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Nearly one in five young people under the age of 18 live in a below the poverty line family. A detrimental situation impacting their chance of social and academic success, their self-esteem and their motivation.

Created by Abdelaali El Badaoui and Mona Amirouche during Covid lockdown, Banlieues School association aims to act for equal opportunities. Banlieues School supports students aged from 15 to 20 in order to give them the same success chances as their classmates from more privileged backgrounds. Workers accompany them in order to develop a more conducive to work state of mind, allowing them to regain self-confidence, envy and pleasure of learning.

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The 11th edition of the Real Estate and City Trade Forum (FMIV) will take place on February 15th at the Palais des Congrès of Paris! Organized by Business Immo and Palladio Foundation, this event will be placed under the high patronage of Olivier Klein, Minister Delegate in charge of Cities and Housing for the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion.

The FMIV will be an opportunity for students, young graduates and people in retraining looking for a job, to benefit from advice from leaders, such as Maud Caubet, during speed coaching sessions!

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The crisis has allowed players of the hotel industry to review their models, their operation and their objectives. The Hospitality Operator Forum, Hospitality On’s think tank, will bring together European leaders in hospitality to share their views on the challenges of the sector. An exchange with some of the young entrepreneurs reinventing the hotel industry will take place there.

Romain Gowhari, Deputy CEO of Vicartem and Co-founder and CEO of Younight Hospitality will have the pleasure to take part to the event on June 12^th at the InterContinental Paris Le Grand.

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Dated from 1860, the former Cartier-Bresson spinning factory was abandoned for decades. Its refurbishment was expected by the inhabitants to open up the district. The building is now experiencing a new life thanks to Maud Caubet Architects and has become a cultural and childcare center.

For this renovation, Maud Caubet decided to do with the existing building and kept five of the seven workshops, in order to preserve the structure as much as possible. Large bay windows allow natural light to penetrate the building, creating a dialogue between the interior of the Sheds and the surrounding nature of the Diderot park.

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Reflecting its strong dynamism in investment, the private equity company closed the year with the signing of a 300th hotel in its portfolio. The future 260-room ibis Styles will take place in Valdebebas, a district known for its Isabel Zendal hospital, Real Madrid training center, IFEMA Exhibition and Congress Center and its residential area of ​​La Solana. In full development, the urban area should also host very soon the new courthouse, 36,000 sqm of offices, a 145,000 sqm shopping center and an extension of the IFEMA. Finally, the district enjoys vast natural areas such as the Felipe VI Park, one of the green lungs of the capital, which extends over more than 400 hectares.

AGP Hotels, partner and co-investor in the operation, will operate this new establishment. The group already has ten franchised hotels in France and Spain to its credit.

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Aware of the difficulty to access to employement encountered by 2.8 million French people with disabilities of working age, Robin Sicsic founded Handineo in 2020. Handineo allows HR, managers and disability managers to assess the practices of their organization in terms of disability inclusion, to create a personalized action plan, to measure and manage progress in relation to the objectives agreed upon for the year. All of this is possible thanks to a support program consisting of a steering platform and an adviser, intended to support people in charge of disability inclusion at work!

The platform also brings together a community of engaged employers who can take part in peer-to-peer learning sessions or share ideas and resources to advance inclusion through digital collective intelligence spaces.

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While the hotel investment market shows dynamism in the face of crises, EXTENDAM, European leader in private equity in the hotel industry, draws up a very positive assessment of its year 2022, with the addition of a 300th hotel to his wallet. During an interview conducted by Jean-Baptiste Favier, Jean-Marc Palhon, Chairman of EXTENDAM, delivers his strategy for 2023.

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Located in 8 countries of France (Rennes, Nantes, Saint-Malo, La Rochelle, Laval, Bordeaux and Marseille), the Vicartem group’s hospitality management company, has distinguished by its offer combining property investments, design expertise and hospitality know-how.

This alliance comes from a meeting between Céline, Sébastien Meslin and Romain Gowhari. The latter is recognized specialist in hotel investment. This is how they master every aspects of hotel and para-hotel management. Taking advantage of the expertise of each one allows them to develop further, as in hospitality heritage and additional activities from hospitality. At the end of 2022, the company has a 12-hotel portfolio and 40 apartments under management.

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Producer of the documentary Towards a low-carbon and living architecture, Maud Caubet returns to the raison d’être of such a film.

“The idea is to popularize the role of the architect in society, in particular its investment in the sustainable and ecological aspect of projects. How can an architect be part of this positive approach to renewing its profession and its practices? How can we reclaim environmental issues by creating a new approach?”, specifies the architect, who also lends her voice to the narration of the film. Questions that the short documentary film answers over the course of 26 minutes.

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Founded in 2020 on the basis of decades of pioneering research on biofuel cells, BeFC develops an organic and ecological energy solution at the service of the future generation of responsible electricity. While batteries are difficult to recycle, BeFC offers a light, flexible and totally biodegradable alternative, made from paper and sugar! A solution that could allow us to replace the single-use lithium battery.

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