People involved in the project at IREDU: Julien Berthaud and Jean-François Giret
Project duration: 36 months (from September 2022)
Project summary:
IREDU has been appointed by the city of a territory located in Burgundy Franche Comté to evaluate its Cité éducative. The ‘Cités éducatives’, introduced in 2019, “aim to intensify educational care for children and young people aged 0 to 25, before, during, around and after school”. The aim of this policy is to create an alliance between educational players in the Priority Urban Neighborhoods. The Cités éducatives thus aim to federate all those involved in school and extracurricular education, parents, government departments, local authorities, social workers, associations and residents, in the interests of young people. They encourage concerted, participatory action by local players, so that they can work together and support young people through an “individual educational pathway […] in all areas and times of life”. To date, there are 200 Cités éducatives in France.
This project therefore takes the form of evaluative research into the three-year labeling process of a ‘Cité éducative’. The aim of this project is threefold:
- To monitor the actions deployed through the approach, in order to report on all achievements, the audiences reached and the players involved in the actions, by means of assessment sheets;
- Report on the effects of the actions on target audiences (expected or otherwise), assess the usefulness of the actions developed and verify that the expected effects have been produced thanks to the actions carried out (effectiveness) by means of interviews and questionnaires with the professionals and audiences targeted by them;
- Analyze partnership dynamics and governance in the area, in order to identify changes and evolutions in the way players relate to each other and collaborate, and to analyze the effects on professional practices, by means of interviews and questionnaires with governance and key players in the area.