Visit from Government of Philippines

Last week, we had a pleasure of receiving a French delegation from Académie de La Réunion & Campus des métiers et des qualifications civil engineering and eco-construction in a tropical environment composed by Brault Laurent, DRAFPIC, Ranjit ZANEGUY, Head of partnerships (DRAFPIC Réunion/Rectorat) & Didier CALOGINE, Professor at ESIROI [École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Réunion Océan Indien] Engineering School. The French delegation was warmly received by Cecep S. And his team at Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia) accompanied by CoE EARE’s Co-director, Manuel AZIBI, France Éducation international, Ministère de l'Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse and Antoine Bricout, Educational Cooperation Attaché of the French Embassy, Institut Français Indonesia. The purpose of a visit was to discuss about the further actions of collaborations regarding the cooperation agreement that has been signed between the CMQ génie civil et éco-construction en milieu tropical, La Réunion and Kemendikbud. We were first hosted by Kemendikbud, with the first presentation of the DRAFPIC, Brault Laurent, that took us through following discussion about our further actions on vocational education. We would like to thank Cecep S., Muhammad Wildan Pratama, Dian Vita nugrahaeny, Bayu Tri Prasetyo, Fauziannisa Pradana Putri & Ahmad Syaiful Anwar for the support in the preparation of our French delegation who presented in Kemendikbud and to all participants for the fulfilling exchanges we had.

The Centre of Excellence for Electricity, Automation and Renewable Energy has started the training of 8 teachers from 8 vocational high schools (SMK) in Industrial Automation. The trainees have participated in this training for about 6 weeks training course from August to September 2022. We are pleased to welcome Analeila Devira Lorenzi, a new assistant at CoE EARE. In her second week on the job, she did a translation during the presentation process. On the other hand, the Co-Director Mr. Manuel AZIBI presented the CoE EARE project and the French education system. He also demonstrated the projects with Virtual Reality for learning. These learning innovations, which aim to help SMK teachers to use the Schneider Electric equipment received in their schools, awakening a lot of interest from the trainees.

Following the visit of Campus des métiers et des qualifications PlastiCampus & Campus des métiers et des qualifications Microtechniques et Systèmes Intelligents delegates to Indonesia in March 2023, an invitation was sent from CoE EARE to Indonesian vocational teachers as a part of our hashtag#cooperation international, Franco-Indonesian 🇫🇷🇮🇩 project led by PlastiCampus, which aims to develop international cooperation. The invitation was then accepted by some some vocational schools and French industry regarding the formation proposed, practical activity, teaching method and also study & work manner. The first week, we had the opportunity to visit several vocational schools and French industries as following : 👉 Lycée Jean ZAY-Thiers, Mrs. Maud LEROY, Mr. David Bonnet, Mr. Jean Michel Racollet, 👉 Lycée Germaine Tillion Thiers, Mr. Xavier Maillet, Mr. sofiane chaour, 👉 Ville Thiers Town Hall, Mr. Stéphane Rodier, 👉 Précis Plastic Injection company, 👉 LYCEE PROFESSIONNEL ALEXANDRE BERARD, Mr. Philippe Kurdian, Mrs. Elodie Vivian 👉 Alpol Cosmetique company, Mr. David Lemaire 👉 LYCEE POLYVALENT ARBEZ CARME 👉 PlastiCampus, Mr. Joël VIRY, Mr. Philippe Anton, Mr. Mathieu Indonesian delegates were very pleased to discover French history, art and culture. Moreover, the most important is we were able to have a great exchange with teachers from French vocational schools regarding some practical activity. We would like to thank all the team for the quality of the exchanges and the highly motivated joint project!