Audrey AZOULAY, Minister of Culture and Communication and Thierry MANDON, State Secretary for Higher Education and Research, were awarded this day by Dominique Gillot, Senator of Val d'Oise and President of the National Council of Technical and Industrial Scientific Culture (CSTI), the national strategy of technical and industrial scientific culture.
This national strategy provides guidelines for the development of scientific, technical and industrial culture and brings together all the actors concerned around major national priorities. It fits perfectly within the framework of the national research strategy and will be complementary to the strategy for cultural research, which will soon be made public by the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
The national strategy sets out five strategic orientations: to raise the knowledge of the actors and promote their mutual recognition; to develop knowledge of digital technology and its uses; to strengthen democratic debate and support for public policies; to introduce the scientific process to the greatest number and finally to share the culture of innovation and the knowledge of the technical and industrial heritage.
France is a country of excellence for both research and culture, thus cultivating the heritage of the Enlightenment, science and culture participating in individual emancipation. The development of scientific, technical and industrial culture responds to the need for science and its indisputable facts, at the time of the advent of alternative facts and the «post-truth» and rise of fanaticism. It also responds to the need for culture to continue to believe in a common destiny whose creation and imagination remain the strongest pillars. Finally, it responds to our desire to build a common destiny for Europe based on the added value of innovation and our ability to spread it in society for the well-being of all.