Higher education programmes

FIRE enabled me to strengthen and expand my project through a truly interdisciplinary approach, making my research more robust, transferable and impactful well beyond academia. The programme also provided the structure and international network I needed to broaden my perspective, which ultimately led me to found AFROSOMA, an institute of citizen science rooted in the margins. FIRE is for those who do not fit into boxes and who want their research to genuinely contribute to change!

The Institute allowed me to fully develop my personality, almost without my even realising it. The trust that was placed in me worked like a quiet kind of magic. I was given opportunities — not just any opportunities, but the very best ones — to reveal what was already within me. I thank everyone who supported me along the way. What you do goes far beyond the “simple” boundaries of teaching: you shape personalities and reveal potential… Thank you endlessly for your trust

LPI allowed me to meet extraordinary people — open-minded, passionate and curious (…) I learned that I have the right to dare, to fail, and to draw lessons from those experiences in order to move forward (…) This humanistic, intellectual and cultural crossroads is always supportive, even for the most unconventional profiles. Thanks to LPI, I have been able to bring so many innovative projects into my professional life! (…) Each person has followed their own path and inspiration, sometimes by trial and error and through experimentation, while keeping the ability to step off the beaten track and try new things with an innovative vision. These influences will only continue to grow, contributing to a world that will surely be better with such leaders

The Learning Planet Institute breaks down barriers so that we dare to act. There is a boldness, a latent kind of madness within us, and it comes out! It is like a major RESET of the machine. They try to decondition us so that we can build ourselves in our own way

At 20, I said that the only job I never wanted to do was become a researcher… We all change our minds! (…) Today, you don’t need to follow a straight path to become a researcher

The Institute is a place that transformed me. Nowhere else brings together such a concentration of talent! (…) At the Learning Planet Institute, we are given an incredible space of trust (…) They truly believe in our potential to act (…) My time at the Institute has had a lasting impact on me

There were around fifteen different nationalities (…) The link between play and learning was explored a lot, which was very interesting (…) We were shown how important it is to know where we are going (…) During my internship, we created a MOOC on critical thinking, data science, and digital publishing… The topics were extremely varied. I learned many different things

What I love is the great freedom given to students. You always find support there to turn our ideas into reality, even the most innovative ones, with openness and without judgement (…) LPI offers a genuine openness to the international dimension, interdisciplinarity and creativity. All thesis topics focus on ecological and social challenges. I finally feel that I belong there 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.

The greatest lesson I learned at the Institute? To trust myself, and to seize every opportunity to discuss, take action and collaborate

We were told: “build your own path, figure it out!” The Master’s programme, without traditional lectures, emphasises critical thinking and an entrepreneurial mindset. (…) More generally, there is a real generosity towards young people within the Master’s. It’s not “you young people know nothing”, but quite the opposite!

My most memorable experience was the group discussions (…). It made me realise how much our different academic backgrounds shaped the way we think about the world’s problems (…) within a certain framework, and how much we all had to gain from sharing with one another (…). I believe that such exchanges were crucial in shaping my research questions

What I like about the Institute is that almost anything feels possible there

The Learning Planet Institute has done a great deal 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 are truly interested, you have everything you need to become who you want to be. (…) I would love to go back there

The approach at the Learning Planet Institute is less traditional, more hybrid, and more interdisciplinary. In the same place, there are teachers, researchers and students