Changing the world is something you can learn!
More than ever, it is urgent to provide young generations with the tools to think and act in order to build futures where everyone can reach their full potential and contribute to tackling the major challenges of our time; where young people have a voice in decisions that affect them; where Education is focused on equipping them with the skills needed for the world to come.
The Learning Planet Institute aims to transform the way we learn and teach, so that every learner becomes an agent of change committed to Peace and Sustainability.
Our Mission
Since 2006, the Learning Planet Institute has been dedicated to reinventing learning for all ages (lifelong learning) through collective intelligence in order to build sustainable & inclusive learning societies able to rise to the complex challenges we face.
The Institute’s mission is to explore, research and share new ways of learning and cooperating in order to respond to the needs of the youth and the planet. By encouraging and disseminating a culture, methods and tools for empowerment, it transforms organisations. Ultimately, it leads communities and supports “Learning Planetizens” to take care of themselves, the others and the planet.
To achieve its goals, the Learning Planet Institute creates research and educational programmes based on interdisciplinarity, diversity and initiative. This relies on the synergies between its activities: R&D (search), Education (learn), International Alliance (unite), Transformation of Organisations (accompany) and Digital Ecosystems (provide).
What we
stand for
The Learning Planet Institute advocates a large-scale collaboration to co-build a learning society, capable of addressing the complex challenges we face, today and in the future. In this society, the “Learning Planetizens” would learn to take care of themselves, the others and the planet.
To achieve these goals, the Institute explores, researches and shares new ways of learning and cooperating. It encourages the development of learning ecosystems and communities, working together to find sustainable solutions and ways to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Our
values
We facilitate peer-learning, creativity and cooperation.
Using collective intelligence
We cultivate critical thinking and exchange between the fields of knowledge.
Promoting interdisciplinarity
We infuse caring, consideration and respect for people and the environment into the life of our community.
Cultivating and caring of oneself, others and the planet
We celebrate the richness of our multicultural and inclusive community.
Welcoming diversity
We see positive thinking as a force for hope and success.
Cultivating enthusiasm and optimism
We encourage our communities to think freely and act with agency.
Fostering empowerment
Our
values
We cultivate critical thinking and exchange between the fields of knowledge
We facilitate peer-learning, creativity and cooperation
We infuse caring, consideration and respect for people and the environment into the life of our community
We celebrate the richness of our multicultural and inclusive community
We see positive thinking as a force for hope and success
We encourage our communities to think freely and act with agency.
Our design
principles
Learning by doing and through research
We question the world and design original methods using scientific approaches.
Building unique communities
We create physical and digital spaces that favor encounters and
co-construction.
Experimenting and sharing
We prototype and learn from both our successes and our mistakes.
Thinking outside the box
We dream and design creatively our projects, methods and tools.
Redefining the rules of the game sustainably
We implement practices that can accelerate large-scale transitions.
Using digital innovation to disseminate
We use technology to explore and share knowledge at an unprecedented scale.
Our
activities
In order to carry out its mission and create interdisciplinary,
inclusive and digital research and education programmes,
the Learning Planet Institute relies on the synergies
created between its main areas of activity
R&D
In order to promote the transformation of learning—and thus to have a positive impact on the planet—the R&D department uses research and technology to develop projects focusing on artificial intelligence, learning and collective intelligence, and frugal innovation. These projects are thought of and conducted according to their final purposes.
Education
The Education hub creates and transforms educational programmes and practices, at the individual and collective levels, to enable people to learn in alternative ways, both inside and outside of academic institutions.
International
Created by the Learning Planet Institute and UNESCO, the International Alliance is a global community of practice dedicated to the transformation of education and to the co-construction of a learning society.
Transformation of Organisations
The Transformation of Organisations hub contributes to the evolution of educational systems and to the transformation of organisations, both public and private, into more efficient learning structures.
Digital Ecosystems
As digital tools facilitate collective intelligence within organisations, the Learning Planet Institute’s Digital Ecosystems hub has created platforms that reflect the pedagogy advocated by and at the Institute. They enable users to rethink and encourage peer learning, allowing them to share their skills and initiatives.
Sustainable campus
Since the Learning Planet Institute is determined to become a major actor in education, following the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), our building must operate along the same lines.
Our
impact
In 2023-2024
Our
partners
The Learning Planet Institute would like to warmly thank
Our founding patron
The Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, our founding patron, for its generosity and trust, and for the crucial support it has brought to us since our creation.
Read the speech of Mrs Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, President of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, at the inauguration of our campus on 4 October 2018 (in French).
Film: "An Adventure at the Crossroads of Knowledge"
20 Years of Partnership Between the Learning Planet Institute & the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
Subtitles available in French and/or English; to be chosen in the YouTube settings of the video
Our historical partners
Many thanks to the City of Paris and UNESCO, who support the development and ambitions of the Learning Planet Institute from local to global scale
Our academic and research partners
The Learning Planet Institute hosts and develops its teaching and research programmes with
Our private partners
To fund the high-impact projects we carry out
Fédération Nationale Profession Sport & Loisirs
Botnar Foundation
Fondation engagement médias pour les jeunes (under the aegis of the Fondation de France)
Forvia Foundation
L'Oréal Foundation
Fondation d’entreprise Malakoff Humanis Handicap
Orange Foundation
Fondation pour l'écriture (hosted by the Académie des sciences morales et politiques)
JPMorganChase
Porticus
Templeton World Charity Foundation
Our public partners
To fund the high-impact projects we carry out
Ambassade de France en Équateur - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
Agence nationale de la recherche
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations - Banque des Territoires
École normale supérieure
Erasmus+
Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
Onisep
Région Île-de-France
Secrétariat général pour l'investissement (SGPI)
Union européenne
Aix-Marseille Université
Our projects partners
The Learning Planet Institute contributes to the implementation of concrete and ambitious projects alongside
AIME
Apprentis d'Auteuil
Arizona State University
British Council
Centrale Supélec
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Child Mind Institute
Cité éducative de Grigny
Collège Iqbal Masih
Collège Miriam Makeba
Consortium CRISalid
Constructor University
Design for Change France
École Suger
European Citizen Science Association
Fondation AD Education
Fondation UVED
Global Education Futures
Global Education Leaders Partnership
Hôpital Robert-Debré AP-HP
iféa
iGEM Foundation
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Maison de l'Apprendre
MasterPeace
Mission Laïque Française
Nokia Bell Labs
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Salzburg Global
SciencesPo Paris
Sorbonne Université
Synergie Family
TAAP Foundation
Teach For All
Université Catholique de Lille
Université de Genève
Université de Strasbourg
University College London
Ville de Grigny
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