Eco-responsibility

The Recycling Center of the Ensad Limoges is called Nettles in reference to those in the school garden. This name illustrates the essence of the project: to value materials, like the nettle often perceived as bad but full of virtues.

United by ecological ideas and a spirit of sharing, Nettles The Recycling Center offers a welcoming space where students can find and exchange reusable raw materials. It brings the community together around resource conservation. Constantly evolving, it provides a warm and inviting space where everyone is encouraged to collaborate.

The Recycling Library is a cooperative space dedicated to the exchange of reusable materials for our community of creators. This exchange system aims to promote a sustainable economic model based on solidarity and social connections.

Nettles is a member of the network of the Federation of Recycling LibrariesCompanies can make tax-deductible donations, and individuals are also encouraged to donate. To do this, contact her !

Research and Creation Workshop – ARC Chromoculture

The School is progressively eliminating the most harmful products (including glazes, inks, etc.) and replacing them with natural alternatives. It has established a darkroom using natural and environmentally friendly printing and developing products. It no longer uses chemical dyes. In the coming years, some colorants will be made from minerals and plants grown in a 1,500 m² "laboratory garden" (300 trees and shrubs) established in 2021. This initiative is part of a research-creation project called "Chromoculture – Cultivating Color through Art and Design," which aims to promote and enhance sustainable color practices, particularly for textile, ceramic, and publishing workshops. It is also a way to rethink the relationship between art and nature within a regional context.

Research and Creation Workshop – ARC The River School

Learning from the river: stepping outside the river's center to learn directly from it through sensory, hands-on experiences. The river has things to teach us, and this must be done by spending time with it. Our sensory reconnection to the river's various environments is necessary to understand and perceive their constituent balances and the upheavals that threaten them.
These sensory experiences are also a means of building a de-anthropocentric approach necessary for the construction of new relationships with living things and to participate in the abolition of the Nature/Culture distinction, the constitution of new ontologies and the development of a new approach to the Commons.

This theme permeates many other teachings that concern all years of study.

• Eco-responsible teaching 2024-2025
• Eco-responsible teaching 2025-2026
• ALBERT·E, the research journal of Ensad Limoges n°1
• All Research and Creation Workshops (ARC)

Imagining the future and acting for the ecological transition:

In 2024, four agents were trained to lead awareness workshops.
Since September 2024, 2-ton workshops These workshops are offered to students entering the School. Their aim is to give them the tools to understand how to act and contribute to a realistic and inspiring transition, ensuring a fairer world!
This awareness campaign on environmental issues aims to mobilize all actors in society! In the long term, all users of the School will be trained.

At the same time, a training course "My journey towards an ecological transition" The mandatory training for senior government officials was attended by the teams. This training aims to raise awareness among all managers, regardless of their role, about the impact of their actions: understanding the challenges of the ecological transition in order to act more effectively. Four employees benefited from it.

The device Eco-friendly public services It integrates and harmonizes all actions aimed at making the State an exemplary environmental authority. This system is implemented by Ensad Limoges.

The state's ecological transformation plan sets clear and measurable objectives:

• A 22% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2027
• A 25% reduction in energy consumption in state-owned buildings by 2027
• Savings of 3,3 million m3 of water by 2027
• 300 sites designated as "biodiversity refuges"

Within this framework, the Ensad Limoges has launched several initiatives:

• Improved mobility: reduction of the fleet of combustion engine vehicles, offset by two service bicycles;
• Responsible production and consumption: environmental considerations with our suppliers for the purchase of refurbished or sustainable equipment. Reallocation of decommissioned equipment;
• Food awareness: introduction of a meat-free day;
• Protection and enhancement of ecosystems: the Ensad Limoges park has been awarded the label LPO Refuge (Bird Protection League) since summer 2024.

The Ministry of Culture supports us in setting up a responsible digital strategy with a "Digital Sobriety" referent at Ensad Limoges, participating in the ministry's monthly meetings to define action plans.

In 2025, during the "Digital Cleanup Day", Ensad Limoges organized a conference by Christine Debray on "Towards a more responsible digital world" available on the school's YouTube channelOne session was dedicated to partners and the other to users of the School. The event raised awareness of the challenges of digital technology, accompanied by an exhibition in Gallery 1 and... Box Weee TRI for the recycling of electronic waste. Carried out within the establishment, the booklet "Digital sobriety, an issue that concerns us all" was offered free of charge.

The Responsible Digital Institute offers a WeNR is a free and public tool., to assess the carbon footprint of its information system and optimize its responsible digital strategy. In 2024, Ensad Limoges participated in the study and obtained his individual reportThis allows us to define an action plan to improve our results.

In 2026, "The Battle of AI" workshops on the challenges of Generative AI will be offered, as well as "The Digital Fresco" to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of digital technology and offer solutions for action.

The Ministry of Culture is committed to supporting the 10 national visual arts schools in assessing their carbon footprint and developing an action plan to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2023, the Ensad Limoges emitted 509 t.CO2e per year, equivalent to the annual emissions of 55 French people or 299 round trips between Paris and New York by plane. Priorities to be addressed included travel, catering, and building energy consumption.

Numerous initiatives have been implemented: rainwater harvesting, roof renovation, a relamping campaign, installation of water-saving equipment, drafting of an employer mobility plan, obtaining the pro-cycling employer labelsorting and recycling, composting, secure bicycle area with lighting powered by a photovoltaic cell, …

In September 2025, the school completed its rainwater harvesting and storage system. This project aims to collect rainwater from the roof and store it in tanks buried in basins located along the east facade of the building, on the parking lot side. A storage capacity of 80 m³ is planned to supply all the school's restrooms, the watering point for the "Chomoculture" gardens, the rooftop tap for cleaning the roof, and a connection point in the center of the school to allow for the potential connection of the workshops.

The school is continuing its ecological transition program within the framework of the tertiary sector decree with a thermal renovation project for the entire building. This program includes the renovation of the heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC) system, the domestic hot water (DHW) production system, the exterior insulation of the east wall, the installation of a self-consumption photovoltaic canopy, and the refurbishment of the parking lot.