Geneva portrait
The hyperactive cyclist who rolls for the Pâquis baths
Former bicycle courier and teacher, Eric Vanoncini chairs the association of users of the popular site. Morning meeting before the start of musical dawns, which he co -organized.
Eric Vanoncini, president of AUBP, immortalized – without a cap – at dawn in the baths.
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- The Pâquis baths welcome daily musical dawns until August 17.
- Eric Vanoncini chairs AUBP while managing a team of 80 volunteers.
- The old bicycle courier actively promotes soft mobility in Geneva.
- The teacher trains his colleagues on responsible use of artificial intelligence.
We were looking for the right term to qualify your mustache. Knowing nothing about it, we question Google. Answer: “The lifted mustache style is often called” handlebar “mustache. It is characterized by its extremities curved upwards, resembling a bicycle handlebar. ” It is not invented: Eric Vanoncini is precisely a passionate about the little queen.
But this former bike courier, co -founder of the Association Roue Libre and the other show – two initiatives promoting sweet mobility – has more than one cap under his helmet: he is also president of theAssociation of Pâquis bath users (AUBP) and member of the organization of Musical dawns. While these musical performances will be held every day at 6 a.m., from July 14 to August 17, meets with an enthusiastic and exciting Geneva.
At the helm of a large ship
Eric Vanoncini, 48, is barely installed on one of the Azure tables of the Pâquis baths than a volunteer already greet him; He has become a known figure in this place which he has been attending since adolescence. “I like the energy of this place, and it is one of the rare bastions of diversity in Geneva, generational, cultural, social. This diversity is very rewarding. ”
Its volunteer investment within AUBP, which manages the Bain site with 80 volunteers, begins during confinement, with events offered online, including philosophical meetings. A year later, when he has just resumed the presidency of the association, the Court of Auditors published a report pinning the management of the premises, to which are added internal tensions. “It was a hell of a baptism of fire … I never slept any more.” Today, even if the “big ship” is experiencing ups and downs, the president believes that he has found a cruising pace.
In 2022, he joined the Alaes programming team, an event of which he is a “big lover”. “It stings when you have to get up, but it’s worth it: it’s a moment of sharing so poetic and meditative.” And to tell the wonder of this foreign auditor, who thanked him saying that he could come to live in Geneva just for these morning concerts. “This kind of feedback also gives meaning to my voluntary commitment and makes you forget the moments of fatigue.”
An appointment not to be missed in the 2025 edition? “The performance ofelectro-youtze de FR13DR1CH von T., for example, the 1is August, between tradition and modernity. It’s very surprising. “
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“Tour de France” in tricycle
To this volunteer and cultural cap is added that of the committed cyclist, who began to pedal to join both ends by becoming a bicycle courier in 1998, alongside his university studies. A profession he will practice for ten years and which he still dreams of sometimes dreams. “I miss it. I really liked being a courier, to spend myself, to meet people, to be in symbiosis with the city, for this adrenaline. Above all, couriers form a real community, with simple values that I share. ”
During this decade on the saddle, Eric Vanoncini participated in the creation of the Roue Libre association, to defend the interests of cyclists “in a positive and playful manner”. It is in this same state of mind that he founded the manifestationAnother loungea counterweight at the car show to promote soft mobility and make fun, with lightness, of this high mass of exhaust pots with offbeat events like a Tour de France caves in tricycle.
We will finally talk about his English and philosophy teacher’s cap. A deeply hated material in college before rediscovering it thanks to a period “filled with existential questions”, following a sabbatical year in California – officially to perfect his English, unofficially to surf and discover the world.
Guide school in chatgpt meanders
These are also philosophical questions that will lead him to take an interest in new technologies, artificial intelligence in particular, and their repercussions on human relations. So, when ChatGPT Addresses to school in 2023, the teacher already knows the tool well and organizes training sessions for teachers and students with the media school service (SEM).
Today he pursues work on the integration of these tools at school, “which completely questions the way of learning and teaching. It is probably one of the biggest challenges in today’s school and tomorrow: successfully keeping the taste for learning among students and ensuring that they use these tools so that they encourage them to develop an autonomy of thought and not so that they think for them. “
Under this stack of various caps, Eric Vanoncini takes care to keep a good place for his family life, and even finds some corners for yetth passions. Swimming, running, mountain or even the practice of the piano in which he launched at 40, including music theory. “It is possible to learn at any age!” My problem is that I like everything I do. It just requires a little organization … “
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