Training school dropouts in green jobs

In early September, at the ETRE school in Lahage - the Network's pilot school - we had the pleasure of kicking off the incubation program with the 10 2025 prizewinners 🌱
👉 For two days, these project leaders from all over France:
✨ Discovered the program that will support them for 9 months,
✨ Began to work with the ETRE school, which is the only school in France to offer this program.euses de projets venus de toute la France ont:
✨ Découvert le programme qui leur accompagnera pendant 9 mois,
✨ Commencé à se projeter dans l'école ETRE qu'ils vont développer sur leur territoire,
✨ Partagés leurs parcours et leurs envies,
✨ Et surtout... fait collectif!
The diversity of this promotion - in terms of histories, structures, sizes, activities - enriched every exchange. Between workshops, discussions and convivial moments (meals, cooking and shared laughter 🍲🤝), the alchemy took hold and a real network dynamic was created.
💬"These 2 days set a real starting milestone, we know we are several "dreaming" of creating schools, at this moment it becomes incarnate and that's important in my opinion."
👏 A big well done to Charlotte Jacob, incubation manager, and to the team of mentors (Suzanne Wachnick - Ossana Tanachian - Andrea Rodriguez - Céline Bonnier-Goy - Eva Brabant) for hosting this highlight in the development of ETRE schools
💪 The class leaves supported, inspired and ready to embark on the adventure!
Photo credits: Zélia Mezailles

Dear difteur-ses,

Here are the 10 winners of the 2025-2026 incubator, ready to embark in September on the creation of a school for ecological transition - ETRE, which trains young people aged 16 to 25 remote.es from employment and training in manual trades essential to the transition: Agriculture, bike repair, solar panel installation, eco-construction, circular economy ...

These 10 super projects are joining an associative movement for social justice, which offers manual, inclusive and ecological training all over France... BRAVO 💚

The ETRE Network is looking forward to accompanying them!

📍 Ardèche - Association Terre & Humanisme (Léa Ostermann & Romain Guilbaud)

📍 Calvados - Consortium Ovéa Formation - Association Objectif Emploi & DYNAMIA (Amélie Grihault, Arnaud Marchand & Laetitia Blanquart)

📍 Charente - Collectif (Léana CHANIOL & Amandine LAFONT)

📍 Dordogne - Consortium 3S / LES BUTINEURS DU BONHEUR / ADN Conférence (Thierry Masson )

📍 Drôme - Association du Carrefour des Habitants du Nyonsais (Tobias Sanchez)

📍 Guadeloupe - ASSOCIATION CKB (Kelly Polter & Claire-Hélène Frileux)

📍 Hauts-de-Seine - PikPik Environnement (Léon Lamotte & Vesic Camera)

📍 Lozère - La Fagoteuse (Guillaume Trioulier & Manuela Ferry)

📍 Marne - L'ECOLE DES JARDINIERS (Julie Murez & Bertrand Douzamy)

📍 Seine-Maritime - Mission Locale de Rouen (Tonino Rizzo)

🌍 Local development and integration projects, accelerating the ecological transition through jobs and skills...

Dear Difteur-ses,

🎉 𝗟𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗱'𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗱𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘂 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 - 𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗘 𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶!

ETRE schools continue to empower young people to take action for their future, and for the future of a society we hope is just and inclusive 🌍

The reading that's sure to make your day 😉👉 https://www.calameo.com/read/00791186876b0fe3d5f05

This year's key figures:

🔥 +1000 young people trained by 2024.

👏 92% dynamic exits (employment, qualifying training, care path, volunteering).

💚 9 out of 10 young people say that ETRE training has boosted their self-confidence.

A big THANK YOU for your support!

 💬 "I leave feeling part of a collective, supported and determined to set up our ETRE school!"
📣 And off we go for 9 months of incubation with one goal: to set up an ETRE school!
On September 7 and 8, our 8 ETRE school project teams met at the ETRE Lahage school.
💡 Meetings, exchanges with the ETRE Lahage pedagogical team, work sessions to think about the future school in relation to its territory... 2 intense days rich in sharing and connections.
We're proud to support these ambitious projects led by groups full of energy. We're convinced that the young people welcomed into these structures will have great experiences and find their way.
📍 The rest is happening in the field, in Fresnes in Loir-et-Cher, Luzy in Nièvre, Grasse in Alpes Maritimes, Pays de Sarrebourg in Moselle, around Lyon, Pleumeur-Bodou in Côtes-d'Armor, Bastia, and Villemade in Tarn-et-Garonne. To be continued... 😉 

Thanks to your support, we're delighted to share with you the progress of our ETRE school incubation program!

As the incubatees from the class of 2023/2024 complete their journey, applications for the new incubation session keep coming in. This year, we received no fewer than 25 applications from organizations wishing to set up an ETRE school in their area! 🥳

As we speak, our team is reviewing each application with the utmost care. In this first phase, we will be examining the written applications. For the selected project leaders, interviews will be offered between June 3 and 12 with our ETRE team. The winners of this incubation promotion will then be announced on June 18 and 19. We look forward to welcoming them to our network of ETRE schools! 🌟

Thank you so much for believing in our mission and accompanying us on this adventure to shape a better future with ETRE schools. 💚

[20 Ecoles ETRE] 💚
📢 ETRE Tarn is the 20th ETRE school! 📢
It is with immense joy that we announce that the 20th ETRE School has opened in the Tarn region (81) in Gaillac, at the end of 2023!!! 🥳
🔎 But what are we doing in this new ETRE School?
👉 We discover several Ecological Transition professions
👉 We practice and train in sustainable food skills, agro-ecology, market gardening, eco-landscaping, eco-construction and sustainable energies
🗓️ What's on the 2024 program?
✅ 3 Remobilisations
✅ 1 Pre-qualification
A big congratulations to the ETRE Tarn team for this new School joining the ETRE Schools Network!
To find out all about them, visit the interactive map of schools: https://lnkd.in/duYQ2rBC.

The national meeting of ETRE schools is 100% renewable fuel to build on all year round!
For 3 days, all the schools involved in the ecological transition gathered at ETRE Montarnaud (Montpellier) for the September national meeting.
An unmissable highlight for the 20 active schools with so much to share! Between exchanges of practices, strategic topics and informal times, the 3 days were intense and exciting. 🌟 💚
A real burst of energy to support as best we can the young people we then meet in our structures.

The month of June was an opportunity to talk circular economy professions, waste management and recycling issues, consumption patterns and eco-design with our trainees from the ETRE en Ségala school. 

So many notions and values that they put into practice through an artistic project, in aid of a Third-Place, made from 100% recycled materials, from the wood right down to the nails! Through this project, which ran throughout the month of June, the youngsters discovered carpentry by making outdoor benches, metalwork from bending to welding by making a metal arbour structure, and the patience and creativity required for woodcarving by creating totem animals that echo the natural identity of the Tiers-Lieux. 

This transition from theoretical issues to practical experimentation is the key to the ETRE schools' pedagogy. Enabling experimentation through the senses that restores a taste for learning, and developing technical skills that foster self-confidence. 

Thanks to Your support, ETRE en Ségala was able to set up 2 weeks of training in February dedicated to the themes of sustainable agriculture. 

5 days of training were dedicated to visits to structures: GAEC, a company making organic cookies, discovering training in agricultural high schools, making bread with peasant bakers. 
And, 5 days dedicated to workcamps at the ETRE school in Aveyron to discover teamwork, learn about wood construction through compost bins and growing bins, discover playful workshops ("What is organic", "debate between low-tech and high-tech agriculture"), ...

Combining contact with the local professional fabric and training activities designed for our public with fragile career paths, this is our recipe for awakening sensibilities, making people think and building accurate representations of professions.
 
2 great weeks with 7 young participants who proved to be enthusiastic.