OiEau - Annual report

WELCOMING MESSAGE 2020 will have been a special and difficult year for OiEau! As for many organisations in France and in the world, our activity was particularly complicated by the health and eco- nomic crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic: the spring lockdown forced us to stop our face-to-face training activity on our sites for more than 2 months, and the almost total halt of international travel prohibited direct contact with our project partners. Our economic equation thus suffered a significant deterioration, fortunately alleviated by French national measures such as short-time working and state-guaranteed loans. Beyond the economic balance sheet, however, the solidarity and adaptability of our teams (our collective "resilience"), the renewed relevance of our field of intervention and the robustness of our economic model are the main lessons to be learned from our response to the difficulties encountered. The teams have mobilised themselves more than ever in the association's project: implementation of health constraints, staff freeze, reduction of expenses, renewed commercial dynamism, adaptation of our working methods, have made it possible to preserve the dynamics of our pro- jects and activities. The crisis has thus accelerated the changes that are now essential: OiEau's digital training offer has been enriched and professionalized, and now covers all the pos- sible combinations between face-to-face and distance learning; our training cata- logue will focus from this year on a more readable offer, in parallel to the always wide and adaptable customised offers. Our website will have been completely revised by the end of 2021. In France and internationally, the measures taken have largely ensured the continuity of our projects and partnerships, for example through the "virtual missions" set up. And above all, 2020 will have allowed the adoption of our new statutes in September, confirming the association's recognition as a public utility, the finalisation of a new 2021-2025 strategy, prepared jointly by the permanent teams and the members of OiEau, and the renewal of our Board of Directors. Finally, 2020 will have been a special and encouraging year to prepare OiEau's 30 th anniversary, in 2021! Mr. BERTEAUD President Mr. TARDIEU Director General 3