Grande Ecole du Numérique

• February 19, 2024
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The Grande Ecole du Numérique (GEN) is a Public interest Group was launched in 2015 by the French government comprises the Ministry for Higher Education, the Ministry for Labour, the Ministry for Youth Affairs and the Ministry of State for Digital Affairs.

In France, it aims to:

• respond to the growing need for digital specialists;
• contribute to social cohesion by promoting the training and professional integration of people who have limited access to employment, in particular young people, women and residents of priority urban areas or rural areas.

To meet these two challenges, four axes structure its missions:

• a powerful search engine to make the offer of digital training more visible: you can access a catalogue of more than 15,000 training courses in the digital professions.
• GEN_SCAN, an observatory to follow the development of the digital training offer, to put it into the perspective of the skills sought by companies in the different regions in order to identify levers of action to reduce the shortage of talent in the territories.
• The GEN Label, an accreditation of excellence given to some digital programmes. All these programmes use approaches which enhance access and inclusion by using innovative pedagogy, partnerships and mentoring. They provide access to tomorrow’s careers in the digital economy, regardless of social, economic and academic background.
• An Innovation call for projects to select and seed funds for innovative projects in the field of recruitment, pedagogy, support and professional integration for our learners.