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Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries,
Vu le Decree No. 2008-636 of 30 June 2008 establishing the organization of the central administration of the Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries;
Considering the advice of the special technical committee of the General Directorate of Education and Research dated 9 April 2008,
Stop it!
The general direction of teaching and research includes:
1. The technical teaching department composed of:
1.1. The sub-direction of training and education policies.
1.2. Sub-direction of institutions, staffing and skills.
2. The service of higher education, research and innovation composed of:
2.1. The sub-direction of higher education and research.
2.2. The sub-direction of innovation.
3. The mission of strategy and information systems.
4. The General Affairs Mission.
5. The management control mission.
With the Director General of Education and Research, the inspection of agricultural education is responsible for the permanent inspection, expertise and support missions. It contributes to the overall animation of the agricultural education and vocational training system and participates in the initial and ongoing training of teaching staff. It contributes to the recruitment of workers who work in agricultural education.
The technical education department defines and implements the policies of agricultural technical education, in terms of training and piloting of local public institutions and contracted private institutions as part of a dialogue with the deconcentrated services, territorial authorities, professional sectors and federations of private education. The service organizes the management dialogue with the deconcentrated services. It ensures that local public institutions are involved in all missions to agricultural education.
The sub-direction of training and education policies is responsible for the definition and animation of the education, training and education policies of the Ministry responsible for agriculture for all school, learning and continuing vocational training schemes, including those involved in the agricultural installation.
It defines the educational orientations and educational action of public and private technical institutions.
It defines and updates references leading to national diplomas, titles and certificates of professional capacity of general, technological and agricultural professional education.
It ensures the integration of education into sustainable development within the training mechanisms implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture.
It defines examination structures and organizes the issuance of diplomas, titles and certificates of general, technological and agricultural professional education.
It defines the systems of validation of the acquis and participates in the recognition of the diplomas and titles of general, technological and agricultural professional education in the European and international context.
It organizes partnerships with professional sectors, including the implementation of capacity-building schemes.
It ensures the representation of the ministry responsible for agriculture in the policy-making bodies on lifelong training and in the training funds and registered joint collector organizations.
It contributes to the definition and monitoring of the implementation of the routes to the plant in agriculture.
It provides the secretariat of the professional advisory committee and liaison with the National Professional Certification Commission.
It provides guidance and regulation on school and student life.
It develops guidance and coordinates public health, hygiene and safety actions for training audiences.
It directs, animates and coordinates actions for school, social and professional integration.
It implements actions to ensure equal access for young people and adults to education and training. It contributes to the integration of equal opportunities in its education and training activities.
It contributes to the participation of agricultural education and vocational training in the animation and development of the territories.
It promotes the policy of academic and vocational guidance, and implements training information.
The sub-direction of training and education policies includes:
- the office of technical education diplomas;
the Office of Professional Partnerships;
the office of school life, student and insertion;
- the mission of examinations.
The sub-direction of institutions, staffing and skills is responsible for the definition, distribution and management of the skills and staffing required for the exercise in institutions and regions of the various missions of public and private agricultural technical education. It coordinates and directs the organization and monitoring of public structures and institutions.
She is responsible for organizing and shaping public educational institutions under the Ministry of Agriculture. It provides them with legal support and participates in the development of regulations that apply to them.
It sets out the framework and animates the establishment and evaluation of regional agricultural education projects and settlement projects.
It provides guidance, animation and follow-up to the organization of local public schools of agricultural education and vocational training and all the centres that compose them.
It drives the policy of contractualization between the State and private technical institutions, and implements the monitoring of private agricultural educational institutions under contract with the State.
It implements measures to ensure the national coherence of the training offer. It prepares management dialogues and proposes synthesises. It determines the requirements for staff and hours of all technical educational institutions, and leads the process of allocation of human and financial resources.
It defines, in conjunction with the partners concerned, the skills of the personnel required to carry out the tasks and activities of agricultural technical education.
It develops and proposes the recruitment plan for teaching and education personnel, and staff of the management teams of public technical institutions, and participates in the implementation of the necessary recruitment actions, in particular in the organization of the competitions. It defines the policy of initial training and adaptation to employment.
It participates in the process of defining the sectors and trades of agricultural technical education personnel, taking into account in particular the effects of policy reforms and guidance.
It participates in public health, hygiene and security activities for local public institutions.
It participates in the preparation of statutory texts relating to these personnel.
It ensures the guardianship of national public institutions of agricultural technical education.
The sub-direction of institutions, staffing and skills includes:
- the office of projects and the organization of institutions;
the contract relations office;
the staffing and skills management office.
The service of higher education, research and innovation defines higher education policies, research, innovation and development. It pilots and coordinates the Department's actions to foster innovation for the economic sectors within the scope of the Ministry of Agriculture. It aims to foster the links, through these policies, with technical education, particularly in the exercise of the mission of development, experimentation and applied research, and missions of animation and development of territories and international cooperation. It organizes the management dialogue with public agricultural higher education institutions.
The sub-direction of higher education and research is responsible for skills, research and higher education.
It is responsible for activating and coordinating the policy of contracting with the Competence Points and for conducting research missions to institutions and competence centres.
She is the co-tutelle of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the National Centre for Agricultural Engineering, Rural Engineering, Water and Forests (CEMAGREF). She participates in the Board of Directors of the Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) and the French Food Safety Agency (AFSSA).
It prepares and monitors evaluations in relation to the Agency for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (AERES).
It conducts policies related to all post-graduate courses, in liaison with the department responsible for higher education. It ensures consistency from a national, European and international perspective. It is responsible for the definition, implementation and monitoring of research policies in the competency clusters.
It exercises guardianship over public institutions of higher education and the prerogatives of the ministry responsible for agriculture with regard to private higher education institutions.
It prepares the statutory texts of public higher education institutions.
It prepares and implements the policy of contractualization between the State and the higher education institutions.
It determines the personal needs of all institutions.
She participates in the preparation of the statutory texts of the staff.
It coordinates the definition and updating of the repositories leading to diplomas.
It ensures the implementation of graduation.
It prepares regulations for the control of student recruitment in public institutions.
The sub-direction of higher education and research includes:
– the office of the Competence and Research Poles;
the office of higher education training;
- the office of establishments and contracts.
The sub-direction of innovation is responsible for the direction of research policies and the implementation and monitoring of development and innovation policies. It is responsible for promoting synergies between research, development and training. It ensures the coherence of the implementation of these policies from a national, European and international perspective. For the conduct of her missions, she mobilizes higher education institutions, research institutes, local public institutions and agricultural development organizations.
In the department's areas of expertise, she coordinates the identification of research and innovation issues. It ensures that these issues are taken into account in departmental policies, research organizations and research and innovation funding agencies.
In the fields of competence of the Ministry, it participates in the definition of the objectives of the European Union's research and development framework programme. It ensures French representation with the European Union and the monitoring of all the programmes and actions related to it.
It coordinates the policy of contracting with research institutions.
She coordinates the representation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in the consultation bodies of the Ministry of Research.
It coordinates the definition of agricultural and rural development policy.
It implements the policy of agricultural and rural development, with the exception of the multi-year programme of the Chambers of Agriculture.
It promotes the participation of agricultural education and vocational training in innovation in the context of the territories' animation and development missions. It coordinates all actions taken in institutions under these missions. It facilitates through the animation of experimental networks the emergence of innovative projects.
It participates, in the areas of leadership skills, in European policy, in the negotiation, coordination and expertise of EU programmes. It also participates in the policy of cooperation and development of international trade. It conducts and coordinates, in the areas of management competence, actions promoting these European and international policies.
The sub-direction of innovation includes:
– the research finalization office;
– the Office of Partnership and Innovation Initiatives;
– the office of European relations and international cooperation of agricultural education.
The mission of the strategy and information systems is responsible for developing the management modernization strategy as well as the tools for strategic and operational steering assistance. It pilots the system of support for agricultural education.
It designs, organizes and implements the master plan of management information systems and the different levels of agricultural education, as part of the department's national information systems master plan.
It collects, processes and analyzes statistical and management information relating to agricultural education, research and development. It participates in the development of indicators.
It prepares the national forecasting scheme for training in agricultural technical education, monitors and evaluates its implementation.
It serves as the secretariat for consultation bodies, including the National Council for Agricultural Education, the National Council for Higher Education and Agricultural, Agri-Food and Veterinary Research and the Central Joint Technical Committee for Agricultural Education.
It organizes the system of support for agricultural education, especially with regard to the policy of supporting educational initiatives of institutions.
It monitors the national actions of the support system. It organizes the synergy of these actions with those of the national operational programme of the European Social Fund.
It promotes and coordinates the development of open and remote training, the use of new technologies and the dissemination of educational resources in agricultural education.
It contributes to the development of guidance and the implementation, at the national and regional levels, of the ongoing training of public agricultural education staff.
The General Affairs Mission is responsible for the management of common means across management.
It contributes to the human resources management of management officers.
It is responsible for ensuring consistency in legal and regulatory production and analysis within the management and agricultural education services.
It synthesizes the budget programming for the programs that the DGER is responsible and ensures its execution in conjunction with the sub-directions concerned.
It manages general management activities, including documentary management and logistics. She is the representative of the delegation to the information and communication of the General Secretariat on communications matters.
The management control mission is placed with the Director General. She provides her with management support in the organization and management.
It is responsible for the design and updating of methods and tools aimed at mastering the various aspects of the performance of management action, in conjunction with information systems and the budgetary and accounting organization, the services in charge of management policies and means, and the academic authority for agricultural education.
It designs and establishes the elements of methods for the organization of the management dialogue with the academic authority, on the one hand, and higher education institutions, on the other.
It provides methodological support to national and local public agricultural education institutions for the organization of their management control.
The agricultural teaching mediator is placed with the Director General of Education and Research to improve the dialogue between agents, users and the administration of agricultural education.
The Director General of Education and Research may be assisted in the performance of his duties as officials responsible for permanent inspection missions that contribute to human resources management.
The decision of 6 June 2005 on the organization and responsibilities of the general direction of teaching and research and the decision of 6 June 2005 on the organization of services of the general direction of teaching and research are repealed.
The present order will be issued in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
Done in Paris, June 30, 2008.
Michel Barnier
