The eighth edition of the quaterly newsletter of iriv reflects on the notion of transmission. The editorial rive shows the reciprocal transmission between voluntary and associative bodies. The academic rive demonstrates the importance of personality in a volunteer. The spiritual rive questions the transmission of Good and its links with that which is Beautiful and that which is True. The guest rive shows how the fable of the Two Pigeons by Jean de la Fontaine illustrates the transmission difficulties encountered by an expatriated person upon their return. The german rive questions the transmission of the social model in terms of civic engagement since the crisis of the Welfare State.