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Les Grands Entretiens d’Avant-Poste

Avant-Poste is the only bilingual interview series that puts university, foundation, NGO and corporate leaders side by side.

Guests and first readers are the same people: the presidents, delegates-general and directors who run these institutions.

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The Grand Entretien: a 20-minute video conversation, written up bilingual and published in Avant-Poste, free.

Avant-Poste, a newsletter born on Central Europe, geopolitics and European change, opens its columns to the four sectors with one format.

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Democratic

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Europe’s democratic shifts

One of the three shifts Avant-Poste reads its guests through.

Ecological

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Europe’s ecological shifts

Read across university, foundation, NGO and corporate leaders.

Economic

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Europe’s economic shifts

Four sectors, side by side, in one bilingual series.

The Grand Entretien

Four sectors sit down. Twenty minutes, one format, on video.

By Avant-Poste

Published in Avant-Poste

Guest and first reader

Presidents and directors-general of grandes écoles and universitiesUniversity
Presidents and delegates-general of foundations and endowment fundsFoundation
Presidents and delegates-general of NGOsNGO
Directors of CSR, philanthropy and general management at large European companiesCompany

A speaker with a microphone addressing an audience in a lecture hall — A leader in conversation at a public event. Photograph © S. Guibert

how it works

From one conversation to one free read

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1. A 20-minute video conversation

One leader from one of the four sectors sits down for the Grand Entretien.

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2. It is written up bilingual

The conversation becomes a bilingual text, published in Avant-Poste, the newsletter.

By Avant-Poste

3. It is published free

The Grand Entretien appears in Avant-Poste and on this site, free.

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sample

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Sample

A university president on what Europe’s democratic shift asks of its universities

A sample of a Grand Entretien for one of the people named above: the head of a university, filmed for twenty minutes and written up bilingual. Invented for this page, not a real guest. The portrait is a generated image.

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Grandes écoles and universities

Two people talking at a wooden table in a bright library room, filmed by a camera on a tripod

Foundations and endowment funds

Two people talking across a desk in an NGO office with a map of Europe on the wall, filmed by a camera

NGOs

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Large European companies

Avant-Poste · Grand EntretienSample

A university president on Europe’s democratic shift

Twenty minutes on camera, then a written version for the page.

A university president answers the question every sector in Europe is now asked: what do the democratic shifts change for the people we train?

Vingt minutes face caméra, puis une version écrite pour la page.

Un président d’université répond à la question que se pose chaque secteur en Europe : que changent les bouleversements démocratiques pour ceux que nous formons ?

Les entretiens paraissent dans Avant-Poste, la newsletter.

Every Grand Entretien is published free in Avant-Poste, in French and in English