25,000 senior civil servants will be trained with the support of scholars

The training of civil servants in environmental transformation is entering a new phase. From September to 2024, about 25,000 senior executives of the state civil service will have to be sensitized, an average of 3,000 people per month. On Tuesday 4 July, Stanislas Guerini, Minister for Transformation and Public Service, gathered about fifteen scientists to draw up a preliminary assessment of the days already followed by 200 senior civil servants from central administrations.

“We can already learn the lessons from the first hierarchical level that we learneddoes he have Describe. We need to raise awareness less and be more agile and more realistic. Lesson two, there is a real need to connect to local scholar networks. »

After training these top executives, it will be the turn of 41,000 executives for the three public functions (state, hospital and territory) by 2025, then before the end of the five-year period, it will be the turn of about 5.6 million public servants. Officials. At the end of August, the 200 ambassadors who have come to Paris for their annual conference will have to extend their stay to attend the conference as well.

It is twenty-eight hours divided into three phases: scientific conferences, workshops and field visits. The training revolves around the three main environmental crises: climate, biodiversity and natural resources. The peculiarity of the system is the reliance on a scientific and university network. Providing scientific expertise to civil servants, and sometimes helping them to change their programmes, is part of the training objectives. “It is indeed a question of shifting the center of gravity of the public service, of helping agents who, in their daily work, have to make arbitrations.”Explains Stanislas Guerini L world.

In all, 1,500 researchers and PhD students have already responded to the call from Mr Guerini and Minister for Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau. On May 30, they wrote to the heads of universities, research organizations, etc., so that they could Institutions play their full role in this major training project.there “An opportunity to put science at the heart of public administration”.

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This recognition, of course, is appreciated. Our multidisciplinarity responds to different aspects of a problem, and our regional network allows us to tailor our responses.Luc Abadi, vice president of the scientific council of the French Office for Biodiversity and member of the training support group, believes Luc Abadi.

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