VINCI sponsors France-Colombia Year 2017

16 December 2016 - Events - Colombia

The ceremony kicking off France-Colombia Year 2017, which includes VINCI among its sponsors, took place on 16 December 2016 in Bogotá’s Bolívar Square, in the presence of French foreign affairs minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa.

Bruno Dupety (VINCI Vice-President, International Business), Nora Aristizábal Vélez and Carlos Eduardo Restrepo (Conconcreto board members), Paula Andre Lopez (Conconcreto’s head of investor relations) and Bernardo Serafim (VINCI Concessions’ country manager in Colombia) also attended the ceremony.

  The event included a lighting show by the engineers who produce the Fête des Lumières in Lyon, during a performance by the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra.

The programme for the year will be led by the Institut Français and comprise more than 400 events in two phases.
January to June 2017 will be French Season in Colombia, and provide an opportunity to showcase French expertise in urban, environmental, business, artistic and other endeavours with a variety of exhibitions and forums in several Colombian cities.

Then Colombian Season in France, in the second half of 2017, will feature several cultural, academic or business-related events in France.