Last February, numerous testimonies from female students emerged around the hashtag #SciencesPigs on social networks, reporting incidents of sexist and sexual violence (SGBV) within the Instituts d'études politiques. In response, the Chief of Staff of the French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation wrote to the Inspectorate General for Education, Sport and Research (IGÉSR), asking it to carry out an investigation. mission to combat gender-based and sexual violence in political studies institutes.
CPED and the network VSS Formation were interviewed in the spring as part of this mission. As a result, the IGÉSR has today published 38 recommendations, backed up by an online report. These recommendations focus as much on national and institutional steering as on the professionalization of these systems. The IGÉSR also specifies that " the majority of these proposals are intended to apply to all higher education establishments. "