Wassim Benouis and Yoann Ravel, Radio France winners of the Talents des Cités 2024 Competition

The Talents des Cités competition has revealed its 23^e winners Wednesday November 27 at the Elysée in the presence of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron. 28 regional winners and 7 national winners were rewarded for their projects.

Each year, this competition promotes neighborhood entrepreneurs and promotes social cohesion and citizenship by rewarding around thirty business creators from priority neighborhoods of the city's policy. It promotes neighborhood entrepreneurs and promotes social cohesion and citizenship. It allows those who wish to create or develop a project to benefit from funding and personalized support from one of the partners, and thus changes the image of neighborhoods by promoting the entrepreneurial spirit.

Radio France has been a partner for more than 10 years of this competition, supported by the State Secretariat for Citizenship and the City and managed by Bpifrance as part of the Neighborhood Entrepreneurship 2030 program. The National Agency for Territorial Cohesion ( ANCT), France Travail, Banque des Territoires, France Télévisions, Club XXIe siècle, BGE and the Cap Créa collective also support this call for projects.

The Radio France jury is made up of Antoine Ly and Emmanuelle Baumgartner, members of the 360° Equality Committee.

Studiava Radio France Prize for the 2024 Cities Talents Competition

This year, Sibyle VeilPresident and CEO of Radio France, presented the Radio France Prize to Wassim Benouis et Yoann Ravelfor the platform “He studied“.

After testing the platform, she congratulated them for the innovation of their project and thus allowing “giving voice to those who carry out collective projects“.

Wassim Benouis et Yoann Ravel are the co-founders of “He studied” a platform, created in 2023, which allows high school students to find their orientation based on their skills, their desires and their aspirations. The principle being to “match” their profiles with the post-baccalaureate training that corresponds to them.

On this platform, the high school student indicates his educational background (grades, favorite subjects), selects the geographical area where he wishes to continue his studies and indicates his interests and soft skills (football team captain = leadership / babysitting = sense of responsibility, etc.).

Thanks to its information, the algorithm offers different training courses classified according to their relevance.

The project, of Wassim Benouis associated with Yoann Ravellocated in Marseille – in the “Young Grow” category – was accompanied by Adie and Pépite. Today it already has more than 3,000 users.