France Stratégie's programme for 2021 has a simple but demanding ambition: our work should provide useful contributions to public policy when the latter is facing unprecedented challenges. The health, economic, and social crisis of 2020 has represented a double-challenge for France Stratégie: taking it into account in our work in order to providedecision-makers and public opinion with up-to-date information on topical issues while intensifying our efforts to carry out the medium- and long-term projects initially planned. We believe that we have taken up this challenge.

France Stratégie's mission is to provide public authorities, as well as all our fellow citizens, with original and useful insights for public decision-making about France's economic, environmental and social challenges, to formulate relevant public policy proposals, and to evaluate public policies, with a consistent regard for quality and openness.

A common theme runs through all the studies set to be launched in 2019: providing France with a model for sustainable development in all its aspects – economy, society, public finances, territories and, of course, environment.

The Covid-19 pandemic remained unpredictable in 2021, as the progression of the Omicron variant dramatically demonstrated. However, the economic situation has seen an increasing number of encouraging indicators, month after month, on activity and employment. This tends to show that the very large-scale policies put in place to deal with the crisis that began in early 2020 have achieved their objectives.