Get your summer off to a great start by heading to theÎle de loisirs de Cergy-Pontoise to discover its many activities offers a wide range of activities for all ages As well as being a paradise for water sports enthusiasts and swimmers the site also offers the ideal setting for convivial barbecues with friends and family The island's flagship facilities include a waterski lift, the only one of its kind in the Paris region, and a whitewater stadium, the only one of its kind in Europe, ideal for kayaking, rafting and hydrospeed. The Aquajump also promises a thrilling ride the only part of the Leisure Island where bathing is authorized and supervised it will be open every Wednesday and weekend A giant 150 m slide and its multi-track straight slide will seduce the adventurous while the paddling pool and its water games will be a place of joy for the little ones an aquatic area specially designed for toddlers allows them to cool off while ensuring their safety A true oasis of pleasure for the whole family enjoy a delicious barbecue with family and friends L'Île de loisirs has carefully laid out dedicated areas for these convivial moments to ensure everyone's well-being and respect for this exceptional environment it is essential to observe certain rules when using these facilities your sports equipment and your swimsuit to make the most of this magnificent Île de Loisirs in Cergy-Pontoise Make the summer of 2023 a memorable one by enjoying every moment of relaxation sport and sharing in this exceptional green setting This natural setting, ideal for outings with family and friends, is easily accessible, just 32 km from Paris, 18 km from Argenteuil and 13 km from Poissy. Don't hesitate to come and have fun, get some fresh air and relax at theÎle de loisirs de Cergy-Pontoise for a memorable summer experience in 2025 Note: Access is free for pedestrians and cyclists but car parking is charged from 9am to 7pm in mid and high season (€6 per vehicle) with vehicle access from 8am to 9pm from October to March and from 7am to 10pm from April to September Refer your establishment, click herePromote your event, click here Addressing real-world global issues through satellite data analysis - S4S empowers students to tackle global challenges related to sustainability and water/agriculture by analyzing satellite data In response to a heterogeneous and disconnected programme originally from the mid-twentieth century, graal has carried out the renovation and transformation of a former student residence in the French town of Cergy which seeks to adapt the complex to new contemporary needs The original complex of the former Linandes Mauves student residence is made up of ten buildings arranged around a landscaped courtyard and connected to a lobby with large common areas The project aims to conceive the intervention on the existing buildings from both the outside and the inside in a simultaneous and complementary manner The project developed by graal focused on the demolition of the four remaining buildings to create new ones more suited to contemporary needs The intervention transforms the four existing buildings with notable architectural qualities and adds a new building to complete the program The project cleverly reinterprets the student residence on an urban scale simplifying the volumes to facilitate the relationship of the students with their living environment The application of a new exterior skin in grey tones works as an element of union between the new and existing buildings and allows the vegetation to take center stage Project description by graal the Linandes Mauves residence consists of ten buildings arranged around a planted courtyard and connected to a lobby with spacious communal areas The renovation of the previous phase was particularly complex due to the condition of the existing structure and the presence of asbestos throughout the plasterwork the program for this operation focused on the demolition of the remaining four buildings in order to create new ones that are more suited to contemporary requirements was based on a strategy of fundamental transformation of the four existing buildings with architectural qualities and the addition of a new building to complete the programme The overall design was guided by three main principles: - Re-interpreting the student residence on an urban scale by applying a new external skin to unify the existing buildings and adding a gable extension to assert its presence on the boulevard.- Exploring the potential uses of the dwellings while acknowledging the specificities of their complex existing morphologies and developing a variety of architectural features: half-levels etc.- Revealing the structural conditions of the existing buildings as an economic and aesthetic variable Unlike the previous rehabilitated residential complex which featured conventional external insulation with light-coloured plaster this project introduces a new materiality with the goal to transform the heritage without altering its character This thermal improvement work is paired with a reconfiguration of the spaces to enhance the quality of life within the dwelling Improvements to the reception of students throughout the residence are completed by a major refurbishment of the communal and administrative areas and a redesign of the outdoor services offers a new face to the entire district through its prominent location on the Boulevard de la Viosne The architectural response plays on the apparent simplicity of the monochrome treatment of the surfaces gradually revealing subtle games of reflections and transparencies that multiply the visual effects within the site All the buildings are clad in folded steel which systematically offers two angles of reflection to the sun's rays this is further enhanced by the brightness of the stairwells which are made of glazed concrete that stand out from the façade and project their shadows onto the jagged surface the cladding is perforated to create a transition between the built mass and the sky above the new city which closes the volume without obstructing the view is also deployed on the re-entrant angles of the old architecture allowing the outdoor spaces to be revealed at the heart of the block The renovation project raises the question of the tenuous relationship between the façade and the volume in the light of current energy requirements which sometimes demand that these two elements be designed separately The draped corrugated sheet metal uniformly covers the formerly complex volumes of the buildings floating diaphanously across the roof to make up for the gaps created by the half-level organisation of the existing interior floors this organisational veracity can be clearly seen on the gables where the differences in levels are materially illustrated at the junction of the two faces of the envelope The composite organisation of the 144 apartments which creates the richness of the internal layout can then develop freely without conflicting with the rationality of the façade which now responds to the urban scale in his whole and goes beyond the module of the individual studio The multiplicity of facade formations in the existing structure (loggias balconies and setbacks) is thus compensated by this new unifying and insulating skin is left to the imagination of the observer through the design of the windows while creating a structuring logic on the scale of the building complex also allows one to occasionally grasp the irregularities of the previous composition The project leans on conceiving the intervention on the existing from both the exterior and the interior simultaneously and complementarily dictated by economic constraints and the need for site management efficiency does not limit the possibilities for internal development but unifies the disparate situations inherited from a heterogeneous existing plan While the intervention at the urban scale aims to simplify volumes to facilitate the students' relationship with their living environment the work on the interiors of the existing buildings seeks to reveal the complex interweaving of the inherited construction and layout systems By exposing the concrete structure of the lobby (the living space) or leaving the cinder blocks dividing this palette of greys and textures gives the white partitions and linings a particularly striking brightness and luminosity turning the most basic and common material in rehabilitation into an event of the interior design vocabulary the light grey of the overall design allows the vegetation to take pride of place framing a variety of landscape or urban situations against this backdrop that refuses to efface itself several objects stand out due to their shape or colour The metal staircases connecting the half-levels have been repainted to restore their original bright blue color These colour accents are also used in the signage and on the interior furniture in the rooms designed around this colour and its complementary shades Other pure geometric shapes are used in the communal areas such as the chrome cylinders in the ventilation ducts and the benches of elongated white concrete paving stones graal. Structure.- I+A laboratoire des structures.Fluids /thermal / acoustic / HQE / SSI.- Solab.Economist.- éco+construire.Asbestos & lead.- samex sécurité Asbestos and lead removal.- die environnement.Structural works waterproofingplebac.- plebac.Exterior carpentry sprayed insulation.- bacf.Interior carpentry.- jpv bâtiment.Floor and wall coverings.- sen carrelage.Painting.- les peintures parisiennes.Heating Design.- 2021.Construction.- 2022.Completed.- 2024 Giaime Meloni. Archive REMODELING-RENOVATION After losing to Polish team KS GLOBAL PHARMA ORLICZ 1924 SUCHEDNIÓW in the Round of 16 of the Champions League Men PONTOISE-CERGY TT continued their journey in the Europe Cup Men Round of 16 REAL CLUB CAJASUR PRIEGO TENIS DE MESA secured a victory in the opening leg on home soil Carlos MACHADO defeated Tristan FLORE and Mehdi BOULOUSSA while Alejandro CALVO overcame Thomas LAROCHE Alberto LILLO suffered an injury at the very start of his opening game against Mehdi BOULOUSSA but the Spanish team still concluded the match victoriously “I am very happy that I am still able to play at the top level,” said MACHADO we are very pleased to have secured the win today even though we played without our ‘foreigners.’ I expect we will face much more difficulty in France After a narrow defeat in the golden match of the Champions League Men Round of 16 against Poland’s KS Dekorglass Działdowo Germany’s Postsportverein Mühlhausen 1951 e.V bounced back with an opening leg win in the Europe Cup Men Round of 16 Irvin BERTRAND secured a win over Fabio RAKOTOARIMANANA who later suffered another loss at the hands of Ovidiu IONESCU Romania’s IONESCU had earlier been defeated by Romain BRARD in the second match of the day Daniel HABESOHN completed the victory for Mühlhausen with a win over Amir Hossein HODAEI “After beating the Champions League winners Saarbrücken in the Bundesliga just two days ago we’re happy to have won the first leg against Lille There were some ups and downs during the match we need to stay focused on our upcoming league matches,” said HABESOH IONESCU added: “We are very happy with this win; it was a tough match which gave us a lot of confidence for today and there is still a second leg to be played We want to win it and secure our qualification for the next round.” who ended 2024 with a loss to reigning Champions League winners 1 began the new year with a strong start in the Europe Cup Youssef ABDEL-AZIZ gave the Austrian team an early lead but Czech player Pavel SIRUCEK turned the match around by defeating Zhenlong LIU Jiri VRABLIK followed up with a victory over Tobias TISCHBERGER and SIRUCEK sealed the win by overcoming Egypt’s ABDEL-AZIZ The next match will be played on February 14th SKST Havířov returns home with the advantage defeating Universidad de Burgos in the opening leg Cai SHUNHANG was the standout performer for the hosts the visitors struck back with a stronger team effort and Jan VALENTA—contributed to the victory REAL CLUB CAJASUR PRIEGO TENIS DE MESA – A.S PONTOISE-CERGY TT 3-1 LILLE METROPOLE T.T – Postsportverein Mühlhausen 1951 e.V UNIVERSIDAD DE BURGOS – TPF – SKST Havirov 2-3 The European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) is the governing body of the sport of table tennis in Europe and is the only authority recognized for this purpose by the International Table Tennis Federation The ETTU deals with all matters relating to table tennis at a European level including the development and promotion of the sport in the territories controlled by its 58 member associations and the organization of continental table tennis competitions Yeshiva of Cergy has begun its fifth academic year complete with prepared grounds and fired up energy Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" If you're a street art enthusiast, then you're probably familiar with the Caps Attack festival this international mural art festival has been coloring the city of Cergy-Pontoise during the summer transforming the Val-d'Oise municipality into an open-air museum Initiated by the Art Osons association on the occasion of its 10th anniversary the Caps Attack festival launched its very first edition in September 2017 the Ile-de-France street art festival has seen the birth of three other editions workshops and battles were organized to delight the eyes of the many curious onlookers This summer, from June 18 to July 6, 2025 to be precise, the city of Cergy-Pontoise opens its doors to the 5th edition of the Caps Attack festival Two other communes in the Val-d'Oise will also be in the spotlight hosting street artists: Vauréal and Jouy-le-Moutier the event will be punctuated by live events and frescoes on the forecourt of the Cergy-Pontoise Prefecture More good news: this street art festival is free and open to all and come along if you're a fan of urban and mural art A.S Pontoise-Cergy TT secured a 3-2 victory over KS Global Pharma Orlicz 1924 Suchedniów at home but the result was insufficient for the French team to secure a spot in the Champions League Men quarterfinals the Polish club had recorded a 3-1 victory winning both his matches against Robert FLORAS and Deni KOZUL Izaac QUEK YONG also claimed a victory over FLORAS it was the nail-biting wins by KOZUL over QUEK YONG and Mateusz ZALEWSKI over Liam PITCHFORD that sealed Suchedniów’s advancement to the round of 8 We managed to win two points even without Kazuhiro YOSHIMURA who led us to victory last time with two wins I’m thrilled to have avenged my 2-3 loss last week with a 3-2 win over Izaac QUEK YONG Robert also played very well against Marcos in the opening match—it was close until the fifth game But the most important win was Mateusz’s victory over Liam PITCHFORD—Liam was a clear favorite We’ll give our best to continue and aim for the Final 4,” said Deni KOZUL Polish team had to go through the group stage to earn their spot in the competition A.S PONTOISE-CERGY TT – KS GLOBAL PHARMA ORLICZ 1924 SUCHEDNIÓW 3-2 KS GLOBAL PHARMA ORLICZ 1924 SUCHEDNIÓW – A.S PONTOISE-CERGY TT 3-1 This piece of public art stretching over three kilometers long stands just outside of Paris Construction began on the immense work of art in 1980 and was not finished until the early 2000s—some pieces are still considered works in progress Axe Majeur (Major Axis) was created by Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan Working with Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill Karavan designed a piece of art that combined large-scale sculpture and urban planning which include the 36-meter tall Belvedere Tower 12 columns to mirror the 12 segments of the whole piece One of the most striking features is the long footbridge The bridge leads to the perfectly round "Astronomical Island." Karavan was known for creating these large sculptural works many of which merge into their surrounding environments The monumental piece of urbanism and landscape art offers a very satisfying view You can stroll along the 3.2-kilometer line (wear comfy shoes there's a lot of stairs) and cross some satisfying panoramas made of perspective and geometrical giant sculptural shapes carved into the French countryside If you go there at night you will discover a totally different place shaped with lights and a huge red laser pointing straight to Paris at the end of the line This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer This modern sculpture looks out over the sea and amplifies sound from the inside This 42-foot tribute to the workforce still reminds us to pause and recharge A whimsical display of massive metal sculptures made from recycled materials made from recycled wood and materials found in nature Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade Rusted humanoid clutching a laptop and trailing cables A family of distorted sculptures stands outside Seoul's former imperial palace About | Privacy Policy | Advertising| Editorial | Contact Us Subscribe | Login ESSEC’s main campus in Cergy-Pontoise The 116-year-old school will have a dramatically different look this fall ESSEC Business School will be dramatically different — physically but by no means philosophically One of France’s premier B-schools, École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, founded in the early 20th century, is undergoing a massive makeover at its main campus that is scheduled to be complete in time for the start of the fall semester. The transformation includes pedestrianization resulting in a 40% reduction in energy use campus-wide It also includes the creation of a building that seems destined to be the envy of graduate business education in France: the Pierre Nanterme Center for Responsible Leadership a two-story classroom building with 1,400 square meters of pedagogical spaces “designed to meet the needs of tomorrow.” The entire ground floor will be dedicated to “Enlightening Entrepreneurship,” with the first floor optimized for nouveau directeur de l’ESSEC: On the topic of climate change and sustainability “schools need not be in competition” ESSEC is unquestionably a business school on the rise. The Financial Times ranked its MBA 64th in the world in 2022, up from 88th just two years earlier The latter placement puts ESSEC third in France behind only HEC Paris and Edhec and ahead of INSEAD and a host of other elite schools The magazine ranks ESSEC’s Master in Management the sixth-best in the world In 2017, when Vinzi became ESSEC’s dean the school’s MBA was unranked by the FT a little over an hour’s drive northwest of Paris in Cergy-Pontoise is a reflection of the school’s growing role on the European and global stages it is a reflection of the school’s values in an interview late last year with Poets&Quants: “We need the leaders of tomorrow that are both specialized very deeply but who also have a holistic vision of society It’s a matter of how the students are able to incorporate in what they do a long-term perspective And this is something that the schools have to undertake.” Vinzi has proved to be an agent of dramatic change at the school as the world reeled from the coronavirus pandemic he spearheaded a sea change in ESSEC’s operations and organization “Together” is a roadmap for “social and environmental transition” whose aim has been to transform the school in its three core dimensions: teaching The plan’s primary goals are no less than the protection of the planet “to be architects of the required transformations of the business school ecosystem and How would ESSEC achieve these ambitious goals With 50 initial “transformation projects,” among them training all students in contemporary social and environmental issues which the school has done in all its programs since the start of the 2020-2021 academic year Broad modernization of the school’s four campuses — the others are in Paris along with “exemplary environmental management” of its campuses and a determined effort to increase the diversity of the student body (The latter is already partly achieved: ESSEC’s MBA program is more than 50% women ESSEC launched a new degree that further reflected its mission to train future leaders to respond to major social and environmental challenges which admitted the first intake of students in August 2022 “is designed to equip future managers with the knowledge know-how and network they need to have a sustainable impact on their companies and organizations to become agents of change in an increasingly volatile world and to seize new opportunities from sustainability development.” A digital rendering of ESSEC’s new Pierre Nanterme Center for Responsible Leadership “optimized for digital teaching and modular spaces promoting interaction with the corporate world” Gunther Friedl of TUM School of Management Karen Spens of BI Norwegian Business School More than 100 MBA students attended the eighth annual conference Vinzi says he came away impressed by the dedication of so many to creating a new generation of leaders with the right skills to effect needed change so it’s important that these students hopefully they also get transformed within a school,” he says “They need to represent the solution They need to really be engaged in making the needed transformation I feel like our mission at ESSEC — but I think all business schools should go in these directions — is not simply to transfer knowledge but also while they’re at school get them more and more engaged so they say we are the actors of change.’ They need to undertake responsibility of making it happen One more thing I said to the MBA forum was that schools on this topic need not be in competition then we have a chance that they become engaged actors of positive change We do a complete job if freely they are engaged THE POETS&QUANTS INTERVIEW WITH ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL DEAN VINCENZO VINZI What are some of the specifics you talked about during the MBA World Summit Vincenzo Vinzi: We talked a little bit about what are the required competencies amid the responsible transformation that is ongoing in the world but also through the evolution of the competencies that the students participants in MBA but also all the other programs need to acquire while they’re in the school because I think these schools are going through hard skills and soft skills for many of the kids A long-term perspective is not a soft skill It’s really the way they approach problems How they keep asking themselves why they do what they do So this is what we shared and I feel this is extremely important because I think one thing that is extremely important is that we need to break the silos across disciplines because in management we’ve always been very good business schools have been good for decades in dealing with the new topic when it comes with respect to the new challenges that the world is facing — or the urgent challenges many of them are not even new but they become more urgent — and really the call for action is that we need to break silos across disciplines because having an interdisciplinary approach having professors collaborate with each other across departments being able to collaborate with other schools when it comes when it comes to environmental challenges — it’s not a topic for one discipline but it’s a topic for many disciplines It’s not a topic only for a business school we need the leaders of tomorrow that are both specialized so very deep but also they need to have a holistic vision of society And this is something that the schools have to undertake There are two things that we have been doing at ESSEC very much related to climate change We have a specific course on responsible leadership a specific seminar on understanding and changing the world But what is also an added value is that those topics actually irrigate transversely the fundamental courses because otherwise there is always a risk that in the morning you follow a course on a specific topic treated in the afternoon you have a specific course on ecological transition how do I make the two things coherent with each other?” So the real value I think is in having those topics not exclusively as another course but really irrigating transversely the core course whatever that has an impact on everyone’s life on a daily basis even though he must not be the specialist of the topic he must lead the company knowing about this topic as well So this is the challenge that we have undertaken It’s really the core of what we’re currently doing But in what ways do you feel Europe is in the vanguard that Europe is leading on some of these issues: in sustainability European business schools are actually a little bit ahead of the U.S I don’t think of the recognition that we have done something I think it is a further booster to do even more But it’s important that at least to be recognized to walk the talk” it’s a question of sensibility of the school to this topic I think it also reflects how the region of Europe actually tries to cope with these topics we are in France and we see how much this topic has been on the political agenda for the past few years I would say the political sphere of a country or a region makes the whole region more or less sensitive to some topics So I think it’s related both to the environment The purpose of the school was infusing business with ethics I’m not sure there were many schools that were thinking about business and ethics all the schools have a sort of engagement in that But you see the point: The humanist values actually launched in the region of what is called the COBS it’s eight business schools in the world that are members of this alliance It was quite pioneering to launch an alliance with business and the common good There is a tradition ingrained in our values They make the engagement on this topic quite What can you tell us about diversity initiatives at ESSEC You have a good reputation for bringing women into your programs and having programs with high proportions of women What can you tell us about gender and race diversity at ESSEC I think there are four dimensions that are important It is extremely important to be as exemplary as possible with respect to the students for the environmental ecological transition or a lot of things being developed in the pedagogy So we need to be ourselves exemplary in terms of reducing our carbon footprint building new buildings that are eco-responsible and so forth since September 2022 we have an exciting committee with a perfect gender balance you have a larger majority of women as compared to many other schools but overall among the employees of ESSEC you have a majority of women What I have been doing for the past few years was really something that was important to me was to achieve a point where in the level of the senior leadership team we had this gender equaling it’s also other diversity: It’s your profile So we have this equalization of the ESSEC committee But I think it’s important in terms of sending the right message to the whole community tools to make people aware of all the topics related to diversity you have all sorts of biases that sometimes also lead you to behaviors that do not respect diversity But in other cases you also have behaviors that do not respect diversity because you have a bias You breach our Charter for the Respect of Others perhaps because you are not aware of some codes or some behaviors and so on International Women’s Day — we have a signaling platform at ESSEC so that anyone witnesses something that he or she believes is inappropriate with respect to the Charter because we are in administration in a school through the course in the first year on management we do have a specific module on understanding risk typing which should never be constrained but a richness for everyone the course does not mean giving up what we are but it’s enriching our roots and enriching also the other of what we are And what we developed at ESSEC is the Diversity Fresco You might have heard about the Climate Fresco which is with respect to the comprehension of all the topics related to climate change We have developed at ESSEC the Diversity Fresco which is a serious game with respect to all the topics related to diversity all the biases that I was sharing with you earlier on and working in groups so that this serious game just like the serious game on the topics related to companies all students undergo this Diversity Fresco And we do have many other schools and even companies ask ESSEC to deliver this Diversity Fresco in their organizations because there are diversity issues everywhere nowadays in the world Another topic with respect to diversity is related to courses both in pre-experience and post-experience programs which is a course for female students to negotiate salary because in some cases you do have a posture of our graduate students in terms of being shy in terms of not negotiating salary and whatever And I think it’s important that we help them train themselves It’s a matter of having the right code It is a matter of having the right approach They don’t dare to negotiate salaries So we set up a course with respect to that We also have a program which is called Women Be Board Ready which is related to how women who have reached very interesting high-level positions in companies actually move to the next position which means opening the doors of ESSEC to more diverse It means that ESSEC for 20 years has had the Center for Equal Opportunities This center has been developing programs for searching students at the level of high school where the objective was not to make the advertisement of ESSEC but provide those students the knowledge of what higher education is It doesn’t matter disciplines or the school It could even be for doing literature in the French state university The issue is that we see that as soon as you go to some middle schools or high schools in France those students do not even know what is higher education It doesn’t matter the topic or whether it’s private or public or whether it’s a school or a university to go there and explain to them what it is if they’re good academically speaking I think the social elevator must start much earlier if elevator starts in the floor that is dry Nowadays ESSEC is 22% — within the Master in Management we have 22% of students who have their dossier which means that they have funded scholarship which means that when it goes through all sorts of actions it’s making the system known to the students at the stages in their life as I was sharing increasing the number and the amount for scholarship what are some of the differentiators for ESSEC compared to some of your brother or sister schools in Europe The conversation seems to be really accelerating: I wonder how ESSEC is leading that conversation 100% of our students are sensitized to environmental issues through a very universal approach So I think those are quite distinguishing features it means that it doesn’t matter what problem which means that these topics actually beyond the specific courses they also actually are treated within the fundamental course So we have transformed all of our core courses to look at these issues through this lens we have also created the specialized courses for those who wish to grow these issues in the profound way It’s a bachelor’s degree in partnership with the local university in Cergy which seeks to educate the new generation to drive change which means “Learn how to lead transition project.” Act in French means “Apprend la conduite la transition” we need more and more profiles with this competence because when you talk about transition even within companies you have to federate several actors within a company to make a transversal transition project happen Another program that we also started is the Master of Science in Sustainability Transformation And the objective is really to keep future leaders with the knowledge to make a sustainable impact towards the way business is done So this is from the pedagogical point of view I think this is extremely important — linking the pedagogy to the actions of the school we are committed to becoming exemplary in terms of our own operations at the school So we are currently renovating our campus here in Cergy with a high-ecological performance building even though we’ll have one-and-a-half building more as compared to what we have now the energy consumption with respect to the standards a zero-waste plan to reduce campus waste production by 30% We initiated a zero plastic plan to remove all single-use plastic from our campuses And we developed a sustainable energy plan Installation of solar panels on the roofs of ESSEC Cergy campus participating also in a local renewable energy comparative So this is to say that there is a big engagement of the school on our own operations because we computed our carbon footprint and almost two-thirds 64% of our carbon footprint actually is generated by the mobility of our students So what we’ve done is that we have set up a responsible mobility plan with three key factors that play a role students who need to travel for their training it’s the school that pays in case they take the train the school makes the investment of paying the cost But it’s important that at least to be recognized to walk the talk DON’T MISS GRAND PLANS IN MILAN: P&Q’S EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FEDERICO FRATTINI, DEAN OF POLIMI GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT and HIP-HOP COMES TO BUSINESS SCHOOL Our Partner Sites: Poets&Quants for Execs | Poets&Quants for Undergrads | Tipping the Scales | We See Genius Website Design By: Yellowfarmstudios.com Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here At theÎle de loisirs de Cergy-Pontoise the egg hunt has become a not-to-be-missed event over 1,000 eggs will be hidden in the bathing area some containing vouchers for chocolates or surprises The event features age-appropriate sessions This page may contain AI-assisted elements, more information here For the Fête de la Science 2024, the greater Cergy-Pontoise area in the Val d'Oise is offering a wide range of incredible events for curious people of all ages young and old alike are invited to come and discover advances in scientific research meet professionals and take part in numerous workshops all of which will be showcased at this exceptional cultural event although these events are often free for visitors So take a look at the program for this national event and start planning your next outing with family and friends If you're one of the passengers affected by the bus strike in Cergy-Pontoise, then it's time to do the sums: Île-de-France Mobilités has announced the amount to which passengers affected by the traffic disruption will be entitled in compensation passengers have had to deal with the social conflict between management and employees at Francilité Seine et Oise The bus network was completely interrupted before being partially resumed from slides accessible to all to more extreme attractions aimed at the bravest it's the perfect place to brave the heat and challenge yourself on these floating structures for maximum thrills This 3,000 m2 aquapark has a quiet area reserved for the little ones and their parents sliding and balancing games for children aged 6 and over Although life jackets are compulsory for safety reasons you need to be able to swim to access the games and spend a fun day with your loved ones For thrill-seekers aged 14 and over, try theXtrem Tower, a floating tower that rises to a height of 12 meters and features a climbing wall, ventriglides, ever-higher slides and diving boards between 6 and 9 meters for the most daring You'll pay 22 euros for a day with access to this tower And for those who prefer not to get too wet afloating terrace awaits you for sunbathing so you'll have plenty of time to plan your summer A not-to-be-missed event for all music lovers The Musi'Quiz is above all a friendly competition in which each team answers questions on a variety of musical extracts Each round of the quiz is designed to challenge your auditory memory and musical culture jokers and surprise challenges punctuate the evening Koezio Cergy known for its immersive adventures and adventure courses reinvents itself with this musical quiz concept the Musi'Quiz is the perfect opportunity to relax after a long day at work prizes await the best teams at the end of the evening Get ready to show off your musical skills at Koezio you'll find what you're looking for in this musical competition Looking for thrills and spills? Want to have fun with friends and family? Head forUrban Jump in Cergy an indoor trampoline park where you can multiply your jumps try your hand at the most acrobatic jumps on the various trampolines throw yourself into the giant airbags from towers several metres high.. It's also possible to celebrate a birthday atCergy's Urban Jump starting at €14.90 per person to celebrate on the trampoline (minimum 10 children or teenagers) Trampolining at Urban Jump costs €13 per person for an hour of free jumping accompanied by an adult) for an hour on the trampolines Non-slip socks are compulsory: if you don't bring your own Urban Jump Cergy is open every day of the week during school vacations (and public holidays) the trampoline park is open every afternoon on weekdays (from 3.45pm to 10pm) and all day at weekends Visit Koezio Sénart and Koezio Cergy to try out a wide range of activities The end of the line (Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images) You might just about imagine a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature growing up in a place like that for a laureate to choose such an address and then stay there willingly for almost half a century would bemuse who last Thursday became the first Frenchwoman to take the literature Nobel moved to the new town of Cergy-Pontoise — 30 kilometres north-west of central Paris — in 1975 She writes all her works in Cergy: a long-settled outsider among other incomers “in the midst of lives started elsewhere” (as she reflects in her journal Exteriors) “in Vietnam After the Swedish Academy announced its choice for 2022 the reporter from Le Figaro hurried up to Cergy and found the retired neighbour who looks after the author’s cat She who told him that Ernaux stood for “Auchan” (read Tesco the kids hanging around in the sun hadn’t heard of their illustrious fellow-citizen But they soon began pounding their mobiles to find out about her people are going to say something good about Cergy,” one hoped There’s much that’s good — or at any rate rich complicated and interesting — to be said about Cergy-Pontoise and the other planned communities that spread across Europe in the decades after the Second World War film and even journalism is not where you will find it Ernaux — born in Normandy in 1940 to peasant-born parents who became the proprietors of a small-town café-grocery — writes in pared-down pin-sharp prose about intimate experiences shared across classes her creative memoirs have pierced the veils of shame silence and taboo to dramatise the most intimate wounds: her father’s class-bound rage (in A Man’s Place) her mother’s thwarted life and descent into Alzheimer’s (A Woman’s Story) a bruising sexual initiation (A Girl’s Story) she turned the stray junk of consumer culture that accumulates in everybody’s brain into material for a masterly collective autobiography of France from the war’s end to the millennium It was like building a literary Chartres Cathedral out of ring-pulls Read some recent Anglophone tributes to Ernaux and you might think that she writes the brand of abstract disembodied auto-fiction that floats mistily above everyday existence until it comes to rest in its spiritual home: the university seminar-room Just as she roots her writing in the frail She tells stories about the events or feelings that give rise to scorn And she sets them in spaces that polite voices will (still) patronise as tacky By Boyd Tonkin “Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!” cursed John Betjeman — the bard of an older more sedate variety of suburbia — in 1937 about a boom-town that prefigured many later developments A dozen stops up the RER line from Charles de Gaulle-Etoile Cergy has never quite attracted Slough levels of disdain But Ernaux’s stubborn loyalty to it reveals much about her career as an author and the fault-lines that still splinter culture in France we’re talking class — though not in the way that an older generation of socially-committed writers would have conceived it Ernaux does not eulogise a mythological proletariat or a persecuted underclass in the tower-block banlieue from a safe perch in a Left Bank café or a fine converted mas on some Provençal hillside she lives in and writes from the kind of mixed community where people come to make the geometric parks and boxy housing estates of the exurban dream it rapidly sprang from blueprint to building-site She felt marooned among “the windswept esplanades Then the people came; the supermarkets opened; the commuter trains to Paris filled In and around Cergy she found the right stage on which to mount her exploration of “the violence and shame inherent in society” and her quest to discover the human essence of “anything that appears to be unimportant or meaningless simply because it is familiar or ordinary” By David Patrikarakos like four other new towns ringed around Paris came into being in the wake of the SDAURP (Schema d’Amenagement et d’Urbanisme de la Region Parisienne) plan of 1965: almost 20 years later than Britain’s first wave of New Towns but roughly at the same time as Milton Keynes it marks 50 years of official existence after Paris master-planner Paul Delouvrier saw his cherished villes nouvelles begin to rise They offered an alternative — more socially diverse integrated and architecturally ambitious — to the housing projects of the banlieue that had fast descended into sink estates Places like Cergy (in France or Britain) can boast neither a chic pedigree — though Pissarro and Cézanne painted on the still-wooded banks of the Oise — nor the pathos and heroism of deprivation Taste-makers tend to treat them with sheer indifference So Ernaux’s insistence that we find a key to unlock the secrets of modern social and emotional lives in the new-town grocery queue “a supermarket can provide just as much meaning and truth as a concert hall” Britain’s new towns and cities still await their Ernaux we have Mike Leigh-style social comedy aplenty: aspiration embarrassment and humiliation in off-the-peg executive homes or kitsch bistros You can argue until the (concrete) cows come home about whether this mode grows from a place of love or hate it soon runs into strict limits of tone and scope the strong British tradition of satirical urbanism — tart and witty in an architectural writer like Ian Nairn florid and visionary in the exurban rambles of Iain Sinclair — does not exactly condescend to dwellers in new towns or in the residential sprawl that Nairn dubbed “subtopia” new towns became dystopian backdrops for tales of social anomie and breakdown: Stanley Kubrick filmed some of A Clockwork Orange on the brutalist Southmere Estate in Thamesmead JG Ballard (in fiction) and Jean Baudrillard (in critical theory) have much to answer for in this prefab notion of the planned urban ensemble as an inevitable hell-hole of alienation and the metaphysical anguish supposedly bred by new-town architecture mysteriously dissolves Cergy for Ernaux — even in its more stylish affluent corners — may figure as a microcosm of consumer capitalism But she never pretends that you’d escape it by moving to Menton or Montparnasse By Boyd Tonkin we make the memories that matter out of anywhere and anything And I should confess that my fondness for her work has a little to do with another Much of her 2016 book A Girl’s Story recounts a teenage sexual encounter at a summer camp in Normandy moves on to the young Annie’s stint in 1960 as an au pair in North Finchley We lived a few hundred yards away from the shops at Tally Ho Corner where the young French help gleefully guzzles “lemon curds I would have bought the same sweets at the same counters she evokes in some positively rhapsodic passages Monsieur Proust with your tisane-dunked madeleine (Ernaux certainly knows she took a nostalgic trip up the Northern Line to revisit North Finchley even the Gaumont cinema (where I spent many Saturday mornings) had gone and “only the Woolworth’s remained” Annie suffers the traumas and terrors of adolescence in the midst of all the mundane actualities that anchor our memories in both place and time she sits “alone on a bench in a park near Woodside Park Station I start a novel…” Thus the six decades of a Nobel laureate’s literary career launch from a park bench (almost) at the outer-suburban end of a Tube line and author recently of The 100 Best Novels in Translation Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" Please click here to view our media pack for more information on advertising and partnership opportunities with UnHerd Head for Greater Paris to discover the surrounding beaches Doesn’t it make you want to make a big splash in the water? If you’re dreaming of a sandbank all to yourself and a real beach to bask in the sun, we’ve got just what you’re looking for. And no, you don’t have to take the train for that These natural treasures can be found in Greater Paris If you’re not familiar with this leisure center The latter boasts a beautiful artificial beach with fine sand You can enjoy a variety of water sports and picnics in the green spaces We love going there to paddle or canoe and to spread out our beach towels on the sand Just 40 km from Paris, this leisure island boasts a superb white sand beach, where you’ll love putting down your towel. You can take the whole family for a swim, or take advantage of the water features to cool off. A welcome bonus: dogs are allowed on a leash and take part in sporting activities for all levels This pretty white-sand beach almost gives you the impression of being somewhere else enduring a 2018 crisis to showcase lessons in collaboration and resilience Now Nissan and Honda are in talks to merge An analysis by Magali Ayache and Hervé Dumez for The Conversation You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker France has begun for the Elul Zman under the auspices of Rabbi Yossi Davidovich The mathematician received a European Research Council (ERC) grant to continue his wave and flow equations research project based at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and Modeling (LPTM) at CY Cergy Paris University is researching the movement patterns of small sheep flocks His work in the respective area is published in leading international journals vice-president professional training and apprenticeship answers the questions raised by "The Letter" the international letter from CY Cergy Paris University From June 17th to September 20th you can enjoy at Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris the exhibition 'Cergy-Pontoise A thematic exhibition about the History of this iconic and experimental urban proposal in the banks of the Oise River that raises questions about the development of future cities Archive Exhibitions The social sciences and humanities have long been interested in the cultural significance of food and the field of food studies continues to evolve in fascinating ways Among the latest innovations is “A Dinner at the Castle in Europe from Yesterday to Today,” a pedagogical and research initiative exploring culinary practices across European cultures Cergy boasts not one, but twoOlympic-sized ice rinks at theAren'Ice the ultimate spot for ice skating in the Val-d'Oise you can rent your skates for free practice sessions to discover the joys of this sliding sport or take lessons to perfect your skating or ice hockey skills More than just a skating rink,Aren' Ice is above all a place where people come for a leisurely outing to the ice rink, or for ice hockey lessons, artistic shows or sporting events, all of which take place on the ice. So, if you'd like to skate in your spare time, theAren'Ice is open (during the school year) on Tuesday evenings Sunday days and Saturdays (afternoon and evening) CY Cergy Paris University belongs from its origin to the EUTOPIA alliance that has been labelled European University since 2019 by the European Commission The launching of the European Universities Initiative intends to generate different organisation and integration models between universities and structure common by-products For those of you who don't know, inflatable water courses are floating structures on water made up of different workshops that allow you to have fun this is the ideal spot for young and old alike Armed with a safety vest to keep you afloat whatever happens you're ready to take on the Ninja Warrior course that awaits you giant slides and even human catapults in the water are on offer for the more daring Please note thatAquajump 95 is open to children aged 6 and over Departures are every 30 minutes (bookable or not) Remember to arrive 20 minutes before your time slot to get fitted and listen to the safety briefing you don't climb behind anyone and you don't get too many people on certain structures Aquajump 95 is open until August 28, 2022 (inclusive), from 12.30 to 6.30 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at weekends €14 for an hour and a half and €16 for two hours As the water park is located on the Cergy Pontoise leisure park, you'll also need to pay for entry to the park, which offers a whole range of activities and a superb beach It costs €4.50 for children over 3 and €6 for adults To find out more about PUI: https://cytransfer.cyu.fr/en/university-innovation-hubs 1,200 researchers including 500 PhD students 5 innovation platforms grouped under the CY Genius Platforms identity CY Transfer is part of a much more global alliance including engineering schools covering all fields (mechanics One of its primary missions is to connect companies to the CY Alliance galaxy CY Cergy Paris Université's CY Genius Platforms are 5 high-tech innovation platforms run by university researchers available to the private and public sectors to develop tomorrow's solutions Their “reason for being” is to connect creativity and expertise by giving industrialists and entrepreneurs access to cutting-edge technological equipment as well as to university experts who can support companies in their innovation but above all by providing their expertise in analyzing the results Setting up a research project in-house is a heavy investment (recruitment planning...) With CY Genius Platforms CY Genius Platforms' fields of expertise are varied and cover the following innovation sectors: safety The entire team of CY Transfer is at your disposal to discuss your innovation projects. Don't hesitate to contact us: https://cytransfer.cyu.fr/en/who-we-are/operational-team  In Cergy, Charivari is the people's festival par excellence reminiscent of the ferias of southern France the carnivals of the north and the big events where young and old have fun in a particularly convivial atmosphere head to Cergy for Charivari at Village 2023 The program includes the traditional craft market with local producers and creators folk dance demonstrations and the inevitable Saturday evening ball all the essential ingredients for a village fete as we like them are brought together for a great day out with family and friends near Cergy The good news is that the activities and events are completely free and open to all: so if you want to take part in this festive day in the Val-d'Oise Located on the Place des Colonnes Hubert Renaud in Cergy the Belvédère tower overlooks the city's outer suburbs and beyond: it's here that the twelve stations of the Axe Majeur known for its beautiful red footbridge over the River Oise Surrounding the Tour Belvédère is a building whose architecture will certainly remind you of the Espaces Abraxas in Noisy-le-Grand the Arcades du Lac in Montigny-le-Bretonneux or the Antigone district in Montpellier this project is the brainchild of the same architect: Ricardo Bofill the famous Spanish architect renowned for his neoclassical buildings which have been used as film sets in numerous movies Dubbed Petit Versailles by the architect who designed it forming a circle around the highest point of Place Hubert Renaud the complex of buildings was designed to meet the high demand for housing in the new town of Cergy and was intended for low-income housing (HLM) on the Place des Colonnes in keeping with the Place des Colonnes Hubert Renaud that it encircles: only one opening is made on either side one of which overlooks the red footbridge and the twelve columns like an invitation to explore the stations of the Axe Majeur Discover this unusual architecture in Cergy The students of the Yeshiva in Cergy, Paris were determined to travel to the Rebbe for 11 Nissan, so they devised a plan which took them through Serbia... Full Story It has been two months since the students of the Yeshiva in Cergy led by Rabbi Yossi Davidowicz and Rabbi Shmuel Lubecki have been trying to find a way to get to the Rebbe’s Ohel for 11 Nissan: indeed travel has been prohibited because of health restrictions due to the pandemic The United States does not allow the entry of travelers coming from Europe and a plan emerged and finally resulted in this much desired trip the students have sat at a Farbrengen with Shluchim and they resolved to give the Rebbe a spiritual gift for his birthday teachers and students traveled to Serbia and stayed there for two weeks All the details had been carefully prepared – from the meals to the study papers the students behaved as in Yeshiva thanks to the hospitality of Rabbi Yehoshoua Kaminsky who allowed them to pray and study in his Chabad center they took a direct plane to New York with their Mashpia the trip took place in a special atmosphere with great enthusiasm and full of thanks to G-d everyone headed to the Ohel to pray and thank the Rebbe that everything had gone according to plan the students and their teachers then proceeded to a joyful farbrengen that lasted until morning the students continued and even intensified their study program They left directly for Paris on Wednesday evening after the festivities of 11 Nissan: at the airport they prayed to Maariv to the tunes of Yom Tov and began to dance to the tune of the Rebbe’s new Nigoun (Chir Hamaalot Karati Vayaanéni…) in front of all the astonished and moved travelers Certainly this 11 Nissan will remain engraved in the hearts of the students especially after all these calculations and these preparations: this Yeshiva was the only one in the whole world to have deserved to be able to spend the 11 Nissan with the Rebbe Sign up for the COLlive Daily News Roundup and never miss a story Δdocument.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()) Δdocument.getElementById("ak_js_2").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()) In France AS Pontoise Cergy TT won the opening leg of the Europe Cup quarterfinal against USD Apuania Carrara Tennistavolo He beat Lubomir PISTEJ (11:8 11:8 11:1) and Mihai Razvan BOBOCICA (11:5 11:9 11:4) BOBOCICA had a good start with the victory over Esteban DORR in the opening match (11:9 12:10 8:11 6:11 6:5) but DORR recovered to win the fourth encounter against PISTEJ (11:9 11:7 11:4) In the middle Andrea PUPPO brought Italian side second point He overcame Thomas LAROCHE (11:7 11:7 11:5) Previously Polish KS Dekorglass Dzialdowo won the opening leg against Solex-Consult TT Wiener Neustadt in straight matches and GV Hennebont overcame Top Spin Messina in Italy after five matches 2022 - At a time when more than 50% of young people aged 16-25 say that eco-anxiety is part of their daily life ESSEC Business School and CY Cergy Paris University are joining forces to create a new bac + 3 course aimed at training the new generation committed to leading ecological The first promotion opens in September 2022 and welcomes 30 young graduates keen to actively contribute to a more ethical a strong sign that the French education system is also beginning its transition Visitors to the Base de Loisirs Cergy- Pontoise will be able to try out surfing on Wavesurfer’s surf simulator until September 2012 Related: Wavesurfer Profile / Surfing Simulators: Wavesurfer’s New Semi-Mobile Concept Unveiled at DEAL 2012 The semi-mobile Wavesurfer is ideal for beginners from just 6 years old.  Unlike teaching someone to surf in the sea instructors can stay right next to their students to offer advice.  In addition the soft riding surface allows surfers to fall without hurting themselves and the low water depth on the flat waves means that there is no “washing machine” effect the Wavesurfer not only allows first-time surfers to safely take their first steps on a board but also gives experienced surfers a neat surface on which to practice new moves and tricks Get the latest attractions industry
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This test was conducted as part of a professional invitation After instituting a specific governing structure the institution began a vast consultation via a questionnaire to its community of researchers The objective was to place the quality of our practices in the context of the objectives set by the European Commission the related administrative services began an analysis of their practices worked to determine the actions needed to improve recruitment and welcome procedures for researchers in our institution Their work was based on the results of the questionnaire on the observation of administrative practices and on their own experiences within CY Cergy Paris University 2022 marks the signing of the agreement to create the Institute of Security Sciences (I2S) with the Judicial Pole of the National Gendarmerie (PJGN) and CY Cergy Paris University Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Thiruvalluvar statue is a "beautiful testament to our shared cultural bonds" was inaugurated in the French town of Cergy on Sunday Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the statue is a “beautiful testament to our shared cultural bonds” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the inauguration of the statue “implements” an assurance given by the prime minister during his visit to Paris for Bastille Day in July “The inauguration of Thiruvalluvar statue in Cergy France today implements PM @narendramodi’s assurance given during his visit for the Bastille day,” he said on X “The statue will be guide to many to follow Thiruvalluvar’s noble thoughts and is yet another symbol of our long-standing cultural links a key pillar of India-French friendship,” Jaishankar said The inauguration of Thiruvalluvar statue in Cergy, France today implements PM @narendramodi’s assurance given during his visit for the Bastille day The statue will be guide to many to follow Thiruvalluvar’s noble thoughts and is yet another symbol of our long-standing cultural… https://t.co/tPyF1jrRPo — Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) December 10, 2023 India’s envoy to France Jawed Ashraf also mentioned the inauguration of the statue in a post on X Fulfilling an assurance given by PM @narendramodi in Paris on July 13 Inaugurated Thiruvalluvar statue in Cergy near Paris, gifted by Tamil Cultural Association France, with Mayor @Jp_jeandon, Minister K Laxminarayan from Puducherry, Governor of Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. pic.twitter.com/EQvs6VRiUJ — Jawed Ashraf (@JawedAshraf5) December 10, 2023 “Fulfilling an assurance given by PM @narendramodi in Paris on July 13 Inaugurated Thiruvalluvar statue in Cergy near Paris gifted by Tamil Cultural Association France Governor of Eastern Province of Sri Lanka,” he said Jean-Paul Jeandon shared some pictures of the statue on X — Jean-Paul Jeandon (@Jp_Jeandon) December 9, 2023 France is a beautiful testament to our shared cultural bonds Thiruvalluvar stands tall as a symbol of wisdom and knowledge His writings motivate millions across the world.” Thiruvalluvar statue in Cergy, France is a beautiful testament to our shared cultural bonds. Thiruvalluvar stands tall as a symbol of wisdom and knowledge. His writings motivate millions across the world. https://t.co/yaDbtXpOzb pic.twitter.com/UJiX5k5myW — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 10, 2023 and intro of this report along with the photos may have been reworked by South First The rest of the content is from a syndicated feed Published ${response.data.published_date} ⚊ Updated ${response.data.updated_date} learn and share - Inaugurated in November 2021 in the Great Stables of the Palace of Versailles the Campus Versailles is a training and innovation centre serving the development of heritage and craft trades Graal architecture has recently completed two projects in Paris area The extension and restructuring of the Crous University Refectory in Cergy at the heart of the park of the Cergy prefecture Located at the heart of the park of the Cergy prefecture the restructuring and extension of the university refectory is an opportunity to re-establish a link with a large-scale landscaped public space while adapting it to current programming requirements A kiosk in a mixed wood and steel structure is skillfully placed on the roof of the original refectory creating an element in dialogue with the urban and landscape dimensions Designed as a light pavilion on a topographic mineral base the kiosk becomes an element of unification between the different parts of the refectory allowing it to assert its presence while ensuring the architectural coherence of the whole The openings of the existing building are designed in continuity with the kiosk envelope creating a rhythmic ensemble in relation to the park the interventions on the existing structure consist in reinforcing the relationship between the interior and the exterior to bring more light and views to the refectory spaces the project demonstrates how work on the existing building accompanies the repositioning of an ordinary programme to reinterpret its uses and its programming You must be logged in to post a comment.