Toulouse: ISAE-SUPAERO organizes Interviews for Excellence, to promote equal opportunities
The 12th edition of the Talks of Excellence will be held on January 28 on the ISAE-SUPAERO campus. The objective of this afternoon of exchanges and meetings is to improve access to higher education for all, and in particular for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space (ISAE-SUPAERO) will host the 12th edition of the Talks of Excellence on Saturday 28 January. This annual event is organized within the framework of the national system “Cordées de la Réussite”, a partner of ISAE-SUPAERO aiming to “introduce greater social equity in access to higher education”.
Thus, several dozen students from the four corners of Occitania, mainly from REP + schools (priority education middle and high schools) will come to meet professionals from various and varied sectors such as health, trade , marketing, architecture, aeronautics, law, and many more.
“The idea is to provide information on access to training to adolescents, often from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, who have no one around them to guide them in their orientation”, summarizes Boun Ngy Chhuon, responsible of the Toulouse edition of the Talks of Excellence.
The afternoon will be coordinated in several workshops, which the students will have previously chosen according to their areas of interest, during which the speakers (entrepreneurs, senior officials, researchers, academics, lawyers, managers of large companies, etc.) will be available to answer any questions. “The professionals who participate are all volunteers, with a background of excellence and, for the most part, come from diverse backgrounds”, he specifies.
The initiator of the Talks of Excellence in Toulouse
In Toulouse, the arrival of the Entretiens de l’Excellence (deployed in several cities in France at the time) was made at the instigation of this former ISAE-SUPAERO student, who had become head of the office at the – information systems department of the Ministry of the Interior.
“When I was young, being a Cambodian refugee, I would have liked to have had information, to know how to access this or that job. My life course did not prevent me from having a great career! So, we have to show these young people how to open up the field of possibilities, by insisting on the key messages of work and the refusal of self-censorship,” says Boun Ngy Chhuon.
The students participating in the Concours de l’Excellence, between the fourth and the final year, are selected upstream by the actors of National Education, and in particular through their teachers.