Roads, colleges, help for the elderly, culture, associations… In all these areas, the 38 elected officials of the Departmental Council vote every month on decisions that directly concern you. The summary of the Permanent Commission allows you to be informed of the aid and measures financed by the Department to improve your daily life. A look back at the main decisions taken this Friday, November 8, 2024.
Colleges
In 2023, the Departmental Council set up an exceptional grant intended for colleges facing financial difficulties and which must face unforeseen expenses. Thus, the colleges of Argonne (Grandpré), Jules Ferry (Bogny-sur-Meuse), Les deux Vallées (Monthermé), Rouget de Lisle and Arthur Rimbaud (both located in Charleville-Mézières), Blanc Marais (Rimogne) , Andrée Viénot (Rocroi), Pasteur (Vrigne-aux-Bois), Nassau (Sedan) and Paul Drouot (Vouziers) request the Department regarding their energy expenses (electricity, gas, fuel, etc.). To help them meet their servicing expenses until the end of the year, exceptional grants totaling €174,845 were allocated to them.
As part of its support for the socio-educational centers of colleges, the CD08 has just granted a total of €1,000 in subsidies (€250 per establishment) to the Scamaroni and Rouget de Lisle colleges, located in Charleville-Mézières, to the college of Raucourt, as well as at the Notre-Dame private college (Charleville-Mézières).
As part of the law of February 11, 2005 for equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of people with disabilities, reference teachers were appointed and installed in certain Ardennes colleges. They are the primary and privileged contacts for parents, students with disabilities and those involved in the personalized schooling project, but also play an interface role with the services of the Departmental House for Disabled Persons (MDPH). Via an agreement with the MDPH, the Departmental Council contributes to the operating costs of these referents by allocating a subsidy of €1,250 to each establishment. In all, 10 colleges are concerned: Scamaroni, Rimbaud, Léo Lagrange (Charleville-Mézières), Val de Meuse (Nouvion-sur-Meuse), Sorbon (Rethel), George Sand (Revin) Blanc Marais (Rimogne), Le Lac ( Sedan), Paul Drouot (Vouziers), and Raucourt (Raucourt-et-Flaba).
The Departmental Council supports the sports associations of public and private colleges, as well as the Departmental Service of the UNSS (National Union of School Sports). In total, €12,480 was distributed between the UNSS departmental service and 26 college sports associations.
The Departmental Council provides financial support for educational and cultural actions aimed at young people. This aid consists of contributing to the transport costs of middle school students who go to cultural structures managed by the Departmental Council and to cinemas, only as part of the “Colleges at the cinema” operation. Thus, the Jean Rogissart college (Nouzonville), benefits from a subsidy of €442 for trips to the cinema, while the Val de Meuse colleges (Nouvion-sur-Meuse), Vallière (Sault-lès-Rethel) and Mabillon ( Sedan) benefit from aid for a total amount of €1,840 for visits organized to the War and Peace Museum.
Culture
As part of its Departmental Cultural and Artistic Development Plan 2021-2025, the Departmental Council provides support to municipal and associative music schools in their operation. Thus, €55,500 in subsidies have just been distributed among 16 beneficiaries.
Still within the framework of the Departmental Cultural and Artistic Development Plan, CD08 provides support to musical education and practice associations who wish to renew their stock of musical instruments or sheet music. During a fourth distribution, €277 was voted for the benefit of the Animation Musique Enseignement (AME) association of Charleville-Mézières.
Sport
As part of its support for the operation of sports clubs and departmental committees, the Departmental Council has just awarded grants for a total amount of €23,396, benefiting 29 associations. Around twenty disciplines are involved (athletics, karate, table tennis, hiking, fencing, rowing, football, underwater sports, tennis, sailing, judo, basketball, archery, gymnastics, swimming, rugby, water hockey , handball).
Formation
The Department helps people who are following BAFA training (certificate of aptitude for the functions of facilitator), BAFD (certificate of aptitude for the functions of director) or BNSSA (certificate of safety and water rescue). A new distribution of credits was approved in this respect, for a total amount of €1,160 and concerns 9 people.
Solidarity
The Departmental Council supports associations of a social nature. As such, 8 of them benefit from subsidies for a total amount of €19,800:
- The Information Center on the Rights of Women and Families in the Ardennes
- the Ardennes Breastfeeding association
- the Departmental Association for Assistance to Family Assistants
- the Forhom France Victimes association 08
- l’association Inter’Actions
- the association L’Ancre for action Trait d’Union
- the Family Mediation service of the Departmental Union of Family Associations
- the Couples and Families association
Insertion
The Departmental Council finances the actions of the Departmental Integration Program (PDI). The latter contribute to the implementation of the integration process for RSA beneficiaries and its consolidation. During a sixth distribution of credits for the year, the following are allocated:
- €7,611 to GRETA-CFA des Ardennes, for the implementation of training “SAS Discovery of traditional and numerically controlled machining professions”, for RSA beneficiaries and job seekers,
- €5,250 to LEDA (L'Environnement D'Abord), complementary to the funding allocated in January 2024
- €73,708 to API Formation, for the implementation of its action aimed at social and socio-professional integration in the Sedan employment area in 2025 (“renovated” support experiment, law for Full Employment)
- €92,106 to the CFPPA of Rethel, for the implementation of its action aimed at social and socio-professional integration in the Sedan employment area in 2025 (“renovated” support experiment, law for Full Employment)
- €25,402 to Forma'On, for the implementation of its action aimed at social and socio-professional integration in the Sedan employment area in 2025 (“renovated” support experiment, law for Full Employment)
Associations
A grant of €4,000 was granted to the Departmental Road Prevention Committee to enable it to carry out its missions (prevention actions for young people, but also adults). In 2024, the Committee carried out 29 interventions which raised awareness among 885 people, including 300 middle school students.
Additional information
The CD08 joins the “Mission Heritage of the First World War” association to promote 4 funeral and memorial sites in the Ardennes
In 2023, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to inscribe 139 French, German, Belgian, American and Commonwealth burial and memorial sites from the First World War. The Ardennes Departmental Council has been associated with this approach since the commemorations of the Centenary of the Great War. Among the 139 sites selected, four are in the Ardennes:
- the German military cemetery of Chestres and the National Necropolis of Chestres, near Vouziers,
- the German Monument in the Saint-Charles cemetery in Sedan,
- the Square of the Dead of November 11, 1918 in Vrigne-Meuse,
- the Apremont German military cemetery
The inclusion of these funeral and memorial sites from the First World War on the UNESCO World Heritage List constitutes a unique opportunity for the transmission of memory and history.
In order to respond to the various requests from the World Heritage Committee, it is proposed to form an association entitled “Heritage Mission of the First World War” aimed at:
- coordinate the management of registered sites,
- ensure a common approach to conservation and valorization,
- encourage visits and roaming between sites, in partnership with local stakeholders and tourism professionals,
- support a project to create a cultural and memorial route “Route de la Paix 14-18”.
This association will notably be made up of the founding members (State, Regions and Departments concerned), the owners and managers of the sites and associated members, such as tourism stakeholders.
Given the challenges for the Ardennes territory, linked to the memory tourism sector, the Departmental Council has decided to join the “Mission Heritage of the First World War” association, as a founding member. The amount of the contribution for the year 2024-2025 is €8,000.
