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What do I expect from IET – Community - France & Paris.

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Firstly who are the IET Fr MIET members?

I joined this PEI in 1980 from Grenoble. I was on substantive leave from MoD. I decided to stay for a longer period and got married here. At that time we were the first to come over with the EU agreements of that period.

There were already ex-patriot UK people with huge benefits living here, there were the UK EU adventurers with no objectives but work was abundant, there were the first student exchanges, and some had married into French families. I did not meet any UK people who simply came here to live and work at that time.

 

Most of us found the difference between the UK and France as difficult as between the UK and China. They just did not live, eat or drink like us.

 

I was advised by the first UK settlers to just join in and enjoy myself, which I did.

I first met French culture when I organised the “entente cordiale” between the Concorde R&D groups of UK RAE and French ONERA. It was unbelievable, when the opportunity to have a job and career change came, I took up nuclear engineering in France.

 

I returned to the UK which had drastically changed – Thatcher, strikes, riots. My name  was plagiarised in my work. I had to leave the UK after my employers failed to protect me. I returned to France.

The first time every one talked of the quality of life in France, the second time it was the Iraqi wars and crisis.

 

So what do you need to work and survive in France now and how can the IET French Community help.

France is huge; it is not realistic to travel from SE or SW France for a meeting in Paris.

Maybe we need a newcomers guide such as most French towns give to new arrivals.

France is still totally different from the UK.

We have different categories of IET members who are at least engineering & technology related.

 -Ex-patriot, UK enterprise sales & marketing staff, Erasmus students, Enterprises from the UK that have delocalised with their staff, those that have married into families, entrepreneurs and SMEs in IT technology and those that now just want to work and live in France etc.

What would you advise
  • Should we have a MIET arrivals’ guide

  • Should we have guides to French language courses

  • Should we have guides to CPD in France

  • Should we give advice on French administration

  • What about the dos and don’ts of French culture.


Or should we just mind our own business and keep it to ourselves?

 

I recommend reading : Stephen Clarke – 1000 years of annoying the French and other titles and most of his references. French English history is not as taught in schools.
  •  Out of season hotels in France are cheap, maybe one or two visits with IET families or friends to E&T venues could be affordable.


And the French Community AGM & voting should be on line and at distance.

I’m retiring from E&T have fun in France

 

Give Rob McCann some help

 

John Gowman MIET (ex ITEME Grenobl 1980)

 

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    Morning all

    Just to clarify a few things on our mailing lists.  The Engineering Communities pages are open to anyone to join and the members on this can be contacted by those who have admin rights on the Community platform with messages about events and what is happening.  The membership database we hold can be viewed by those on the committee who have completed the online IET data protection training (and this includes staff) and we can provide a list so that you can see who is in the LN region.  There are caveats around this with the key ones being it cannot be kept for more than 10 days, it is not for general viewing and it is not to be kept as a mailing list.  There is also the option for each LN to have access to the Adestra system so that the LN can produce emails to go to everyone who has agreed to receive email correspondence in the LN area, so again, everyone can be contacted about events and activities.  


    The IET President was invited by the France LN to attend and speakat a specific joint event in Paris and attended this as a speaker.  We can only ask the IET President to attend what has been asked by the LN and as the calendar is very busy it is not always possible to fit in, or for the LN to host,  another event on a separate evening.  


    We encourage all IET groups to work with other bodies that can help with events and cross promotion - IET events are open to anyone to attend, so the more people we can promote to the better.  We do not have to all join to do this, but an informal agreement with members to help each other would go a long way to support activity.  


    The France LN has put in a plan to start to look at educational initiatives, visits and talks, so what does help is for those on the membership list and those on the Engineering Communities page to push this out if they see something that is of interest. 


    Thanks


    Lynsay 


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    Morning all

    Just to clarify a few things on our mailing lists.  The Engineering Communities pages are open to anyone to join and the members on this can be contacted by those who have admin rights on the Community platform with messages about events and what is happening.  The membership database we hold can be viewed by those on the committee who have completed the online IET data protection training (and this includes staff) and we can provide a list so that you can see who is in the LN region.  There are caveats around this with the key ones being it cannot be kept for more than 10 days, it is not for general viewing and it is not to be kept as a mailing list.  There is also the option for each LN to have access to the Adestra system so that the LN can produce emails to go to everyone who has agreed to receive email correspondence in the LN area, so again, everyone can be contacted about events and activities.  


    The IET President was invited by the France LN to attend and speakat a specific joint event in Paris and attended this as a speaker.  We can only ask the IET President to attend what has been asked by the LN and as the calendar is very busy it is not always possible to fit in, or for the LN to host,  another event on a separate evening.  


    We encourage all IET groups to work with other bodies that can help with events and cross promotion - IET events are open to anyone to attend, so the more people we can promote to the better.  We do not have to all join to do this, but an informal agreement with members to help each other would go a long way to support activity.  


    The France LN has put in a plan to start to look at educational initiatives, visits and talks, so what does help is for those on the membership list and those on the Engineering Communities page to push this out if they see something that is of interest. 


    Thanks


    Lynsay 


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