Generation Tech
In university or in school, young people are fully concerned by technologies, of which they are often the first users, but from which they also expect solutions for a more sustainable and fairer world of tomorrow.
However, they find it often difficult to get access to technological careers, and their knowledge of technological objects and services is very heterogeneous and often weak.
The Academy’s objective, through its Youth Mission, is to promote exchanges between the young generations and the National Academy of Technologies of France. To do so, the Academy relies on initiatives led by partners and mediators, facilitating intergenerational exchanges on subjects at the interface between society and technology. It is thus participating in the Engineering Sciences Olympiad. Aware of the importance of the imaginaries associated with technologies, it has launched a science fiction short story competition in 2021 with Usbek & Rica magazine.
The Academy is also studying, in collaboration with its European counterparts, innovative ways to better involve the younger generations in its work.