The project
MNESEEK FOR SOLIDARITY
“Without anyone realizing it, fraternity is already today the main force driving the world's vanguard forward.” — Jacques Attali
From the very beginning of the Mneseek project, it has been extremely important to us to make it a tool for social inclusion.
I. SOLIDARITY WITH PEOPLE FACING DIFFICULTIES
Specific initiatives aimed at promoting social and professional integration have been undertaken:
- Providing an internship opportunity to a person with a disability through the Cap Emploi organisation.
- Providing an internship opportunity to a young student enrolled in a two-year post-secondary diploma in Communications (BTS Communication).
- Setting up a remote-working documentation assignment with a person with a disability.
- Setting up two assignments with young professionals: web design and community management.
- Employing several freelance writers to produce documentary and informational articles.
- Employing a part-time documentation specialist with officially recognised disabled worker status.
Furthermore, a significant number of people with disabilities have been able to register on the website and contribute to it, each in their own way and according to their abilities.
For quite a number of people, finding meaningful ways to spend their free time can be a challenge. Taking part in a project such as Mneseek can provide a sense of purpose through a recreational and creative activity.
II. EMPOWERMENT
Empowerment refers to the process through which an individual or group gains greater agency, self-confidence, autonomy and the ability to make decisions affecting their own lives.
In its own way, the Mneseek website can help its users develop their social and cultural skills.
Beyond improving their computer skills, taking part in a collaborative and socially minded project such as Mneseek can give users a sense of being useful and making a meaningful contribution (initiative and independent action are actively encouraged).
More generally, the Mneseek website offers everyone an opportunity to broaden their horizons and enjoy new experiences.
III. SHARING OUR CULTURAL WEALTH
We all have different tastes and interests. This diversity of cultures is a source of richness.
We believe in the following principle: sharing our interests, our knowledge and, above all, our enthusiasm for certain cultural subjects, works of art and literature, and particular questions and ideas can help transform the world.
Intercultural exchange — in other words, openness to others, to those who are different or come from elsewhere — can be an ambitious and inspiring undertaking: expressing and reaffirming the bonds that unite us, and proclaiming these bonds just as we proclaim the search for meaning as a defining characteristic of humanity.
The Other, the Foreigner
According to Leonardo da Vinci's famous saying, “The more we know, the more we love.”
Being open to what we do not know, to people from other countries and cultures, but also to other people's tastes and perspectives, can therefore help advance the cause of fraternity.
This conscious effort to reach out to others, to foster conviviality and togetherness, to discover the diversity of interpretations that need not necessarily be conflicting, and to make the criteria underlying our judgements explicit, can lead to greater tolerance, deeper understanding and greater mutual enrichment.
The aim is to open ourselves up to the cultures of the world, to generations other than our own, to forms of knowledge with which we are unfamiliar, and to people from different social backgrounds.
The Mneseek website is intended for the general public. By this, we mean all internet users, without distinction: young people, very young people and older generations alike, whether they are IT professionals, office workers or people from any other professional background.
We firmly believe that it is through cultural dialogue, intergenerational exchange and mutual sharing that everyone can grow and enrich their lives.
Making it clear to everyone that each person is a unique bearer of knowledge, skills and creativity…
“Nothing is more essential today to our fragile democracy than the sharing of knowledge and culture.” — Philippe Meirieu