La Remaudière’s newly elected officials presented the municipality’s many projects on June 15 during a public meeting. Here’s an overview.
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The Minister Responsible for Youth and Deputy Minister for the Regions, Mr. Mathieu Lévesque, announced Monday morning that $5,176,170 has been allocated to support the implementation of 39 initiatives in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region.
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A low-carbon prefabricated pipe manufacturing plant began operations in Adétikopé (north of Lomé) late last week. Led by BESSAC’s Togolese subsidiary, in partnership with PFO Construction, this new facility is expected to help accelerate the implementation of the RAINE project (Sewage Network Using Interceptors to Prevent Flooding in Our Areas), launched last year to strengthen flood control efforts in Greater Lomé.
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The Livestock Housing Support Fund (FONSTAB) advocates for the development of forage crops as an alternative to expensive livestock feed in order to promote livestock farming in the Kanel department, by capitalizing on the land potential and significant water resources available in this northern part of Senegal.
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Sixteen high school students from Landerneau (Finistère) visited Hünfeld, a German town twinned with the Finistère town. Together with their peers from across the Rhine, they celebrated forty years of friendship between the young people of the two towns.
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The small town of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, west of Montreal, has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with their own rights.
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To address the shortage of general practitioners in rural areas, UNamur has set up nine training centers in the provinces of Namur, Hainaut, and Luxembourg, enabling 26 third-year medical students to complete their clinical rotations there, the university announced Thursday.
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The Francophone Employability Center (CEF) in Phnom Penh, part of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), with support from the French Embassy in Cambodia through the Fonds Equipe France (FEF) program, organized, between March and May 2026, two sessions of the Professional Integration Module (MIP), which benefited 71 students from AUF member institutions. Each training session lasted 18 hours and helped Francophone students prepare for their entry into the job market.
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With the support of various partners, the D2 association in Callac (Côtes-d’Armor) is launching the “Santé vous bien” initiative for young people ages 14 to 30 to help them take care of their mental health.
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In response to the growing number of climate, health, and technological risks in West Africa, Togo is strengthening its emergency preparedness capabilities. It is against this backdrop that the government launched the national multi-hazard simulation exercise “Mia Dzrado 2026” in Afagnan, in the Bas-Mono prefecture, organized by the National Civil Protection Agency (ANPC).
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The Maria Long-Term Care Facility is launching a new sensory cabin on its grounds. This space is designed to help residents relive memories of their hunting and fishing trips.
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To mark its 30th anniversary, the twinning committee has put together a program to welcome the delegation from Ivenack, the German town twinned with the municipality.
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A student-run business in Baie-Saint-Paul will be designing the sets for Festif! for the second year in a row. In addition to providing services to several local organizations, Techno-Concept encourages students who are behind in their studies to complete their education. And this model is unique in Quebec.
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As it does every year, the town of Villers-Bocage is organizing a major festival, "Villers en Fête," featuring a packed program at the start of summer: the event will take place on Saturday, June 27, 2026.
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The Government of Benin is taking a new step forward in its goal of making sports a cornerstone of children’s education and development. Through the Educational and Sports Synergies project, the Ministry of Sports and Civic Engagement, in collaboration with the Ministry of Preschool and Primary Education, organized a large-scale community event on Friday, June 12, 2026, in Akassato, bringing together students from pilot schools.
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High in the High Atlas Mountains, where the peaks reach toward the sky like giant arms sculpted by nature, the small village of Taghia nestles in the heart of a breathtaking landscape. The simplicity of its unadorned architecture and the diversity of its terrain make it one of the top destinations for mountain tourism enthusiasts.
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The Transquadrasolo association organizes the legendary transatlantic sailing race for solo sailors and two-person crews, open only to skippers and crew members over the age of 40. The organization’s headquarters, previously based in Nantes, has just moved to La Turballe.
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Since Thursday, June 11, 2026, the Palais de Lomé has been hosting the inaugural exhibition of the Toyota Tsusho CFAO African Art Award, an event that brings together artists from five African countries in Lomé before a planned tour of Japan and France.
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On June 8, the Laboratoire national de santé public (LNSP) welcomed central and general managers, healthcare professionals, researchers, teachers and students, as well as journalists, to its premises for an open day, enabling the public to discover its main technical platforms, appreciate its state-of-the-art equipment and learn about its research work and projects.
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After half a century of exchanges, the Vallet-Alcester twinning committee will cease operations by the end of 2026. Here are the details.
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As part of their partnership to promote the digital transformation of higher education, AUF Asia-Pacific and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - National University of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City (USSH-VNUHCM) have launched a support program dedicated to the production of digital teaching resources.
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More than 500 bags and fragments of plastic bags, 187 cigarette butts, 170 bags of water and over a hundred plastic bottles were collected on Monday on the Virage beach in Dakar, on the initiative of the Association Zéro Déchet Sénégal (AZDS).
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The local branch in Saint-André-de-la-Marche, a delegated commune of Sèvremoine (Maine-et-Loire), took stock of the year 2025 on Friday May 29, 2026. More than ever, the association continues to be at the service of local residents, helping them and creating links.
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The acceleration of the ecological and social transition is at the heart of Brussels Environment's 2025 annual report, published on Tuesday. The body highlights the progress made in climate transition, energy renovation, sustainable mobility and biodiversity preservation, with the ambition of moving towards carbon neutrality by 2050.
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In Gaspé, the Town closes its 2025 fiscal year with a surplus of $4.3 million.
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"Tonight, we welcome the 40 Germans who have come to Quéven as part of the Amitié Kewenn-BAW twinning (Burgunstadt, Altenkunstadt and Weismain), and who are staying with nine Quéven families. We are also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the charter between Quéven and the towns of Altenkunstadt and Weismain. The town of Burgunstadt later joined the twinning," explains Brigitte Nicaud.
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How can we build quality employability paths without establishing a collective dynamic and adopting a common language between support players? In Antananarivo. Objective: structure a community of committed players, capable of proposing concerted responses to the challenges of youth employability.
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Since Wednesday June 03, 2026, the Coopération Communale des Étuveuses de Riz (CCER) in Glazoué has had a unit for processing paddy rice into parboiled rice. A delegation from the Fonds National de Développement Agricole (FNDA), led by Managing Director Nicolas AHOUISSOUSSI, took provisional delivery of the infrastructure.
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The mayor of Le Mans (Sarthe) has just announced the forthcoming twinning of the town with Maranello (Italy), the historic headquarters of Ferrari.
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In mid-May, on the bangs of the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi (Kenya), the Rector of the AUF, Prof. Slim Khalbous, was received by the Kenyan Minister for the Environment. The two parties agreed on the principle of a collaboration agreement on climate and forestry issues, mobilizing the expertise of AUF member institutions.
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To combat slum landlords and substandard housing, the City of Mons has published a list of properties that may not be rented out. This tool will soon be used by the local branch of Infor Jeunes, which is often called upon to deal with rental problems.
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On May 19, 2026, Saarland University hosted a study day devoted to the training of entrepreneurs in plurilingual and intercultural contexts, organized as part of the P3E project, supported by the AUF-Western Europe Co//ectif 2024 program.
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At their annual general meeting, the members of the association reaffirmed their support for the projects carried out in Burkina Faso, despite the difficult geopolitical context, while highlighting the success of the Festival des solidarités en Béarn des Gaves.
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In Parcé-sur-Sarthe, a new association has been set up to sterilize stray cats. Here's how it works.
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