Youth Forum
Over to the future agricultural professionals
Make way for the young people!
The agricultural sector, like many others, is facing a crucial issue: generational renewal. SPACE is addressing this through its Youth Zone by promoting agricultural training and careers, as well as the young people who choose this path, by giving them a voice.
The Espace Jeunes is a project developed in collaboration with agricultural education networks (CNEAP, the state sector and MFR), higher education institutions – the Institut Agro Rennes-Angers (formerly Agro Campus), the École Supérieure des Agricultures d’Angers (ESA) and Oniris VetAgroBio – as well as Génération Agri.
Discovering different careers
Whilst agricultural careers are often disparaged and suffer from a poor image, young people undergoing agricultural training are themselves introducing other young people in general education to their chosen professions.
The aim? To introduce them to agriculture and the wide range of careers in the sector, the variety of training programmes available (from the CAP to an engineering degree), to challenge certain preconceptions, and to encourage dialogue between young people from different backgrounds, …
After an hour of discussions in the Youth Area, the secondary school pupils visit the exhibition accompanied by professionals.
A High School Newspaper
La terre demain
