Patrick Bernard
Fondateur @ La République des Hyper Voisins
Patrick Bernard, former journalist then newspaper director, founded La République des Hyper Voisins in 2017 in a district of Paris. His goal ? Turn neighbors who say hello 5 times a day into Hyper Neighbors who say hello 50 times a day. Since then, the project has developed and is now interested in the ecological transition at the scale of the district, in the way in which citizens can appropriate the public space, and in general, in everything that can contribute to transform a citizen who consumes public affairs into a real daily player inside his territory. To achieve this, the Republic of Hyper Neighbors has developed social engineering led by a « friend of the neighborhood » whose job is, from morning to night, to connect the inhabitants with each other. From now on, it is a question of replicating this first village of Hyper Voisins throughout Paris and creating the “School of Proximity” in order to train, in one year, “friends of the neighborhood” in social cohesion.
