2023-11-27 21:00:06
Caroline Boutillier, Alexy Petitfils and Zacharie Littner, in Gujan-Mestras (Gironde), in July 2023. CARO AND THE BOYS AT SEA
At the port of Brest, the three students are working hard to get everything ready for the big departure. As part of their final year at ESCP, a Parisian business school, Caroline Boutillier, Zacharie Littner and Alexy Petitfils, 23 years old, were entitled to a specially designed course, with distance learning courses, in order to be able to stay for two months on the Breton pontoon and prepare their 10 meter sailboat as best as possible. With this boat, they will begin, in December, a student project which has all the makings of an adventure: a double crossing of the Atlantic for charity, for the fight against cancer. Crossing this ocean was “childhood dream” of these three sailing enthusiasts, who met at the ESCP nautical club. And carrying it out for cancer research had even greater meaning in their eyes, two of them having lost their fathers to the disease.
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“The prospect of soon being at sea is very exciting”, Alexy enthuses today. But above all: complete the technical preparation started more than a year ago, with survival courses at sea but also the acquisition of mechanical skills, for this real “sporting challenge”. “We will have to really surpass ourselves physically”Zacharie point. And then, there is everything that surrounds the very creation of the project, insurance and taxation, the search for partners to raise funds… and a communication plan to be established. Below the name of “Caro and the boys at sea”, they will Time.news their journey of several months with the aim of raising donations for the Eugène-Marquis Center, specialized in the fight against cancer. Objective: 10 euros per nautical mile, or 100,000 euros, under the aegis of their sponsor, the host Denis Brogniart.
Out of the ordinary projects
Rather than sticking to a traditional internship, business school students decide to transform the experience of traditional gap years, or months of summer break, into extraordinary projects: crossing a continent by bike, world tour… Also called “learning expeditions”, these journeys, often with a solidarity dimension, combine both thrills and the opportunity to develop in a very concrete way a myriad of entrepreneurial skills, useful in their curriculum. “It’s a fantastic application of the project management exercise: planning, finding sponsors, managing the unexpected… What is taught theoretically in class, they realize on a full-scale basis, by directly putting hands in the grease »greets Cécile Kharoubi, director of the ESCP Grande Ecole program.
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