With an English mother and a French father, who met in Norway and a childhood in Alsace…What could possibly make Laura Dejardin more European? The answer is …nothing! Laura Dejardin is a true European. After two years spent studying English cinema and literature in London, and 3 years in Portugal teaching at the Institut français in Porto and the city’s Journalism College, Laura returned to France and decided to undertake an on-the-ground investigation into the Europe of her time, a continent in tatters after the fall of the Berlin wall. The project grew in her mind: Why not go to Germany to interview young people about their reality.  What were these young peoples’ hopes, their lifestyles and their values? How could they learn to live together in a country that had been divided for so long?  What did the future of Europe hold? So many questions, which won over the members of the jury for the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation grant, and which revealed the curious and committed nature of this young journalist, whose career has been brilliant ever since. With the same belief throughout her career: Act on instinct, do what you want to do.

Achievements since winning the grant

Laura Dejardin’s reportage, which was awarded the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation grant, appeared in Le Monde, Politis, Ouest-France and Le Journal du dimanche.
Laura then headed up Canal, the monthly newspaper for the town of Pantin, which won the Coq d’or for the best local newspaper in 1994.
In 1999, she took up designing and producing local newspapers.
Since 2000, she has been the editor in chief of the promotional agency Acte-là!