Description of organisation

Founded in 1959, MFR du Bergeracois is a training organisation specialized in “school-company sandwich courses". It is a “Loi 1901” association made up of students’ parents, former students’ parents and internship supervisor.

It belongs to Ministry of Agriculture and delivers training courses in different areas : Vocational Baccalaureate “Technical Sales Advisor” and Vocational Baccalaureate “Social care” (high school cycle), Agricultural education years 9 and 10 equivalent, Continuing Training (Certiphyto accreditation for all the certificates on offer) and is also an apprentice training centre (CFA) for professional Department Manager qualification on an apprenticeship contract and Merchant Unit Manager, student cycle.


The goal of the association is:
- to give families who are members of it the means to exercise their rights and assume their responsibilities, particularly with regard to the education, guidance and vocational, general, moral and social training of children attending the House Rural Family
- to participate in the animation and development of the environment in which the Rural Family House is located and to provide all popular education activities as well as all educational, social or family activities.

MFR du Bergeracois is also involved and responsible for many projects that concerns European mobilities (KA1 / KA2 projects, ingoing and outgoing mobilities, VET)

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Cultural differences
• Disability
• Economic obstacles