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TalentCampus, un programa de capacitación para revelar, desarrollar y resaltar talentos

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Since 2012, the French project TalentCampus has set up training sessions to help people to develop their soft skills. TalentCampus was created in 2012 by a cluster of universities and higher education institutions, with a national agency for PhD support (ABG Intelli’agence). It was awarded funding through a national research call (IDEFI – french government investment for the future scheme). The aim of TalentCampus is to increase excellence in higher education by exploring the development of soft skills. However, the training sessions are not only for higher education students. Indeed, the idea is for participants to discover themselves through exchanges with people from many different backgrounds. Social background, age and disciplinary diversity are key factors in the success of TalentCampus sessions, which bring together high school pupils, students (from undergraduates to doctoral students), juniors and seniors professionals and job seekers. TalentCampus training sessions are based on active pedagogy, innovative content learning and collective immersion. It also creates training programs for companies or universities who have identified specific needs. Set up as 3 to 5-day workshops during the school holidays, TalentCampus develops skills to complement academic ability, including self-confidence, communication, leadership, emotional intelligence, and stress management. The courses are supervised by specialists from many different fields: for example, sport teachers or actors.Each training session is evaluated in order to know if the trainees have achieved the intended educational objectives. We will see in this communication what learners think about active pedagogy and mixed group during the training sessions. The sessions started in 2012 in Bourgogne Franche-Comté region. National and international developments are in progress as the target of TalentCampus is to disseminate and to let diffuse its best practices at a national and international levels. Session development in education system, lifelong training, as well as scientific research development aims to reach this target.