Today, the INSA schools are well recognised and other schools or Engineering programmes wish to become involved with the INSA group, or even become fully-fledged INSA schools themselves. The group aims to answer these requests in a constructive manner, through a transparent partnership scheme, capable of:

• helping other schools benefit from our expertise,
   
• reinforcing our position on the national and international level through a coherent, concerted and controlled development policy,
   
• contributing to the structuring of the French engineering education sector while controlling its development.

This process finds justification in many contexts:

• to support the development of a school that wishes to become an INSA, when it is capable of fulfilling the criteria of the INSA charter,
   
• to formalise partnerships between the INSA group and other French schools that do not wish to join the INSA group,
   
• to formalise the involvement of the INSA establishments in existing or planned foreign schools (outside classical cooperation missions initiated by a single establishment),
   
• to consolidate the overall coherence and performance of the INSA group.