Help the social elevator to work better, and join the adventure!

A year ago, we launched a mentoring program between high school and preparatory class students from diverse backgrounds and alumni of the school. After this first year, the feedback has been very promising:

• some twenty mentor/mentee pairs have been formed, and continue to exchange ideas;
• a dozen group training sessions in high schools to help young people break down barriers to the world of work;
• the involvement of over 30 alumni to keep the initiative alive.

Very satisfied with these initial results, we'd like to grow this partnership by increasing the number of alumni involved, and by opening up mentoring to middle-school students.

If you'd like to

• understand why two-thirds of higher education students are children of senior executives, even though this category represents only 16% of the total population;
• discover the initiatives launched last year in partnership with Article1 and Institut Télémaque, which are working to promote social equality and support young people in their projects and aspirations;
  
• hear testimonials from mentors and mentees, and exchange ideas with them;
  

come and attend this conference, which will be introduced by Yves Poilane, Director of the Ecole, and Laurent Soulier, President of our association.

You can contact the organizers by e-mail mentorat@telecom-paristech.fr

Access is free and the conference is open to all.
Registration (online) is imperative to gain access to the conference room, and ID will be required at the entrance as part of thevigipirateplan.

Article1 and Institut Télémaque are two of France's leading associations working to promote social equality and support young people in their projects and aspirations. Through individual and collective mentoring, these associations aim to help young people from "diverse" backgrounds to succeed in their studies, whether at college, high school or university.