Gérard Biard

Today we celebrate three decades of Le Comité européen des régions — 30 years of giving millions of local and regional leaders a platform to bring the voice of regions and cities into the heart of EU decision-making. During our anniversary Plenary Session, members debated bold reforms to strengthen the role of the CoR in the institutional architecture of the EU, and to empower regions and cities, enabling them to better address challenges like the European Green Deal and territorial cohesion. 💡 Read my article to learn more about our vision for the future ⬇️

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Looking forward to attenting Pollutec Paris (Nov. 26-27), the new hub for change makers and accelerators in the realm of environmental protection and climate change. This event serves as a crucial meeting point for individuals dedicated to combating pollution through innovative sustainable solutions, in order to improve the lives of our fellow citizens. Pollutec also underscores the importance of sustainable transformation, decarbonization for the good of Mother Earth and future generations. #pollution #climatechange #environmentalprotection #nature #biodiversity #sustainability #sustainabletransformation #decarbonization #motherearth #resourcemanagement #wastemanagement #futuregenerations #effectis #pollutec #pollutecparis

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🌍 The Importance of Accessibility in the Workplace: How are you preparing the Semaine Européenne pour l’Emploi des Personnes Handicapées (SEEPH) 🌍 As we approach the Semaine Européenne pour l’Emploi des Personnes Handicapées (SEEPH), it’s the perfect time to reflect on the importance of accessibility in the workplace. This annual event raises awareness about the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workforce and highlights the steps we can take to create more equitable and accessible environments. Accessibility in the workplace goes beyond compliance—it’s about empowering every individual to contribute fully, regardless of their abilities. Here’s why prioritizing accessibility is essential: 🔹 Inclusion: SEEPH reminds us that by embracing accessibility, we foster a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone’s talents are valued. 🔹 Innovation: Different perspectives lead to fresh ideas, and workplaces that accommodate diverse needs are more innovative and adaptive. 🔹 Equity: Accessibility ensures equal opportunity, allowing people with disabilities to thrive in their careers without unnecessary barriers. 🔹 Sustainability: Building accessible workplaces also helps businesses retain top talent by promoting a sense of belonging. Let’s use SEEPH as a reminder that we all have a role to play in breaking down barriers. From accessible workspaces to inclusive hiring practices, every step counts toward creating a workplace that works for everyone. How are you ensuring accessibility in your workplace? Let’s keep the conversation going! #SEEPH2024 #Inclusion #Accessibility #Diversity #DisabilityInclusion #WorkplaceInnovation Find out more about SEEPH here: https://lnkd.in/eEDCcmSd

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What consequences could the development of breakthrough technology have on a society with sick fundamentals? This is clearly the situation today, not only in France but internationally. While the current period demands a common movement on complex global issues, nations and their people tend to retreat into themselves. Worse, two blocs with entirely different societal projects are emerging. These blocs transcend state borders and are found within populations, creating fractures, damaging the idea of fraternity, and reducing collective strength. In this fragile society, a breakthrough technology that will transform the world at all levels appears. The effects of artificial intelligence are closely linked to what humans ultimately want to do with it. It can be an opportunity for impact like humanity has never known. An impact that can be positive or negative. It can enable better education, health, food, governance... and it can ultimately ensure peace. Initiatives exist around the world to allow AI to positively serve humanity. From France, two of them are presented in this article: "les communs démocratiques" by Make.org and AIForPeace by MoHo. https://lnkd.in/ehYcaDQ4 #AIForPeace

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Value Care approach versus usual care, inclusive and sustainable communities During the last session, under the leadership of Elena Curtopassi, our committee appreciated hearing, in the fields of social and territorial inclusion, collaboration issues with experts engaged with the bodies of the European Union. Our particular thanks go to Oscar Zanutto (ISRAA Trevise (Instituto per Servizi di Ricovero ed Assistenza agli Anciani) for his presentation on Valuecare . Valuecare is a research project on a methodology whose objective is -  To compare the benefits of the Value Care approach versus usual care for older people with regard to indicators of health, well-being, QoL, lifestyle behaviour and social care use - To evaluate the benefits of the Value Care approach for older people’s caregivers, health and social care practitioners in terms of well-being, perceived burden and job satisfaction, - to evaluate the acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, fidelity and cost of the Value care approach We also had quite a valuable presentation by Carina Dantas, COE Shine2 Europe and Willeke Van Staalduinen CEO AFEdemy on inclusive and sustainable communities https://lnkd.in/eqWxFJAz Miltos Sakellariou,

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🧩 Do you know how to #engage the general public, particularly actors involved in public policies, in common #DataSpaces? Join the OECD #Gov2Gov Innovation Incubator ➡ team up with #France.   Frances’s Ministère Écologie Territoires is seeking to engage the general public, particularly actors involved in public policies, in common data spaces. To further their mission, we’re calling for innovative government teams to join the incubator programme and support the Ministry's Innovation Lab with two interrelated challenges:   ⭕ How can we engage the general public, and in particular actors involved in public policies, in the use of common data spaces? ⭕ How can the design of data spaces boost contributions and participation in the common data space, contribute to increased awareness of the added value of data and support the adoption of data-driven and evidence-based mindsets?     Do you want to team up? Learn more about this challenge, the team behind it, and how to join our incubation programme ⤵ Deadline⌛ 7 June 2024   𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 European Commission’𝘴 #𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦.   #PublicEngagement | #PublicSectorInnovation | #Incubator

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Important publication, now in French.

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The 71st Congress of the French Economic Association (AFSE), organised by the Department of Economics (CNRS UMR 8259), will be held from June 14th to 16th, 2023, and will be hosted by Sciences Po Paris. For more information > https://lnkd.in/gQZzkFBH #economy #digitaleconomy #economicaldevelopment

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"AI is statistics on steroids!" 📰 Laurent Daudet co-Founder and co-CEO of LightOn was interviewed in french economic newspaper Les Echos Entrepreneurs Gen AI serves as a catalyst for enterprise transformation by enabling the automation of internal workflows. LightOn's Paradigm platform empowers non technical people to independently build and deploy agents to implement and streamline their daily tasks, significantly reducing workload and enhancing efficiency. By managing Large Language Models on premise, Paradigm supports enterprises throughout this transformative journey. 🎙️ Laurent illustrated how Paradigm revolutionizes its customers daily tasks: "There are many applications, such as being able to query documentary databases in natural language. For example, we have set up an IT support chatbot for all agents of the Région Ile de France Council. Our model responds to requests by indicating the procedure to follow and quoting its sources, which limits the risk of hallucination." #Paradigm #GenAI #LLM #AI

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👉 Go check out my blog post about the French election results, possible government scenarios and the impact on Macron's line on the European scene!

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🚀 The Practitioners' Network 2023-2024 Annual Report is Here! 🚀   🌟 We are excited to share the highlights from one year under the Presidency of Expertise France.   💡 With a focus on innovation, collaboration, inclusiveness and sustainable growth, #ExpertiseFrance worked hand-in-hand with Network Members to shape a future-ready Practitioners' Network for European Development Cooperation. This report reflects a year of meaningful dialogue and strategic actions. Here are some key takeaways:   🔹 #Inclusiveness & engagement: continuing to build an inclusive Network that actively involves and serves the needs of all Members. 🔹 #TeamEurope & cooperation: strengthening synergies, improving coordination, and fostering joint project implementation for more effective development cooperation. 🔹 Continuity & #sustainability: ensuring financial stability and long-term sustainability to maintain consistency in the Network's work over time.   Dive into the full report to discover the strategy and priorities that shaped our progress in the past year 🛣   📚👉 Read the full report here ➡ https://lnkd.in/dhwsuCzh 👏 Special thanks to the #ExpertiseFrance 2023-2024 Presidency team! Jerome HEITZ, Lisa Verriere, Marine Sabria, Lucile Ceglarski. We are #StrongerTogether 🔵 #PNKnowledge #PNExchange

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Traffic from Facebook to established media outlets has dropped dramatically in recent years, which is such a shame for people who like quality news and a huge blow to the business of media companies - the opportunity to spread links to media content on the platform was free advertising for the media. However, this development has not been surprising: Many media outlets claim that link-sharing is a violation of copyright and demand payment for it. Now, the same risk is looming with Google: The media are actively creating an incentive for the platform NOT to share links to their content. At the same time, we hear disgruntled voices from these same media, demanding that Google MUST display their content. It doesn’t make sense. ‘You are evil if you don’t pay to display our links, and you are evil if you don’t display our links’.

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🔵⚪🔴 What do you know about French Development Cooperation (DC)?🔵⚪🔴 At Mainlevel, our efforts focus on understanding DC at a holistic level, from the funding strategies of different donors to the core needs of project beneficiaries. Recently, our colleagues took a deep dive into #FrenchDC, looking at similarities and differences with #GermanDC. Here are some of the key findings: 1️⃣ Strategic priorities: France’s development policy - orchestrated by the Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) - targets key areas such as #climateaction, #globalhealth, and #genderequality. The country's commitment is reflected in the 2021 Development Law, which focuses on impactful initiatives particularly within African regions. 2️⃣ Funding and allocation: As one of the world's leading donors, France aims to contribute 0.7% of GNI to Official Development Assistance (ODA) by 2030, prioritizing bilateral aid to promote development and stability in low-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. 3️⃣ Franco-German collaboration: Franco-German DC is characterized by a mix of cooperation and distinct national approaches. Germany's development agencies, such as #KfW and #GIZ, focus on project implementation, while France's centralized model involves strategic planning and implementation oversight by bodies such as the Agence Francaise de Développement. 🔍 Recent Franco-German milestones: The Treaty of Aachen in 2019 has reinvigorated Franco-German cooperation, particularly in development cooperation within Europe and beyond. Notable initiatives by the European Union include: Alliance Sahel, Euroclima+ or, more recently, the Just Energy Transition Partnership. 🌐 These facts tell us that by leveraging the skills of Mainlevel's multilingual team,🌟20% of whom are French speakers🌟, we are uniquely positioned to engage and contribute to these important international efforts. As we see these dynamic collaborations unfold, it reinforces the potential of strategic partnerships in addressing global challenges. #DevelopmentCooperation #SustainableDevelopment #GlobalHealth #ClimateAction #GenderEquality #ODA #FrancoGermanRelations #MultilingualTeam #French

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Heading to WorldSkills 2024 in Lyon. As our economies undergo the twin digital and green transition, it is more important than ever to rethink the way that we prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow, and how we nurture and match talent with opportunity. Happy to represent LinkedIn's Economic Graph which provides actionable insights about what the future of work is likely to bring at the session on AI and education. #worldskills2024 #skills #futureofwork #lyon #wsc2024 #AI #education #upskilling

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🗳️ How do French citizens feel about the economy ahead of snap elections next week? A majority believe inequality is a big problem and that immediate action is needed on climate, according to a new survey.👇 The Earth for All 2024 Survey conducted by Ipsos and commissioned by Earth4All and Global Commons Alliance reflects widespread public concern in France about inequality and climate action, and backing for tax reforms as well as broader political and economic reform. Here are the results at a glance: 🌎 It’s time for a Giant Leap: 73% of French citizens surveyed believe that the world needs to take immediate action, within the next decade, to reduce carbon emissions. Only a small minority believe slower, delayed action is required. 🗳️ People want political and economic reform: just 18% of those surveyed trust the government to make long-term decisions for the majority of people, and economic inequality is also seen as a big problem in France. 67% of those surveyed believe that the way the economy works should prioritize the health and wellbeing of people and nature – not just increase profits and wealth. ⚖️ Tax the rich: there is strong support for progressive taxation as a means of funding major changes to the economy and lifestyles. Around two-thirds (67%) of respondents back a wealth tax, while 62% support higher income taxes for high earners, and 63% favor increased corporation tax for big businesses. 👉 Learn more and explore the results in full: https://lnkd.in/dS89YTKE #SafeAndJust #GlobalCommons #PlanetaryEmergency #Earth4All #FrenchElections #Elections2024 #ClimateCrisis

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