Education
Learning
differently at all ages
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.
Based on interdisciplinarity and research, its programmes are designed to have both individual and collective impacts, at local and global levels. In so doing, they contribute to building a learning society for a more sustainable world.
The Education hub encourages people of all ages to embark on a learning journey throughout their whole lives (with training designed for young people, undergraduates and graduates, as well as executives).
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The classroom and beyond
As part of the Education hub, the Youth department develops learning methodologies and educational engineering for young children onwards and throughout life. These programmes and projects are intended to accompany and support education professionals: teachers, educational facilitators, etc.
2023-2024
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Our projects
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Grigny: Builders of Stories
The 2024 edition of Bâtisseurs de Récits (Builders of Stories) is a pilot educational programme that supports young people from the city of Grigny in creating stories around the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The young people are being recruited by the Cité éducative, and the success of this initiative will pave the way for its roll-out to all the secondary schools in Grigny, reaching nearly 1,900 young people in the process.
The theme of the Olympics will be broadened to include the stories of their everyday heroes: a parent, a teacher, a friend, a local resident and so on.
By combining the stories of the children of Grigny with those of the athletes, Bâtisseurs de Récits aims to leave a lasting legacy of intercultural understanding and inspiration.
The productions will be preserved in a digital archive, accessible to the public, to promote the dissemination and celebration of these stories.
By celebrating the richness of people’s journeys and fostering solidarity through the power of storytelling, this project embodies the spirit of inclusion, diversity and empathy that drives the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
By providing a platform for marginalised voices and those of young people to be heard, this project aims to create a meaningful and lasting legacy that transcends borders.
Grigny: early childhood project
The city of Grigny is experiencing a crisis in the early childhood sector as a result of the town’s difficult environment, which is home to families in extreme difficulty and with complex life histories.
Against this backdrop, Grigny is keen to strengthen its educational provision for children under the age of three in pre-school and school settings.
To meet this demand, the Learning Planet Institute is joining forces with the city to propose
- Inventing and prototyping an early-learning and transition class, from pre-school to school, for children aged under three, with a high educational impact, and co-constructed with all the stakeholders (pre-school and school professionals, experts, families, city, institutions, etc.).
- To strengthen the educational content, in order to encourage the development of the very young, from nursery school to kindergarten, by emphasising educational continuity through the training of the professionals involved.
The Learning Planet Institute will draw on the expertise developed in projects such as Bâtisseurs de Possibles and Les Héros Discrets de l’Education.
Avenir(s)
From Year 5 to Year 12, guidance and education are inextricably linked in the concerns of young people.
Choosing a career is all about having desires, finding information, making choices, filling in wishes, being selected, going to a new establishment, choosing a training course or a profession, all the while taking into account one’s academic results. It’s also a process of individual reflection that needs to be supported.
In partnership with Onisep, the aim of this project is to gather information on the guidance needs of pupils and those who support them (teachers, headteachers, guidance psychologists).
Design for Change : Bâtisseurs de Possibles (Builders of Possibilities)
Pedagogical programme for interdisciplinary and citizen projects, designed for education professionals and students alike.
Les Héros Discrets de l'Éducation (The Unsung Heroes of Education)
Enhancing the value of the animation and early childhood professions through innovative training programmes.
LISA France 2030
To better understand, identify, and collaborate in order to better support the well-being and mental health of students. Promote their flourishing with an impact on well-being, school climate, and learning.
The Schools Challenge
A mentoring project to encourage 9th grade students in Seine-Saint-Denis to become interested in sustainable development, science and project management.
Higher Education
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2023-2024
Within the Education hub, the Higher Education department develops university courses, from the bachelor’s degree to the doctoral school.
The degrees are interdisciplinary (with both life sciences and social sciences) and rooted in the world of research. The students are involved in a concrete way, through the integration of new learning methods: peer-to-peer, project-based, research-based, tool prototyping and curriculum co-construction.
Interdisciplinarity and the exploration of new ways of learning give students the necessary tools to act in a systemic way and to respond to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the common thread of their training.
Academic programmes
EURIP Graduate School
The École Universitaire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Paris – EURIP Graduate School, Université Paris Cité, combines fundamental and applied research in the service of the transitions of the 21st century in connection with the Sustainable Development Goals. Interdisciplinary, based on collaborative learning, pedagogical innovation and scientific research methods, it brings together the AIRE Master’s degree and the FIRE doctoral school.
Other activities
The SDG Summer School
Short training course offering project-based learning to address environmental and social issues
“Learning Sciences”
This UNESCO Chair combines research, pedagogy and technology to support teachers, researchers and all of those involved on the ground in building a learning society for a more sustainable future
WasiLab
The Institute is supporting the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) as part of the WasiLab project, a pillar of its ecological transformation programme, to encourage the emergence of sustainable and innovative projects.
Institut des Défis
Co-founded in 2020 with Université Paris Cité, the Institut des Défis (The Institute of challenges – IDD) designs new teaching and educational approaches to encourage collective commitment to environmental and societal issues
Student life
A 5,000 m² campus to exchange and collaborate on individual and collective projects
Sustainable Campus
The Institute is committed to supporting and promoting awareness and the development of sustainable activities on its campus, as well as caring for the environment and the people who use it
Alumni
The Learning Planet Institute has more than 2 000 alumni with different profiles, backgrounds and nationalities
Completed programmes
Power to learn, power to act: our training courses
Our range of training courses enables people to learn and adapt to the challenges of the 21st century, so that they can better engage in societal, environmental and digital transitions.
The Learning Planet Institute combines research, teaching and technology to help individuals, groups and organisations build a learning society for a more sustainable world.
All our training programmes are designed to draw on the experience of our interdisciplinary Masters and Doctoral Schools, our Research Unit on Learning for Transitions and our International Alliance.
Discover our training programmes and become a player in a learning society.
In addition, our ‘Transformation of Organisations’ Hub helps individuals, organisations and ecosystems to develop their capacity for action and adaptation in the face of current and future transitions.
Lifelong learning
Building a meaningful career path through innovative teaching approaches
As part of the Education hub, the Youth department also designs inclusive support programmes for people who need to be (re)mobilised in their personal and professional careers.
The inclusion projects offer innovations in pedagogical support to accompany unemployed people (with a particular focus on young people from the Priority Neighbourhoods of the City) and accompany them towards employment or entrepreneurship. The aim is to build a career path that makes sense for them, while integrating the requirements of sustainable development.
Two methodologies have been developed around
Sustainable employment
Sustainable entrepreneurship
These paths allow beneficiaries to make their projects come true, to enhance and develop their skills, to regain self-confidence and to better understand the labour market.
These individual and collective initiatives integrate innovative pedagogical approaches which are specific to the Learning Planet Institute, such as learning through design, collective intelligence, fablabs and their philosophy, virtual reality and games.
Faire & Play
Faire & Play (Do & Play) is a project dedicated to the residents of priority urban neighbourhoods – city of Paris (13th, 14th and 15th arrondissements) and the Hauts-de-Seine department (cities of Asnières, Gennevilliers and Colombes) – which offers young people who have been excluded from the labour market an intensive remobilisation programme and personalised local support with a view to their long-term integration.
The project is based on the principles of fun and symbolic rewards, the creation of challenges and the development of a sense of belonging and empowerment.
The aim is to reach out to young people aged between 16 and 25 – in person and via social networks – to offer them a range of activities tailored to their needs and desires (e-sport challenges, rap, dance, crafts, etc.).
These activities will then be replicated by the young people themselves: their participation in the organisation of these events will help them to develop the skills they need.
The programme combines group activities with individual support. In addition, the programme provides opportunities for young people to work on their own personal development and career orientation, and to match their demonstrated skills with the needs of companies.
Faire & Play is conducted in consortium with
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