The Let’s Innovate Together Challenge (Défi Innover Ensemble) is an educational and collaborative project involving some twenty participants from different backgrounds: VET apprentices and art school students. Since 2011, this project has been promoting excellence in seven complementary trades: shoemakers, upholsterers, saddlers and leatherworkers (Compagnons du Devoir), product designers and textile designers (art school ENSCI-Les Ateliers), and design management (French Ins

Each year, teams of apprentices from Compagnons compete in the "Culture Trophy", the aim of which is to get them to work in teams in a project in which they respond to a predefined topic. For example: "How do culture and travel contribute to freedom? ". The challenge given to the learners is also the need to innovate and differentiate themselves through an original production, which has to take into account environmental, digital, health and ergonomics aspects. Responsible or