Our Commitments
SEMECCEL, at the service of its audiences
SEMECCEL devotes all its energy, resources and enthusiasm to fulfilling its public-service mission: helping as many people as possible discover every dimension of space culture and the passion for aeronautics in Toulouse, under the best possible learning conditions. Through the daily commitment of its teams, SEMECCEL deploys all its capabilities to spark the interest of its audiences, facilitate their discovery, and make their visit unforgettable and inspiring.
SEMECCEL promotes the Toulouse region
As an emanation of the region itself, SEMECCEL champions Toulouse and its surrounding area through its active contribution to local, regional, national and international tourism and cultural policy.
A reference point both nationally and internationally, SEMECCEL spreads awareness of space and aeronautics culture well beyond its own sites. It regularly cooperates with partners worldwide through European and international projects, exhibitions hosted by partners abroad, and the many networks in which it takes part. It shares its expertise with French and foreign organisations, and hosts events of international scope on-site.
SEMECCEL promotes the space, aeronautics, cultural and education sectors
SEMECCEL promotes the space, aeronautics, cultural and education sectors through its subject-matter expertise and its innovative approach to outreach and teaching, making it a sounding board for these industries. It maintains relationships with numerous international space agencies. It chairs the IAF’s Space Museums Committee and takes part in the international network of Aéropostale Line waypoint cities. It organises major events tied to space-related news, such as the arrival of Mars rovers, the Rosetta-Philae mission, Thomas Pesquet’s flights, or the launch of Ariane 6. SEMECCEL also maintains close ties with French educational authorities and designs innovative teaching tools aligned with curricula and teachers’ needs
SEMECCEL helps its team grow
In a constantly changing environment, ongoing training is essential — both to maintain employability throughout one’s career, to keep pace with changes in one’s profession, and to shape one’s professional development in line with individual aspirations.
SEMECCEL supports its employees in broadening their skills and versatility.
As a learning organisation, SEMECCEL promotes day-to-day learning through its full range of training programmes, exposure to the working environment, the diversity of its professions, and collaboration between departments.
SEMECCEL strengthens and values its people
It guarantees accessibility for people with disabilities, both at its sites and within its team.
It embeds Social Responsibility across every area of Human Resources (disability, gender equality, generational and cultural diversity…), to support the personal fulfilment and development of every member of our professional community.
It takes part in local social initiatives, in particular in connection with Toulouse Métropole’s City Contract (Contrat de Ville) for priority urban neighbourhoods.
SEMECCEL is committed to a sustainable future
Ambitious when it comes to sustainable development, SEMECCEL has chosen to act on three fronts: as a player embedded in the space and aeronautics industries, as a public-service company, and as a cultural, educational and scientific organisation.
SEMECCEL’s ambition is for its sites to become as high-performing as a spacecraft, drawing on the boldness of the Aéropostale pioneers. To this end, it mobilises its own resources — human and financial — and works in partnership with Toulouse Métropole, which owns the buildings of the two sites operated by SEMECCEL: the Cité de l’espace and L’Envol des Pionniers.
Here are the key pillars of its CSR strategy:
- Collecting, treating and reusing water through innovative processes, including some drawn from the space sector. Deploying systems to limit drinking-water consumption.
- Developing on-site solar energy production (electricity, hot water).
- Optimising the energy efficiency of our buildings.
- Reducing waste at the source and optimising recycling (by both visitors and staff).
- Working to improve the carbon footprint of staff and visitor travel.
- Supporting local supply chains and reducing our dependence on long supply circuits.
- Creating cool islands through planting and green shading.
- Limiting soil sealing (in particular by choosing permeable concrete, which allows water to infiltrate the ground).
- Reducing light pollution at our sites.
- Helping restore a place for biodiversity in the urban environment.
- Adopting sustainable-development practices drawn from the space and aeronautics sectors, while rethinking our own working methods.
- Raising visitor awareness and engagement by giving them practical keys to understanding and acting on climate challenges.
- Ranking tender candidates in part on ambitious sustainable-development requirements (high expectations for proposed solutions, generally weighted at 15–30% of the scoring), and absorbing the resulting additional cost.