Jean BESANçON

An agricultural engineer, chief engineer of bridges and forests and a graduate of CNAM and HEC, he ran an adult training center in Lorraine in the 1980s, before taking charge of continuing vocational training and apprenticeships for the Ministry of Agriculture, followed by innovations and open training in agricultural education in the 1990s. After heading the FNFR (Fédération nationale des foyers ruraux), a major rural popular education movement in the early 2000s, he helped create the Eduter Institute in Dijon. In 2008, he founded the UODC (Université ouverte des compétences). He is a member of the editorial board of Éducation Permanente, the leading international journal of adult education, and a director of ITMD (Institut du travail et du management durable).