Shortly after the election, Geneviève Fioraso, minister for higher education and research, launched an assessment process led by an independent committee in dialogue with the university community.
Ministers in charge of Higher Education and Research would be responsible for 5-year strategic national plans.
The law provides that "coordination is organized by only one establishment of higher education for a given territory [academic or interacademic]".
Every institution of higher education needed to plan for the following to establish this coordination: The Association of universities and higher education institutions (communauté d’universités et établissements) is a new type of EPSCP created by this law; at the same time, the pôles de recherche et d'enseignement supérieur (PRES), the réseaux thématiques de recherche avancée (RTRA) and the établissements publics de coopération scientifique (EPCS), created by the 2006 law on research coordination are discontinued.
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