Affelnet-Lycée has algorithmically matched hundreds of thousands of French students to secondary schools since 2008. In May 2025 the Paris Administrative Court …
Paris, France
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 90%27/100
Paris is de-paving and greening its 760 public schoolyards to create 'climate shelters'; a 2018–2023 EU-funded pilot instrumented 10 sites and measured …
Since 2018, France's Parcoursup has used local and national ranking algorithms to allocate applicants to higher-education places nationwide. Courts forced partial disclosure …
Paris, France
Literature / resource
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 90%18/100
France's PACA regional council piloted facial-recognition gates at two high schools in Marseille and Nice. The CNIL found the scheme disproportionate before …
Marseille, France
Literature / resource
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 99%7/100
Students at Paris 8's distance-learning institute, backed by La Quadrature du Net, challenged TestWe's facial-recognition exam proctoring. On 31 March 2023 the …