The department is in charge of:
- Elaborating and realizing national programs of research in the educational, pedagogical and didactical field.
- Collecting necessary elements for the identification of research projects to undertake as well as the data enabling their programming and their implementation.
- Fostering and promoting the integration, the mastery and the progress of science and techniques as well as technological innovation in its field of activity.
- Ensuring the training, the retraining and enhancement of research personnel. Contributing to the training through and for the research; ensuring the coordination and the follow-up of unities, sections and research teams.
- Making a permanent assessment of the educational system with contrastive researches on the educational systems.
- Assessing and analyzing the performance of the formation system.
- Conducting assessment studies on the education programs.
- Ensuring the assessment of unities, laboratories and research teams.
- Conducting researches and promoting expertise on the governance and the financing of the educational system.
- Ensuring the follow-up and the assessment of research projects of the institute in addition to studies that fall under the plan of research provisions on behalf of institutions and external organizations.
- Monitoring the implementation and the efficiency of follow-up tools and projects.
- Contributing to the follow-up of projects progress in accordance with the contracts provisions committed within the deadlines and budgets to projects.
- Taking charge of the needs of researchers in charge of projects and ensuring their satisfaction through structures of support.
- Elaborating and actualizing the textbook of researchers and institutions of research.
- Supporting the scientific council in the evaluation of stages of projects and analyzing gaps and procedures of adjustment to undertake.
- Ensuring the functioning and the development of actions of training through research in connection with the ministry, the universities and the partner institutes.
- Ensuring the management and the development of information systems, database, applications and websites.
- Ensuring collection, treatment, dissemination and saving of scientific and technical information in the field of education and pedagogy and make available to users.
It includes two services:
- Service of follow-up of research projects and training through the research.
- Service of networks and database.
