The French public budget › Investing for France 2030 · State · 2026
Support for progress in education and research
Support functions, priority research programmes, major research equipment…: the 3rd largest of the 5 parts of “Investing for France 2030”.
201M€
voted for 2026 in the State budget (budget act)
Year by year
Spent in 2024241M€
Spent in 2025156M€
Voted for 2026201M€
What it pays for, planned in the draft budget for 2025
Support functions37%80M€
Priority research programmes18%40M€
Major research equipment14%31M€
Establishment of graduate research schools14%30M€
New university curricula11%25M€
Educational innovation territories6%13M€
Source: 2024 actual spending (budget outturn act) ↗, 2025 actual spending (budget outturn act) ↗, 2026 budget act as passed ↗, State budget bill for 2025 (data.economie.gouv.fr) ↗.