Each year, the CMA CGM Foundation launches a call for proposals in France and Lebanon to select the associations it will support. Since 2019, this call for proposals aims to support projects that promote access to education for all.
In 2021, the CMA CGM Foundation continued its commitment to education in partnership with local charities.
Our shared mission? To help children and young people realize their potential and find their place in the world, through education.
For our ninth call for projects, we wanted to provide financial support to charities developing particularly innovative education projects in the Sud Region.
They put forward initiatives whose aims included:
The winning charities will also join the CMA CGM Foundation’s skills sponsoring program. They will thus have access to 500 days of community commitment from staff members at the CMA CGM Group, who will work alongside the charities, giving their time and sharing their expertise.
Tanya Saadé Zeenny, Chair of the CMA CGM Foundation, commented: “With the educational and social consequences we are now seeing from the Covid-19 pandemic, education is more than ever at the heart of our concerns as we seek lasting solutions to the challenges of educating our children and young people. This latest call for projects attracted a very diverse range of high-quality proposals from well-recognized charities with strong roots in the field. We are proud to be contributing to their activities and thus supporting the development of innovative and digital approaches to guaranteeing access to education for all.”
Created on the initiative of the Massabielle charity and a member of the Espérance Banlieues network, Ambition Cité has created an independent, non-denominational school where the educational approach is based on innovative, personalized methods to encourage inclusion and educational success for pupils from priority districts of Marseille. The project will create an innovative digital tool to allow teachers to share their observations on a pupil’s development, identify areas for improvement and implement detailed actions, tailored to each individual.
The charity links cookery workshops and cultural interchange in an innovative project that explores the culinary traditions of Provence and tackles educational exclusion. During school holidays, children from the Félix Pyat housing estate in Marseille are offered a fun way to continue to develop core skills, find out what a cook’s job consists of, and work on the publication of a recipe book.
Created in 1985, ARI works to improve inclusion for people with disabilities through access to education and work. To achieve this, it has developed modern, adapted educational tools, most notably its digital and interactive ‘magic tables’, which help with fine motor skills, alternative communication and learning through play. The project will provide equipment to several establishments in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region.
Created in 2015, the charity works in education for spoken language, life skills and citizenship for all. To provide effective and original support to young people aged between 11 and 25 from priority districts or experiencing difficulties it has developed a unique program: “Tell me about the match”, run by professional journalists and actors. Pairing up to provide match commentary for the radio, young participants build self-confidence and improve their spoken expression.
Building on its experience in preventing early educational failure, Association Coup de Pouce offers workshops in language, literacy and mathematics for children aged between 5 and 9. Coup de Pouce has launched “Super Idée!”, a new program of parental involvement inspired by systems tested in North America. " Super Idée!” is based on weekly text messages sent to parents of children in Coup de Pouce clubs. These texts suggest simple concrete steps to help parents support their children throughout the year as they learn to read.
Created in 2015, Each One for Society supports recent immigrants in accessing work and making the most of their potential to find a professional pathway that matches their skills. Through a 12-week program of lessons and support from mentors and coaches drawn from Grandes Ecoles and universities, young people aged up to 26 can resume a professional career and return more easily to the world of work.
École de la 2e Chance works on the inclusion of young adults, aged from 16 to 25, who left school without qualifications. It provides core training, individually-tailored social support, and a work-study program to help participants discover and build experience in the professions of the future. In Marseille it has developed a new training program, based around the areas of transport and logistics, with the first intake of 12 young people from the city due to begin in November 2021.
Created in 1950, Fédération Léo Lagrange works with young children, young people’s clubs and professional training. Through the “Carbone Scol’ERE” program, launched 10 years ago in Quebec, Fédération Léo Lagrange provides education on the environment and sustainable development. A fun play-based educational approach, focusing on challenges and easily-taken green actions, is used to build awareness of climate issues in schoolchildren aged between 9 and 12 and to give them concrete resources to act. Pupils can use these actions to help reduce their families’ greenhouse gas emissions.
Fondation Apprentis d’Auteuil supports more than 30,000 young people in difficulty and 6,000 vulnerable families in France through introduction, training and inclusion programs. The introduction of the “Le bus des possibles” program, an innovative traveling facility, will allow training and educational support to be provided to 60 ‘invisible’ young people, not in work or training, living in rural areas in the Haut-Var and on the margins of existing support systems.
Since 2015, Fonds de dotation Pro Bono Lab has worked on developing social solidarity projects that encourage citizen involvement in France and abroad. Fonds Pro Bono Lab is creating an Engagement Center at l’Epopée, an educational innovation village in the heart of the Nord de Marseille district. This facility will offer pathways to encourage the involvement of young people from Marseille in citizen actions with local charities, and to make the most of the skills developed as a result. The Engagement Center will also host training, events and activities throughout the year.
A school for digital and new technologies, co-founded with Club Top 20, a group of major companies in the Aix-Marseille Metropolis, La Plateforme offers people excluded from work the chance to follow its 2-year Coding School course. From the start of the new academic year in 2021, nearly 220 students will take this high-quality coding and web development course, free of charge, opening up many job prospects in these sectors.
Le Rocher Oasis des Cités provides educational services to residents of urban districts in difficulty. Team choose to live in the heart of poorer districts so as to create bonds of trust with their inhabitants, and provide educational support, parenting support and assistance in citizenship and social and professional inclusion.
A key event in the cultural and charitable life of Marseille, the Marsatac Festival promotes and distributes urban and electronic music, with a focus on highlighting new talent, and has developed an artistic and cultural program of digital creation for high school students. Workshops organized during school hours introduce pupils to music composition, working towards creating and presenting a show.
The media education branch of Mouvement Up, a member of Groupe SOS, Europe’s leading social enterprise, is launching its “PACA Young Reporters” media education program. The aim is to build awareness amongst young people from priority districts of the processes involved in producing the news. Through a series of workshops, the young people involved will create their own media content for a citizen podcast. Through this journalistic production, they will learn to verify sources and tackle on-line disinformation and conspiracy theories. At the end of the workshop process, the young people will share the programs they have recorded on social media.
An initiative launched in the Marseille region by the Départ charity, Refugee Food Education hands over the kitchens of Marseille high schools to refugee chefs to encourage cultural exploration amongst the students, build their awareness of the issue of migration and educate them in the importance of a balanced diet. Multi-disciplinary preparation is provided in advance by teaching staff through workshops on food diversity and a virtual reality tour of a refugee camp.
A major player in the social and solidarity economy since 2001, Réseau Môm’artre is active throughout France and has built its project around a dynamic collaboration between specialists in employment, social action, culture and education. The charity has developed a pathway back to training and employment for young people aged between 17 and 25 in Marseille through training for the BAFA youth worker certificate, alongside individualized support.
Created in 2019, the Simplon Foundation promotes inclusive, socially and ecologically responsible digital technologies. Simplon Foundation shares with its founder, social enterprise Simplon.co, the belief that information, acclimatization and training in the use of digital tools for as many as possible of society’s most vulnerable people is the best response to the negative impacts of a digital society. To meet this ambition, Simplon Foundation develops projects that aim to accelerate digital inclusion and support the socio-professional integration of people excluded from work and/or digital technologies. This is the case in particular for the Artis program, designed for young people aged 18 to 25: a training program and certificate that allows participants to discover digital professions over a seven-week course.
Created in 1994, Unis-Cité Méditerranée works to encourage citizen engagement amongst the young, through France’s national youth volunteer service. Through its “Digital young citizen” and “Code ambassadors” programs, 60 young volunteers will teach 13,000 children about the various uses of digital technologies, the employment opportunities in the sector and the fields of artificial intelligence, coding and digital citizenship.
Of the 132 applications received for the eighth call for projects in 2020, which had the theme “Committed to education”, the CMA CGM Foundation selected 18 charities in France and Lebanon.
For the first time, members of staff at the CMA CGM Group joined the Foundation team in selecting projects. As part of the skills sponsoring program, this role allows them to play an even more active part in the life of the CMA CGM Foundation.
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