Active Citizenship
Training pilots, but also engaged citizens
Hexagone Aviation School is not limited to imparting technical knowledge. We are convinced that a pilot — like any aviation professional — is also a global citizen. A responsible individual, aware of the social, human, ethical, and environmental challenges of their time. This is why we make active citizenship an essential dimension of our educational project.
Joining Hexagone means entering a community where commitment extends beyond the cockpit. It means participating in a school where the values of openness, solidarity, and responsibility are lived daily and encouraged in all their forms.
A school serving the public interest
Since its inception, Hexagone has been built around a strong principle: aviation is a common good, serving societies and peoples. Our training programs integrate this collective and societal dimension. We encourage our students to reflect on their role as future professionals, as well as their impact as citizens.
This involves raising awareness of major contemporary challenges: equal opportunities, ecological transition, respect for fundamental rights, inclusion, and the fight against all forms of discrimination. These subjects are not treated as ancillary topics but as pillars of our educational vision.
Encouraging student participation
We firmly believe that citizenship is lived through action. This is why we create concrete conditions for every student to actively engage in school life and its environment.
Students are invited to join working groups, participatory workshops, committees, or transversal projects related to civic values. For example, they can contribute to organizing solidarity events, awareness campaigns, or local actions in conjunction with our partners.
Every voice matters. Every initiative is valued. Because more than a right, participation is for us a competence to develop: debating respectfully, leading a project, convincing, listening to others, fostering democracy within a professional framework.
Opening up to the world and to others
Being an active citizen also means being open to the realities around us. Our students come from all backgrounds: France, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. This diversity is a richness that we cultivate and highlight.
Citizenship at Hexagone means learning to live together with mutual respect, within a supportive environment where every journey is valued. It means understanding the challenges of interculturality, training for international cooperation, and preparing to work in global environments.
Through our courses, activities, exchanges, and events, we create a favorable environment for inclusion, intercultural dialogue, and the development of an international civic consciousness.
Civic initiatives and solidarity actions
Throughout the year, civic projects are conducted within the school. We organize collections (clothing, school supplies, essential goods), awareness days (human rights, road safety, combating discrimination), and key solidarity events.
Our students also participate in field missions or local projects in collaboration with local authorities or partner associations. This may involve volunteer commitment, logistical support for an event, or the promotion of local initiatives.
Hexagone promotes this type of engagement by facilitating its integration into the curriculum and by recognizing these initiatives within the training program.
Learning Responsibility
In a sector as demanding as aviation, the concept of responsibility is omnipresent. However, this responsibility extends beyond regulatory or technical aspects; it is also human, moral, and ethical.
Training future pilots also involves developing individuals capable of making sound decisions, demonstrating courage, integrity, and solidarity. These civic qualities are fostered and highlighted through specific modules (human factors, crisis management, CRM), structured discussions, and experience feedback.
We want each student to graduate from our school with a broader vision of their role in society, a vision rooted in collective interest, cooperation, safety, and commitment.
A School Connected to Society
Active citizenship is also reflected in how a school integrates into its local community. Hexagone Aviation School maintains close ties with its local environment. We participate in forums, events in the city of Beauvais, and initiatives related to the airport, other schools, and associations.
We want our school to be an educational and civic actor fully integrated into its social fabric, capable of contributing positively to the region that hosts it.
This is also why we make it a point of honor to make our school accessible, open, and inclusive by developing support mechanisms, combating social, linguistic, or administrative barriers, and valuing atypical career paths.
A Collective and Sustainable Dynamic
Citizenship is not learned from books; it is lived, transmitted, and experienced. At Hexagone, we aim to foster a collective, sustainable, and sincere dynamic where everyone can find their place and make their voice heard.
This approach is at the core of our educational vision: to train competent professionals, but also conscious, committed human beings capable of building a more just, safer, and more supportive world.
Our ambition: to make Hexagone Aviation School a springboard for citizens of the sky… and of the Earth.
