Our youth engagement programmes

Discover, imagine, build, act. On campus or online

The Learning Planet Academy

Our global model for educational transformation

Our youth engagement programs are aimed at learners who are seeking to develop their capacity for action in the face of the essential challenges that are 

As part of our global educational transformation model - the Learning Planet Academy - our programs combine project-based learning, action research and Design Thinking to learn by experimenting, collaborating and making sense. 

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Our academic programmes

  • EURIP Graduate School

    Driving change towards a sustainable future

    EURIP welcomes students and young researchers keen to tackle the major contemporary challenges of sustainability and global health, using innovative, interdisciplinary and unconventional approaches.

    EURIP hosts a Master's program and a Doctoral School.

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  • Meaningful Open Opportunities for Discovery (MOOD)

    For 15-35 year-olds who want to change the world and get involved

    MOODs are immersive, certifying learning paths created by the Institute. 18-35 year-olds explore their raison d'être by tackling global challenges through concrete projects.

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Testimonials

Our EURIP alumni

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 de-format us so that we can build ourselves in our own way.

Flora Vincent

We used to be told, “Make your own path, you're on your own!” The Master's program, which is devoid of lectures, emphasizes critical and entrepreneurial thinking. (...) Generally speaking, there's a real generosity towards young people within the Master's program. It's not a case of “you young people don't know anything”, but quite the opposite!

Jean-Philippe Cointet

The Institut is a place that has transformed me. No other place has such a concentration of talent! (...) At the Learning Planet Institute, they give us an incredible amount of confidence (...) They really believe in our potential for action (...) My time at the Institute has really had a long-term impact on me.

Francesca Anselmi

My most vivid memory is of the group discussions (...). I realised how much our different educational backgrounds conditioned us to think about the world's problems (...) within a certain framework, and how much we all had to gain from sharing (...). I think that such exchanges were crucial in formulating my research questions

Martin Lenz

When I was 20, I said that the only job I didn't want to do was be a researcher... We all change our minds! (...) You don't have to follow a straight path to become a researcher today

Aude Bernheim

The Learning Planet Institute has done a lot for me. I owe the success of my career to the Institute. (...) I didn't know how to do research. I was able to explore my own path (...) If you're really interested, you have everything you need to become who you want to be. (...) I'd love to go back there.

Edward Kwarteng

What I love is the great freedom given to students. We always find support to bring our ideas to life, even the most innovative ones, with an open mind and without judgement (...) The LPI offers a real openness to international perspectives, interdisciplinarity and creativity. All thesis topics focus on ecological and social issues. I finally feel like I belong The LPI offers a truly international, interdisciplinary and creative outlook. All the thesis topics focus on ecological and social issues. I finally feel like I belong.

Manon Sala

MOOD participants

This program helped me go beyond simple awareness to truly understand how to act... It reminds us that action starts small but grows stronger together

Ambrose, 25, Kenya
MOOD for Climate Action

Transformative: it helped me connect my personal Ikigai to real-world challenges. I leave with total clarity on my future goals

Maria, 20, Saudi Arabia
MOOD for Climate Action

Better than classic school learning! The facilitators create a safe space to collaborate with like-minded youth worldwide

Sakshi, 20, Nepal
MOOD for Climate Action

 Getting involved internationally

  • The Learning Planet Youth Design Challenge

    A global call for innovative education projects, by young people and for young people

    This international challenge for 15–26-year-olds addresses three themes: environment & climate, peace & democracy, and mental health & wellbeing.

    Selected participants receive online training and mentoring; 12 winners are awarded grants to bring their projects to life.

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  • The LearningPlanet Festival

    A collective space for dialogue and action to rethink education

    Held in a decentralised, worldwide format — online, onsite and hybrid — the LearningPlanet Festival brings together hundreds of thousands of participants from 193 countries each January, around International Education Day, to shape the future of learning.

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  • Learning Planet Youth Ventures

    Turn Your Commitment into Real-World Impact

    This programme is a unique online experience designed for young people aged 14 to 18 who are concerned about global issues and want to take concrete action in favour of the SDGs.

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  • Peaceful Futures

    Training young leaders to build peace

    The Peaceful Futures programme — a joint initiative of Global Education Futures and the Learning Planet Institute, aligned with UNESCO’s priorities — aims to train and empower young leaders around the world, enabling them to become active peacebuilders.

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  • ReModelUN

    Reinventing United Nations Models

    ReModelUN transforms the Model United Nations (MUN) experience. Participants propose their own innovative ideas, synthesized by AI and transmitted to UN agencies for real impact.

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  • Seasonal Schools

    Learning by doing for the SDGs

    A short training programme based on project-based learning, designed to address ecological and social challenges linked to the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Testimonials

Learning Planet Youth Design Challenge participants

Incubation enabled me to transform a simple idea into a structured, well-thought-out project. I learned to think in terms of scale (scalability) and to refine my communication. I came away with the conviction that small ideas, properly supported, can become sustainable, impactful initiatives.

Arpita, 24, India

I discovered much more than a program: a caring space filled with people who truly believe in the power of youth. I learned that leadership isn't about doing everything yourself, but about creating something that others want to nurture with you.

Monserrat, 18, Mexico

Too often, adults ignore young people or pretend to listen to them. Here, we're seeing a real change: we're moving towards dialogue and co-construction. We don't just talk to young people, we work with them, giving them a real decision-making role.

Daniel, 17, United States

LearningPlanet Festival participants

It's a community of “changemakers” that's hugely motivating. Seeing other young people taking action for their community (...) is a source of inspiration. You find mentors, you share your passions and, above all, you realize that you're not alone in wanting to make a difference.

Matthew, 14, United States; Andrei, 17, Russia; and Akira, 16, Japan

The LearningPlanet Festival is a rewarding space that connects us to the real world. We go from the field to meeting policy-makers and social entrepreneurs. By dialoguing with previous generations, we make our projects more concrete and speak out to multiply our impact.

Raven Frias (Alumna) and Jerry Chan (Youth Fellow)

ReModelUN participants

This format allowed us to debate not as rivals, but as startup founders. By embracing total creative freedom, we moved beyond existing structures to propose alternative models. This collective energy reminded me why ReModelUN is essential: it's one of the few spaces where you really have the right to imagine the future.

ReModelUN Participant 1

ReModelUN is a transformative experience that pushes us out of our comfort zone. Here, no one is out to win: we learn to suspend our egos to co-create. It's a rare space that offers the freedom to dream and collaborate across boundaries, revealing the true essence of diplomacy: respect, active listening and building a shared goal.

ReModelUN Participant 2

Seasonal School participants

At Learning Planet Institute, there's an open-mindedness that I haven't found anywhere else. You're accepted as you are, and you can live life to the full.

Roua Mazouz

It's a very rich and multicultural environment (...) When they told us that we were going to be able to develop our projects and our dreams, I said to myself that there was really room to deploy our potential (...) The environment is very pleasant, the people are kind, encouraging and curious (...) For me, the Summer School was the beginning of a dream.

Yuxuan Li
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Getting involved in France, in and beyond school

  • Grigny: a laboratory for educational success

    Addressing local challenges through pedagogical innovation

    This initiative tackles school and social disengagement in Grigny by experimenting with and modelling new pedagogical approaches throughout the educational journey of children aged 2 to 18, both in and beyond school, securing learning pathways and easing transitions.

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  • The Schools Challenge

    Urban and eco-responsible challenges for lower secondary students

    In partnership with JPMorganChase, this educational mentoring program aims to develop the interest of secondary school students in Seine-Saint-Denis in sustainable development and STEM, and to encourage them to take ownership of urban and local issues through project management.

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  • “Bâtisseurs de Possibles” method

    A ready-to-use interdisciplinary, civic approach

    A ready-to-use interdisciplinary, civic approach A turnkey pedagogy for interdisciplinary, civic-driven projects, designed for education professionals and their students.

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Testimonials

Les Bâtisseurs is different because it shows us that even if we're small, on our own scale, we can do a lot of things (...) We don't really see it as work. We really take it as a game (...) When, for example, we have ideas, and someone else has another idea, and then we add them together and it makes good ideas (...) I've learned that you're never too young to do something big, and that in fact a little of everything is possible.

Primary school pupils
Builders of Possibilities

The Schools Challenge has changed my vision of education. It's not necessarily repetitive and focused on learning lessons (...), but much broader and more fun. I've also changed my vision of group work. I always thought I could do everything on my own, but now I know that group work is important, I'd even say necessary, and without my group, our project wouldn't be as great as it is.

Kryss
Student, The Schools Challenge

Thanks to this experience, I've realized that I'm capable of doing things I thought impossible before. I've learned to express myself better, to listen to others more attentively and to be patient. The program also showed me that, with motivation and determination, you can really see things through to the end.

Kahina
Student, The Schools Challenge
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