Institut des défis
An interdisciplinary institute co-created by Université Paris Cité and the Learning Planet Institute to support ecological and societal transitions within the university and the city.
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Who are we?
The Institut des défis is part of the "Initiatives d'Excellence" national programme & designs new courses and imagines educational approaches to promote collective commitment to environmental and societal issues.
How?
Social and educational engineering
When a project leader (teacher, researcher, student or citizen) identifies a challenge related to a Sustainable Development Goal, we are here to support them through the conception, creation and implementation of a solution.
For who?
The university, citizens and local actors
For anyone driven by a sense of urgency to address ecological and societal challenges and seeking to make a difference by becoming part of an interdisciplinary collective.
For what?
A territorial dimension
To support the university and the city to become the laboratory of the world of tomorrow and meet the complex needs of our time.
Our mission
Our mission is to support the transformation of the university by facilitating interactions between the university, the city and civil society to provide alternative proposals to contemporary challenges.
Our methods and tools
Interdisciplinarity
Develop a capacity for analysis and synthesis from the perspectives of several disciplines
Digital ecosystem
Develop a community, facilitate exchanges and collaboration between peers
Creativity
Learn to think differently
Collective intelligence
Partner with others to solve complex problems
Facilitation
Mediate interactions to bring out the best in everyone involved
Ikigai
Putting your motivation and personal talents into perspective with the needs of the world
Impact
Develop the capacity for analysis and synthesis from the perspectives of several disciplines
Analysis of needs
To provide appropriate and relevant answers
Our impact
Training and support programs aimed at all Université Paris Cité players
Students trained in sustainability issues and interdisciplinary project management
Teachers trained in project-based pedagogy and supported to integrate sustainability issues into their teaching practices
Citizens supported in the development of a project with a positive impact on their immediate surroundings
Act
Get trained, acquire knowledge and practical skills to take action.
Our training programs develop methodological and reflection frameworks to better understand and address the individual and collective issues of a territory.
Act
Join a collective
Organizing in communities to solve complex problems.
The Institut des défis is involved in the development, animation and coordination of three communities with the main objective of taking a reflective look at ways of doing business, doing research, teaching and collaborating.
Join us to expand the field of possibilities.
I want to join a group
Our partners
Cité du Genre
Ville de Paris