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“Everything has its season, in winter or in spring”. It’s an old French saying, and it’s also the good time for the JeVeuxAider.gouv.fr mechanism to reconduct its Printemps pour la planète (Spring for the planet) operation until 23 April. This annual mobilisation campaign, which is designed to act “in a concrete and positive way for the planet and its inhabitants”, is deployed throughout April and gathers many organisations dedicated to ecology, to offer volunteer missions all over France at the service of protecting the environment.

Is it an Olympic Games effect? Whether it’s the case or not, the French ministry of sports launched “MétierScope du sport”, a new one-stop desk for occupations presentations, job opportunities and training courses in the sports industry. The MétierScope platform is accessible from the French ministry of sports’ website, and it’s designed with the support from France Travail, the national network of agencies in charge of employment, which information system lists jobs available in France. Users discover training courses guiding them towards a selection of occupations.

In 2022-2023, 412,087 international students enrolled in French higher education institutions, an increase of 3% over one year and 17% over five years. In its 2024 edition of Chiffres Clés de la mobilité étudiante (Key Data on Student Mobility), Campus France traces the latest developments in a sector which, after the contrasting impact of Covid and the unanimous upturn that followed it, is entering a more uncertain era.