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Purpose
In France and Germany, intergenerational housing is put forward as an option by public authorities. This kind of housing scheme seems like a good solution for seniors and young people, from both an economic and a social point of view. But beyond this common philosophy, there are differences in the way intergenerational housing is being implemented in the two countries. France mainly favours the student-senior home-sharing model whereas the intergenerational collaborative housing (co-housing) model based on solidarity between seniors and families is gaining ground in Germany. The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons for these differences and present results from field surveys conducted in both countries.


Design/methodology/approach
The qualitative methodology of the field surveys consisted essentially of semi-structured interviews with the young people and seniors living in these types of housing, in order to understand how they experienced intergenerational solidarity.


Findings
The authors' surveys revealed that certain conditions are essential for this intergenerational solidarity to be fully effective, notably voluntary participation and commitment to the project, and possibly external support to ensure that it is designed and implemented in the best possible way.


Originality/value
This paper provides useful recommendations for decision makers who wish to support this type of housing concept based on intergenerational solidarity.

International audience ; This research deals with the social representations which have the voluntary elected representatives, the directors (managers) and the public funds providers as well as in tools mobilized to evaluate it. Using interviews with these actors and starting from the theory of the social representations, the results of this study highlight the influence of the social role of the actor on his representation of the nonprofit organization performance and on tools or devices mobilized to appreciate it. She so updates three representations of the performance: political, managerial and administrative which depend, in diverse degrees, of the spheres which contribute to the formation of the social representation of the actor. ; Cette recherche traite des représentations sociales de la performance des associations auprès des dirigeants de droit ou élus (bénévoles), des dirigeants salariés (directeurs) et des financeurs publics ainsi que des outils mobilisés pour l'évaluer. En nous appuyant sur des entretiens réalisés auprès de ces acteurs et à partir de la théorie des représentations sociales, nous mettons en évidence l'influence du rôle social de l'acteur sur sa représentation de l'association performante ainsi que sur les outils ou dispositifs mobilisés pour l'apprécier. Cette recherche met à jour trois représentations de la performance : politique, managériale et administrative qui dépendent, à divers degrés, des sphères qui concourent à la formation de la représentation sociale de l'acteur.

International audience ; This research deals with the social representations which have the voluntary elected representatives, the directors (managers) and the public funds providers as well as in tools mobilized to evaluate it. Using interviews with these actors and starting from the theory of the social representations, the results of this study highlight the influence of the social role of the actor on his representation of the nonprofit organization performance and on tools or devices mobilized to appreciate it. She so updates three representations of the performance: political, managerial and administrative which depend, in diverse degrees, of the spheres which contribute to the formation of the social representation of the actor. ; Cette recherche traite des représentations sociales de la performance des associations auprès des dirigeants de droit ou élus (bénévoles), des dirigeants salariés (directeurs) et des financeurs publics ainsi que des outils mobilisés pour l'évaluer. En nous appuyant sur des entretiens réalisés auprès de ces acteurs et à partir de la théorie des représentations sociales, nous mettons en évidence l'influence du rôle social de l'acteur sur sa représentation de l'association performante ainsi que sur les outils ou dispositifs mobilisés pour l'apprécier. Cette recherche met à jour trois représentations de la performance : politique, managériale et administrative qui dépendent, à divers degrés, des sphères qui concourent à la formation de la représentation sociale de l'acteur.