Educational

FRANCIS BOUYGUES FOUNDATION

Set up in June 2005, the Francis Bouygues Foundation helps motivated school-leavers with financial difficulties to finance their studies. At 1 September 2009, more than 230 students had received grants from the Francis Bouygues Foundation.

All the Group's business areas help to finance the Foundation. 

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COEURS A LIRE – LITERACY SUPPORT NETWORK

The network has around 150 member associations working in the fields of educational support and literacy. It helps both adults and children and young people with educational difficulties.

Financial support since 2008. 

ASSOCIATION PHILOTECHNIQUE

Set up in 1848, the association provides education for 8,000 adults at virtually no charge and has 200 volunteer teachers.

Financial support since 2005.
 

TRAIT D'UNION FRANCE MADAGASCAR

Set up in 2000, the association sends new books in French to Madagascar. The books are then distributed locally.

Financial support since 2008.

EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT IN SEINE-SAINT-DENIS HIGH SCHOOLS

On the initiative of Sciences Po, the Paris Institute for Political Studies, an experimental project was launched in four high schools in suburbs north of Paris in 2006 with the aim of improving students' chances of success and reducing high drop-out rates. The experiment has since been taken up elsewhere in France. In 2009, 10 high schools, 2,700 pupils and 290 teachers were involved in the pilot scheme, which has given rise to over 350 educational projects.

Bouygues has provided financial support since 2006 and is also involved in practical initiatives with high-school students through its subsidiaries.

FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARIS-DAUPHINE UNIVERSITY

The aims of the foundation are to support implementation of the university’s innovative educational projects, to extend the university’s influence, particularly at international level through involvement with teaching and research establishments in other countries, and to create grants for French or foreign students at Paris-Dauphine.

Bouygues is a founder member of the Foundation..

APFEE - ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AT SCHOOL

The association has set up a remedial system based on reading and writing clubs designed to give primary school children the support they need in learning to read and write.

Bouygues has supported the association since 2008.

ORCHESTRE A L'ECOLE

The aim of the association is encourage the practice of music in schools through initiatives that help to create, fund, develop and promote school orchestras.

513 children were helped by the association in 2009. 

ENSAM/ESTP PARTNERSHIP¬SPECIALIST MASTERS DIPLOMA IN SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION AND HOUSING

With the support of Bouygues, France’s Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) and  Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics du Bâtiment et de l’Industrie (ESTP) have created a specialist masters diploma in Sustainable Construction and Housing. The diploma will train national and international experts to understand the regulatory environment of sustainable construction and housing.

There were 49 students in the 2009/2010 intake, compared with 21 in 2008/2009.           
 

(Updated: April 2010)