Digital strategy for education
2023-2027
The 2023–2027 digital strategy for education aims to support the development of informed and digitally competent citizens in the digital age. It is structured around four strategic axes.
Key figures
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Strategic axes
46
Objectives
2027
Strategy horizon
The strategy axes
A profound transformation structured around four fundamental axes.
Axe 1
Axis 1: An engaged ecosystem serving a shared public policy
Axe 2
Axis 2: Digital education that fosters citizenship and digital skills
Axe 3
Axis 3: An educational community supported by a thoughtful, sustainable, and inclusive digital offering
Axe 4
Axis 4: New rules for a ministerial information system serving its users
Since March 2022, education stakeholders (the State—teachers and other staff of the French national education system—its agencies, local authorities, the EdTech sector, parent associations, and users) have carried out strategic reflection on digital technology for education, further developing and enriching proposals that have emerged in recent years, notably in the context of the National Consultations on Digital Technology for Education.
This strategy has a clear overarching purpose: to harness digital technology in support of pupils’ success, that of their parents and teachers and, more broadly, of all teams working in schools and educational institutions, including leadership and inspection staff and all ministerial personnel, whether in central administration or within the regional education authorities.
The 2025 version introduces several new features
At the halfway point, the Ministry wanted to take stock and update the digital strategy for education in light of changes in the French and European regulatory frameworks, as well as several research studies, reports and international surveys, including the report by the expert commission on the impact of young people's screen time submitted to the President of the Republic in April 2024.
The updated strategy incorporates several new objectives:
- strengthening teachers' IT and digital skills, particularly in connection with the ongoing reform of initial training;
- taking into account the framework for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, based on extensive consultation with stakeholders in the education ecosystem;
- developing tools that integrate AI to facilitate lesson preparation, assessment and differentiated and the tailored monitoring of students by teachers;
- a roadmap and support mechanism for innovation and the sustainable maintenance of digital educational commons (open, pooled and shared digital resources or tools that anyone can use and improve), supported and governed by the educational community and its public, associative and private partners;
- the creation of a ministerial catalogue to make the range of digital educational resources more transparent and accessible;
- Strengthening STEM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) skills from primary school onwards, in order to prepare students for future job opportunities;
- setting a target to increase the proportion of girls studying digital subjects at secondary school, supported by the « Girls and Maths » plan with implications from primary school onwards;
- a stronger focus on digital parenting, with age-appropriate guidelines for the use of screens and other digital tools, as well as support mechanisms developed in collaboration with parenting stakeholders, in order to provide accessible, non-judgmental information to all families, especially those who are most digitally excluded;
- and finally, systematic evaluation of digital educational resources to ensure their quality and relevance for teaching and learning.
Some of the concepts used in this strategy are defined in an online glossary.
