
At Mines Nancy, we understand that a personally fulfilled student becomes a well-rounded adult and that your university years are when some of your best life memories are created.
Generous time slots are set aside in the timetable, ensuring that engineering students can get fully involved in extracurricular life: much needed interludes that the school regards as part of your education.
Long-term actions
Humamines, Mines Nancy’s humanitarian and social society, believes in giving solidarity to all and in every possible way. On the agenda: humanitarian work, blood donation drives, educational support for struggling pupils or visiting sick children in hospital, and more
Vert’Mines aims to raise students’ awareness of sustainable development with the issues of food, waste sorting and energy saving central to its approach.
Calendar highlights
While some clubs are part of everyday life, others focus on hosting major events. This includes Forum Est-Horizon, a society that each year organises the largest fair in the east of France for engineers and employers to meet. The last edition of this event attracted more than 50 companies and over 2,000 students.
Wilder in spirit but equally serious in their preparation are the 4L Trophy and the 24h de Stan: the first is a 6,000 km cross-country adventure in which the competing crews deliver supplies to Morocco’s poorest children; the second is a 24-hour team race in which about twenty schools and universities engage in a frantic, fraternal struggle on board their gigantic human-powered floats.
SPORT
Strongly encouraged by the school, which has more than 10 sports clubs (football, rugby…) led by students, sport can also be practised through the University Physical Activity and Sports Service (SUAPS).
SUAPS offers daily physical activities and sports in various forms:
- Lessons open to all (more than 70 supervised activities available)
- Courses reserved for university staff
- Sporting trips (skiing, canyoning, diving, dancing)
- Preparations for diplomas (PSC1, diving levels)
- Activities (tournaments, fitness evening, St Nicolas Race, aquathlon…)
- Facilities for high-level sports students
The catalogue offers more than 70 activities targeting over 10,000 students and staff every year: from aquatic disciplines to ballroom dancing, via self-knowledge and stress management…
Students can enjoy the 4 SUAPS sports complexes located in Nancy.
Nancy Mines has a gym and a weights/cardio room for students (subject to a medical certificate).
