As a founding member of the C. Génial Foundation, AREVA promotes an interest in the sciences among young people and helps to disseminate scientific culture.

As an extension of this involvement, AREVA Foundation began providing support to the C.Génial Foundation in 2013 for a period of three years to promote science and technology to junior and senior high school students in France.

The foundation, which is recognized for its contribution to the public good, was created in 2006 by AREVA, EADS, France Télécom-Orange, Schlumberger, SNCF and Technip.

The foundation’s goals are to:

• renew commitment to the scientific approach among school children and students,

• develop exchanges among young people, the scientific community and businesses.

Through the commitment of professionals from the academic and business worlds, the C.Génial Foundation is able to offer several flagship programs:

• “Engineers and technicians in the classroom”: teachers invite young engineers and technicians to talk to junior high school classes. AREVA employees are volunteers to go to junior high schools to present jobs in the sciences. About 400 meetings every year.

• “Teachers in business”: every year, teachers of science and technology visit plant sites and research facilities during France's National Science Festival. In 2015, 120 industrial sites have been open and 1000 teachers welcomed.

• “C.Génial contest”: science and technology education is promoted in junior and senior high schools by the winning project teams consisting of students and their teachers. In this contest, young people present an innovative project in the fields of science and technology (physics/chemistry, mathematics, technology, life sciences, earth sciences, etc.). In 2014, some 10 000 students participated.