Installed in the Lycée Saint-Exupéry, in Rennes, the B5 school wants to train the future leaders of Brittany. - C. Allain / 20 Minutes

  • A nine-month course will be offered from October at the Lycée Saint-Exupéry, in Rennes.
  • Called B5, it aims to train the "future leaders of Brittany" who will take the reins of large companies in the region.
  • Its initiators think that the region needs to renew its "leaders" to secure its economic future.

“There is an absence of a leader in Brittany currently. The runoff system has come to the end. We need to train leaders, people with a capacity for enthusiasm, to make those who take risks live better. ” The words are signed by Alain Glon.

This former industrialist, boss of the Altho group (which produces Bret's chips in particular), had the idea of ​​opening a new kind of school in his native Brittany. After three years of reflection, the project will see the light of day in October within the walls of the Lycée Saint-Exupéry, a private establishment located in Rennes and turned towards the rural world. His niche? "Bring out a new generation of leaders, develop an entrepreneurial spirit among young people and breathe in extra soul", explains the director of the school Jean-Marc Esneault.

Train future “winners”

Named B5 in reference to Brittany with five departments, this “Breton ENA” benefits from the support of several names well known in the region: the academician Erik Orsenna, the former boss of Products in Brittany Jackez Bernard, the Rennes surgeon Karim Boudjema , the former boss of Essilor Xavier Fontanet or the former pen of the President of the Republic of Ireland Aziliz Gouez, now working at Ubisoft. And it is no coincidence that it settles in the walls of an agricultural high school. “Brittany has always been successful when it had people who had a vision, both economically and politically. We have seen a lot of autodidacts emerge, people often from rural areas, ”says Jakez Bernard, with reference to Louis Le Duff, François Pinault or Jean-Yves Le Drian.

A team of Breton decision-makers has set up the B5 school in Rennes, training to prepare future leaders of Brittany. - C. Allain / 20 Minutes

To train future “winners”, the Breton activist is convinced that traditional education will not be enough. “We must prepare young graduates to integrate into the company. For that, they need concrete, lived. You shouldn't do things by default but by conviction ”. If agriculture and agrifood will be present, director Jean-Marc Esneault promises that there will be "no standard profile". "We will rather go to people who stand out".

Twenty students expected

The B5 training, also called Skol ar Sell (school of vision in Breton), will be offered over nine months to people graduating from a bac + 3 or bac + 5 wishing to become "leaders". Carried out in alternation, the training will be financed by the companies of the region which will welcome future talents. A hundred companies have already given the green light. The project leaders hope to attract around twenty candidates for their first session which will start in October.

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