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‪When launching the Centre d’Histoire Sociale in 1986, FEN was the first national trade union to have a training and research body. In 1997, it became the Centre Henri Aigueperse and surprisingly has only recently begun to address educational and pedagogical issues, still on a limited scale. Socio-economical, historical and public sector issues have been much more widely addressed. This can partly be explained by the fact that it is largely financed by the IRES, a civil service institute, but it also shows that trade union educational mandates are usually more about reaching a compromise between member unions than establishing solid practice. The creation of the Federation, which has become UNSA Éducation, has encouraged synergy between educational research and teaching, allowing the emergence of a clear educational policy framework.‪