As we begin this new year, I would like to extend my sincere and warmest wishes to each and every one of you.

The coming year marks a time of profound change for our Faculty; it opens a new chapter in its history, combining continuity and disruption. The reforms currently underway, the overhaul of our educational offerings, and the evolution of our organization are collectively engaging us in a demanding, sometimes uncomfortable, but deeply meaningful process. These changes cannot happen without you: they rely on the collective intelligence, dialogue, and trust that drive our teams on a daily basis.

Training is at the heart of this collective project. As part of the accreditation and development of our new training program, the Faculty of Education has a clear ambition: to offer clear, coherent, and demanding courses that are backed by research and closely linked to professional realities. This development fully incorporates major contemporary issues, foremost among which are the ecological transition and the critical development of citizens and future citizens. Training today also means preparing professionals who are capable of thinking about the relationships between education, the environment, and social responsibility, and who can contribute to the development of an education for ecological transition that is attentive to territories, resources, and future generations.

This educational ambition is also based on a strong emphasis on the arts, culture, and international mobility. Artistic and cultural practices, like mobility experiences, are essential levers for broadening horizons, recognizing otherness, developing sensitivity and critical thinking, and opening up to other ways of living in the world. They play a key role in shaping enlightened individuals who are capable of engaging with diverse cultures and participating in educational and civic spaces at both the local and international levels.

In a world marked by deep social, cultural, environmental, and digital divides, education remains an essential common good. It is a space for encounter, transmission, and the construction of meaning, where critical thinking, respect for others, and the ability to build society are cultivated. The Faculty of Education fully embraces this mission with humanity, rigor, and conviction.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all staff, faculty, students, and partners for their commitment, adaptability, and sense of community. It is thanks to this shared dynamic, this attention to others, and this mutual trust that our Faculty is transforming itself and looking toward the future.

May this new year be marked by openness, cooperation, and shared momentum, in the service of a dynamic faculty and an education that rises to the challenges of our time—social, democratic, cultural, and ecological.

I wish you all a very happy new year.