Programs for Social Openness and Openness to People with Disabilities (POS-POPH)
Since 2006, Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA has set up a "Programme d'Ouverture Sociale" (POS) and, since 2018, a "Programme d'Ouverture aux personnes en situation de Handicap" (POPH), aimed at supporting high school students from the Grenoble Academy towards higher education, combating the effects of self-censorship and fostering the ambition of high school students. This "Cordées de la réussite" accredited program is a key element in Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA's strategy to diversify its social recruitment.
The POS and POPH programs are intended for Grenoble Academy students in their final year of high school, who are on a secondary school scholarship, or who are in financial difficulty (notably due to a change in their situation in the preceding months), or who have a disability, throughout the Grenoble Academy.
Through tutoring with tutors studying at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA, these tutoring programs help high school students prepare for and prepare to enter higher education. Regular meetings and weekly exchanges between the tutor and the student enable them to refine their personal and professional projects, discover student life and the activities of student associations, and immerse themselves in the Grenoble campus and Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA by taking part in first-year courses, prepare for the first-year entrance exam at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA, develop written and oral skills, and improve work methods, through workshops at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA and collective work throughout the year with tutors.
All these activities are designed to help students gain a better understanding of higher education and develop a range of written and oral skills.
Terminale students who take part in this program benefit from access to an online educational platform where all information, events and preparation resources are published (oral and written methodology, in-depth study of the documents in the competitive entrance exam documentary file, etc.), reimbursement of their travel expenses for the welcome days organized at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA, and exemption from the registration fee for the first-year entrance exam.
Tutoring program timetable
Students in their final year of high school submit their application on a dedicated website. This application implies a commitment on the part of the student to follow the support program and take the competitive examination, and includes a reasoned opinion from the student's main teacher about taking part in the program.
The next steps in the development of this program for the 2024-2025 academic year are as follows:
- September 12, 2024: launch of the godchild recruitment campaign
- December 4, 2024: deadline for receipt of applications
- Mid-December 2024: results of the godchild selection committee
- January to June 2025: support and tutoring
Application link
The POS- POPH helping hand
Payment of preparation fees for the first-year entrance exam
- Total exemption from competition registration fees (110 euros in 2022)
An experience to help you prepare for higher education
- Regular exchanges with POS-POPH tutors to prepare your orientation and applications
- Coverage of welcome days on the Grenoble campus, visits to Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA and its documentation center, participation in first-year courses
- Preparing applications on Pacrcoursup and preparing for the entrance exam for the first year at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA
- Meetings with professors, students and student associations at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA
Free tutoring in preparation for the first-year entrance exam
- A tutoring program run by a Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA student, who travels regularly to meet his or her godchild and guide him or her in their learning, as well as in the preparation of their application file and the oral exam, the organization of mock exam sessions, workshops to develop oral skills in French and English, and more generally in the preparation and projection towards higher education.
- Access to online resources and group work (access to methodological sheets, exchange of advice) to support students during the second half of their final year, and to help them enter higher education.
Our Cordées de la réussite educational projects
As part of the Cordées de la réussitewe develop pedagogical projects with entire classes from schools linked to Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA, starting in the ninth grade.
The aim of these projects is to work with students on themes in line with school curricula and the training offered at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA, to raise awareness of the teaching methods developed at the university, in particular with the intervention of teachers in classes on the theme addressed, to open up students to collective projects and with other establishments in the Académie, and to work on oral skills.
For each project, a presentation is organized at the end of the school year at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA. These presentations are an opportunity for students to discover the Grenoble university campus and university life at Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA, and to present their work in a variety of formats: exhibition of photos taken by the students and presentation of their photos to a Jury de la photo politique, eloquence speeches, political debates in the form of role-playing games, etc.
For the 2023-2024 school year, we have been working on two special themes: a "Prix de la Photo Politique" project for ninth-grade classes and a project on the "European Elections 2024" for first-grade classes. In addition to the tutoring program and educational projects, Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA also comes to meet students in high schools to present the program (from undergraduate to graduate level) as well as the POS and POPH tutoring programs.