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The Maisons Sport-Santé (MSS) program, initiated in 2019 by the Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, has now a network of 436 Sport-Health Centers throughout France. These Sport-Health Centers allow people suffering from long-term illnesses and resuming activities, but also all people over the age of 16 who so wish, to…

Because it is never too early to become aware of the dangers of the road, the Michelin Foundation has chosen to support educational and fun programs to teach the youngest the good reflexes on daily journeys. “My brain, my friend on the road” is an innovative educational project which aims to help children to become…

The kick-off of the 44th edition of the festival will be given on Friday January 28 at the Maison de la Culture in Clermont-Ferrand by the organizing association Sauve qui peut le Court Métrage, and will continue until February 5, exclusively in the halls throughout the week of the festival. As every year, the national,…

Located in the Valley of the Factories in Thiers (63), the Mondière forges specializing in forging by stamping knife blades, have been at a standstill since 1984. For a few years however, under the impetus of the municipality and the region, this old cutlery is the subject of special attention, aiming to restore the former…

As an extension of the actions realized by the Fonds pour les Soins Palliatifs since 2011, the general interest structure, named HELEBOR in 2021, continues its missions. With the constant objective of improving the quality of life of people in palliative care and their loved ones, the Michelin Foundation supports HELEBOR in its new role…

The Michelin Corporate Foundation Grand Prize was awarded last weekend for the 21st Rendez-vous du Carnet de Voyage de Clermont-Ferrand to Alessio Defendini (Defe) and Laura Roncallo for BALI at Editions Akinomé. BALI won over the Jury for the great originality of the illustrations, the line of the drawing, the brilliance of the colors, the…

After a cancelled Rendez-Vous last year due to Covid-19, the public will be able this year to meet again French and foreign carnettists exhibiting their travel diaries at the Polydôme de Clermont-Ferrand from November 19 to 21, 2021. From watercolors to comics, from traditional notebooks to digital and sound notebooks, all styles are represented, making…

The exhibition “Un firmament de porcelaines” presented in 2019 at the National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet (MNAAG) is currently at the Shanghai Museum until January 16, 2022, in an extended version entitled “West encounters East: A cultural conversation between Chinese and European ceramics”. This enlarged exhibition is the result of collaborative work between several countries…