Greater Paris

[esoteric music] 

Woman: Starting from today, we meet every Friday morning for the School Challenge until February. 

Isabelle Soeung-Mockel (Coordinator, Schools Challenge Article One): The School Challenge is a six month program with uh, 12 teams of, uh 60 students from two high schools studying the STEM subjects. And for six months these teams have to design an innovative solution to address, the Smart City challenge. 

Mentor: Let's get started. 

[upbeat music] 

Kenza Pernin (Student): Our team's name is Energy Challenge. So the topic we chose is about energy waste. 

Quentin Lemaitre (Student): We decided to work on water waste. And different ways to solve this problem. 

Josip Klobucar (Student): I wanted to participate on this challenge because I love science, because I would like to become an aeronautical engineer. Even though this is our first session, I'm excited about what's going to happen. 

Isabelle: The School Challenge program, and so provides a bridge between the two worlds and it's very important to link the mentors from J.P.Morgan with the students from low income background. 

Berat Alyurt (Student): J.P.Morgan accommodates us during this project. We collaborated with them and the project went really well. Having adult participants that came to guide us on this project, that made us feel that the work we have to do is serious. And when we're adults, we'll be able to do the same thing they did. They help underprivileged kids so that they can succeed. 

Fanta: It's important, uh, that J.P.Morgan supports a community that truly stand up to the experience. We try to show them it's important to, uh, be on a team, to share, uh, the ideas to discuss and it's also, uh, a good opportunity for the students and to challenge that space. 

[uplifting music] 

Vincent Tanneur (Head of Corporate Banking France, J.P. Morgan): ADIE is an association we have been supporting which helps to reintegrate young people and develop their initiative for starting businesses.  

Esther Mattout (ADIE, Partnerships Manager): The AIDE helps with starting businesses, particularly with young people, through the CreaJeunes program. But beyond the financing it provides, it also facilitates the growth of businesses after they have been started through individualized support.  

Odile Saint Jean (Founder, Ma Box à Cheveux): I want to show you the box. The CreaJeunes program in which I participated for six weeks, really helped me organize my idea and find the business plan I wanted to present. My company's name is Ma Box à Cheveux. It's a beauty box containing natural and organic hair products. A friend told me about the ADIE program when I told her about what I wanted to do. And in six weeks, thanks to ADIE, I was able to come out with my business plan and present it to professionals.  

Christian Lahaussois (ADIE, Volunteer Instructor): We see the impact of the program right away. When exchanges are started and people exchange information, we realize that we have hit on a point that's essential for them. 

Esther: The J.P.Morgan Foundation has really stood by us to help us expand this project. And the impact is very positive in terms of business longevity and the J.P.Morgan Foundation provides real added value to the development of ADIE's social mission. 

Vincent: It's important for J.P.Morgan to support such initiatives, which enable the creation of social network and economic and professional integration of young people in an increasingly global economic community. 

Odile: ADIE helped me achieve my dreams and I encourage all entrepreneurs who have a business idea to take part in this program because it's really great.