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While visiting the Veolia head office, the female students discovered [Hubgrade](https://www.planet.veolia.com/en/hubgrade-performance-monitoring-center), Veolia’s smart monitoring solution which collects and analyses water, energy and waste data. The sixth form students then took part in a design thinking workshop on real-time monitoring of energy and environmental performance in this “smart" building.

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> *“Veolia is inventing solutions for the* [*smart city*](/en/resources/smart-city) *of tomorrow. Cities are switching to digital technology to manage their infrastructure in order to keep pace with the increasing complexity and the increase in environmental risks”*, explained **Laurent Auguste**, Veolia’s Senior Executive Vice President, Development, Innovation and Markets.

For Veolia, diversity and achieving a gender balance play an important role in social cohesion, as well as being performance levers and a source of creativity. The group has set itself the goal of 30% of managers being female by 2020. The figure stood at 26.5% in 2017.

## Elles construisent la ville de demain initiative

500 female secondary school, sixth form college and university students in Paris, Grenoble, Orléans, Nancy, Montpellier, Rouen, Lille, Troyes and Guadeloupe learned about the sheer range of smart city occupations in the following sectors, all thanks to the [Elles Bougent](http://www.ellesbougent.com/) association and its partners: building industry, civil engineering, energy, networks, water, waste management and treatment, environment, air quality and mobility.

## Elles Bougent association

Since 2006, Elles Bougent has been working to get female secondary school, sixth form college and university students to discover engineering and technical occupations. The association aims to demonstrate that these occupations are accessible to girls and also wants to enable teenagers to identify with and make plans for their futures by listening to the personal accounts of female mentors and students. The final goal is to encourage vocations. Elles Bougent brings together 1,110 secondary school students, 1,510 college students, 5,700 university students, 3,860 mentors, 171 partners, and 608 secondary schools and sixth form colleges.



 

 

 



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Find out more :

> [Smart cities: when digital technology makes urban areas more attractive and competitive](/en/market/municipal/smart-cities-digital-technology)  
> [International Women’s Day: Veolia is taking action with Girls on the move from Elles Bougent (8 March 2018)](/en/newsroom/news/International-womens-day-girls-on-the-move-elles-bougent)  
> [Elles construisent la ville de demain initiative run by Elles Bougent](http://www.ellesbougent.com/agenda/calendrier/elles-construisent-la-ville-de-demain-1419/)