EL4DEV ENG 8.pdf

JANUARY

2021,

NUMBER

05

BEHIND THE PROGRAM
THE PERSON
EL4DEV PROGRAM PRESS KIT

SEEKING SENSE SINCE CHILDHOOD
Interview

with

DELSART

Founder

Paul
and

Elvere

Valerien

director

of

the

EL4DEV program
"I am French, born to a Cameroonian mother in Edéa, a town
in southwestern Cameroon. I spent my childhood in the city of
Douala, the economic capital of the country until my parents
moved to France when I was nine (summer 1989). Since that
date, I have lived successively in the PACA region, Upper
Normandy, Gironde, Haute Garonne and the Paris region ... I
now live again in Gironde in the town of Léognan, near
Bordeaux.
I am a product of the aeronautics industry in which I worked
for 7 years in Toulouse and in the Paris region, from my 22 to
my 29 years old.
I never wanted to pursue a career following the classic
pattern, that is to say to evolve in one or more companies
until reaching a hierarchical top that is satisfactory for his
ego. This has always translated into a certain instability in my
course and manifested itself in an unwavering desire to
experiment with new positions, new activities, new sectors.
Since my childhood, I have always wanted to become an
entrepreneur and participate in changing the world. However,
it has always been about serving a noble cause, helping people
and society. I know today that economic entrepreneurship
(the traditional and formal one) is not for me because it
bothers me and does not correspond to my values."

"I have spent many years of my life
unconsciously looking for my way."

AT THE BEGINNING, AN IDEA, A
THOUGHT, THEN A MECHANISM

"I

"Change will happen through a

Collective intelligence was the best way to

process and the will of all."

is a powerful immensely driving force because

understood

very

early

on

that

multidisciplinarity was a key to the development
of an individual but also of society as a whole.
achieve perfection for the sake of wholeness. It
each individual finds his place in a mechanism

"This path that I was looking for came to me in

capable of the greatest feats and which exceeds

October 2009 after a series of stays in Morocco, a

us.

country in which I met in early 2008 my wife,
Moroccan by birth and by nationality. I settled in

In view of the current problems of integration

this country until December 2010 before coming

into society and the lack of work of many young

back to France.

and old alike around the world, my idea has been
to succeed, through transnational, decentralized

The EL4DEV program was not born with all this

and

international and transdisciplinary dimension. It

unprecedented

was originally a small local project (intended for

creative collaboration.

ambitious

events,

in

intellectual,

federating

scientific

and

Morocco) with an economic vocation and centered
on the development and use of a web platform.

Such a movement would inevitably have serious

Then I gradually opened this project to other

transformative

countries around the world, including France.

established rules of international relations and

impacts

on

the

current

diplomacy which today is only economic. It
The more the days passed, the more this project

would inevitably create cohesions on the level of

grew, because the ideas came to me successively. I

nations. It would inevitably create diplomatic

actually applied in this project all my academic and

bridges of a new kind. These national cohesions

experimental knowledge (acquired in business and

and these new international relations are what I

in everyday life) as well as all of my knowledge

call dynamics of progress or dynamics of mass

acquired on my own. I have always been keen on

cooperation.

reading, general culture and have always had an
attraction for life and earth sciences, philosophy,

They always start at a local level and come

foreign

together, merge until they form international

cultures,

geography,

international

relations, sociology and spirituality. So I started

dynamics.

educating myself in all these areas very early on.

individuals. It was necessary to include many

However,

we

shouldn't

stop

at

other actors in the mechanism. A key group of
My analytical mind allowed me to observe the

these

mechanisms at work in this world; my creativity

particular

has allowed me to see an alternative to this world

inhabitants), which would become the strategic

and my spirit of synthesis has allowed me to create

vector

processes that I consider effective in order to

dynamics

materialize this vision.

Imagine if these municipalities come together at

actors

for

the
the
but

were
small

the
ones

creation
also

municipalities,

the

of

(less

than

local

main

in

5000

territorial

stakeholders.

the level of a nation, a continent, and more!"
EL4DEV is therefore the conceptualization of an
alternative

society

and

the

use

of

process

engineering to materialize this society in all its
components."

"Our societies are only social
constructions. They only exist by
tacit agreements."

PLATO AND HIS UTOPIAN
COLLEAGUES, THE PRECURSORS

"Beautiful and perfect places,
well-governed cities are the goal
to be reached for our societies in
imbalance"
"For that I had to succeed in channeling all this
creative, intellectual, operational and financial
power around a common objective, sought by all
regardless

of

social,

economic

and

cultural

environments and genres or generations. I needed
a course conceivable by all. So I looked for a
common denominator.
It’s in literature and history that I found it. All
civilizations

have

in

history

always

sought

perfection in the making of perfect, luminous, well
governed, model cities of refuge… Literature of the
utopian genre describes it very well. These cities
have a strong power of influence. They leave an
impression because they touch the imagination.
They are also social and political projects. Plato
alluded to it in his cult story: "The city".
The concept of Papillon Source was born: places for
individual and collective experimentation, sharing
of

knowledge,

societal
degraded

incubators

projects,

driving

environments,

for
forces

transformative
regenerating

self-sufficient

places,

showcases of what it could be in the world,
showcases of a better future, schools of a new kind
... on the five continents, all interconnected,
imagined, designed and built by the international

"Each individual would have an important role to
play, each could excel in his/her chosen field, each
would learn from the others throughout the
process of design and realization."

community, from every country around the world,
in all languages."

"Such a mechanism will prove to
be

unstoppable

once

triggered

because it will give the whole
world a perspective to act and
change the situation."

AN INNOVATIVE
COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM
WAITING FOR ITS SPONSORS

"I have a vision. I
created the mechanism
to materialize it. It's up
to you to act!"
"I have long acted alone, isolated.
However, other individuals have, at various stages
of evolution, made their contribution to this
extraordinary initiative.
What I am looking for today is one or more
sponsors (individuals) supporting me financially
and operationally (cross marketing) in my research
and development activity.
Regarding the financing of the entire program, a
"well-oiled" mechanism with many "cogwheels" has
been designed for this purpose.
It will prove to be very effective, believe me!
My online publications make up my manifesto ...
The aim of this manifesto is to inspire, instill,
motivate, activate ..."

"EL4DEV is first of all an idea, a vision,
a concept, a principle. It is then a
question

of

a

philosophical

and

cultural movement, of a social project.
Finally, it can be defined as a process,
an enforcement mechanism, a matrix,
a self-regulatory framework for civil
society, a new kind of social contract."

JOIN THE MOVEMENT!

"An initiative to promote
social peace"
Contact: Paul Elvere Valerien DELSART
Address :
LE PAPILLON SOURCE EL4DEV, Appt 11
Bâtiment A, Résidence Jean Monnet, 18
Avenue de Gradignan, 33850 Léognan,
France
Email : contact@el4dev.com
Phone : +33 6 41 37 87 08
Websites :
http://www.el4dev.com
http://www.el4dev.com/papillon
https://www.paul-elvere-delsart.net
http://www.el4dev.net
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