Skills sponsorship
Future-oriented sponsorship for a socially responsible company
What is skills sponsorship?
During their working hours, employees share their experience and pass on their know-how to people in difficulty or associations. At Monnoyeur, we have long understood that this is above all a human venture and the concrete contribution of value.
Skills sponsorship responds to our employees’ aspirations and search for meaning at work. As a bonus, these exchanges are also an opportunity to develop new managerial skills and interpersonal qualities such as empathy.
From Turbo to Motrix: a renewed approach to professional integration
Since 2014, Monnoyeur has been committed to a skills-based sponsorship initiative through the Turbo programme, aimed at young people without qualifications and often facing challenging life circumstances. The scheme offers them a paid training course, certified by a professional qualification recognised by the Ministry of Labour, in the high-demand field of mechanics. Successful participants may also be offered employment within one of the Group’s entities.
Over five cohorts, Turbo has supported nearly 60 young people. Six of them are still working within Monnoyeur today. All followed a structured pathway: national recruitment, followed by an Individual Operational Preparation for Employment (IOPE) financed by France Travail, and then a work-study training programme delivered by Monnoyeur and Apprentis d’Auteuil, accompanied by individual social support (housing, transport, etc.).
Motrix: a redesigned programme
Building on this experience, Monnoyeur has revamped the programme. Launched in 2025, Motrix retains Turbo’s core purpose while integrating several key improvements:
- Reduced duration to 12 months (previously 15), including the IOPE
- Adjusted work-study rhythm: 2 weeks of theoretical training at Chécy, followed by 3 weeks in regional workshops (previously 2 weeks in workshops)
- Qualification level revised to a more accessible Level 3 vocational certificate: Construction and Handling Equipment Repair Mechanic
- New branding to better highlight the commitment of the participants and the employees involved
A professional training programme at the heart of the Group’s businesses
Young people joining Motrix follow a programme combining theoretical learning with practical workshop experience within the Group’s entities. The training enables them to familiarise themselves with the Monnoyeur environment, the equipment and tools, as well as the safety requirements and the demands of the mechanical engineering trades. Upon completion of the IOPE, candidates selected by the operational teams continue their training under a vocational training contract, alternating between training at the Bergerat Monnoyeur Academy and hands-on workshop experience. They develop three key skill sets:
- Routine maintenance of equipment
- Replacement of mechanical, hydraulic and electrical components
- Overhauling engines, transmissions and air-conditioning systems
Experts from other entities within the group, notably Aprolis, Eneria and SITECH, may also be involved to share their knowledge and showcase the diversity of Monnoyeur’s trades and areas of expertise. The program also includes additional training in operating machinery and forklift trucks, as well as in the handling of refrigerants.
Through Motrix, Monnoyeur is thus continuing its commitment to helping people enter the workforce, supporting young people towards gaining qualifications and finding employment whilst passing on the essential skills required for its professions.
What could be better than passing on what you have learnt? Skills sponsorship gives personal meaning to work and collective meaning to the company. But to better measure the impact of this programme, it is worth hearing from those who experience it first-hand.
Take a look behind the scenes of the former Turbo programme, which gave rise to Motrix and follow the journeys of the young people supported by Monnoyeur.