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The Institute is a place that has transformed me. No other place has such a concentration of talent! (...) I had an incredible community of colleagues. We learned a lot from each other (...) They gave us an incredible amount of confidence (...) They really believed in our potential to act (...) My time at the Institute really had a long-term impact on me.

We were trained in different disciplines, different methods, but also to collaborate in a broad way (...) We were confronted with the human sciences, design and art, which inevitably led us to develop projects at the science/society interface (...) I said at the age of 20 that the only job I didn't want to do was to be a researcher... We all change our minds! (...) You don't have to follow a straight path to become a researcher, these days.

We were told: ‘make your own path, you'll manage! The Master's programme, which is devoid of lectures, emphasises critical and entrepreneurial thinking. We could choose any lab, any article to work on. Scientific articles were scrutinised in this way: the students deconstructed the protocol to find any flaws and remedy them (...) Generally speaking, there is a real generosity towards young people within the Master's programme. It's not a case of ‘you young people don't know anything’, but quite the opposite! People are interested in the educational experience in the strongest sense of the term.

The Learning Planet Institute breaks down the barriers to daring. There's an audacity, a latent madness in us, and it's coming out! It's a big RESET of the machine. They're trying to deform us so that we can build ourselves in our own way. The Institute opens up a world of possibilities, and I'm one of the people who got the most out of it.

After taking part in this programme and hearing other people's opinions, I gained a sense of identity. I feel like I know myself a lot better now and I know what I want for my future.

I said to myself: this place looks like me. I watched a lot of videos. It was so inspiring! There are no barriers. You learn by doing and they give you all the confidence you need to try new things. It's a real opportunity. I've found a new family here. Even as a student, I'm listened to, I'm heard, I can develop my projects as I wish. There's so much to gain from working together and sharing ideas!

The biggest lesson I learnt at the Institute? To trust myself, to seize every opportunity to discuss, act and collaborate.

There were about fifteen different nationalities (...) The link between games and learning was explored in great depth, it was interesting (...) They showed us how important it is to know where you're going (...) During my placement, we created a MOOC on critical thinking, data science, digital publishing... The subjects were extremely varied. I learned a lot of different things.

My most vivid memory is of the group discussions with the other students. I realised the extent to which our different backgrounds conditioned us to think about the problems of the world around us within a certain framework, and the richness we all had to gain from sharing and mixing our respective frameworks. I believe that such exchanges were crucial in the formulation of my research questions.

The Master's opened up a whole range of perspectives for me. First of all, what interdisciplinarity really means. And then I was able to rub shoulders with people from all over the world, with completely different backgrounds, and I was enriched by these encounters and these projects.