Vocational high schools were set up as a "national cause" in early May by President Emmanuel Macron. The vocational baccalaureate river transport of the Emile-Mathis polyvalent high school in Schiltigheim (Bas-Rhin) is one of the few in France to offer training in river transport professions.
The recent tightening of European standards, more demanding on the number of days of navigation necessary for the training of pilots, causes "tension at the level of (these) jobs"