Trial program of service centres in education (FR0064)

What is the public problem that the commitment will address? Every day, the 63,000 school buildings located across France are used by more than 13 million people. While the issues relating to school spaces have evolved considerably and there are increasingly greater expectations in terms of proximity, the Ministry for Primary and Secondary Education, Youth Affairs and Sport wants to actively contribute to the discussion process alongside local and regional authorities.

What is the commitment? This commitment will help create safer, greener, more open schools that promote inclusivity and wellbeing for all, by actively contributing to the discussion process alongside local and regional authorities. It will involve the following actions: 1. Provide support and resources 2. Establish service centres across the country

How will the commitment contribute to solving the public problem? By inviting all stakeholders to express their expectations, wishes and ideas as part of a collective discussion process: primary and secondary students, local and regional educational staff, elected officials, building professionals and the general public. The Ministry for Primary and Secondary Education, Youth Affairs and Sport will facilitate discussions and rethink how school building projects are designed, with the needs of all users in mind. 60 Working with volunteer local and regional authorities to trial a programme of service centres in the areas of education, training and youth affairs within public secondary schools, the Ministry for Primary and Secondary Education, Youth Affairs and Sport has two aims: (1) to regionalise public policy on education, training and youth affairs to raise awareness and make it more accessible, and (2) to build an integrated offering of stakeholders from diverse backgrounds who may not usually work together, with a focus on proximity and increased synergy between users and services.

Why is this commitment relevant to OGP values? This commitment is relevant to the following OGP values:  Transparency: The objective of creating service centres is to offer services that, for the most part, have never been offered in schools or their surrounding regions. The intended users of these services (not only school populations) will benefit from easier access to a wider range of information.  Civic participation: It is a national consultation process on the future of school buildings, involving all stakeholders, including the general public.  The service centres that will be created will contribute to lifelong learning (students and young people who have left school, at first, but also parents, primary and secondary school staff, adults and users); under their rules of governance, a majority of these centres will be expected to involve their target user communities in their planning.

Additional information The call for expressions of interest has €6m in funding from the Secretariat General for Investment. It is part of the “Promoting educational innovation countrywide” component of the Investments for the Future Programme, with a significant interministerial scope: the Ministry for Higher Education, Research and 61 Innovation; the Ministry for Culture; the Ministry for Agriculture and Food; the Ministry for Labour, Employment and Integration; the Ministry for Regional Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities; the Ministry for Solidarity and Health; and the Ministry for the Armed Forces.

Milestone activity with a verifiable deliverable Start date End date Provide support and resources: produce resources, train stakeholders, make dedicated tools available Q3&4 2021: create an online platform of resources (school reference guide, project management guide, consultation guide) and model projects, available to the public Q3&4 2022: an event recognising one or more projects involving the education community Q3&4 2023: an event recognising one or more projects involving the education community Establish service centres across the country (see the call for expressions of interest; trials underway through to September 2027) Q3 2022: open 15 or so service centres on a trial basis Q3 2023: first annual followup of the trial programme based on common indicators Q3 2025: first assessment of the trial programme

Action Plan Review

Commitment 14. Encourage all stakeholders to contribute to school-building projects and open up school buildings to the education community

● Verifiable: Yes

● Does it have an open government lens? Yes

● Potential for results: Unclear