First Forum: Afrique Destination Emplois

Students

A booming continent With 460,000 students in mobility, Africa stands for one mobile student out of 10 worldwide and is currently experimenting a sharp momentum with a mobility rate twice as high as the global average. In 2015, France welcomed 135,000 African students in higher education institutions. The lively continent experiments varied progresses...

According to a survey by Campus France carried out from September to October 2016 to 24,000 students from Sub-Saharan Africa, the main assets in France are the acknowledgement of degrees, the prestige and usefulness of degrees, the quality of education... but also the guarantee of a better professional insertion. In such a momentum, Campus France organises on November 24 and 25 at the CENTQUATRE in Paris the first "Afrique Destination Emplois" forum (ADE) dedicated to professional insertion and entrepreneurship in Africa of young graduates of the French higher education system.

A booming continent

With 460,000 students in mobility, Africa stands for one mobile student out of 10 worldwide[1] and is currently experimenting a sharp momentum with a mobility rate twice as high as the global average. In 2015, France welcomed 135,000 African students in higher education institutions. The lively continent experiments varied progresses... According to a survey by Campus France carried out from September to October 2016 to 24,000 students from Sub-Saharan Africa, the main assets in France are the acknowledgement of degrees, the prestige and usefulness of degrees, the quality of education... but also the guarantee of a better professional insertion.

In such a momentum, Campus France will hold on November 24 and 25 at the CENTQUATRE in Paris the first "Afrique Destination Emplois" forum (ADE) dedicated to professional insertion and entrepreneurship in Africa of young graduates of the French higher education system.

Twenty countries of Sub-Saharan Africa are represented, about 50 companies - global groups such as Saint Gobain, Société Générale, Eiffage, Veolia, AccorHotels…, but also SMEs - major players of entrepreneurship in Africa all join the show and meet young graduates.

With initiatives, Campus France helps promoting and boosting professional insertion and training thanks to a dense network of 27 Campus France offices present all over the African continent and to projects of support to entrepreneurship such as MeetAfrica (joint initiative by Campus France, Expertise France, the Research and Develolpment Institute (IRD) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

What for?

To facilitate professional insertion and support entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa for graduates from the French higher education system.
To promote skill trainings and degree courses, and internship and volunteering offers.
To identify precisely the needs in training of the African labour market.
To answer the needs in HR of companies in skilled workforce.
To allow young graduates meet recruiting companies in Africa.
To facilitate exchanges and networking.

Speedating, resume "stock exchange", job and internship offers throughout the African continent from 2 to 5 years of studies, conferences and round tables are scheduled for the event.

Location and dates : November 24 & 25, 2017 at the CENTQUATRE in Paris (5, rue Curial 75019 Paris)

Contact presse : sylvie.danon@campusfrance.org or 06 38 51 34 89