Administrations and services Midi-Pyrénées

The Group for the Integration of Persons with Physical Disabilities in Languedoc-Roussillon (GIHP) has an antenna in Nîmes. Information can be obtained on the various services that the Region is implementing to facilitate the lives of persons with reduced mobility. Whether you're looking for a transportation service for professional, university or leisure travel, accompaniment to go to the doctor, a home care service, tips for parents or parents of disabled children… a team of volunteers and professionals is at your listening and help you solve certain problems. For any administrative action, please contact Montpellier headquarters.

Set up by the Chamber of Commerce, this interinstitutional balance sheet centre, dedicated to businesses, employees and job seekers, proposes formulas adapted to specific requests: introduction to computers, office automation, software training, communication techniques. For 4 to 10 days, the various modules can be financed for job seekers or employees. Language courses (English, Chinese, Chinese) in the day or in the evening are spread over a period of 15 to 20 hours. They are aimed at beginners as well as those who wish to develop, (re) build a training course or prepare a validation of the acquis. A balance sheet will help you identify your abilities and potential. A free and prior test is used to assess the appropriate level and group.

In this private school, throughout the year, French courses are offered to foreigners. Education is based on learning language through knowledge of French culture. On the basis of written conversations and French, different formulas are involved in acquiring the subtleties of our language: adult courses in group of 5 persons divided by level, intensive courses, à la carte courses, courses in business, specific courses of phonetic, specialized French (commercial, tourism, legal, medical). International meetings, business internships and study trips are organized, as are special courses or intensive courses. Education is provided by qualified teachers in French and foreign languages, but rates, rather high, limit access. On the school's website, there are numerous requests for accommodation for young people at par.

The professional Lycée Voltaire has a sommelier section with a complementary mention (level V diploma), which is prepared in one year in addition to another diploma in the hotel-catering sector (CAP, BEP…). Diploma also accessible after three years of experience in the profession. Professional tasting uses personal skills: smell wine, absorb a sip, hold it in mouth before recracher, guess the aromas, recognize the grape varieties, discern the vintage, learn the specific vocabulary used to describe his dress, describe the wine and the final knowledge to associate with the best wines and dishes. The learning also covers the history of vineyards, the supply, storage, maintenance of wines and spirits, from the material from the cellar to the distribution and to the table service at the right temperature. Sommelier school is interested in wines and any commercialized beverage from mineral water to strong alcohol.

Located in the historical centre, in Hôtel Rivet, the university of fine arts of Nîmes has in the artistic, cultural and architectural landscape of the city. The mansion is a beautiful setting which successively was used as a hospital, prefecture and primary school for girls before inviting students artists starting from 1987. This establishment of higher education classes of art in a public school course that leads to the national diploma of visual arts (DNAP) after 3 years of studies, then 2 years still to obtain the higher national diploma plastic expression (DNSEP).
Three sites:
- administration, library, poles computer graphics and video and workshops of students.
- construction and sculpture
- edition and feel

In Occitan lands, Nîmes had to have a school anxious to transmit the language and culture of OC. From kindergarten to primary, bilingual teaching in French and Occitan is free. The programmes do not differ from classical establishments, the materials are the same except that here we learn to read, write and count… in the vernacular language of the region, Occitan and French. The combination of languages serves as a vector for this learning which, it seems, is more than beneficial to the development of the spirit. A little history… it was in 1988 that the association Calandreta Nimesenca was created. Named after Calandreta Aimat Serre, in tribute to one of his founders who died in July 1993, she is very successful in southern cities.

Founded in 1947 by U.S. students, American Field Service organized an ambulance relief system for the wounded the Second World War. AFS continued its humanitarian mission on different fronts around the world, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, India and Burma. Once peace has returned to these countries, these pioneers have participated in the voluntary reception of young people abroad. An international non-governmental, non-profit organization, the association constitutes a network of intercultural exchanges between countries. This is how AFS works today to find voluntary foster families and a secondary or higher school for students, students or young adults who want to stay outside their borders for a period of 1 months to 1 year. A grant for the financing of the stay may be awarded. In addition to language learning, it is the discovery and understanding of another culture that is at stake. Antenne in Montpellier with correspondents in Nîmes.

A national association created to facilitate the professional integration of young graduates is the Afij, initiated by the student world and supported by the public authorities. The "antenna is located just steps away from the Coupole des Halles, in a small, well-equipped area. Young people welcome other young people and offer them an accompaniment in their search for first jobs. It's not obvious to everyone, we don't always know how to do it. Availability of documents on job search techniques, professional directories, Internet and job offers specific to young graduates. Free training modules to improve different techniques: How to optimize the hiring oral, to make spontaneous applications, to edit good CV, etc. Also addressed, the setting up of a professional project and knowledge of the labour market.

A pun to better locate this municipal youth service, multiressource, installed in a special hotel of Escutcheon, Place de l'Clock. Established by the city in 1999, this place of reception offers information, documentation (including the CIDJ fund, directory of trades and training) as well as consultation of specialized periodicals (Employment Journal, Student, Onisep, Bounce, Public Service) and the regional press. Files gather information about associations, on the animation and entertainment sectors. A guide to housing assistance (Loc'Etud), job forums, individual projects selected on file, a service to make seasonal jobs available, small ads. The Campus Culture card offers discounts from 10% to 50% on the entrance of theatres, museums, bookshops, cinemas, concerts), expo space, public… a short passage for young people.

Information and Guidance Centre for Students and Parents. Information and documentation on educational or professional fields. In addition to hotlines in public colleges and colleges, two IOC are open in town. Parents and students can receive personalized information about the direction of education in secondary and higher education.

This is an important address for every student or future student who prepares his future in the city. In this antenna, it will be able to obtain practical and administrative information about its status, apply for accommodation in university cities, obtain its credit card to benefit from university restaurants. The Residence effectively advises, always manages a system of small ads, which is convenient for dégotter a job, a room or keeping up with the socio-cultural activities.

Babysitting, home help, household assistance, computer assistance, and also gardening or DIY works, the Apef can meet your punctual needs. Association of Law 1901, approved by the Languedoc-Roussillon region, apef has an antenna in Nîmes and provides a fairly diversified home support service. After a first meeting with the administrative staff, the individual support contract is established and the Apef offers stakeholders who perform your work at home. A monthly invoice will be sent to you to pay the benefit. You can benefit from financial assistance or tax deduction. In carrying out the tasks of the day-to-day life, the Afep also intervenes with senior citizens or persons with reduced mobility.

The Fédération des Aveugles de France is a non-profit organization based in Nîmes.

Founded on a medical project for the rehabilitation and rehabilitation of visually impaired patients, the Aramav Institute in Nîmes is more than 20 years old. His mission? To help people with visual disabilities by seeking to develop their autonomy. Various therapeutic programs are adapted to cases ranging from light visual potential to total blindness. Reintegration stays, with a sense of stimulation work, take into account age, physical and psychological difficulties, and the expectations and projects of each. During its training, the patient will be monitored by a multidisciplinary team and fully supported by the clinic. Ongoing professional training modules, seminars for practitioners are also organized at the Institute for a multidisciplinary approach to visual impairment in adults.

This association, located in the Saint-Stanislas complex, offers people living with physical disabilities a whole programme of suitable sports activities. A weekly schedule to be consulted on site or on the website: swimming on Tuesdays and Thursdays; archery, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays; arms shooting on Wednesdays; table tennis, Wednesday and Friday; strength, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is noted that the association is open to valid members and to any person wishing to engage in sports activities with partners with disabilities.

With a membership of € 30 per year, this club offers you outings between singles. Hikes are organized for example between eight and ten kilometres with meals taken from the bag. This is still a simple way to meet while performing a nature activity.

Located in the west of Nîmes, the Carémeau Hospital Regroupe gathers on two buildings (North/South) all surgical services, for short and medium hospital stays. A huge complex, with high-tech infrastructure, has advanced services, functional rehabilitation, psychiatry, addictologie, women-children, geriatrics (Ruffi Centre). A welcome for emergencies and a university centre complement the whole. As part of an improvement in patient care, the CHU nîmois has two major real estate projects underway: a future medical care home (MMG), which takes over the medical cabinets, the evening and the weekend, and the creation of a centre of psychiatry, in addition to the reconstruction of the Grau-du-Roi rehabilitation centre.

A classic shop for the whole family. They are wedding dresses and ceremonies for ladies, but the men and children will also find enough to be on their trento and one. The setting is very classic, may not find a dress very original but the models with hundred times house transformed into a real princess.

A health information and prevention centre for health professionals and users alike. The team of the vaccination centre ensures follow-up (registration, certificate), practice the international vaccines required for foreign travellers. You can find the PLAQUETTES and documentation on public health issues (nutrition, obesity prevention, disorders in older people, sexually transmitted diseases, etc.) as well as a mass of information and addresses on the city's health and social system. Led by three nurses and a doctor, these actions are mostly in partnership with local institutions and associations. Public home without appointment

The Committee offers a range of services, including nutrition workshops, physical activities, beauty treatments, psychological support, self-expression activities, and help with social, administrative and/or legal formalities.

The Nîmes de Nîmes is a screening centre for sexually transmitted infections, also treating stis (non-HIV and hepatitis). Medical consultations can be with or without RV, always free. Blood examinations are also free. People now have the choice between anonymity (maintained number system) or present themselves personally (name, first name, date of birth). Results are issued accompanied by a doctor, present to answer any question of prevention, risk reduction or care.

This special care centre for drug addicts (C.S.S.T.), administered by the association Blannaves Logos, makes the day of the day without appointment. As part of its mission (care and support for drug users), Logos provides medical and psychological counselling for people in demand. Doctor and nurse are present to establish a diagnosis with the user, possibly respond to alternative needs and provide emergency care. An educator and other participants at the reception act more on a social slope and insertion.

Centre of prevention, support and side dishes of the people, Aides Nîmes acts as part of the missions of the national federation. The association began with daily in the fight against AIDS and the contaminations HIV, hepatitises. Anonymous and free screening tests are applied to the room. The accompaniment of the sick people is available as well as the medical and social followed the HIV good carriers. Professionals attentive provide all necessary information to the perfect understanding of HIV virus. Self condoms, as well as an abundant communication (plates, brochures, magazines).

THE CAMARGUAISE RACE. Seeing this kind of spectacle in St. Laurent-d'Aigouze is an additional charm, for the singularity of these arenas attached to the church and whose presbytery serves as a toril (where the bulls are locked). It must be said that the priest of Saint-Laurent is a perfect aficionado.

Which charming small village Vénéjean; You will not regret the detour, just at the exit of Bagnols. Small cobbled streets, large stone houses… and if you don't miss the courage, climb up to the top of the village, not just for sight. St. Baptiste Chapel dates back to the th century and its murals are very well preserved. At the top you will discover a windmill in operation and the Romanesque chapel Saint-Pierre drowned in a green setting. It is in this context that every year the Musical evenings of Vénéjean occur in July. A medieval castle owned by a private owner dating back to the th century dominates this adorable small village.

A company specialized in customer service and consultancy, this printer has its parent house in Ardèche. Audio CD pressing, printing needs on various formats and formats, digital or offset, duplication or engraved engraved. For flyers, posters, brochures, brochures, stickers, small or very large sizes, the shop offers quick service from graphic creation to printing by ensuring the best market rates. Audio CD, DVD or CD-Rom in small or large quantities to paper or hard pochettes… ACL accompanies artists'projects.

The aim of this association is to establish a link between users of the Médiathèque and other libraries in the city, so that everyone can express their needs, ideas and criticisms as readers. It also works to ensure that Carré d'Art maintains its dynamic approach to book access, particularly in the neighborhoods. It also takes part in organizing public readings, guided tours of exhibitions, conferences and debates, and runs a book club.

France 3 Pays Gardois is the local offshoot for the Gard of the 19/20 edition of France 3 Occitanie, the only regional television station in the France Télévisions group. The program is broadcast every evening live from the Montpellier studios. This edition, entirely dedicated to the local news, makes a daily report of the current events whether it is urban, political, sports or cultural. Every day, France 3's Mediation team collects your observations, criticisms, analyses and testimonies concerning the channel's various events.

"Raje, the free spirit and the sound of today and tomorrow" we hear over and over on 102.5 FM. And it's true that this radio station, which started in Avignon, has managed to free itself from commercial FM and to colonize both sides of the Rhône! The cities of Marseille, Arles and Nîmes are now tuned in to Raje, listening to a radio style reminiscent of its big sister Radio Nova. Voluntarily musical, the radio wants to be sharp on a winning trio: eclectic current music + news bulletins + cultural chronicles, without forgetting the agenda of the outings.

Known under the name RFN, this associative radio was created in 1982 by Jean Orsi. Radio Fréquence Nîmes defends a certain French song, which lets filter in its musical tastes a nostalgia for a France that the less than 15 years old cannot know! Today it is Edith Quettelart who continues the work of her father, supported by the hosts, switchboard operators, enthusiasts and volunteers. The great classics of variety music make the happiness of many listeners. Information and classified ads make it a local radio, well established in Nîmes.

If Midi Libre is inevitable in newspapers, France Bleu Gard- Lozère is as much as regards programs on the regional waves. With paths that only the public service can engage, radio "Seen here" according to the slogan, broadcast of local information every morning, all the more complete as permanent correspondents are installed on the two departments, even if the largest part is given to Gard. In Nîmes, the roman amphitheatre borders the studios at the public station. Football, however, are bullfighting lived live. Popular music, variety and information proximity are the main roads of the antenna with services with live listeners points (roads, weather, testimonies, calls to solidarity), very popular, especially in crisis period or urgently climate, including storms, floods or heat waves.

This angle pharmacy, with double entrance, gives both on the Alphonse-Daudet boulevard and on the square of the Maison Carrée. Its parapharmacie space (beauty creams, shampoos and all kinds of soaps) has the class, the current linear walls along walls accompany your wanderings to the discovery of products to natural medicine space. It is thus discovered in the end of the corridor, an important radius of herbal medicine, herbalism, aromatherapy and essential oils. Dried herbs and herbs are mainly intended for herbal decoctions. Also noted, the pharmacy has an adjacent boutique dedicated only to orthopaedics, with a good choice of safe shoes and slippers.

We can't miss this pharmacy with double entry! The window overlooking the arena displays a funny and original garden: Des's hooves all the colours year round. Very helpful!!! More seriously, as among all his colleagues, the pharmacist sells medicines but also a lot of parapharmacie, cosmetics, anti-wrinkle creams, and veterinary and well-being for domestic animals. The advice and sale of generics are well developed.

Located in a hospital centre, in the heart of a médicalisée residence for the elderly, this library was designed in partnership with the CHU de Nîmes. It has a fund of books, in particular on the theme of health, practical life, ageing and intergenerational life. For resident patients, it also welcomes local residents. Occasionally, animations are proposed: storytelling, exhibitions, meetings with writers.

Located in the Pissevin district, Nîmes-West, this library is named after the Nîmois writer Marc Bernard. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1942 for his novel Tel to children. The two floors are home to the library and a resource centre on literature for youth, mainly for teachers and educators. Very popular with young people in the Pissevin-Valdegour district, the library gathers books, audio cds, including a very good collection of contemporary music, music dvds, documentaries, fiction and youth films. The minothèque is reserved for children from 6 months (!), a training space, a projection room, a digital public space with computer accompaniments, multimedia, job search.

In the east of Nîmes, the district of Mas-de-Mingue has its library named as the author, originally from the region and director of the New French Revue in the 1940 s. In the centre of the district house, the library covers 200 m ² and has a good book of books, cd, DVD and documents for adults and youth, as well as a specific collection for language learning. There are also periodicals and videos to watch on site or to borrow. In digital space, Internet and CD-Rom consultation, opening to office automation, ludo activities (time of tale), accompaniment to employment. Welcome classes by appointment.

The Gazette de Nîmes is the news paper par excellence. Available online and in paper version, this media has quickly become essential, thanks to a sharp analysis of the news, whether it is about sports, society, politics, economy or culture. The Gazette de Nîmes is available in Montpellier, Sète or Nîmes. It allows you to follow the calendar of cultural, sporting and associative events of the week. During the school vacations, all the possibilities of activities or visits are proposed for children of all ages.

All the major themes are covered in this daily newspaper, which was founded in 1943. Founded in Marseille, the title has branches in every département, from Hérault to Alpes-Maritimes, via Gard and Vaucluse. This newspaper has traditionally taken part in social struggles, offering subjects in line with the region's socio-economic news and showing alternative modes of production to the liberal system. The editorial line is unambiguous: to provide general news and opinions, without neglecting the sports and culture sections...

In Lozere, Crédit Agricole accompanies visitors and residents with its ticket counters, offices, sixteen periodic offices and forty-three green points.

Created under the Revolution, the departmental archives keep records on the history of Hérault and the former Languedoc province from the ninth century to the present. Curious, professional and private are welcomed in the former Couvent convent, in the Fine Arts district, before being able to integrate their new premises in the north-west of the city. The general council has chosen to build a Pharaoh building (a cost exceeding 130 M €!) to accommodate the valuable archives. For the time being, history buffs can immerse themselves in almost 40 km of archives! Thematic workshops are also proposed around the culture and history of local heritage. Note: an educational and cultural service is available to students and teachers.

Long impossible to escape from this operator, but, with the unbundling of lines, it now seems that many customers benefit to escape. Some people want to see France Télécom as a guarantee of quality and, above all, the opportunity to always find an interlocutor to solve their problems. This would be one of the reasons that would explain the often higher rates of the historical operator. However, for packages including Internet access, telephony and digital TV, France Telecom is aligned with its competitors. Note: service is often more efficient in Orange shops.

The Regional Centre for Educational Documentation is a wealth of information and documentation to find more easily its orientation in the jungle of school and university curricula: administrative information, schedule of contests, topics and fixed sessions of previous sessions… One can only consult the documents on site or buy brochures, those published by the Onisep.

Kate is first public writer: it drafts, inserts and implements your administrative or personal letters. But it is not the only rope to its arc, because it also makes the secretariat for the professionals and individuals, performs for you research on the Net, sends faxes… In brief it allows you to save time!

The highest monument in Palavas, the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean welcomes seminars and congresses about minutes from Montpellier. The space is spread over three floors, with an area of 700 m 2, comprising an amphitheatre of two hundred places, a flexible multi-functional space in committee rooms from to people. Thanks to an excellent sharing of space, a modern and functional installation, this place has attracted the attention of many congress organizers.

Very trendy design for this hotel located near Corum and Escutcheon. The Mercure Centre offers four rooms for business people, delegates and seminarians. With a maximum capacity of 100 people (for the amphitheatre of 240 m 2), these spaces are perfectly adaptable and equipped with the latest technologies: Wifi, telephone, overhead projectors, flat screens.

Ideally located at the exit of the motorway, this hotel has two adjustable lounges of 80 square metres. Depending on your needs, they will be equipped with overhead projector, screen, table or television. The hotel team offers a break service with coffee and croissant or lunch.

Since 1999, this centre has been providing professional training in DTP and 3 D synthetic images. This school really insists on its professionalises curriculum with 3 D synthesis image training programs validated by the Level III professional title "3 D". The team led by François Belenguer welcomes students, job seekers, employees, performance and professional staff. Equipped with a hundred Pcs and Macs made available to trainees, education can be individualized. Training is validated by a "professional title". The opportunities there are very specific: Graphic designer, graphic designer in advertising, video games, cinema, animation and in the scientific environment.

The Esicad, also located in Toulouse and Nice, offers most commercial training from Bac Pro to Bac + 5. The establishment also offers BTS (international trade, management assistant, hotel-restaurant), which can be prepared either in continuous training or in alternation as well as BP, BEP and Lac Pro. The longer courses, from baccalaureate + 3 to lac + 5, relate to specializations in the marketing or management fields at the end of which the student can access a managerial position or a framework in accounting. Esicad shares its premises with the Iscom, a national school dedicated to communication and advertising professions.

In Esma, teaching is primarily dedicated to artistic and graphic creation and communication. We prepare BTS in space design, visual communication and photography, but you can also follow a year of upgrading in applied arts (for those who want artistic creation) before training in higher education. For students who wish not to stop in such a good way, the school offers a higher cycle in post-production and special effects, and a professional cycle dedicated to graphics and images in 3 D. The reputation of Esma is no longer to be done: The school also launched a new website dedicated to the dissemination of productions from its animation cinema section. This school also has another advantage: new premises, which she incorporated in 2005, offering a space of 2 300 m 2 for students (cafeteria, library, atrium, conference room, computer rooms, exhibition rooms).

The Tunon School offers training courses in the fields of event, air, tourism, hospitality, and makeover/coaching. The studies can go up to 5 years and 20 months of internships, which makes it possible to combine practice with theory. From the start of the training, many internships are provided by the school itself on all the fields of reception, tourism and communication. These mini-traineeships, which have been successfully linked and compensated, translate the first steps into the professional universe and the creation of the relational network. They make it possible to make a difference for the first job of students Tunon.