Institut des Défis

The Learning Planet Institute co-created the Institut des Défis (IDD, “the Institute of challenges”) in 2020, with Université Paris Cité, in order to design and explore new pedagogical devices based on inclusiveness, collective intelligence, as well as on open, interdisciplinary and participatory sciences, following the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The original mission of the IDD is to transform universities (and therefore societies) by spreading the methods and issues of collective intelligence and sustainable development. This programme – part of the Initiatives d’Excellence Université Paris Cité – has already initiated several projects based on the Learning Planet Institute’s emblematic expertise, methodology, tools and environment.

Adapting the strategy of Université Paris Cité, the Institut des Défis also aims at creating places where researchers and citizens can meet. The IDD now integrates a new territorial and local dimension. Various IDD programmes are thus designed to be integrated to community projects, in order to take action for and with citizens and local decision-makers.