diff --git a/tags/paradiseo-1.3-beta2/paradiseo-mo/src/neighborhood/moOrderNeighborhood.h b/tags/paradiseo-1.3-beta2/paradiseo-mo/src/neighborhood/moOrderNeighborhood.h
index 9be4f8ec8..d5596163d 100644
--- a/tags/paradiseo-1.3-beta2/paradiseo-mo/src/neighborhood/moOrderNeighborhood.h
+++ b/tags/paradiseo-1.3-beta2/paradiseo-mo/src/neighborhood/moOrderNeighborhood.h
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public:
         return "moOrderNeighborhood";
     }
 
-private:
+protected:
     unsigned int currentIndex;
 
 };