Savoir-Devenir

What Savoir-Devenir does

Savoir-Devenir (legally "Savoir Devenir", doing business as "La Grande École des Transitions") is a French cooperative training organisation structured as a SCIC (Société Coopérative d'Intérêt Collectif), headquartered at 5 rue de Tauzia, Bordeaux, and registered under RCS 900 605. Founded in 2022, it aggregates approximately 30 sociétaire member training organisations and 20+ actors from France's Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS) to deliver professional training programmes focused on cooperative governance, social innovation, rural entrepreneurship, and societal/environmental transitions. The cooperative holds Qualiopi certification (NDA 75 33 14958 33), enabling access to public vocational training funding via CPF and OPCO mechanisms.

The product portfolio is centred on a flagship 420-hour residential pathway, "Entreprendre en milieu rural", delivered at La Maison des Alternatives in Chennegy (Aube) at €5,040 per participant, and is complemented by specialised offerings: the "Faire Ensemble" trilogy co-developed with La Fonda; the "Initiation à la maturité coopérative" with InsTerCoop; the therapeutic "Re-Création" dance programme co-developed with LOBA; the remote "Remédiation des troubles cognitifs" using Brainingery's braINgenery method; and modules in permaculture-based business design, leadership, secular funeral celebration, and cooperative posture. Pricing ranges from €700 for short workshops to €10,500 for advanced cooperative posture training.

Revenue is generated entirely through fee-for-service training, with multi-modal delivery including open-enrolment public sessions in Paris, Bordeaux, Tours, and Lille, dedicated intra-organisation in-company formats, and a long-format rural residency. The go-to-market relies on direct website enrolment, sociétaire-network referrals, and institutional backing from the City of Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, and Crédit Coopératif. The underlying technology is pedagogical rather than digital: an active, cooperative, popular-education methodology supported by a dedicated pedagogical research group, with no proprietary software platform or AI tooling referenced.

Name

Savoir-Devenir

Legal name

Savoir Devenir

Website

https://savoir-devenir.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Savoir-Devenir is a French cooperative training organisation (SCIC) founded in 2022 in Bordeaux, aggregating 30+ ESS member organisations to deliver Qualiopi-certified vocational programmes in cooperative governance, rural entrepreneurship, social innovation, and societal transitions for French professionals and associations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Vocational Training Services

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Business Schools and Computer and Management Training (6114), Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDABAMAM

Coaching, Feedback & Mentoring Skills

Education/Corporate Training & Professional Development/Soft Skills Development

Keywords

• Vocational training services
• Cooperative education programs
• Social entrepreneurship training
• Rural enterprise training
• Professional certification courses

Headquarters

HQ city

Bordeaux

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Training Fees: Savoir Devenir generates revenue primarily through fee-for-service professional training programmes. Programmes are offered in multiple formats: full-length competency pathways (e.g., 420-hour Entreprendre en milieu rural at €5,040), individual modules and skills blocks (priced per programme), open-enrolment public sessions (e.g., 2-day workshops at €700), and intra-organisation/in-company custom training delivered on request. Training fees are eligible for public funding mechanisms including CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation), OPCO (Operators' Skills Fund), and other national vocational training financing instruments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Savoir Devenir is a cooperative vocational training organization (SCIC) that delivers professional training programs focused on the Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS), cooperative practices, rural entrepreneurship, social innovation, and therapeutic/clinical specialties. The organization operates as a multi-stakeholder cooperative uniting roughly 30 member training organizations (sociétaires), offering both long-form competency pathways (e.g., a 420-hour rural entrepreneurship program) and shorter modular workshops on cooperation, cognitive remediation, permaculture-based business design, and leadership.

Product overview

Savoir Devenir is a cooperative training organization (SCIC) offering a diverse portfolio of professional training programs focused on Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS), cooperative practices, and territorial transitions. The portfolio centers on the flagship 'Entreprendre en milieu rural' program (420 hours over 3 months), complemented by specialized modules under the 'Faire Ensemble' series covering cooperation initiation, structuring, and animation. Additional offerings include therapeutic training (Re-Création dance therapy, cognitive remediation workshops), permaculture and business ethics courses, leadership development, and cooperative maturity training delivered in partnership with organizations like InsTerCoop, LOBA, and La Fonda. All programs are delivered using active pedagogy methods aligned with popular education principles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Entreprendre en milieu rural (Parcours Transformation) A 3-month, 420-hour (12 weeks at 35 hours/week) competency pathway to launch and manage entrepreneurial projects in rural areas, including individual coaching. Organised across 3 competency blocks covering project definition, territorial anchoring, and enterprise piloting. Targeted at rural entrepreneurs and aspiring social entrepreneurs. Priced at €5,040 per participant.
• Re-Création An 89-hour training programme (77 hours of theory plus 12 hours of practical internship) to design and lead workshops using a psycho-corporal approach and dance as therapeutic mediation for women survivors of violence. Co-delivered with LOBA association and inspired by Dr. Denis Mukwege's work at Panzi Hospital. Priced from €4,500 per participant.
• Faire Ensemble: impulser sa coopération (Module 1) A 2-day (14-hour) introductory workshop on collective action approaches and 'Faire Ensemble' methods, based on collective impact principles. Covers shared vision building and stakeholder mapping for territorial cooperation. Targeted at ESS actors, local government staff, and associative leaders. Priced from €700 per participant.
• Faire Ensemble: structurer sa coopération (Module 2) A workshop focused on cooperative governance frameworks, including common goods management models, charter drafting, and value chain analysis for social value creation. Part of the Faire Ensemble trilogy co-developed with La Fonda.
• Faire Ensemble: animer et pérenniser sa coopération (Module 3)

Quantifiable outcome

• The Entreprendre en milieu rural programme covers 420 hours of training over 3 months (12 weeks at 35 hours/week) across 3 competency blocks and 19 individual modules.
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

36 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• AremacsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAremacs is listed as one of Savoir Devenir's sociétaire organisations — approximately 30 training organisations that are members of the SCIC cooperative and participate in the co-development and co-delivery of training programmes.
• BiharminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBihar is listed as a sociétaire organisation of Savoir Devenir SCIC, contributing to the cooperative's training ecosystem.
• BrainingeryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrainingery is listed as a sociétaire and is the developer of the braINgenery© cognitive remediation method used in the remediation des troubles cognitifs training programme.
• Décalez!minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDécalez! is a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and delivers the Pitch entrepreneurial module (3 days / 21 hours) of the Entreprendre en milieu rural programme, using theatrical improvisation techniques to train entrepreneurs in impactful pitching.
• L'EgrèneminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerL'Egrène is listed as a sociétaire training organisation within the Savoir Devenir cooperative SCIC.
• EllyxminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEllyx is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• En Boîte le PlatminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEn Boîte le Plat is listed as a sociétaire organisation within the Savoir Devenir SCIC.
• EssCoopminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEssCoop is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• FaireprodminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFaireprod is both a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and the external agency responsible for the design, maintenance, and web referencing of the Savoir Devenir website (www.savoir-devenir.org). Faireprod is also the intervenant for the Le plan de communication module (2 days / 14 hours) of the Entreprendre en milieu rural programme.
• La FondacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLa Fonda (laboratoire d'idées du monde associatif / think tank for the associative world) is a key strategic partner co-developing and co-delivering the 'Faire ensemble' (Cooperation) training trilogy with Savoir Devenir. The partnership brings La Fonda's collective impact methodology and national associative network into the cooperative's programme offering. Three complementary modules — impulser, structurer, and animer et pérenniser — are co-designed and co-delivered by La Fonda trainers.
• FinacoopminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFinacoop is a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and delivers the Piloter son activité avec des outils de gestion module (financial and management tools) and the Définir la forme adaptée à son projet module of the Entreprendre en milieu rural programme. Finacoop describes itself as reinventing the role of chartered accountants in collective settings for the ESS sector.
• Institut de l'ESSminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Institut de l'ESS is listed as a sociétaire organisation within the Savoir Devenir cooperative SCIC.
• IntersticielminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIntersticiel is a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and co-delivers the Mûrir son modèle coopératif de gouvernance module with RaisonNances, focusing on cooperative governance design and stakeholder integration.
• LOBAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLOBA ('exprime toi' in Lingala, a language of the Democratic Republic of Congo) is the co-developer and co-deliverer of the Re-création training programme with Savoir Devenir. Founded in 2008, LOBA uses artivism (art as a tool for social transformation) to support women survivors of violence. The Re-création therapy programme uses dance as a therapeutic medium, inspired by Dr. Denis Mukwege's work at Panzi Hospital (RDC). LOBA brings the psychocorporal methodology and co-animates the 89-hour Re-création training.
• LokalekominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLokaleko is listed as a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and delivers the Réaliser une veille sur les projets d'entreprise de son territoire module of the Entreprendre en milieu rural programme, using the 'biorégion' development model to help entrepreneurs analyse their territorial ecosystem.
• MB FormationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMB Formation (led by Magali Bonniau) is a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and delivers the Lancer son entreprise responsable and Entreprise et permaculture – Construire un modèle respectueux du vivant programmes, using permaculture principles applied to organisational design.
• Le MES (Mouvement des Entrepreneuriers Sociaux)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLe MES (Mouvement des Entrepreneuriers Sociaux) is listed as a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir.
• MukaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMuka is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• CantinesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCantines is listed as a sociétaire organisation within the Savoir Devenir SCIC.
• La Petite EtincelleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLa Petite Etincelle is listed as a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir. François Scotti of La Petite Etincelle delivers the Faire ensemble: animer et pérenniser sa coopération programme in Tours (November 2026).
• Le 107minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLe 107 is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• QuevolterreminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerQuevolterre is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• RaisonNancesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRaisonNances is a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and co-delivers the Mûrir son modèle coopératif de gouvernance module with Intersticiel, focusing on cooperative governance design and dialogue-based process engineering for entrepreneurial projects.
• AccorderiesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAccorderies is listed as a sociétaire organisation within the Savoir Devenir SCIC.
• SyspresminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSyspres is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• TellsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTells is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• TerravoxminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTerravox is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• TwizaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTwiza is listed as a sociétaire within the Savoir Devenir cooperative.
• InsTerCoop (Institut des Territoires Coopératifs)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInsTerCoop (Institut des Territoires Coopératifs) is a key strategic partner that co-develops and co-delivers the 'Initiation à la maturité coopérative' programme with Savoir Devenir. All sessions are animated by InsTerCoop-certified Maturity Cooperative Practitioners. The 'Corpus Maturité coopérative' reference content is published by InsTerCoop under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA licence.
• Villages VivantsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVillages Vivants is a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and delivers the Entreprendre sur son territoire module of the Entreprendre en milieu rural programme. Villages Vivants enables citizens, companies, and local authorities to use their savings to purchase, renovate, and rent premises to ESS businesses in rural areas.
• Du Vert dans les RouagesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDu Vert dans les Rouages is a sociétaire of Savoir Devenir and delivers the Accompagnement à la transition écologique module of the Entreprendre en milieu rural programme. The organisation combines environmental expertise with social sciences to support a fair and solidarity-based socio-ecological transition.
• Octopuce SARLminorOthersOctopuce SARL, based at 25 rue Popincourt, 75011 Paris, is the web hosting provider for Savoir Devenir's website. Listed as the site hosting provider in the legal notices.
• City of Bordeaux (Ville de Bordeaux)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe City of Bordeaux is listed as a supporter and partner of Savoir Devenir, providing institutional support to the cooperative organisation.
• Nouvelle-Aquitaine RegionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region is listed as a supporter and partner of Savoir Devenir, contributing institutional backing to the organisation.
• Crédit CoopératifminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCrédit Coopératif is listed as a supporter and partner of Savoir Devenir, providing financial partnership support to the cooperative.
• La Maison des AlternativescoreOthersLa Maison des Alternatives (LMDA), located in Chennegy (Aube), is the primary venue for the Entreprendre en milieu rural programme. It is a third-place (tiers-lieu) housed in a 17th-century former farmhouse, developing rural transition training and hosting a campus for societal transition in rural areas. LMDA's mission is to transform the property into a hub for rural transition where global citizenship is cultivated, managed sustainably.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• France Active: Network financing and supporting ESS entrepreneurs and associations across France. Comparable to Savoir Devenir in its ESS focus and mission to strengthen the social economy, though its core offer is financing and strategic support rather than pedagogical training.
• BGE (Boutique de Gestion): France-wide network supporting business creation through training, mentoring, and financing — particularly for excluded populations. Comparable to Savoir Devenir in delivering structured entrepreneurship pathways and ongoing accompaniment, though BGE is broader in scope and not focused on the rural/ESS segment specifically.
• Avise: ESS support and consulting organisation providing resources, methodological tools, and training to social enterprises and their support networks. Directly comparable to Savoir Devenir's advisory and capacity-building role for ESS actors, though operating more as a resource centre than a delivery organisation.
• Initiative France: National network of associative platforms that combine zero-interest loans and mentoring to support business creation. Comparable to Savoir Devenir in providing end-to-end entrepreneurial support and coaching, though Initiative France is geographically broader and financing-led rather than pedagogy-led.
• La Fonda: Think tank for the associative world producing research and methodology on collective impact and territorial cooperation. Comparable to Savoir Devenir in its ESS focus and as a co-developer of the Faire Ensemble trilogy, though primarily a research and influencing organisation rather than a training delivery body.
• Ceméa (Centres d'Entraînement aux Méthodes d'Éducation Active): National training organisation for active and popular education methods, training educators, social workers, and animators across France. Comparable to Savoir Devenir in its pedagogy-first training philosophy, active learning approach, and Qualiopi-style vocational training mission.
• Ligue de l'Enseignement: Historic federation of popular education delivering training and lifelong-learning programmes through its federated associations across France. Comparable to Savoir Devenir in its commitment to active pedagogy, civic mission, and broad training offer for social economy and associative actors.
• ADIE (Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Économique): Association financing and supporting micro-entrepreneurs across France through microcredit and accompaniment. Comparable to Savoir Devenir in its entrepreneurship-support mission and target population of under-served project leaders, though ADIE is financing-led rather than training-led.
• InsTerCoop (Institut des Territoires Coopératifs): Specialised training and publishing body on cooperative maturity and territorial cooperation; publishes the Corpus Maturité coopérative and certifies trainers. Direct peer to Savoir Devenir's Maturité coopérative programme and a content co-development partner.

Broad incumbents

• CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers): Major public higher-education institution delivering professional and continuing education across France with broad programme coverage. Comparable to Savoir Devenir as a vocational training provider, but much larger in scale, geographically distributed, and not specialised in the cooperative or ESS niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

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