8 government bodies, 5 named officials, 2 programmes and 3 policies, from the ministries' own sites.
5 source sites did not fully answer our request; the status is shown on the body it belongs to. Last mined 2026-08-02.
BOMAtlas indexes 4,110 research institutions in France from the Research Organization Registry.
The ministries, regulators and funds that hold the mandate, with the office holder where we could verify one.
National ministry responsible for primary and secondary education (and youth portfolio in recent configurations); its central administration includes the Direction du numérique pour l'éducation.
Édouard Geffray · Minister of National Education
Verified as of 2026-07-31
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National ministry responsible for higher education, research, and (since Oct 2025) space policy.
Philippe Baptiste · Minister of Higher Education, Research and Space
Verified as of 2026-07-31
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Central-administration directorate of the education ministry (created 2014) that implements the public digital-education service; three sub-directorates (digital services, digital transformation, digital foundation); operates Apps.education.fr and owns the numérique éducatif strategy.
Audran Le Baron · Director of Digital Education (Directeur du numérique pour l'éducation)
Verified as of 2026-07-31
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Public administrative establishment (EPA) under the education ministry for lifelong teacher training, especially in digital skills; 12 territorial divisions and 102 local workshops; HQ at Futuroscope (Chasseneuil-du-Poitou).
Samuel Vitel · Director General of Réseau Canopé
Verified as of 2026-07-31
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National public administrative establishment under the education ministry; coordinates France's international education cooperation with 150+ countries, promotes French-language teaching, and manages 18 certifications (DELF, DALF, TCF) plus teacher-training vehicles (BELC, PRO FLE).
France's public development bank; finances education, vocational training, and higher-education systems at scale, with priority on primary/lower-secondary access, teacher quality, and governance, heavily concentrated in francophone Africa (e.g. Côte d'Ivoire proximity colleges, Senegal local school management, Guinea and Madagascar pooled education funds, pedagogic-supervision support reaching 1M+ teachers across 25 countries).
Delegated ministerial portfolio (attached to the economy ministry) covering AI and digital policy, the state-side counterpart for connectivity and digital infrastructure.
Anne Le Hénanff · Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs
Verified as of 2026-07-31
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Interministerial digital directorate: operating body for French state digital policy in the absence of a standalone ICT ministry.
Named interventions currently running, announced, stalled or ended. A partner entering here joins one of these or explains why not.
Teacher-professionalization program (Appui à la Professionnalisation des PRatiques Enseignantes et au Développement de REssources) implemented by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, financed by AFD and the French foreign ministry, active in 46 countries (mostly francophone Africa, plus Haiti and Lebanon).
Reach: 46 countries; ~300 activities, 400 experts, 3,000 resources; 46 research projects across 23 countries (program site figures); AFD's sector page separately cites pedagogic-supervision support in 25 countries reaching practices of 1M+ teachers
Portfolio of education sector-plan support projects in Africa (eight projects cited, incl. Burkina Faso, Guinea, Niger, Senegal) financed by Global Partnership for Education delegated funds and managed by AFD as grant agent.
Reach: 8 projects in Africa as of the source article
The strategy documents in force. These are what an intervention has to be written into.
France's national digital-education roadmap, owned by the DNE: four axes (shared-governance ecosystem; digital citizenship and competencies teaching; a reasoned, sustainable, inclusive digital offer for the education community; rebuilt ministerial information system), 46 operational objectives on the public dashboard, updated in 2025 to add AI frameworks, teacher training, digital commons, STEM, and parental digital literacy.
French national AI strategy; third phase launched February 2025 following the 6 February 2025 interministerial AI committee, with close to EUR 2.5B from France 2030.
2023 digital-majority law plus the SREN law; a bill banning social networks for under-15s passed first reading in the National Assembly in late January 2025. France is pushing common minor-protection principles at the G7.