Savanturiers - École de la recherche

Playing on French words savant, “knowledgeable,” and aventuriers, “adventurers,” the Savanturiers, or the “knowledge explorers”, is a programme developed by the Learning Planet Institute that designs education-through-research projects in preschool through high school classes. The purpose of these projects is to help participants engage with the world in the thoughtful and meticulous way scientific researchers do. They learn about research methods and scientific ethics through serious, challenging projects that develop critical thinking, cooperation and an appetite for exploring the unknown.

The programme accomplishes three things:

• Designs education-through-research projects specific to each classroom with scientific mentors assigned to support each project.
• Offers professional development for teachers.
• Carries out research and development in education.

AIRE Master's

The AIRE Master’s degree is a 2-year Université de Paris programme hosted by the Learning Planet Institute. With a strong focus on interdisciplinary and research-based projects, the programme is geared towards researchers and entrepreneurs in the life, learning and digital sciences. The curriculum includes innovative courses and learning-by-doing training through internships in different labs, startups and other companies. Every year, the 100-plus students we welcome in the AIRE Master’s are people who think and act critically about the world’s most pressing problems and want to work towards attaining the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Drawing on open-science approaches, collaborative interdisciplinary projects and a challenge-based approach to learning, the many renowned researchers, teachers and mentors involved in teaching the programme are what make it truly exceptional. Students rapidly develop new skills in this potent, stimulating environment where creators, entrepreneurs and researchers come together to problem solve. Students likewise are encouraged to get involved in the collaborative projects pursued in our student clubs and labs. All three tracks in the programme—life, learning and digital sciences—offer high-level training in critical thinking, design and communication and help develop soft skills that will allow students to map their own research and career paths.

We promote diversity and gender equality. We are proud of our extensive alumni network of more than 500 students representing 20 nationalities, many of whom have gone on to become acclaimed researchers and entrepreneurs.

EURIP Graduate School

The EURIP Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Research (École Universitaire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Paris) in Paris, or simply the EURIP Graduate School, advances fundamental and applied research in order to drive knowledge forward in the life, learning and digital sciences.

The graduate school aims to train student-researchers to be highly skilled and multi-skilled in order to act as innovators and change makers tackling the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals pertaining to health and education. Students graduate with both practical knowledge and the transdisciplinary skills of communication, ethics, critical thinking, creativity and entrepreneurship that are so vital in today’s world.

The AIRE Master’s and the FIRE PhD programmes (see above for details) compose the EURIP Graduate School. Both programmes are renowned for their academic excellence and unrivalled focus on interdisciplinarity, collaboration, student empowerment and educational innovation.

The EURIP’s student-centred approach to learning offers thorough mastery of state-of-the-art scientific research methods while exposing students to:

• Action-based research approaches in design and citizen and participatory sciences
• Entrepreneurship
• The interplay between science and society
• Collaborative and hands-on learning through research