Emilie Lombardie launches coursgroupes.com, a collaborative platform for connecting passionate or expert trainers with curious participants. Thanks to this concept based on the exchange of passions and skills, there’s no need to spend a fortune to satisfy one’s thirst for learning.
Studies at business school and a great passion for learning foreign languages led Émilie Lombardie to Spain for seven years.
Back in France, she worked in large-scale retail. A very enriching experience, during which the 33-year-old learned to manage a profit center, a team, a profit and loss account, and… nurtured her thirst for entrepreneurship.
Attracted by continuing education and collaborative consumption, she gradually built her project. Her exchanges and prospective studies confirmed her idea.
So, in January 2013, she decided to take some risks and “try something different”.
Nice Premium: Émilie, what is coursgroupes.com?
Émilie Lombardie: A platform that offers remote courses? Not at all! It is simply a new way of offering and sharing one’s knowledge and skills, while also benefiting from those of others.
A great opportunity to forge connections and meet people with similar interests nearby.
Nice Premium: What is the advantage of the concept?
Émilie Lombardie: Since it is now possible to share your car, accommodation, vegetable production, parking, etc., why not share your passions, knowledge, and skills?
We all have the desire or need to learn something on one hand, and we all have passions or skills we can share on the other.
Consume differently by consuming together, learn differently by learning together, that is the concept of coursgroupes.com.
This allows us to step outside the institutional framework of learning and access a substantial range of courses and workshops, throughout France, at minimal cost.
Nice Premium: Who is the target audience?
Émilie Lombardie: Accessible to all, all skills, passions, and topics are welcome on coursgroupes.com.
Introduction to photography, image consulting, office assistance, English conversation, fashion workshops, perfume creation, laughter yoga, interview preparation, oenology, cooking classes… Rich and varied fields of learning.
As we all have something to share, one can be a participant one day and a trainer the next!
New workshops are offered daily, but if by chance a member does not find the offer they are looking for, they can create an alert to be notified when a workshop matching their expectations is posted online.
Nice Premium: How do you sign up on the site and participate in courses?
Émilie Lombardie: Being a trainer or a participant is as simple as two clicks!
After registering for free and without commitment, simply:
To participate in a class or a group workshop, reserve your spot online by registering for the course and paying 15% of the course amount (the remaining balance is owed to the trainer on the day of the course).
To offer a class or a workshop, fill out a form presenting the proposed course, define its date, location, the number of participants, and its price.
Once validated, the offer is posted online and reservations open.
Happy learning to all!
