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.
 

• Financial support from all the Group's business areas.

 
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West African School of Moral and Political Science (ESMPAO)

• Financial support to provide grants for students in the first year of a Masters course on good governance.

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Association Philotechnique

Set up in 1848, the association provides schooling for 8,000 adults at virtually no charge. Through courses taught by 200 volunteer teachers the association gives either a second chance for those who have not been able to benefit fully from the education system or supplementary skills training for adults who need to retrain for a new job.

• Financial support since 2005.

> Find out more (French version only)

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Association Trait d’Union France-Madagascar

Set up in 2000, this association sends new books in French to Madagascar. These books are then distributed locally by reliable organisations (Alliance Française Service de Coopération et d’Action culturelle, etc).

• Financial support in 2008.

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Espace bénévolat - Réseau Cœurs à lire

This network has around 150 member associations working in the fields of school support and literacy. It is aimed not only at adults but also children and young people in difficulty at school.

• Financial support in 2008.

> Find out more (French version only)

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Experimental project in Seine-Saint-Denis high schools

Bouygues started partnering an experimental project in 2006 in five high schools in suburbs north of Paris (Jean Renoir in Bondy, Alfred Nobel in Clichy sous Bois, Jacques Feyder in Epinay sur Seine, Auguste Blanqui in Saint-Ouen and Louise Michel in Bobigny) as well as a high school in eastern France (Félix Meyer in Creutzwald). The project aims to combat high school drop-out rates and improve students' chances of success.

This initiative of the Paris Institute for Political Studies involves members of the French education system as well as associations and youth training and support networks.

In 2006, 500 students of tenth-grade and vocational classes were involved in the project. A total of 1,250 students, 200 mentors and some 200 tutors from major French corporations have taken part in the initiative since September 2007.

• Bouygues will sponsor the project over a three-year period. Its subsidiaries are also carrying out actions to help high school students.

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Foundation for the development of Paris-Dauphine University

The aims of the foundation are: to encourage dialogue between the university and companies interested in financing, teaching and research programmes 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 founding member of the partnership foundation for the development of Paris-Dauphine university.
   

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Association favouring equal opportunities at school (APFEE)

The association has put in place a prevention system called Coup de Pouce Clé based on reading and writing clubs. The aim is to give primary school children the support they need in learning to read.

• Financial support in 2008 and 2009.

> Find out more (French version only)

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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 to apply the principles of eco-design approach to the various types of project, to integrate technologies relevant to the environmental and social challenges facing the building sector, and to take human and organisational factors into account in the design and operation of their buildings.

• Download the press release of 17 September 2008

• For information about the diploma (French version only)

(Updated: November 2008)