The regional council of Ile de France

The Region is a recent community, created with the decentralization laws in 1982. The first regional elections were held in March 1986 by direct universal suffrage and have been held every six years.

Today, the Region is involved in many areas: high schools, apprenticeship and vocational training, land use planning, sustainable development, transport, planning, interventions in rural areas, economic development (aid to industry, crafts, agriculture, tourism and foreign trade). It also operates in the fields of higher education and research, culture, sports, leisure, regional tourism.

The Region acts most often in partnership with the State, other local authorities, public bodies, the socio-professional world and associations...

Regarding the high schools, the competences of the Region are defined by the law of decentralization of 22 July 1983. The Regional Council is responsible for the construction, renovation, equipment and smooth running of establishments. It can organize or support educational activities. All these investments are aimed at education, the success of high school students as well as their access to autonomy and citizenship. For school life, the actions of educational policies contribute to making high school students active in their training and broaden their references (health education, road safety awareness, violence prevention, discovery of Europe and international institutions, duty to remember...). In partnership with the academies, the Region supports educational teams who act to propose innovative educational projects, but also to prevent school dropout and promote "success for all".

It is within the framework of these educational policies that the Region has been engaged since July 2000 in a partnership with the Shoah Memorial aimed at informing and raising awareness among high school students about the history of the Holocaust.