Sub-Saharan Africa: examples of scholarships and programs

ANGOLA CAMEROON CONGO GABON NIGERIA

In many regions of the world, our subsidiaries are setting up scholarships and funding technology degree programs, a form of support that is also aligned with our commitment to hiring more non-French nationals. Below we look at some examples from West Africa.

Angola

Total E&P Angola cultivates a network of partnerships with local and Portuguese universities and took part in creating a postgraduate training curriculum in petroleum under the aegis of Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs and Luanda University. Total helped specify program content and supplied additional instructors, including employees of Total E&P Angola. Total E&P Angola has also funded almost 100 scholarships a year since 1995, for recipients studying in country, in Portugal or in South Africa. Total also finances the studies of around five petroleum engineering students a year at Universidade Agostinho Neto in Angola. The initiative, launched in 2003, has been renewed for a further five years.

Cameroon

Congo

Gabon

Total E&P Congo, Total E&P Cameroon and Total E&P Gabon provided support for the creation of the Institut Supérieur de Technologie d’Afrique Centrale and its two campuses. The first in Pointe-Noire, Congo, was created in 2002 and today trains technicians, while the second, in Douala, Cameroon, opened in 2004 for general engineers with a primary focus on industrial maintenance. The students alternateclass working stints in the company, where they apply their knowledge in our businesses.