The com'com Millau Grands Causses and the Chamber of Trades are preparing the future of crafts

Pierre Azemar et Emmanuelle Gazel lors de la signature de la convention dans les locaux de la boulangerie-pâtisserie Saint Jacques à Millau. AD

Favoriser la formation et la reprise d'entreprise au programme d'une nouvelle convention entre la com'com Millau Grands Causses et la Chambre des métiers et de l'Artisanat de l'Aveyron. 

Because it is the leading company in France, and as such essential to the economy and dynamism of a territory, the artisanal sector must rsquo;be sustainably supported.

This is, to say the least, the message of the latest agreement established, and formalized yesterday in the workshops of the Saint Jacques bakery-pastry shop, by the Millau Grands Causses community of communes and the Chamber of Trades.

"This partnership has always existed but is being strengthened with this signing of an agreement which meets a double challenge", develops the president of the com’com Emmanuelle Gazel. That of training, with why not in the long term, a relocation to South Aveyron of some of the courses deployed in Rodez by the Campus des Métiers, but also that of transmission, a major challenge given the age retirement is approaching for a large part of the region's artisans.

The issue of transmission

"It’is indeed one of our concerns, agrees the president of the Chamber of Trades and the ’ crafts, Pierre Azemar since today we have a whole category of boomer grandpas and grandmas who will pass on in the coming years. The idea is therefore to raise even greater awareness among those over the age of 55 and who aim to prepare and anticipate the transfer of their business." Knowing, he specifies, "that the rate of sustainability in the context of a business takeover is often higher than that of creations."

Support, promote, facilitate learning and recovery. These are the guiding ideas of this convention which ultimately seeks to make the present bear fruit in order to prepare for the future. "Professions linked to the intelligence of the hand, we we are sure, will still be there in 10 or 15 years. So beyond the purely economic aspect, it is also an opportunity to perpetuate know-how, give the youngest a taste for entrepreneurship by fixing them on a territory", concludes Pierre Azemar.