On Tuesday 7 November, between 9.00-5.00pm, the FEDE organized a study day in the prestigious Colbert hall of the 9th arrondissement of Paris, entitled “Education, religion and business”. Sponsored by Professor Maffesoli, CNRS administrator and professor emeritus at the Sorbonne and Delphine Bürkli, mayor of the 9th district and regional councillor of the Ile-de-France region, this day, hallmarked by four round table discussions gathered together nearly 200 people.
Among them were Marie-José Lowe’s German students (Merz-Schule Stuttgart), Jocelyne Chelin (Training City Manager), Farhang Ghassemi (CEO of the Cogefi Training Group) and Jean-Luc Collet (Director of ICOGES). These students, like the other students present – those of Ludus Academy and the European Higher Institute of Caen – had the opportunity to meet with representatives of business foundations (French games for example) and personalities drawn from the world of school and university education.
All of these were also able to listen to the contributions of the dozen speakers that had been invited by the FEDE. Jean-François Petit, priest and lecturer in philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Paris and Yacine Hilmi Director of the Hozes Institute, whose vocation is to train imams in the French language and the institutions of the Republic along with the other speakers, knew how to seduce their audience by the clarity and innovation of their thoughts and actions.
Claude Vivier Le Got, President of the FEDE opened the day’s proceedings.
Jean-Louis Bischoff, Director of Research (on the right), Michel Maffesoli (center) and Jean-Michel Quillardet (left) were the first speakers.
Farhang Ghassemi (Member of the FEDE Committee, delegate for Human Rights).
Jean-François Petit also contributed to the success of the day.
The numerous audience appreciated it.
