Every year, almost 100,000 young people leave the school system without a diploma, 4 out of 10 students in their final year of secondary school don't know where they want to go, and 1 out of 2 students feels poorly supported during their school years. These indicators can be explained by a lack of understanding of how the French school system and the world of work functions, a strong divide between urban and rural environments, and the conditioning of failure that penalizes families from modest backgrounds. Social determinism remains a reality despite all the efforts made, since young people from modest backgrounds, children of blue-collar or white-collar workers, are 2.5 times less likely to obtain a higher diploma at bac+2 level than children of executives.

 

Against this backdrop, Les Entretiens de l'Excellence has set itself the mission of promoting equal access to career guidance for all, by giving young people in vulnerable situations the opportunity to talk to professionals with atypical and inspiring backgrounds, with a view to raising their ambitions and broadening their prospects.

 

To achieve this, it deploys a program built around 3 schemes: les Tournées de l'Excellence, les Promotions de l'Excellence and les Entretiens de l'Excellence Live.
The program is deployed in 42 cities across France, in partnership with 850 partner schools and leading academic institutions (Polytechnique, ESSEC, Sciences Po, etc.), mobilizing 3,500 professional speakers and impacting 100,000 high school students.

 

A pilot project will be launched in partnership with the Lycée Guillaume Apollinaire in Nice, involving 12 students in the second year of secondary school, accompanied by 12 mentors from CFM Indosuez Wealth Management.