It is to the territorial civil service what the National Institute of Public Service (INSP, ex-ENA) is to the State civil service. In twenty-five years of activity, the National Institute of Territorial Studies (INET) has been able to develop an active and transversal pedagogy to train senior executives who are experts in their field but also and above all capable of working under the authority of elected officials. local. Based in Strasbourg, the Grande Ecole of the National Center for the Territorial Public Service welcomes up to 4,000 managers each year as part of continuing education and develops training and internships in its areas of expertise (strategic management, resource management, European issues).
Above all, it trains the winners of the four competitions for local public service executives: administrators, chief engineers, heritage curators and library curators. One hundred and seventy students are called upon to supervise the services of regions, departments, intermunicipalities or municipalities with more than 40,000 inhabitants, and to whom INET provides training for twelve to eighteen months. A specificity that its president, François Deluga, mayor (Socialist Party, PS) of Teich (Gironde), wishes to keep.
The project to reform the senior civil service has indeed caused fear in Strasbourg, and not only on the benches of the INSP. Reflections have thus emerged for a merger of the two major schools of public service. A perspective firmly dismissed on December 14 by Stanislas Guerini. “I am resolutely convinced of the uniqueness of the civil service, but that should not erase the specificities. There will never be any question of merging INET and INSP, especially since the former is a pioneer in terms of cross-functionality and business approach. The INSP must be inspired by it”affirmed the Minister of the Public Service on the occasion of the celebrations of the 25e anniversary of the establishment.
Two “Talent” classes
A practical school, INET favors learning based on collective projects, with common modules involving students from different sectors. At the exit, the latter are not classified but simply registered on the aptitude list. It is up to them to find the position and the community that will suit them. “We are in an organization where the elected official and the civil servant choose each other; this induces a collective work between the two. The agents are also required to work together, between the different sectors making up the community; this generates a reflex of cooperation which is totally different from the way of functioning of the services of the State “, notes François Deluga. This transversal spirit, the INET breathed into the module of the common core that the State charged it with developing for all the schools of the public service and devoted to the environmental transition.
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