Workshops

You’ll find different types of workshops

• Conversation workshops in French as a Foreign Language (FLE), Spanish, English, Portuguese, Chinese and Italian
• Employment and Career workshops
• Digital workshops 

Other workshops are also offered throughout the year, in line with events, meetings, conferences or debates organised at the library. Visitors can look at the agenda regularly to keep up to date with what’s on!

Conversation workshops

To practice their foreign language skills, Bpi users can take part in conversation workshops (in French as a foreign language, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Chinese and Italian). The Independent Learning space offers free conversation workshops, lasting 1hr15. Please be aware that these conversation workshops are led by librarians form the Bpi and are not language classes; they are not for true beginners but for those who already have a certain grasp of language basics.

Employment and Career workshops

The Bpi is an associate centre of the Cité des métiers (profession orientation structure), and offers workshops to help you develop your professional career. Are you looking to go back to studying, change profession, start a company or gain more confidence to find a job? Take your professional future in hand!

These workshops are led by professional partners of the Cité des métiers and allow you to find out more about: alternative forms of activity, working through an umbrella company, the DAEU (university study access diploma), recognition of prior learning, theatre or writing techniques to regain self-confidence, debating techniques for jobseeking or communicating with a company, cosearching (jobseeking with others in an informal place).

Check the agenda regularly for dates of upcoming job search workshops.

Digital workshops

To learn more about using a computer, or how to use new technologies, workshops are organised and led by two librarians. These workshops, lasting 1hr30, take place in the library in a room with a computer available for each participant. Check the agenda regularly to know when the next digital workshops are being organised.