Training is aimed at professionals interested in trans-cultural issues as far as medical, social and psychological assistance to immigrants and refugees is concerned.

The training pole acts on the proficiency of the Françoise Minkowska Center, which provides a structure for reception and care from the Françoise and Eugène MINKOWSKI Association. On one hand missions are designed to bring answers to psychic and psychological/social difficulties of migrants and refugees. On the other hand it deals with thinking about the links with history, language and culture.

Organisation :

Under the legal aegis of the association :

  Coordination of the training pole by Mrs Marie-Jo Bourdin - social worker,

  Joint management is permanent with the director and a secretary.

Schedule for actions :

Training sessions are set up :

within the Center

  renewal of the theme nights during the "Mondays of Minkowska"

  Organisation of debates around one personality

outside the Center

  Rationalisation of external interventions - personalized training

In this perspective the Center is :

  Organizing training sessions, and workshops that calls up the clinical proficiency in a pluri-disciplinary field -medical anthropology, ethnology, history, psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis and sociology.

  Setting up interventions with professionals from diverse background based on their own questionings.

  Providing / Ensuring internships for students, developing exchanges in order to help raising consciousness of professionals from diverse background.

  Stirring up studying and research projects on the clinical and social/cultural approach.

The Françoise and Eugène MINKOWSKI association respects the legal framework of continuing education under the number 117 5109 8575.