The Digital Directorate for Education (DNE) has implemented an enterprise architecture approach to better manage its information system for the benefit of users. The launch of any major transformation project is based, in particular, on an urbanisation study.

The Ministry is also rolling out the product-based approach where appropriate, particularly for new digital services. Some of the work will be carried out within the incubator established in September 2024, with the support of Dinum and its Beta.gouv programme.

The Ministry is leading a roadmap centred on three key areas:

• prevention, involving the strengthening of strategic and operational governance, raising awareness among staff, the audit plan and the certification process;
• detection, involving the deployment of tools for monitoring and detecting security anomalies;
• incident response, including change management in incident and crisis management.

Regarding grants:

In 2022, once families have completed their online tax return, they are provided with information on their potential eligibility for grants, as well as a link to a grant calculator.

In 2023, work was carried out to harmonise national grants for lower and upper secondary schools in line with the relevant regulations and tools.

Since the start of the 2024 academic year, grant applications have been generated automatically based on the information provided by the tax authorities (proactive administration).

Another result:

Together with the developers of school management software, the Ministry has introduced a monitoring indicator for short-term substitute teaching (RCD), a key government policy. This indicator provides data at various levels: departmental, regional and national.

With regard to simplifying school enrolment, the Ministry has committed to ensuring that, from the start of the 2025 school year, parents will no longer be required to provide personal details already held by the authorities in enrolment or re-enrolment forms.

This initiative ties in with the DITP programme for the life stage ‘enrolling my child in school’. The Ministry has called upon the government’s internal consultancy agency to support the roll-out of online enrolment in schools. A summary of the diagnostic findings and the roll-out strategy were presented to the Ministry in April 2025. Recommendations were also issued to simplify the enrolment and re-enrolment procedures, aimed at reducing the number of information forms and supporting documents or ensuring the ‘Tell us once’ principle.

The Digital Education Directorate has introduced a new governance framework and a new tool for planning and monitoring resources, enabling priorities to be set during digital strategy committee meetings.

The multi-year accessibility plan was launched in 2023 and updated in early 2025 to ensure the accessibility of the Ministry’s websites, online procedures and teleservices, as well as to establish an action plan.

Following the interministerial meeting on 6 March 2025 dedicated to the Interministerial Committee on Disability, the Prime Minister committed to two deadlines for making the State’s essential procedures accessible (within the meaning of the RGAA):

50% of essential procedures to be fully accessible by the end of 2025,

100% of essential procedures to be fully accessible by the end of 2026.

The new messaging service is currently being rolled out to the first users in four pilot regions (Nantes, Poitiers, Aix and Nice), French Polynesia and Corsica.

The roll-out of the Assistant IA a sovereign inter-ministerial chatbot, is currently in the beta phase, involving 2,000 staff across central and devolved government departments. Co-led with DINUM and eight other partner ministries, this major project in our transformation is based on the inter-ministerial Generative AI platform and is hosted on SecNumCloud-certified infrastructure. It enables our administrative staff to use AI to answer cross-departmental questions, draft summaries and automate time-consuming tasks involving internal data in a fully secure manner.

In addition to this secure assistant, we are integrating AI directly into the heart of our agents’ working environment. This takes the form of AI features built into the government’s office suite (rewriting text in Docs, generating formulas in Grist). For routine tasks that do not require the processing of confidential or personal data, staff can make use of free ‘consumer-grade’ AI services (Mistral, Claude, ChatGPT), a practice strictly governed by our framework for the use of AI in education published in June 2025, which stipulates, in particular, that no personal or sensitive data may be processed, that usage must be transparent, that results must be verified, and that digital restraint must be observed.

The Ministry has also developed specific, bespoke AI solutions, which are currently being trialled by groups of 50 to 100 specialist staff:

• For Human Resources: projects such as Mileva (DGRH) and Cassandre (Lyon Academy) support HR managers in personalising information and streamlining communication with staff.
• For the Legal Affairs Directorate: a dedicated AI system speeds up the analysis of case law and the summarisation of regulatory texts.
• For IT departments: the experimental adoption of ‘VibeCoding’ (code generation via natural language) and agent-based AI enables our developers to design digital services much more quickly, explore the assisted reduction of technical debt, and automate the monitoring of our infrastructure.

A collaboration framework is being trialled with business units and regional education authorities to ensure the pooling of investments in AI and generative AI.

A collaboration framework is being trialled with business units and regional education authorities to ensure the pooling of investments in AI and generative AI.

The new project management method (GPS) is now in place.

Training for project leaders and managers is currently underway. A community has been set up to share best practices.

9 out of 22 strategic projects use a code repository to publish their code.

Several of the Ministry’s major digital products incorporate UX design principles: Éléa, Magistère, the Network of Designers and the Aréna portal. A website dedicated to UX design is available to project managers, interface designers, developers and clients within central administration and national departments.

The consolidation of the Ministry’s data centres at national level (the Phac programme) began in 2023 and will continue until 2026. The milestone of half of the regional education authorities having migrated to Auzeville was reached in 2025.

Development of a framework for responsible digital technology within technical guidelines

Raising awareness among staff, teachers and pupils about the need for moderation in the use of technology (particularly with regard to AI, as recommended by the framework for the use of AI in education: ‘Avoid using AI if a less environmentally harmful alternative can meet your needs (for example, a simple web search)’)