On May 7 CTAM wellbeing team orgnized a wonderful Team Building Activity for Blue collar employees who are arranged one-day annual holiday due to  no production for M3 going live. Everyone enjoyed this journey including outreach games, BBQ and picking green vegetables.

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Dans le cadre d’un partenariat école/entreprise soutenu par le MEDEF afin de promouvoir l’industrie, nous avons initié un rapprochement avec le collège de Noyen s/Sarthe afin de leur faire découvrir notre entreprise. A cette occasion, j’ai été invité ce matin à découvrir leur projet de « mini-entreprise » tenue par des élèves de 3ème (14 ans) tous volontaires pour cette aventure.

Leur objectif était de définir un besoin, de créer le produit, d’établir les statuts de leur entreprise, de créer les différents services (Comptabilité, Production, Communication, Design …) et de vendre leurs produits. Ils ont présenté leur projet hier au concours régional et attendent avec impatience le résultat de leur classement.

La professeure responsable de ce projet sera à son tour présente chez Colart la semaine prochaine pendant 3 jours afin de découvrir tous ces services en taille réelle chez colart. Elle sera reçue à cette occasion par certains responsables de service (merci à eux 😉) qui lui présenteront à leur tour en quoi consiste l’activité de leur service.

Les premières bases ont été posées ce matin et nous devrions accueillir les futurs « mini-entrepreneurs » dont le recrutement par « les anciens » devrait se faire dans les semaines à venir, au mois de septembre pour leur faire découvrir à notre tour notre belle entreprise.

Nous définirons à cette occasion les prochaines étapes de notre partenariat et comment Colart pourra les aider dans la construction de leur nouveau projet.

As part of a school/company partnership supported by MEDEF to promote the industry, we have initiated a rapprochement with the college of Noyen s/Sarthe in order to introduce them to our company. On this occasion, I was invited this morning to discover their “mini-company” project run by 3rd graders (14 years old) all volunteers for this adventure.

Their objective was to define a need, to create the product, to establish the statutes of their company, to create the various departments (Accounting, Production, Communication, Design…) and to sell their products. They presented their project yesterday at the regional competition and are impatiently awaiting the result of their ranking.

The teacher in charge of this project will in turn be present at Colart next week for 3 days in order to discover all these services in real size at colart. She will be received on this occasion by some service managers (thanks to them 😉) who will in turn present to her what the activity of their service consists of.

The first bases were laid this morning and we should welcome future “mini-entrepreneurs” whose recruitment by “the old ones” should take place in the coming weeks, in September, to make them discover our beautiful company. .

We will define on this occasion the next steps of our partnership and how Colart can help them in the construction of their new project.

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During this April, Shanghai lockdown due to the Covid, our colleagues Jim, Linda and Coco became volunteers in their communities, they help government distributing food supply and help neighbors buying necessary medicines, gave great support to old people who suffered most in Covid and were hard to buy food online~

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This week we had students from Central St Martins UAL exploring chroma as part of their curriculum, using only Winsor and Newton and Liquitex materials. The aim was to look at how to integrate analogue and digital materials to produce outcomes, with the objectives to explore the nomenclature and potential of a colour and  to find new uses for existing materials . This is a really good continuation of work that was initiated through the knowledge transfer partnership (KTP)  with the UAL. What this means for us is that the artists, the art schools and its students are creating new methods and approaches for our existing materials and the recognition given to the quality of our materials. It is really interesting to see how this has already manifested itself in  painting,  video, photography and sculpture. They have curated a video of their findings which will be screened at the hub on Thursday the 26th May at 4pm and also on #tfacuk and the UAL social media platforms.

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