Stéphane Burgatt, edited by Thibault Nadal 3:41 p.m., February 23, 2022, modified at 3:42 p.m., February 23, 2022

To reindustrialise France, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region has decided to bet on a partnership between high schools and the Union of industries and trades and metallurgy.

The objective is for students to be able to train on state-of-the-art machines, used in the business world.

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To reindustrialize France, well-trained employees are needed.

For 15 years, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, a partnership between high schools and the UIMM, the Union of industries and trades and metallurgy, so that the training and especially the machines of the students correspond to the tools of tips used in the corporate world.

Twelve tons and a futuristic design, mastering this machining tool cannot be improvised, according to Olivia Perrin, student in digital engineering.

"You have to have a good level. To master it completely. I would say a good training of at least one year," she says.

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These machines are used in precision industries, welcomes Joël Liaboeuf.

"We are fully up to date. We have a machine worth 370,000 euros excluding taxes that can be found in all companies, for aeronautics, for example", explains the deputy director of the high school.

"The objective is for young people to be directly employable"

The investment is valuable for companies too, underlines Laurent Silvestrini, spokesperson for the Union of Metallurgy Trades.

"The objective is for the work-study students or apprentices to be directly employable. It saves time for us, because they will really be able to practice on the latest technologies, so it is necessarily an added value “, welcomes Laurent Silvestrini.

A lot of work is also being done with Laurent Renaux, from the Campus Excellence Industrie du futur, to adapt training to the future needs of industries.

"Everything moves very quickly and the notion of temporality in training is complex. A diploma is long and the time to get everything started", he believes, before specifying that "we really have to be in a work of anticipation to be just in time as we do in the industry", and anticipate, for example, the needs related to the renewal of the nuclear fleet.