The chair is closely linked to a process of structuring educational research and teacher training. Through this, ENSETP and ESPE hope to contribute to the development of North-South-South inter-relations by building research and expertise networks in the areas of teacher training and science and technology education; for these networks it is about developing mutual understanding between stakeholders and agents through the contextual dynamics in which they operate and the factors influencing them. It is about developing best practice communities which interact and share common issues in order to carry out useful, sustainable and appropriate actions. These networks will be drivers for work that will generate shared studies, leading to the pooling of skills and fields of action. Company actions will be finalised on the basis of the social needs of network members in relation to teaching, education and training. The work will encourage the sharing of testimonies, in particular through the analysis of what works and what does not work, and the pooling of resources, methods and tools for research, training and education. With this end in mind, ENSETP and ESPE will work closely with the IICBA network (International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa).
It supports the structuring of teacher training in African countries by focusing on supporting the organisation of research into science and technology education in each of the institutions concerned. The project should enable the mobility of students, training providers and researchers in North-South exchanges but should also enable South-South exchanges to be structured and developed.
For students, it is a question of encouraging openness to other contexts, other training structures, other approaches to professional life. For teacher training providers, it is about comparing skills, consolidating knowledge and developing new approaches. For researchers, it is about strengthening the local scientific environment, helping the emergence of teams and local laboratories as well as the development of basic research targeted to meet local education teaching and training needs. This requires the development of publication policies, an establishment of research to be exploited in close contexts, or through the development of multi-partner projects.