Education & Work in France: the projects changemakers recommend

The selection

• Atelier PaysanRenage, France“A cooperative born in Isère, L'Atelier Paysan helps farmers design and build their own tools, with open-source plans and training courses, towards technological sovereignty for peasant farming.”Recommended by Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
• Audrey BourolleauLévis-Saint-Nom, FranceRecommended by Constance Albanel
• Bernard StieglerParis, France“A philosopher of technology (1952-2020), Bernard Stiegler saw every tool as both remedy and poison. He championed an economy of contribution in which everyone becomes a producer of knowledge again.”Recommended by Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
• Florence RizzoParis, FranceRecommended by Constance Albanel
• Fonds ExploreConcarneau, France“They fund the expeditions that help us understand a world we are still learning to protect.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• François MarchesseauChampdenier, France“An organic farmer since the 1980s, François Marchesseau chose to take charge of processing his own harvests.”Recommended by Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
• Grain de SailConcarneau, France“A company that runs decarbonised freight for real, out of Saint-Malo, across the Atlantic.”Recommended by Simon Bernard
• Low-Tech LabConcarneau, France“Every solution they test is published open source. The knowledge belongs to everyone, and that is what stays with me.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Lucas Davaze, Médiation ClimatGRENOBLE, France“He takes people to stand on a dying glacier. Climate stops being an idea and becomes a memory they keep.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• makesenseParis, France“They put collective intelligence to work for changemakers, two hours at a time.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Philippe MeirieuLyon, France“An educationalist and a figure of progressive education, Philippe Meirieu defends a school where pupils search, experiment and build their own knowledge, and he always ties learning to democracy.”Recommended by Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
• Plastic OdysseyMarseille, France“Simon's ship goes from port to port and shows coastal towns how to turn their plastic into something they can use locally.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• SailcoopVannes, France“They make crossing the Atlantic by sail a real option again. I like that.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Under The PoleConcarneau, France“They dive where science cannot easily reach, and they share everything they find.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• VelaParis, FranceRecommended by Simon Bernard
• WindcoopLorient, FranceRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Yves CittonParis, France“A professor at Université Paris 8, Yves Citton thinks of attention as an ecology: a scarce resource, captured by the media, that we must cultivate together as a shared environment.”Recommended by Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
• Éditions WildprojectMarseille, France“Founded in Marseille in 2008, the publishing house Wildproject brought the great texts of ecological thought into French and laid the foundations of the French environmental humanities.”Recommended by Paul Emilieu Marchesseau