On Friday 29 June 2018, in Lyon Gerland, Tony Parker laid the first stone of the Sports Hall of the future Tony Parker Adéquat Academy, in the presence of Gérard Collomb, Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, Mr David Kimelfeld, President of the Metropolis, Mr Georges Képénékian, Mayor of Lyon, alongside Gaëtan Muller and Jean-Marc Brun of Groupe Adéquat, co-founders of this Academy. This symbolic event marks a major step forward in the construction of the Tony Parker Adéquat Academy, which will open in summer 2019.
An innovative concept
Born of an innovative concept, combining sport, studies and employment, the Tony Parker Adéquat Academy affirms a unique positioning: to provide a job offer to all its Academicians at the end of their studies. This structure, which is unprecedented in Europe, and open to girls and boys aged 13 and over, will enable French and foreign academics to have a sporting experience adapted to their level, to ensure an enriched education with individualised supervision, school rhythm adjustments and an adjusted teaching method, to forge strong links with the business world, all in the same place unit, within the campus, with the guarantee of a job at a high level.
Focused on employability
Designed and developed through a strong partnership with Groupe Adéquat, a major player on the recruitment market, the Academy relies on this founding partner to support the “employment” part of the concept. Thus a new type of Adéquat Agency is created in the very heart of the Academy’s premises. This Agency, specially designed for this project, has the mission of accompanying Academicians throughout their careers to build with them a solid professional project with a job offer at the end. A real “Laboratory”, this Agency will enable Academicians to benefit in a single point from all the know-how and skills of the various brands of Groupe Adéquat with the ambition of developing innovative projects, around sport and employment, focused on tomorrow’s recruitmen.
School careers built with solid partners
The development of school careers is based on solid partnerships with ACADOMIA group, which is recognised for its individualised monitoring and support of students, and the EM LYON and IGS groups, two internationally renowned grandes écoles, which are involved in the construction of the Tony Parker Adéquat Academy’s higher education system, for the post-Bac part.
Opening and pré-registrations
Applications for the Tony Parker Adéquat Academy will open in September 2018 for a first academic year in September 2019. Pre-registration is now possible on the website: www.tpadequatacademy.com.
A campus in the heart of Lyon
The Tony Parker Adéquat Academy, whose project manager is the OCEANIS group, a real estate developer, is part of a 400 student housing campus on the Gerland site in Lyon. It was carried out in close collaboration with the Lyon Metropolitan Area, the City of Lyon, the Gerland Mission, the architects ARTE CHARPENTIER, DUMETIER and the company FLORIOT.
