In Cycle 3, the Pix Junior scheme (Years 4–5) has been undergoing a pilot phase of collaborative development open to all participating schools, both within and beyond the Digital Education Regions, since January 2025.

The Pix digital awareness certificate for Year 7 pupils has been rolled out across the board and made compulsory since the start of the 2024 school year (46% of pupils certified in 2024–2025).

In Year 9 and the final year of general education, a new Pix certification scheme for pupils, rolled out since September 2024, provides an overall assessment of pupils’ proficiency levels: in Year 9 (91% of pupils certified in 2024–25), four out of five pupils are at or above the expected Independent 1 level. In the general stream of Year 13 (96% of pupils certified), one in three pupils has reached the expected Independent 2 level, whilst in the vocational stream of Year 13 (86% of pupils certified), only one in ten pupils has reached the expected level.

The Ministry of National Education, the Ministry of the Armed Forces, Cigref and the associations Femmes@numérique and Femmes ingénieures have organised taster sessions on careers in digital technology in Paris and across the regions.

The Ministry of National Education is also rolling out the “One Scientist, One Class: Let’s Do It!” initiative in partnership with Inria, which, together with France Universités, is calling for volunteers from the digital science research community to visit Year 10 classes. As part of the Techpourtoutes programme, the “One Scientist, 1 class: Let’s do it!” has raised awareness among nearly 28,000 pupils and mobilised nearly 200 academics or scientists since its launch.

At the start of the 2025 school year, in the final year of general secondary education, 15.5% of pupils in the NSI stream are girls (virtually unchanged from 2024).

The “Girls and Maths” plan, published in May 2025, aims to boost the appeal and gender diversity of digital and STIAM courses, and to step up the efforts of careers guidance providers so that pupils gain a better understanding of digital careers as early as possible.

Since its establishment in 2022, the IAN EMI network – co-managed with the General Inspectorate and integrated into the academic EMI units – has produced resources for teachers that are indexed in Édubase.

The development of pupils’ critical thinking in the digital age has been bolstered by academic guidance (circular of 24 January 2022), the publication of a handbook offering guidance on implementing citizenship education projects to which EMI contributes, the funding of educational initiatives through the collective portion of the Culture Pass, and a ‘One Web Radio, One Mentor’ scheme which has enabled the creation of 700 web radio stations funded under France 2030.

To facilitate the dissemination of the Charter for Education in Digital Culture and Citizenship (Arcom, CLEMI, CNIL), an interactive support guide has been produced.

As part of the 2025 Year of Digital Citizenship Education (Council of Europe), educational initiatives have been strengthened through the mobilisation of a community of teachers, and specific actions focusing on combating information manipulation (LMI) have been carried out (CLEMI, VIGINUM and Campus Cyber) with a view to the publication in February 2026 of the ‘National Strategy to Combat Information Manipulation 2026–2030’.

In April 2025, the Higher Council for Curricula published the draft Common Core of Knowledge, Skills and Culture, which devotes a paragraph to media and information literacy (MIL), and in June 2025, the draft MIL curriculum for Cycle 4.

The publication of the AI Usage Framework (June 2025) reiterated the importance of raising pupils’ awareness of the ethical and environmental issues surrounding AI as part of citizenship education, including Media and Information Literacy (EMI) and Moral and Civic Education (EMC).

To support families and inform them of the risks associated with the misuse of digital tools, both at home and at school, the guide ‘Growing Up Well with Screens: Guidelines for Every Age’ was published (September 2025). It complements the measures already in place to promote sensible digital use in schools (widespread implementation of the “Mobile on Hold” scheme and suspension of updates to digital learning platforms and school management software). The Ministry is also using Pix to guide parents in developing essential digital skills so they can better support their children (thematic courses on Digital Parenting). The Pix Parents courses have been available to everyone since September 2024.

Digital literacy and digital citizenship education are key democratic issues; partnership agreements have been renewed with the Ministry’s partners, including the CNIL (December 2025) and Arcom (March 2026).