16 #lemag DEC2017 An ocean of GENEROSITY © Getty Images 04 ZOOM ON... Ecological hot-air balloon! SUMMARY 06 GRIMALDI FORUM MONACO Things are moving Sustainably Friendly day at Dolceacqua Yann Arthus-Bertrand 14 Recertification ISO 14001 PRINCE ALBERT II FOUNDATION Monte-Carlo Gala for the Ocean « Our Ocean » Conference Wildlife Forum Prize-giving of the Fondation Monk seal experts - Reefs in 3D 24 MONACO Hôtel Métropole Stars’n’Bars Mobility Week Monaco Pavilion The Thermes The route du goût CAN company 38 IN SHORT... A place for the ZOOM ON... ZOOM ecological hot-air balloon! A meeting with Alain Cruteanschii, president of “Aéronautes de Monaco” (Monaco aeronauts), who is preparing an unprecedented exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum, from 11 to 14 January 2018. Alain Cruteanschii is a Belgian who has always administrative land base in the Principality. His liked playing men in the sky: parachutist, aeroplane passionate desire to share his airborne emotions led pilot, ultralight aircraft pilot. At the end of 80s, he him to create the “Club des Aéronautes de Monaco” discovered a new passion: hot-air ballooning. He (Monaco Aeronauts Club). Against all odds, and bought a company in the Paris area specialised in honoured with prestigious success, he has imposed private flights, already intending to make the hot-air his sport on the Monegasque landscape. Today, he balloon accessible to the greatest number of people. is launching a new challenge: Going green with Today, at over 50 years of age, the aeronaut still a balloon that could eventually reduce its energy lives the same passion up in the sky but with an consumption by 90%! 4 that deteriorates the quality of the air we breath, these are all signs of this climate change. The layers of dirt on the horizon jump out at us! That’s no doubt why Bertrand Piccard, a lain Cruteanschii, before we look into the future, member of the club, supports our project and has included it let’s go back for a moment to the beginning of your in his “1,000 initiatives for the planet” program. Aadventure here in Monaco. It was rather modest, wasn’t it? When I created the Club des Aéronautes here in Monaco in the year 2000, there were three of us. The idea was to practice our hobby by renting out balloons. In 2007, thanks to the support of the Bains de Mer company, we acquired our first balloon, then a second. And then we took off: We chose two bases for take-off, at Mondovi in Piemont and at Forcalquier. We multiplied our activities (baptisms, training, competitions) and above all our sporting titles: Two world records, one victory a the European Balloon Festival, three victories in the Icare Cup, which had never happened before and which saw us receiving the Icare Super Cup. All of this without any public subsidies, only with the help of private partners! Our ecological balloon will allow us to save 70% of energy Not to mention that such a balloon will allow you to gain What will this ecological innovation be that will transform more autonomy... your activity? That’s right. We will go from 3 hours to 9 hours of autonomy, For several years, the UltraMagic company, the leading which means we will be able to take off from Monaco! It’s European manufacturer, has been developing, in collaboration not so much the take-off that’s problematic but the landing with the Swiss Pierrick Duvoisin of Balloon Concept, a new options. With such a flight time, we will be able to consider ecological technology that we will be equipped with. Thanks landing further away, up to 500 km away, regardless of our its advanced technology, our new ecological balloon, in the place of departure. colours of our new partner JEEPER Champagnes, will allow us to fly while saving 70% of energy. A giant step in the fight What are the next steps now? against energy waste! In December, we do the certification for this balloon and the first test flights. From 11 to 14 January, there is a presentation With an insulated double-walled envelope, and advanced of the balloon to the public on the occasion of an exhibition research into the lightness of materials (composite basket and held under the glass roof of the Grimaldi Forum. You will find tanks, lighter and more efficient burners), this experimental information there on the club, the manufacturer, prototypes balloon will allow us to aim for an incredible end goal: to of baskets and burners as well as paper models, and if the reach in the future 6 kg of propane gas consumption per hour weather allows it, the balloon will be inflated on the esplanade! for a standard balloon. Even the pilot that I am will continue to lose weight and thus take part in this challenge! At the end of January, we will participate in the gathering at Château d’Oex in Switzerland, and in February we will Your activity does not pollute – propane being the cleanest take part in the Balloon Concept Challenge in Spain, the first fossil fuel – and yet in this way you want to send a strong edition of which we won. And during the first quarter of the signal of your commitment? year, we are hoping for a first take-off from the Principality! Balloon pilots are in the front line when it comes to weathering climate change. The inversion of temperatures, ever warmer air at high altitudes, the atmospheric pollution 5 Things are moving Sustainably GRIMALDI FORUM MONACO FORUM GRIMALDI at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco ast May, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco The unreliability of public transport, the times of launched an internal survey of its employees which do not always correspond to the needs of Lin order to map out the means of transport employees in the event industry, largely explains used in their daily commute to work. The results, the use of methods of transport that facilitate unveiled during the week of sustainable mobility autonomy. Nonetheless, travel habits during the which took place from 16 to 22 September, midday break are completely reversed because allowed the habits of employees to be highlighted most employees move around on foot or by bus. as well as their motivation for choosing one It is clear that this gentle mobility contributes means of transport over another. If the car or to creating a friendly atmosphere and helps motorbike remain the favoured means due to strengthen the links between employees sharing their reliability, speed and autonomy, their journeys. These images testify to this many employees opt for sustainable and show the motivations of some means of travel: walking, train, of our colleagues. bicycle, public transport, carpooling, even the electric scooter! 6 Gentle mobility contributes to creating a friendly atmosphere and helps strengthen the links between employees! 7 Each quarter the Grimaldi Forum reveals you the current sustainable news of the Principality of Monaco. Free subscription on simple request at [email protected] TAG ME! Find all the issues of the M.A.G. www.grimaldiforum.mc A friendly day for discovering the Maritime Alps GRIMALDI FORUM MONACO FORUM GRIMALDI s part of its commitment to the environment, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco regularly Aorganises awareness days for its staff. Last September, some 130 employees met in a spirit of joy and good humour in the municipality of Dolceacqua, Italy, for a motocross rally on the theme of the candidature of the Maritime Alps as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After having spent the morning racing the alleys of the village during the rally, the teams gather around a well-deserved lunch, preceded by a conference on the wealth of the Maritime Alps and its environmental issues. 9 « Vu Du Cœur » Conference A photographer at the bedside GRIMALDI FORUM MONACO FORUM GRIMALDI of the planet! 10 « Vu Du Cœur » Conference n this period at the end of the year, it is an event to receive such a personality recognised not only for his Iphotographic work but also for creating films such as LA SOIF DU MONDE, HOME, TERRA and HUMAN. In The MONACOLOGY the context of these two days full of emotion and discovery, the GoodPlanet Foundation, the Department of National association and MC.5 Education, Youth and Sports and the Directorate of Tourism and Congresses, the Grimaldi Forum, the Oceanographic COMMUNICATION will Museum, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Municipality of Monaco and Stars’n’Bars will kindly support the have the great pleasure MONACOLOGY association in organising this event. of welcoming Mr. Yann Arthus-Bertrand on 20 20 December at 7:30pm In the Salle Prince Pierre at the Grimaldi Forum, Yann and 21 December in the Arthus-Bertrand will give a conference entitled, “VU DU CŒUR” (Seen from the Heart) that will retrace his career Principality of Monaco. from animal photographer to the creation of films that showcase all his concerns: the planet, mankind and soon a full-length film about women entitled “WOMAN”. Tariffs for the conference: € 15, € 10€ for senior citizens and those under 18, limited to 800 available places. Also at the Grimaldi Forum from 20 December to 5 January 2018, a magnificent photographic exhibition from Yann Arthus-Bertrand & Brian Skerry entitled “PLANET OCEAN” (free admission). An exhibition offered to the general public by the GoodPlanet Foundation and presided over by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Oméga (www.goodplanet.org/fr). 21 December A day reserved for young people The Department of National Education, Youth and Sports will invite students aged between 17 and 18 to come and discover the films of Yann Arthus-Bertrand at the Oceanographic Museum.