Innovative training courses: the Talent Campus project wins a top award
Dare to unleash your Talents! This is the slogan of the Talent Campus project, a new training concept supported since 2012 by the Bourgogne Franche-Comté Foundation of Scientific Cooperation (formerly PRES Bourgogne Franche-Comté) in partnership with numerous enterprises. Funded for five years for a total of €5.3M under the Investments for the Future programme, Talent Campus is one of the 36 projects selected for the IDEFI initiative.
A "tailored" training programme
Starting from the principle that each individual, whatever their age or educational background, has talents to be discovered and developed, this project offers each learner a tailored programme to identify and develop their strengths among 58 social skills, such as communication abilities, listening skills, self-confidence, team spirit, tenacity, leadership, etc. These are all qualities that are essential for community life and which can make a real difference in the professional environment. Yet these skills are insufficiently grasped and enhanced in conventional education and training systems.
To help each individual develop their own range of talents and personalise their course, optional workshops are proposed (entrepreneurship, innovation, research, charisma, etc.). The learners are also accompanied in their project in the medium term: professional reorientation, job hunting, change of career path, setting up a business, etc.
Learners of all ages from all backgrounds
By helping raise awareness of the need to develop skills other than purely "academic" skills, Talent Campus has met with rapid success with varied audiences ranging from high school pupils to employees and job-hunters. Two years after launching the project, more than 200 participants aged from 17 to 57 have already benefited from this training.
A dynamic process has thus been set into motion with the organisations responsible for professional guidance and integration, in close partnership with the economic players. Indeed, the ability of the project to meet the new requirements of enterprises in terms of employee training is one of the keys to its success, the ultimate goal being to create a "campus of talents".
In recognition of this dynamic current, the Talent Campus project has just been awarded the Grand Prize AEF Universities-Enterprises 2014 for the best shared initiatives in the "professional training & integration" category at the fourth Universities-Enterprises Meetings.
Find out more:
- The Talent Campus website
- The project presentation video
ANR and Investments for the Future
In 2010 ANR was designated principal operator of the Commissariat-General for Investment for the actions of the Investments for the Future programme in the field of higher education and research. The 18 actions managed by the ANR concern the centres of excellence, health, biotechnologies and the field of research valorisation and technology transfer.
The IDEFI call for proposals
The IDEFI call, whose management has been assigned to ANR, was launched in 2011 at the request of the President of the Republic who wanted to supplement the "research" part of the Investments for the Future programme with a specific initiative to support innovation in training. The French Conference of University Presidents was very pleased about this new initiative, which it had called for. With 150 million euros of funding, the IDEFI call for proposals can nurture true demonstrators that should prefigure the university training of the future, promote new training approaches, new content and support ambitious initiatives that are on a par with international standards. Supported by universities and public and private engineering schools, these demonstrators aim to enhance the profile, the versatility and the employability of students, and promote the link with research and training programme engineering.
