Twice the Wild – rising to the challenge of climate change By nellie | April 7, 2022 Canada, with its enormous natural heritage, is investing through the Nova Scotia Nature Trust in an innovative program called ‘Twice the Wild’. Preserving Nova Scotia’s wildlands With the longest coastline in the world, a quarter of the planet’s wetlands and boreal forests and a fifth of its fresh water, a vital habitat for birds, fish… Read More
Saving the heritage of local industry at Thiers By nellie | April 7, 2022 Shut down in 1984, the former Mondière cutlery plant forge at Thiers in the Puy-de-Dôme department has been given a makeover, with the impetus of the town council and the regional authority and with the backing of the Michelin Corporate Foundation and La Fondation du Patrimoine. A world-famous industrial past The Mondière forge is located… Read More
HELEBOR, care incubator By nellie | April 6, 2022 Since 2021, HELEBOR, a not-for-profit organization, has been extending the activities which le Fonds pour les soins palliatifs has been conducting since 2011. The Michelin Corporate Foundation is giving its support to the organization’s new role as an incubator of projects. Its aim is to constantly improve the quality of life of patients in palliative… Read More
Fighting inequality, alongside the Paris HEC Foundation By nellie | April 5, 2022 There are talents everywhere but sometimes they have to be brought to light. That’s why the Michelin Corporate Foundation has decided to back the rollout of the Stand Up program and the activities of the Equal Opportunities Mission initiated by the Paris HEC Foundation. The aim is to offer all students the same chance of… Read More
South Africa: Working for women’s mobility By nellie | April 5, 2022 The Michelin Corporate Foundation is backing an initiative launched by Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) aiming to reduce gender inequality in public transport. Discriminating between women and men For women, travel can be a source of inequality and social exclusion, reinforcing existing differences between the sexes and inhibiting their potential for development. This situation exists… Read More
Kanako Abe, great guest conductor in Auvergne By nellie | October 7, 2021 After 18 months of health crisis without the possibility of meeting to rehearse, the Orchestre Symphonique des Dômes is resuming rehearsals with famous Japanese conductor Kanako Abe, one of the world’s great conductors. Invited in residence in Clermont-Ferrand by Gilles Raynal, composer and artistic director of the Orchestre Symphonique des Dômes, Kanako Abe has kindly… Read More
Les Jours de lumière : a small village for a big festival! By nellie | September 20, 2021 With the theme “Faces and landscapes”, the 2021 edition of Les Jours de Lumière festival, which brings together contemporary art and spirituality, returns to Saint-Saturnin (63) with a program rich in varied artistic discoveries! Created more than 20 years ago by the AMOS association, Les Jours de Lumière festival has grown considerably and today it… Read More
Les Dissonances in Bucharest and Paris By nellie | September 16, 2021 Les Dissonances adventure began in 2004 under the leadership of internationally renowned violinist, David Grimal. This unique orchestra, made up of a collective of committed musicians, explores the musical language in a dialogue constructed between the musicians, without the mediation of a conductor. Everyone’s talents are called upon to the maximum. During the concert, energies… Read More
55th Edition of the Chaise-Dieu Music Festival By nellie | September 2, 2021 Every summer’s end since 1966, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu has been attracting thousands of music lovers and internationally renowned artists to the heart of the Haute-Loire uplands –the “Midi de l’Auvergne”– to a small village and its majestic Gothic abbey church of Saint-Robert. Appointed Festival director in 2012, Julien Caron continues to anchor the… Read More
Preserving wild spaces in Canada By nellie | July 22, 2021 The federal government, recognizing the urgency for conservation action, has committed to protect 30% of Canada’s land for nature by 2030. Operating worldwide, the Michelin Corporate Foundation has chosen to support an environmental project in Nova Scotia, called “Twice the Wild”, a region where the Michelin group has been present for 50 years. Through “Twice… Read More
