National Tool Fair in French Language (Foire aux outils pédagogiques), Paris 2016

The second French National Tool Fair (Foire aux outils pédagogiques d’éducation populaire) will take place in Paris on the 28th , 29th et 30th September 2016. The first fair in 2015 was the strong opportunity to meet, to exchange, to present tools and methods. This second National Tool Fair is opened to any creators or actors of educational tools, able to present their tools and work in French language. This event is part of an international approach of pooling educative tools, in the frame of the European strategy for development of tools in several languages and a multilingual educational Portal http://educationaltoolsportal.eu/platform/en . It’s also the preparation of XI° international Tool Fair which will take place in Malta from the 8th to 11th of November 2016. Similar initiatives are organised in Tunisiea, Turkey, and Italy. This National Tool Fair is also opened to those who, in the frame of formal education, implement educational tools and methods which can be used in formal, non-formal and informal education and learning. Participants can be active in the frame of school, university, in NGOs, local authorities and also private companies, in particular in the field of social entrepreneurship. Are welcomed in the Tool Fair in Paris : training or group dynamic methods, as well as exercices or educational sequences about thematics like racism, citizenship, intercultural education, socila inclusion youth participation, gender issues, learning mobilities, individual and collective emancipation, self-entrepreneurship. The French National Youth Council (Cnajep) will participate in this second National Tool fair which provides opportunities to exchange about non-formal education in Europe, to mutualise practices and tools between actors from other European and neighbouring countries. This initiative is an experimentation which allows French Youth and people’s education organisations to show off the sense and approach of « éducation populaire » beyond presented tools and methods, which makes sense with a project of social transformation.