Supporting dropout students by offering them up-to-date jobs, linked in particular to ecological transition, is the mission of the ETRE association.
L’association to be offers young people who are failing at school the opportunity to test the waters and concretely test the professions of ecological transition. “What we offer is not a normal school, it’s an alternative. We have small groups, we work a lot on the ground, that is to say, we go out, we don’t It’s not about this idea of class, of office. Of course, we have theory but we test the job. We have a concrete idea of the job.” explains Capucine Pouget, trainer at the School of Ecological Transition in Paris.
Today is a DIY workshop for the three young people present at school • © France 3 PIDF
This is not a diploma course but an introductory course. Free workshops, lasting a maximum of three months, aimed at 16-25 year olds, dropouts or in retraining. Flora Danan is a doctoral student, a beautiful journey which nevertheless ended in a questioning of the school system, she is now a student at the School of Ecological Transition in Paris: “it’s an alternative training so it takes place in an association and in fact, being able to say to yourself “I’m still in a fairly safe environment with rather humanistic people”, it allows us to find ourselves, to reintegrate ourselves, to teach us a direction, to send us to something. They get us back”.
The trainer teaches her students to handle the tools with precision and in complete safety • © France 3 PIDF
This school of ecological transition finds its place in an associative third place on the former faculty of Censier. This school is an interlude, active time to make decisions and build a green professional project.
This is where the courses of the School of Ecological Transition in Paris take place • © France 3 PIDF
“We started in 2021 and so far we have supported 76 young people to train them in these trades and so we realize that here, a few months after their journey here, they manage to return to qualifying training or even employment for become a cycle mechanic, horticulturist, photovoltaic panel maintenance technician and so it works. There are really jobs behind and opportunities for professional integration” says Marine Xeller, coordinator at the School of Ecological Transition in Paris.
Two students pick planks from recycled materials • © France 3 PIDF
70% of young people who passed through the association found training or got involved in sustainable projects. The association is primarily financed by the public authorities but also by participatory projects and sponsors.
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