Sustainable mobility

For 30 years, Handi Cap Evasion (HCE), a non-profit association created in the Hautes-Alpes, has made it possible for able-bodied persons to share hiking activities with physically disabled persons, travelling along mountain hiking trails thanks to an all-terrain wheelchair: the “Joëlette” mobile chair, invented in 1988 by the mountain guide Joël Claudel. HCE offers mountain…

Road safety is a major focus of the Michelin Corporate Foundation.
To this end the Foundation is involved with Youth for Road Safety (YOURS), a worldwide organization which particularly targets young people under 25 who are the most frequent victims of road accidents. Every year, 400,000 young pedestrians, cyclists, motor
cyclists, car drivers and passengers are involved in road accidents, especially in
emerging and low and middle-income countries.

The Michelin Corporate Foundation supports Keepmove, trusted carpooling scheme that focuses on promoting collaborative and inclusive mobility for children, elderly or disabled people.

Adie is a non-profit organisation created in 1989 by Maria Nowak. Part of the idea is to empower entrepreneurs without funds or diploma to succeed in running their own businesses provided they can have access to micro-credit and professional, personalised coaching based on trust, solidarity and responsibility. For Adie, allowing individuals to create their own…

Since 2018 the Michelin Corporate Foundation has been sponsoring the Fifth Element association during the International CleanTech Week (ICW). Founded in 2016, the Fifth Element is an association that aims to recreate a harmony between nature, man and technology to ensure a sustainable ecological and technological transition for future generations. Its ambition is to reconnect…

On the occasion of the big Climate Conference in Paris, called COP21, held from 30 November to 12 December 2015, RCF and the Michelin Corporate Foundation wished to participate in the general reflection on sustainable mobility.

In June 2018, the Michelin Corporate Foundation became the new benefactor of the “Agence du Don en Nature” (ADN), an association which fights against exclusion and whose social mission is to help those most in need through the redistribution of new non-food products. In 2017, the “Agence du Don en Nature” provided assistance to nearly…

In France, nearly 300,000 people per year suffer non-evolutive brain injuries that can affect one or more functions necessary for driving. Whether they are visible or not, it is essential that these deficiencies are identified since, before patients can resume driving, they must appear before a qualified practitioner to seek medical advice.

True to its commitment to sustainable mobility, the Michelin Corporate Foundation supports RoseCar, the first carpooling network dedicated to patients and their families, in order for them to travel more easily from home to hospital.

Rose Association came to offer this service because of an awareness and an observation of a specific situation.

The 12th edition of the Michelin Challenge Bibendum which was held in Chengdu, China in November 2014, was dedicated to mobility in the city of the future.