The South Region launches an online platform to facilitate access for young people to internships and professional meetings. The tool brings together more than 1,000 offers and connects students, teachers, and companies.
The South Region has put online a regional platform dedicated to internships, company visits, and meetings with professionals. The tool brings together, for the first time, different orientation resources in one place. It is intended for students, teachers, institutions, companies, and local authorities.
Orientation remains a key moment, often a source of stress and sometimes conflict in families. More and more young students in middle or high school struggle to find a place capable of welcoming them without a family network. Often, the cause is the increase in remote work within companies, which prevents the immersion of the intern. The platform launched by the South Region aims to remove this obstacle. It offers simple access to concrete opportunities and also aims to make the discovery of professions more direct.
Renaud Muselier emphasizes the importance of experience. “Choosing a path is envisioning the future. With this tool, we offer every young person, wherever they live, the opportunity to concretely discover the professions of today and tomorrow through an internship. Nothing replaces experience and being in the field.”
Accessible at stages.maregionsud.fr, Stages au Sud already brings together more than 1,000 proposals. They cover various sectors related to local economic realities. Middle school, high school students, college students, and teachers can find centralized information. Companies have functionalities to highlight their commitment to young people.
A platform designed for various uses
The tool allows users to search for an internship near their home. It also facilitates organizing company visits for classes. Teachers can invite a professional for a talk. The platform connects different stakeholders without complex procedures. The ultimate goal being to make orientation clearer.
The platform is part of a broader dynamic. The Orientation Bus is starting a regional tour. The whole forms a coherent system. The objective is to give more visibility to orientation and strengthen the link between young people and the sectors that are recruiting.
Marwen Belkaid, Head of Public Sector & Education at Myfuture, views this launch as an important signal. “A clear signal: despite the turbulence, the commitment to youth does not falter because we cannot afford it.”
Thus, the Region wishes to offer a simple and accessible framework. It wants to encourage the discovery of sometimes little-known professions and also aims to promote contact between students and professionals.
The role of Myfuture in the project
The platform was developed by Myfuture. Since 2015, this social enterprise has been assisting young people aged 13 to 24 in their discovery of professions. It designs tools to facilitate access to the professional world and works closely with educational institutions.
Victor Gaeremynck, CEO and founder, emphasizes the importance of the subject. “Having a good knowledge of the professional world and access to varied professions is fundamental to succeeding in one’s orientation and professional integration.”
Myfuture brings its expertise in connecting young people with professionals. The company develops online accessible solutions. Its partnership with the South Region extends this approach to the regional level.
Stages au Sud was designed to evolve. The offers will be updated as needed. Companies will be able to post new proposals. Institutions will have the opportunity to organize more regular meetings. The objective is to maintain a constant link between young people and ground realities to best orient the workers of tomorrow.
