The Trek Telecom project is a 3-week tour of Europe by 6 engineering students from Telecom Bretagne to research renewable energies in eco-construction. The students will visit companies, gather data on green building techniques and IT solutions. They will create a website presenting passive house designs and renovation options for sustainable homes, using the example of a traditional Breton house. Their goal is to study how sustainable construction methods can be affordable and cost-effective in terms of energy and the environment.

1. Trek Telecom Project
February 2009
Euro Trek

2. A word from the director
Telecom Bretagne is a graduate engineering school, which puts active
pedagogy at the heart of its educational practices, and student projects are
becoming commonplace.
However, the Trek Telecom project opens up a completely new dimension.
Students will become not only the actors, but also the originators of their
project : a three-week tour through Europe, enabling them to test new forms of
learning using information technologies.
Every phase of the project, the logistic preparation, distance learning, company visits, inquiries into
practices related to sustainable development and publicizing the key steps of this venture, will
provide opportunities to implement the diverse aspects of their many talents.
I am certain that the students' skills and motivation will allow them to undertake their
adventure successfully. They will come back enriched from this unique experience, which will be a
tremendous asset when beginning their professional careers.
They will show that the engineering profession has a beautiful future ahead of it and that it can help to
find reasonable solutions to the innumerable problems that sustainable development poses, in these
three dimensions : environmental, economic and social.
André Chomette
Director of Telecom Bretagne

3. Telecom Bretagne
A school involved in
sustainable development
What is the Trek Saving water
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Saving wnergy
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Landscaping
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An engineering school
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Awareness campaign for students
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about the importance of sustainable
A project linked to sustainable
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development in professional life
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Devoted teachers
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A motivated team
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4. Our project
We intend to create a website which will give information about renewable energies in eco-construction.
In order to do so, we are going to travel around Europe looking for :
• solutions concerning sustainable housing
• data concerning Information Technologies and their use for the sustainable house of
tomorrow.
We aim to produce, at the end of our project, a case study of a particular house : the Breton house.
Moreover, we would like to study how these different solutions could be affordable, and the energy and
economical costs involved.
Therefore, our website will outline the different techniques involved in sustainable construction and
present the passive house and the renovation possibilities for a Breton house.
We are a group of six engineering students, of three different nationalities, all motivated by this
adventure and by the project, and all aware of the importance of sustainable development and it’s

5. Where we plan to go
A : Brest
B : Vannes
C : Paris
D : Lyon
E : Bergamo
F : Verona
G : Geneva
H : Berne
I : Zürich
J : Darmstadt
K : Frankfurt
L : Marburg
Our stopovers, from the 2nd to the 23rd of April 2009

6. Euro Trek team
From left to right:
Mbayang Seck : budget and
logistics
Ivan Bavard : communication
and forum
Charline Robbe : documentation
and multimedia
François-Xavier Sapa : budget
and mobile-Learning
Patricia Simo : communication
and logistics
Hugo Fallourd : multimedia and
project manager

7. How to contact us
Hugo Fallourd Ivan Bavard
Project Manager Communications Officer
Telephone : +33683740869 Telephone : +33683840366
Mail : hugo.fallourd@telecom-bretagne.eu Mail : ivan.bavard@telecom-bretagne.eu
Official website of Telecom Bretagne:
www.telecom-bretagne.eu
Blog of Euro Trek project:
www.telecom-bretagne.eu/trek/eurotrek/