ADIE: Promoting “mobility towards employment” for people financially excluded By | March 13, 2018 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… Read More
International CleanTech Week in Annecy By | March 13, 2018 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… Read More
Radio shows on sustainable mobility during COP21 By jonathan.ringenbach | March 13, 2018 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. Read More
Redistribution of non-food products By | March 12, 2018 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… Read More
The Driving Simulator By jonathan.ringenbach | March 12, 2018 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. Read More
SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PALLIATIVE CARE IN FRANCE By jonathan.ringenbach | March 11, 2018 True to its humanistic principles, the Michelin Corporate Foundation is involved in the development of palliative care. The objective is to maintain as good a quality of life as possible for patients by reducing their physical pain and taking their psychological, social and spiritual suffering into consideration. Read More
INNOVATION LAB By jonathan.ringenbach | March 11, 2018 For more than 30 years, the Discovery Centre of Halifax, Nova Scotia has been a pillar of scientific culture. It allows both children and adults to discover and learn by exploring science in all its forms. Read More
ROSECAR, A CARPOOLING SERVICE FOR PATIENTS By jonathan.ringenbach | February 13, 2018 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. Read More
Hosting of researchers and teacher-researchers from countries at war or under an authoritarian regime By jonathan.ringenbach | February 12, 2018 Launched in January 2017, the PAUSE program, (National program for the urgent aid and reception of scientists in exile), sustains a hospitality scheme in French higher education establishments and research organizations for scientists threatened in their own countries. PAUSE is supported by a prestigious and committed Patronage Committee co-chaired by Alain Prochiantz, Director of Collège… Read More
CREATION OF AN AMPHITHEATRE in CentraleSupélec By jonathan.ringenbach | February 11, 2018 CentraleSupélec has launched an ambitious construction project for an international campus within the brand-new Université Paris-Saclay. This campus, which will open its doors in September 2017, is intended to reinforce the scientific influence of France and Europe. Read More
