In this period still marked by the health crisis, there are actions that bring together all generations. Groups of students from the Lycée Victor Hugo, initiated by their teacher Anne Faillefer, offer a little attention to their elders. “We got closer to the EPHAD Ronsard, the young people started to correspond with the residents” presents the teacher. One of the students says quickly got caught up in the game by participating in the social life of the residents of the establishment. The very definition of intergenerational living together.
On the strength of these rich experiences, the high school students went further in the process by presenting their project against the digital isolation of seniors to Entreprendre Pour Learn (EPA), a federation of 15 associations, approved by the Ministry of National Education, of Youth and Sports whose activities are recognized as complementary to school curricula. The objective is to “connect young people and their supervisors to mentors from the business world so that they can bring out their initiatives together and reveal the field of possibilities that is in them” we confirm on the side from EPA.
One of the groups was able to meet this Thursday, January 20 Gian Francesco Santoro and Alois Jacquet, respectively speaker of the association and management controller at Samsung, who came to present to the students how to engage their project in a national competition where the five best initiatives will see their establishment win prizes ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 euros worth of digital equipment.
They therefore now have a few weeks to continue and enrich their exchanges and correspondence with the seniors of EPHAD columérin, to tell their experience through a mini-video with which they all hope to be selected on April 15 among the best projects in France. . For a final step, a grand finale on May 15 in the Parisian premises of the digital giant.
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