With her rich humanitarian experience and her atypical profile between health and education, Béatrice Crettenand Pecorini is currently carrying out her doctoral research on lifelong learning and formal and informal intergenerational learning using digital technology. She has participated in several research projects focusing, among other things, on the teaching-learning of French integrating multimodality and digital technology, mentoring and intergenerational learning, as well as on students with special educational needs.