Day: 11 January 2019

The tenth Monaco Optimist team race runs between 10 January and 13 January, with 16 teams competing from 16 nations.

All 64 sailors are under 14 in the event, which is organised by Yacht Club de Monaco.

The match race format pits teams of four against each other. Clubs from all over the world are eager to take part in the event.

This year, alongside youngsters from the Royal Cape Yacht Club (South Africa) and Yacht Club Punta del Este (Uruguay), YCM is hosting a Chinese team from the Visun Royal Yacht Club.

Last year’s winner, the Finnish team from Helsingfors Segelklubb HSK, is back, facing current European champions the Swedes from the Royal Swedish Yacht Club.

Monaco Optimist programme: (subject to change)

Thursday 10th January 2019
8.30-10am: Registration
11am: Briefing (Meeting Room – Quay Level)
12 noon: First warning signal
6.30pm: Official Opening Ceremony (Aquarama Riva Bar Deck 5)

Friday 11th January 2019
10am: First warning signal
6.30pm: Talk by Vicky Ellis (Meeting Room Quay Level)

Saturday 12th January 2019
10am: First warning signal
Evening at leisure

Sunday 13th January 2019
10am: First warning signal
4pm: Prize-giving (Meeting Room Quay Level)

A major player in the Monegasque cultural life, the Monaco Media Library was organised around three sites: the Louis Notari Library, the José Noari Video Library – Sonothèque and the Patrimonial Fund.

However, since 1 January, a fourth site has joined the Media Library passing under communal management: the Library Princess Caroline – Ludothèque, dedicated to youth.

No change for its members, who keep their subscription and now benefit from a new card also allowing them to borrow documents from the Library Louis Notari and the Video Library – Sonothèque and access to digital resources offered via the website www. mediatheque.mc.

By enriching itself with a youth sector, the Médiathèque can count on 20,000 additional books and 1,000 games in addition to the 450,000 documents already made available to the public.

In parallel, the Media Library of Monaco offers, throughout the year, a rich and eclectic cultural programme: meetings, conferences, exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, writing workshops, photography and reading… to which the public is invited to participate for free.

The Mayor, members of the Communal Council and the teams of the Social Action Service of the Town Council went to the retirement homes of the Principality to meet the residents and wish them a Happy New Year.

On January 8, visits began late morning at the Bellando de Castro Residence of the Hector Otto Foundation. In the afternoon, it was at the residence of Cap Fleuri that the Mayor and members of the Communal Council were welcomed.

On the 10th of January, two other visits were on the program: at the residence A Qietüdine for a lunch and then at the Clinical Gerontology Center Rainier III in the afternoon for a snack with musical entertainment.

During each visit, the Mayor and the elected officials distributed to the boarders a greedy box. They were also able to interact with seniors in an atmosphere always friendly and warm.

After having welcomed its members for more than 35 years at 5, avenue President JF Kennedy, the Club le Temps de Vivre has just moved.

Due to the future demolition of the Kennedy Avenue building and pending its final move to the Saint Devote Hostel in Monaco-Ville, the Club, reserved for retired residents of the Principality, which has 195 members of 57 at the age of 96, took up his new quarters at the beginning of January in temporary premises at 4, boulevard Charles III, in place of the former municipal workshops.

The members of the Club have already been able to appropriate these premises specially designed for them. For now, three rooms are available for physical activities (yoga / soft gymnastics, balance, tai chi …), creative workshops or games.

The large room on the ground floor, for receptions and parties, is under development. Once the works are completed, at the end of the second quarter of 2019, there will be 390m² on two levels that will await Club members. Or a larger area than the old premises.

On the practical side, a bus stop of the Compagnie des Autobus de Monaco is located in the immediate vicinity of the premises and the mini-bus of the Social Action Service remains at the disposal of the members to drive them free of charge between their home and this new address .

On December 6th, the Mayor Georges Marsan and Claude Bollati, Communal Councillor delegated to the Club le Temps de Vivre, accompanied by Isabelle Cellario, Head of the Social Action Service of the Town Hall, wanted to meet the members during a festive tea party symbolically organised on the last day of the Club’s opening at its premises at Quai Kennedy.

Created in February 2010 by the Prince’s Government, the Graduate Integration Commission maintains the intellectual wealth of the Principality and allows expatriate graduates to return to Monaco.

The Alumni Inserting Commission met on 9 January for the 9th consecutive year to present its activity report and decide on actions to be undertaken in 2019.

Placed under the authority of the Government Counselor-Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Mr. Didier Gamerdinger recalled that the integration of young graduates is a key concern of the Prince’s Government.

“We must better prepare our students and students for their future professional life, in their choice of profession and inform them about promising sectors to better organise the symbiosis studies/work for a better integration into the world of business.”

He also thanked the Members of the Commission for the rich exchanges that have contributed since 2010 to enrich the actions proposed by the executive cell, always for the benefit of young graduates.

In charge of the mission to the Commission for the Integration of Graduates, Ms. Muriel Bubbio highlighted a particularly positive assessment for the year 2018.

“I hope that the CID will become a tool that young people appropriate for their research. The CID is the interface of this new version employment program. It enables entrepreneurs to leverage their economic and social impact in the Principality, particularly through job creation. Young graduates come with benchmarks that speak to companies.”

The CID brings together the best of youth and the best of what Monaco companies have to offer, always with the opportunity of employment by skill.

The 2018 Graduate Integration Commission in figures:

• Regarding enterprises, 172 Protocols have been signed so far, including 27 in 2018, which increases job opportunities for our young people.
• 130 (68 Monegasques) new young people followed in 2018 by the CID, and 1,170 since its creation
• 34 courses
• 33 jobs
• 16 expatriates followed by the CID
• 3 Workshops for companies and professionals of Education initiated in 2018
• 28 Permanent high schools, ASM FC Academy and the National Education Information Center, new device started in October 2018.

At the end of this meeting, the business managers who signed these partnerships were warmly thanked by HE the Minister of State for the traditional reception held in their honour at his residence and to which the members of the Graduate Integration Commission also participated.