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Moser schools:

                                                    showcases for green
                                                    education, open on the world







                                                    Interview with

                                                    Alain Moser

                                                    Managing Director of Ecole Moser



                                                    Many  parents  are  looking  for  a  school  environment  conducive
                                                    to  fulfillment  for  their  children.  They  are  confronted  with  the
                                                    standardization of education, which does not sufficiently take into
                                                    account the well-being of students, in accordance with their history,
                                                    uniqueness and personality.

                                                    Few of them know that the Moser School they turn to is one of
                                                    the  last  family-run  educational  enterprises  in  French-speaking
                                                    Switzerland.

                                                    This largely explains the school’s agility, dynamism and capacity for
                                                    innovation over the past 60 years.

                                                    This  is  reflected  in  its  demanding  and  contemporary  approach,
                                                    which recently merited it the Prix de l’égalité 2022 (Grand Prix de
                                                    l’économie du canton de Genève), the second Prix de l’immobilier
                                                    romand 2022 for the Centre pédagogique alpin Les Cabris in Leysin
                                                    and the third Prix SVC (Swiss Venture Club) 2021.

                                                    Interview with Alain Moser, General Manager.

                                                    Your  father,  Henri  Moser,  founded  the  school  of  the  same  name
                                                    in  Geneva  in  1961.  From  its  first  premises  at  the  Migros  Club
                                                    School, would you sat that its history is also that of an architectural
                                                    adventure?
                                                    Absolutely. Our approach has always been to provide children with
                                                    generous but human-scale facilities, designed to promote personal
                                                    development and well-being, with a particular focus on sport, the
                                                    arts and science. We were able to realize these wishes as we went
                                                    along.  The  Geneva  school  was  conceived  in  line  with  the  major
                                                    reform of Secondary II implemented at the onset of the 2000s.

                                                    It is the fruit of intuition and of decades of pedagogical reflection.
                                                    It  is  based  on  the  active  participation  of  the  students  and  the
                                                    development of pre-university academic competence in research,
                                                    critical thinking, analysis and collaboration. The building reflects
                                                    this approach: two auditoriums directly connected to group work



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