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.

The organisation certifies the courses with an accreditation of excellence and provides potential trainees with a catalogue of hundreds of training programmes across the country. 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.

The Governance

The Grande Ecole du Numérique was launched in 2015 by the French government. The GEN public interest group (GIP, Groupement d'Intérêt Public) comprises the Ministry for Higher Education, the Ministry for Labour, the Ministry for Youth Affairs and the Ministry of State for Digital Affairs.

The Steering commitee

The Steering commitee includes key stakeholders in vocational training (the French public employment agency Pôle emploi, skills development agencies, OPCOs...)