WHEN BRUNO BONNELL WALKS THROUGH THE DOORS OF GA EDUCATION: A COFFEE, IDEAS, AND A VISION OF THE FUTURE

There are mornings when the future takes shape around a simple coffee. That morning, at the École 89 campus, Bruno Bonnell, General Delegate for Investment and the face of the France 2030 plan, came to meet the GA Education teams. Not for a conference, nor for a formal protocol. Just a coffee. And ideas.

AROUND A CUP, A DIALOGUE ON REALITY

Khalil Khater, President and Founder of the Accelis Group and founder of GA Education, never talks about education without mentioning business. For him, the connection between higher education and the economic world is not just a partnership, but a conviction: a school must once again become a place of action, not just transmission.

The group’s model — a family business that has turned pedagogy into a culture — is based on a simple idea: to educate is to learn how to build, not how to recite.

Bruno Bonnell listens. And one can sense that he sees himself in this approach.

Because France 2030 carries the same guiding principle: turning ideas into action.

ÉCOLE 89: SHIFTING TO THE ECONOMY OF IDEAS

Then comes Joseph Abi Raad, Managing Director of École 89 and CEO of H-Tech Valley.

Few slides are needed to explain his mission. “We need to move to the economy of ideas.”

At this Deep Tech school, learning happens through projects, with companies, on real-world problems. You don’t need to be an engineer to understand technology. You just need to  practice it, question it, and connect it to creativity. Here, the language is code, design, cybersecurity, software architecture, data — but above all, relevance.

THREE SCHOOLS, ONE SHARED BREATH

At European Business School, students learn to make development a culture: understanding markets, shaping strategies, creating entrepreneurial momentum.

At Ferrières, Augmented Hospitality becomes an art form — that of experience, service, and technology at the service of humanity.

And at École 89, Deep Tech becomes a language: you code, you design, you create.

Three schools, three worlds. But one shared rhythm: that of the concrete. The Fusion Trail and the 100% Enterprise model shape a pedagogy where students don’t learn to “pretend,”
but to truly do. The goal? To train hybrid profiles, capable of speaking code in the morning, strategy at noon, and customer experience at night.

What GA Education offers is not just another program.

It’s a school of the real.

A CAMPUS AS A MANIFESTO

The conversation continues at the construction site of the future GA Education campus: more than 20,000 m² dedicated to learning, research, and student life. A place designed as a city within a city, where every detail embodies the group’s philosophy: learn, create, transmit.

The campus will include over 400 beds in an American-style student residence, designed to encourage community living and well-being. Around it, leisure spaces, sports facilities, and innovation zones will extend the learning experience beyond the classroom. A complete ecosystem, conceived not as a school, but as a living organism.

This place will stand as the tangible symbol of the Audace 6.0 strategy — one that merges enterprise, technology, and transmission into a single movement.

A COFFEE, A MEETING, A DIRECTION

There was nothing ostentatious about that morning. No official photos, no press releases. But a shared feeling: that of a France that still believes in the power of ideas.

Bruno Bonnell found at GA Education a concrete embodiment of what he stands for: innovation through purpose, boldness through pedagogy, growth through education.

And perhaps, after all, the future begins like this:

around a coffee, among those who teach, those who innovate, and those who decide to stop waiting?