Launch of a sponsorship agreement

People are living longer and longer. The seniors of tomorrow are between 50 and 60 years old today. The needs of this new active and connected generation are changing. In order to anticipate the expectations of tomorrow’s seniors, Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée and L’École de design Nantes Atlantique have joined forces and on Thursday, September 8 they signed a sponsorship agreement at the premises of Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée to launch the "New seniors, new needs" Chair.

In line with the work of its sector, Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée has signed a two-year sponsorship agreement with L’École de design Nantes Atlantique and the Care Design Lab to fund a design-led research chair focusing on public policy issues concerning the needs of seniors in 2040.

This chair is financed to the tune of 80,000 euros by Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée. The Loire-Atlantique and Vendée Departmental Councils are also partners. The chair will coordinate a two-year design-led research program aimed at producing an immersive and interactive tool to allow people who are 60 years old today to anticipate their future needs in 2040 and to propose new service offers to meet them.

Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée: at the heart of the ecosystem for ageing well in Loire-Atlantique and Vendée

In June 2020, Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée set up a "Health and good living" unit with the aim of better understanding and incorporating the "ageing well" ecosystem in order to improve its services. It has thus positioned itself as a trusted third party for seniors and their caregivers.

"The inevitable demographic shift, the attractiveness of the Atlantic and metropolitan areas, and the continuous lengthening of life expectancy pose a challenge for the teams at Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée. Its model as a cooperative and mutual bank, facilitating transitions, has led it to unite with other stakeholders in the ecosystem to co-construct solutions that will help people age well," explains Luc Jeanneau, President of Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée.

"The aim is to support the clients of Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée by incorporating the three elements of ageing well: well-being, home and financial solvency. The work of our "Health and Well-being" unit is in line with the medium-term "Ambitions 2025" project of the Crédit Agricole Group, which has launched a new business line, "Crédit Agricole Santé & Territoires", to facilitate access to healthcare and ageing well," adds Nicole Gourmelon, Director General of Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée.

This year, Crédit Agricole Atlantique is strengthening this expertise by becoming a sponsor of the "New Seniors, New Needs" Chair, headed by Clémence Montagne, Director of the Care Design Lab at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique.

The Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée and L’École de design Nantes Atlantique join forces and sign a sponsorship agreement

L’École de design Nantes Atlantique: using design to serve societal issues

A pioneer in addressing shifts in technological, societal and environmental contexts, L’École de design Nantes Atlantique boasts a unique standpoint considering design as a strategic discipline at the service of a responsible and sustainable world.

As a research and innovation center, the School has created several Design Labs over the past ten years, platforms for research, training and innovation dedicated to a design-led exploration of themes related to social, technological and environmental transformations.

The Care Design Lab, created in 2014, deals in particular with issues related to health design, solidarity design and public design, with particular attention paid to the imperatives of energy transitions and sobriety in the design of services and products.

"We are very pleased about this collaboration with Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée, which will allow us to benefit from the expertise of a national player with strong regional roots and a health player in the region."

Clémence Montagne

Director of the Care Design Lab at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique

Anticipatory design as a lever for innovation in the Santé et Territoire (health and local environment) sector

The "New Seniors, New Needs" Chair is designed to provide an interface between the academic and socio-economic worlds by facilitating exchanges in both directions. The objective is to allow regional actors to evoke their needs and interests to the research team of L’École de design Nantes Atlantique in order to co-construct tools and systems that meet the expectations of Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée, demonstrating the production of original knowledge.

The chair is built around 3 main objectives:

Propose tools for observing and exploring needs
Come up with anticipation tools
Co-construct tools for the creation of new services adapted to the new needs of future seniors in the context of demographic, territorial and service transitions.

It will mobilize 2nd year students from the Care Design Lab of L’École de design Nantes Atlantique and 3rd year students specialized in graphic design, motion design and game design. These students will be supervised by a team composed of professional designers, researchers in social and urban anthropology and in sociology of public policy and a consultant in public innovation familiar with the specific problems of the Loire region.
Three types of territories have been selected: an urban site, a small rural town and a coastal site.

"Our objective is to implement different design practices - graphic, game, motion, interaction and discursive - to propose an original and methodological protocol for exploring the projections and anticipations of the needs of people aged 50 to 60 today, taking into account the scenarios of climate, energy and demographic transition. We are very pleased about this collaboration with Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée, which will allow us to benefit from the expertise of a national player with strong regional roots and a health player in the region." Clémence Montagne, holder of the "New seniors, new needs" Chair, Director of the Care Design Lab at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique.