Selling training. What I learned at trade shows
How to sell a training course. What marketing methods should be used for this very special service? To explore this question, let's wander from stand to stand at a "human resources and training" trade show. Let's ask the salespeople, and observe.
The three stages of local innovation
How does innovation germinate in silence, come to light in collective spaces, and then get taken up and institutionalized, albeit under certain conditions?
7 Innovative solutions facilitating free access to paid scientific knowledge
Open access to scientific publications is growing, but researchers complain about the exorbitant costs of Knowledge, confiscated by scientific publishers. This situation creates inequalities in access to scientific knowledge, especially for developing countries. Presentation of innovative solutions to access knowledge more easily, freely and at no cost.
Continuous skills upgrading, a panacea for skills obsolescence
What will tomorrow bring? In a context where all the specialists say they don't know what the world of work will look like in 20 or 30 years' time, the only thing they seem to agree on is that we need to counter the obsolescence of skills. Continuing training is the tool of choice for professional circles.
Resilient metropolises: sobriety, imagination and citizen participation
How can a metropolis be resilient? The colloquium organized by POPSU (Plate-forme d'observation des projets et stratégies urbaines), which took place at the National Assembly and at a distance in January 2021, provided many avenues. Here are a few of them, based on the commons, collective imagination, sobriety and the great Italian cities of the Renaissance.