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FIRST EUROPEAN CAMPUS DEDICATED TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

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Explorers When our founder Frédéric Chevalier initiated this project in 2013, he was repeatedly told he was crazy. He kept hearing things like “It will never work”. It took years for him to bring together likeminded dreamers, adventurers & pioneers to create thecamp.

Today, we are an entire ecosystem of explorers. We work with about

20 private and public international founding partners, and many organizations of experimenters and disrupters.

Our profiles complement each other: new-generation creative types (designers, digital artists, mixed-media artists, programmers), entrepreneurs, post-graduate students, international researchers and experts,

small company directors, CEOs of major groups, professionals from the private and public sectors, senior managers on training courses, young people, children…

Every day, people from all walks of life will be stationed in our base camp, for a few days or a few months. You can join thecamp too!


A quest

Our challenge is to f ind new approaches to universal issues, and to aggregate people and projects driven by the same will and excitement for the future!

For thousands of years, people have had the same concerns: What will we eat tomorrow? How will we learn? What will it be like to age? How will we go from one place to another? At what speed? Using what energy? ...

What awaits us, humans? How is life going to be tomorrow?

Through life experiences, work experiences and new forms of collaboration, we want to elicit new processes of imagination, new paradigms… to explore together a sustainable and humane future.


We believe emerging technology and social innovation (virtual reality, robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnologies, circular economy, biomimicry, social innovation, shared governance...) are game-changing levers to explore futures we want to live in!

From our base camp, we are launching all kinds of missions trailblazing possible paths for tomorrow, prototyping solutions thanks to collective intelligence. Our compass? A humanist dimension. We orient ourselves in 4 main directions: inspiration, transformation, co-creation and impact.

Expeditions

Our hope is that the discoveries we’ll make along the way will help us shape the future of food, health, mobility, energy, education, the environment... and the many other destinations we want to reach in our quest to make world changes positive for people and the planet!


Inspiration expeditions

summits, hackathons, artistic performances, conferences, interactive talks… from which to draw inspiration and inspire others.

examples of events

→ Virtual reality for impact→ Engage days @thecamp→ Partnership with the Festival d’Art lyrique d’Aix-en-Provence

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developing young people’s and teachers’ creativity to turn them into active agents of change.

examples of project

→ reCreation lab: introducing new professions and tools around the smart city to classes in the AMP Metropolitan Area

youth camp XP


Transformation expeditions

individual membership plan to understand and acquire the tools for a changing world.

examples of workshops

→ Collective intelligence→ Biomimicry→ Virtual and augmented realities→ Exponential technologies

Pass

→ Technological breakthroughs: AI, blockchain, IoT, nanotech…→ Societal revolutions: environmental transition, global/local, millennials, education…→ Transformation in systems: collaborative working, horizontalism, holacracies,collective intelligence, innovation…

Connect / management team immersive journey

events aimed at executive committee and management committee members to allow them to prepare for the future.

examples of challenges

FENCH & ENGLISH


Co-creation expeditions

tailored solutions: innovative methods and collaborative strategies to boost innovation.

a 6-months residence for creative young people with complementary profiles designed to find new answers for the major challenges facing the world.

examples of workshops

→ Agile walk→ Futuring design→ Blockchain bootcamp

examples of profiles

→ Programmers→ Designers→ Digital artists

examples of projects

→ “Bee” mini-drone able to analyze the qualityof the air and environment

Co-innovation Hive

a community of 50 talented people in residence over 5 days to accelerate collaborative social projects.

co-organizing collectives

→ La Paillasse, Cog’Innov, Collectif BAM, OuiShare,KissKissBankBank, Seconde Nature, MakeSense

examples of projects→ Citizens’ forum in Marseille’s city centre→ Acceleration of an urban agriculture project→ Mobility of the future

Pioneers


impact expeditions

ambassadors

→ Leila Jannah, Founder & CEO / Samasource→ Regina Honu, Social entrepreneur / Soronko Solutions

allowing a new generation of entrepreneurs to flourish, creating value for the economy, society and the environment.

a city-scale laboratory for in-the-field experiments in partnership with businesses and local authorities.

programs

→ Seed stage→ "Climb" Incubation→ "Series A" acceleration→ Intrapreneurship

examples of projects

→ Smart Port in Marseille→ Connected squares in Aix-en-Provence→ Train station of the future at Aix TGV→ Drone deliveries with La Poste

The Accélérateur The Lab

→ Energy→ Education→ Mobility→ Quality of life→ Oceans

WAVES

General interest projects for finding concrete solutions to current world challenges by federating key communities and actors.

Challenges


A base camp

Launching this kind of exploratory mission takes time, resources, and a friendly environment you can rely on as you’re getting ready to venture into the unknown. That’s exactly why we built thecamp.

In a natural setting of 17 acres, on the edge of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, the 110,000 sq ft of futuristic buildings designed by architect Corinne Vezzoni recall nomad encampments, versatile and existing in symbiosis with the environment.

Taking its inspiration from American universities, think/do tanks and fab labs, thecamp is a space where innovative expeditions are planned to survey, assess and invent the future in a collaborative way. It provides the optimum conditions: a human ecosystem for co-creating, the methods and tools for prototyping, partners for innovating in the field, spaces for decelerating and activities for discovering new things and creating special bonds.

17 acres of natural surroundings

110,000 sq ft of buildings

150 accommodation units

1 restaurant and 1 bar

1 indoor amphitheatre (for app. 200 people)

1 outdoors theatre (for app. 400 people)

work rooms

Fablab and Inspire Lab

experimental spaces on-campus and all over the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolitan Area

collaborative activities and sports experiences

natural swimming pool

Sports fields (multipurpose, beach volley, boules...)



A former elite sportsman with a passion for windsurfing, Frédéric Chevalier was a born entrepreneur founding his first business aged 20 (media management services for local radios) before starting work at the radio station RMC. In 1990, Frédéric Chevalier started the digital marketing firm HighCo. Six years later, he became the youngest entrepreneur to head a listed company. In 1999, the HighCo Group became the leading European digital solution dedicated to influencing buyer behaviour. A high-profile success story.

With a passion for innovation, Frédéric Chevalier loved disruptive projects,

Frédéric ChevalierTHE EXTRAORDINARY PROJECT OF A VISIONARY ENTREPRENEUR.

challenges and projecting himself into the future. In 2013, the founding CEO of HighCo quit the Group and set out on an adventure named thecamp.

The founder of thecamp died prematurely this summer at the age of 53 without seeing his project’s completion, leaving behind the work of a lifetime that must be completed by the campers' community, because the future is written in the present.

The exploration of the future is underway, the "base camp" is ready.

"thecamp is an object-world set in the landscape of Provence. It will be a laboratory, an ecosystem for creation and innovation. People will come here to work, learn, exchange ideas, play, create, meditate and philosophize. And guide the changes that will invent the solutions to make the world more sustainable, more fair, more resilient and more humane."

Frédéric Chevalier19/12/2014


Pierre Guthauser, Nanaui Amoros Silva and Pape Abdoulaye Seck, " the Hivers"

Pierre, the youngest of the Hivers, is 16, French and a developer. A young IT genius who has been coding since the age of eight. Eschewing traditional education, which he considers outdated, he passed the entrance exam for the École 42 with flying colors, but chose to join thecamp to be part of the adventure.

Nanaui, is a 29-year-old Brazilian graduate of Geneva’s HEAD (Haute École d’Art et de Design) and calls herself a media designer, having created some noteworthy interactive works. Together, they want to imagine and prototype solutions to the great challenges faced in the world. They will also contribute to projects run by other campers and organizations present on the campus.

Pape is from Senegal. At 30, he’s the oldest of the Hivers, a budding film-maker just graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech. Making both fiction and documentary films, he won the prize for best feature film by a school at the Festival Panafricain de Cinéma et de Télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in 2015.

Nusrat DurraniA recognized expert in media and founder of MTV World, Nusrat is today a strategy advisor at thecamp. Full of enthusiasm for the project, he joined the team with the aim of developing the media and storytelling of the future.

Nicolas Bard & Aymeric GuionNicolas Bard is the founder of Make ICI, a French network of makers. He is the designer of the fab lab, where campers can turn their project idea into a prototype.

Aymeric Guion is in charge of developing special projects at KeepCool. For thecamp, he has come up with the "sporting experience of tomorrow".

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Sylvie Joseph Head of the internal change program at France’s mail service La Poste – a founding partner of thecamp – Sylvie is involved in the project’s governance. She talks about thecamp as being "optimism therapy"!

Diana Filippova & Antonin LéonardFounding members of the OuiShare collective, an idea and project accelerator specializing in digital and collaborative start-ups. They run a workshop on the future of work as part of the PASS, a membership card that gives access to the thecamp ecosystem to find inspiration and understand a changing world.

Yasir SiddiquiThis Canadian joined thecamp to work in the Lab on projects involving cities, to change urban models, energy, mobility… through field experiments.

Tarik GhezaliAn expert in high-tech start-up support, Tarik has been working for many years in the development of the social economy and, in 2014, launched Marseille Solutions, an "optimism accelerator". At the campus, he is involved in the "Pioneers" program to develop new projects based on urban agriculture.

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Amandine JouinA teacher by profession and part of Youth Camp XP, Amandine’s work takes her from school to school across the Aix-Marseille metro area fostering creativity among children and teachers and introducing them to new trades and tools connected to the city of the future.

Julien Ginoux Journalist and community manager specializing in smart cities, Julien represents Aix-en-Provence city hall. A test partner for thecamp, the city has supported the project since its inception as part of its own internal process of change, with the support of the city’s residents.

Pablo Vidarte Pablo is one of three student founders of the Spanish start-up Bioo. A pioneer in clean technologies, the start-up was selected for the finals of the European Sparklife competition, organized by thecamp and several of its partners. Their idea: to market a system capable of producing power from plant photosynthesis!

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Trailblazers, adventurers, partners...

Founding partners

Pioneers

Experimentation partners


Location

thecamp surface area: 17 acres of nature

5 mins from the Aix-en-Provence TGV station

15 mins from Marseille Provence Airport

Coordinates: 43.497505 , 5.341912

Address: 550 rue Denis Papin,

13100 Aix-en-Provence

thecamp ecosystem and program financing

€80 million in total

— of which €41 million for program and ecosystem

start-up (€20 million from private founding partners

+ €21 millions from public founding partners)

— and €39 million for real estatePrivate

Private founding partners

• Crédit Agricole Alpes Provence

• Crédit Agricole

• Accenture

• AccorHotels

• Airbus

• Air France

• Cisco

• CMA CGM

• MAIF

• Groupe VYV

• SNCF Gares & Connexions

• La Poste

• RATP

• Sanofi

• Sodexo

• Steelcase

• VINCI Construction

• VINCI Energies

Public founding partners

• Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regional government

• Bouches-du-Rhône departmental government

• Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolitan Area

• CCIMP

Construction & real estate

18 months of studies prior to launch

18 months in construction

Total useable surface area

11,000 sq m

Surface bâtie

10,000 sq m

Canopy area

7,500 sq m

Total cost of construction

€39 million

— The construction was financed partly by own funds

from the founder of thecamp Frédéric Chevalier, the

Caisse des Dépôts and CEPAC Immobilier, and partly

by a bank loan.

Teams, partners and pioneers

thecamp core team: around 68 persons

Private and public founding partners: 21

Pioneer partners: 14

Experimentation partners: 17

Facilities

• 2 lodges

→ 152 rooms for campers

• 2 villas for special guests

→ 16 studios

• Hosting capacity

→ 500 persons by day

→ 170 at night

• 1 restaurant and 1 bar

• 21 variable-layout work rooms

• 1 auditorium (175 seats)

• 2 work studios of 240 sq m

(capacity of 40 persons each)

• 1 FabLab of 120 sq m (in partnership

with Make ICI and La Quincaillerie Aixoise)

• 1 natural swimming pool

• 1 sylvan theater (400 seats)

• 1 experimental vegetable garden

of 2,000 sq m (2018)

Number of young people (9-18) hosted each year

350 (Youth Camp XP)

Number of professionalstrained the first year

2,500

Number of jobs created

2,500 en 5 ans (mainly via startups)

Number of experts and speakers each year

150

Number of artists increative residences each year

40

Number of start-ups incubated or accelerated each year

40

Number of workshops available under the PASS offer

28

thecamp: facts and figures

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LOCATION AND ACCESS

550 rue Denis Papin 13100, Aix-en-Provence FRANCE

GEOLOCATION

43.497505 , 5.341912

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