On 27 January 2023, the French Minister of Education, Youth and Sports presented the digital strategy for education for the period 2023-2027. The strategy aims to address several challenges: 

• Strengthen national and local cooperation between education stakeholders, around educational projects mobilising digital resources where relevant  
• Developing the digital skills of pupils, on issues of digital citizenship, by developing critical thinking and reinforcing media and information literacy; then, transmitting them a base of reinforced digital skills; finally, promoting the attractiveness of specialities and baccalaureates leading to digital professions 
• Provide teachers with digital tools and resources to put digital technology at the heart of their practices, and encourage their use by offering more training and support  
•  Ensuring the robustness, security, accessibility, quality and “environmental responsibility” of the Ministry's IT tools. 

Each of these four areas is the subject of several key actions: 

1. A renewed ecosystem  

• Strengthen the governance of digital education at national and local levels; 
• Share indicators for steering and evaluation purposes; 
• Define standard individual equipment for pupils (in ISCED 2-3). 

2.  Developing citizenship and digital skills 

• Ensure the acquisition of digital skills throughout the school career; 
• Enable pupils to become informed citizens in the digital age. 

3. The educational community supported by relevant, sustainable and inclusive digital tools 

• Support the development of digital resources; 
• Simplify access to digital services by creating a "resource account"; 
• Putting digital technology at the service of inclusive schools; 
• Better training for educational teams in teaching with digital technology; 
• Supporting teachers in digital education; 
• Organise digital educational services according to an interoperable platform approach; 

4. A ministerial information system at the service of users 

• Improve efficiency by increasing and supporting mutualisation; 
• Improve fluidity and quality by integrating the principles of agility and user experience; 
• Developing “environmental responsibility”. 

Additional Information: MENJ: Digital strategy for education 2023-2027. 

Source: Eurydice Unit France