With the Académie des Sciences in 2013-2014

PROmOtinG Science teAchinG

supporting the cast

Prompted by the Académie des Sciences, the Managing Direction of School Education (Direction Générale pour l’Enseignement

Scolaire) of the French Ministry of National Education has asked each local authority of the Ministry of National Education (Recteurs), to

recruit an Academic Corresponding for Science and Technology (Cast), to

“facilitate the implementation of the actions of the Delegation

for Education and Training of the Académie des Sciences and those of the Foundation La Main à la Pâte La Main à la Pâte”

The Académie accompanies this initiative by convening the Cast

once a year at national level, as it did on 16 June 2014 in its Ry-

Chazerat estate, in the Vienne department. Two topics, prepared

with the local authority of the Ministry of National Education

(Rectorat) in Poitiers and the Espace Mendès-France (the Cultural,

Scientific, Technical and Industrial Centre of Poitiers) have specially

drawn the attention of the Cast:

• the Biodiversity Sentinels:the academic delegate for biodiversity,

appointed by the Recteur, presented the experience of Poitiers

and provided valuable reflections for creating a national

network of biodiversity sentinels;

• Measuring Time, an operation which received the label « La

Science se livre » [Science Opens Up] and started in 2014 in

cooperation with the Espace Mendès-France.

scholarships for deserving students

Awarded by the Académie des sciences since 1991, the Rogissart

scholarships are aimed at rewarding high school students for their outstanding

achievements in their education and who were born or have at least one

parent born in the Department of the Ardennes, where Jean Rogissart, their

founder, was a native. The Rectorat of Reims provides support for the laureate

selection process, in such a way that every high school of the Department of

the Ardennes may enter one or several candidates for the scholarship, who

should meet the following profile:

• match the geographical criteria stated by the founder;

• be selected by a jury empanelled at the level of the Rectorat, based

on criteria of education (year 12 and final year of A levels) and social

background;

• achieve outstanding success in education and pass the baccalaureate

(A level final exam), whether general (with maths as a major in the

“S” scientific section), vocational (sections with technical or industrial

majors) or technological (“STI”, “STL” or “ST2S” sections) with honours;

• have a higher education project in view, in the field of science -

whether general, technical or industrial - of such nature as to account

for the allocation of a scholarship (the benefits of higher education

scholarships are completely compatible with the allocation of a

Rogissart scholarship).

Each scholarship amounts to €6,000 in all, paid in six times during two successive scholar years at the University (as an example,

a 2014 scholarship laureate receiving €1,000 in 2014 would receive €3,000 in 2015 and €2,000 in 2016). At the end of his/her

first year of higher education studies, the scholar should provide the Académie des Sciences proof of his/her work and attendance

to class, as the necessary condition for scholarship payment to continue until its ending. When payment ends, the scholar is asked

to draw up a report.