"We are aiming for 1,500 distributors and full free admission at the start of the school year," announced the Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal, about hygienic protection for students.
Experiments had already been set up, but still at the local level.
Periodic protection will be free at the start of the next school year for all students, announced Tuesday the Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal, a decision which is part of the fight against precariousness among young people.
"Environmentally friendly" protections
In the coming weeks, the university residences of the Crous and the university health services will be equipped with distributors of hygienic protection, announced Frédérique Vidal during a meeting in Poitiers with students.
"We are aiming for 1,500 distributors and full free admission at the start of the school year," she added.
These protections will be "environmentally friendly", specifies the ministry.
This announcement comes as the minister has appeared weakened in recent days, after the controversy sparked by her outings on Islamo-leftism.
Seeming in a hurry to turn the page, she has been hammering since her "priority is the question of students".
The free periodical protection in higher education was decided after a consultation work between the minister and various actors (parliamentarians, representative student organizations, or even the Elementary Rules association), specified Frédérique Vidal.
According to a study carried out by the Association Fédérative des Etudiants de Poitiers and the National Association of Midwife Students in February, a third of female students would need help in order to be able to purchase periodic protection.
Initiatives previously tested at the local level
Until now in France, initiatives existed but often remained local.
At the beginning of February, the Ile-de-France region, for example, announced that the universities and student residences in the region would soon be equipped with free distributors of organic periodic protection.
This measure is in addition to others, taken in favor of young people, hard hit by the health crisis.
In January, Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a "psy check" for students and the setting up of two meals a day for one euro in U.
Progress "insufficient" in the eyes of organizations like the UNEF, which calls for an emergency plan of 1.5 billion euros, starting with an immediate increase in grants and APL and the establishment of a social safety net for all students.