Curious about science, the truth and the false » scientific culture project « Curious about science, the truth and the false » a scientific culture project To develop everyone's curiosity, creativity and critical thinking skills with other regional partners our center of sciences created the "Curious" platform The Curious 3 objectives - Fight against collective preconception and fake news, which are increasingly widely distributed; - Raise citizens' awareness of current and future new technologies and the impact they have or will have on our lifestyles; - Highlight innovative actions and local initiatives Our scientific center has a strong partnership with the local education authority and since September, 2019 we are involved in a Scientific culture project with secondary schools. The project named CURIOUS ABOUT SCIENCE PROJECT is based on the "Curious" platform, and the students (12 to 18 years old) are led on the path of critical thinking Educational objectives of the project - Encourage students to question the scientific information available on the web. - Understand the nature of scientific knowledge and how it is developed. - Create a text, image or video medium before broadcasting on an Internet platform. - Awake the critical spirit. The students will have to choose a scientific theme, specify a research axis, carry out the investigation, prioritize the data, check them before publishing them in the form of an article, a video or a comic strip. As a scientific center our area of interest is to raise awareness on how the scientific method could be a tool to develop critical thinking and build specific tools for the teachers and children.

Ethical, sustainable and social entrepreneruship Sustainable entrepreneurs face specific challenges when establishing their businesses owing to the discrepancy between the creation and appropriation of private value and social value. Our cooperative has an ethical and sustainable model because of her horizontal governance and the guarantees the cooperative provides to her members, partners and customers. Our cooperative follow through with our convictions of solidarity, cooperation, respect for the human being and environment. Due to a local training on sustainable development for entrepreneurship, we endorse how is relevant to integrate the ethical and sustainable approach in the entrepreneur’s business development. With this project we aims: - to explore the enhancement of sustainable development best practices in businesses development as an innovative way of work - to draw on responsible commitment in order to develop social entrepreneurial activities - to support the entrepreneurs in differentiate themselves than the regular entrepreneurs - to integrate social impact measure in our practices - to ensure cohesion and cooperation between european social entrepreneurs

French challenges in supporting social entrepreneurship In France, the economic situation is pretty bad regarding the rates of unemployment, especially that of the young people. The government implement a lot of policies and trainings to support young people to access job writing good curriculum vitae and succeeding in job applications and interviews. Nevertheless, the on-the-ground-reality is that there is a real lack of jobs, at least there are not enough jobs for each young people and master degree students who want to work as an employee. In the same time, young people birth and grow up in a global ecologic and economic world crisis with involve a very large range of social issues and unfortunately, until now, the politics couldn’t solve all the social inequalities and environmental disorders. As a cooperative, our first challenge in supporting social entrepreneurship is to get the opportunity to address social issues to young people. We work hard to aware them about the opportunity to face the social issues creating their own project and job. We aware them that with a good knowledge of their territory, a good observation and analysis of it (strength, weakness, opportunities and threats) they could be able to create innovative projects with social impacts that make sense, by their own, being supported by the cooperative and all our entrepreneurs.

The challenge to use new words in order to memorize them! In spite of studying english at school for 7 years, my level is still lower intermediate. This english learning was a long time ago and I didn’t practice a lot on the 15 last years excepted when I was travelling, so I’m quite useless but I strive to improve my english. I have been started up again practice english for almost 2 years but in a irregular way so much that I could actually understand and recognize some words but there are a lot of them which make me think about something… but what?? That’s the point: I’m not able to remember the sense of words which are very used in the everyday speech. But I’m not given up ! Lately, I noticed that I have a pretty good comprehension of english (I listen english podcast and read in english daily since 2 weeks) but I’m really limited in speaking easily, basically… yes I’m sure I’m not the only one in this case on Italki :) ) So one of my goal is to re-activate some useful vocabulary to be able to use it at speaking. As an example, very often in conversation it’s difficult to me to use words like « beyond » and « behind », I think it’s also difficult because « beyond » has different senses (like a lot of words in english and maybe in other languages). I’m convinced that if I manage to memorize some phrase like « this work is beyond my competencies » and « I couldn’t go back home beyond 8 pm because my son is waiting for me » it could helpful to learn and to memorize. Today my challenge is writing a little bit in english using some vocabulary words I would like to memorize more easy. In fact it’s a double challenge because I want to use the words and off course I want that the sentences make sense. At the end of the week, I will have to tidy my house not because it is covered in filth but the fact is I’m going on holiday for a couple of weeks and I will lend the house to a friend of mine. She will look after my lovely cat. I prefer to do like that, otherwise it made me to ask for friends to visit the cat each 2 or 3 days to check that’s everything is ok. In this way I could unwind during my holidays. I will go to Greece in order to discover the Peloponnese region. I will probably visit landmark places. I won’t be connected a lot on Italki hroughout my travel because I will be in in my camper van, my favorite way of traveling. Thanks in advance to the proficient readers being indulgent with me!

Presentation of the arts and cultures center of Bram (France) Opening in 2014, Essar(t)s is a place totally dedicated to the arts and cultures. Located in a 5 acres private park in the heart of the city of Bram, the arts and cultures space is a municipal place entirely managed by the town hill. Open and convivial, the place is destined to make culture accessible, going outside of the box, playing on a alternating programmation as well contemporaries work as classical work, renowned artists and emerging artists. Each exhibition includes mediation activities mainly with schools. Composed with different spaces dedicated to host various events, exhibitions, photography, sculpture, painting, digital arts, artists in residency… The cultural center host various young artist residencies in the framework of the National Superior School of Art of Paris, the Rideau Vert association and the city of Bram cooperation. The exhibition spaces More of 328ft (100 linear meters) are the setting of the artistic and cultural programmation since the opening of the center. These spaces enable (allow?)) to organize the exhibitions according to the luminosity, the perspectives and the sequences of rooms. Two spaces are organised to offer to the artists the possibility to create in the place, opened to the exhibition spaces with big bay windows. Le [K]fé, a place to relax and exchange The cafe host visitors for relaxing times during the exhibition. It’s above all a place dedicated to the conviviality and exchange about the art publication and magazines available for consultation having coffee or tea. The park, a green setting in the center of Bram 5 acres of green setting in the heart of Bram, very close to the village, the park is the gateway to the center. Composed with one hundred year old trees, it includes 2 glades and a various range of small shaded spaces. During summer, it host various musical and cultural events.