Alumni at the Palmes de l'enseignement français à l'étranger awards

French education abroad is a school for living together, and we were able to see this once again on Thursday evening, at the Sorbonne, during the first 🏆Palmes de l'enseignement français de l'étranger, launched at the initiative of Samantha Cazebonne, Senator for the French Abroad.

And if we were all so moved to discover the dozens of winning initiatives of this first edition, it's because each of the awards particularly resonated with us.

Projects promoting respect and tolerance, such as the project run by the Lycée Français Jules Verne in Guatemala, which received the Palme de la lutte contre les discriminations.

Actions promoting inclusion, such as the projects presented by the Lycée Français de Madrid, the Lycée Français International Théodore Monod and the Collège des Soeurs Antonines Mar Doumit. But also openness to the host country, a value that is particularly dear to all of us in the network (won by the Lycée Français de Santa Cruz - Bolivia).

And when one of the winning projects is led by a former student of the school, Romain LAGACHE, as in the case of the project Un sourire pour tous presented by the Lycée Français de Tananarive... we can only feel even prouder.

It's impossible to sum up in just a few words the incredible wealth of projects presented.

You can watch the evening, presented by Dominique Tchimbakala (who else but our former president could have done such a good job?), on the ReflexeS website or on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eJtPs-Nn.

Palmes d'honneur were also awarded to establishments that have risen to the challenge of exceptional circumstances in recent months, demonstrating the extent to which the French overseas education network embodies the values of humanism and solidarity.