A.I.M.E. (Agir, Innover, Mobiliser, Essaimer), created in 1995, is an organization specialized in individualized training and social accompaniment of persons - youths and adults - who are unemployed and face difficulties in rejoining mainstream society.
After more than 10 years of action in the Paris region, the association has refocused its activities in the Ardèche district, where it proposes training courses (mobilization around a professional project and pre-skills training) for young jobless persons. Since 2000, it also organizes back-to-work projects in the building trades.
Established in a rural zone with one of the highest unemployment rates of the Rhône-Alpes region, the association has achieved a very good success ratio, while operating in a branch of activity that is unpopular with conventional firms.
Strong demand for bau-building evinced both by local communities and private individuals in Southern Ardèche, has impelled the association to develop workforce development activities and to create a resource centre dedicated to these techniques and to sustainable development with the corresponding training.
Between this activity, the seminars and events organized by the resource centre, it was no longer possible to feed the employees and participants in satisfactory conditions, and this raised an obstacle to the natural growth of the association.
