EURIP opens applications for interdisciplinary research on planetary challenges
Learning Planet Institute's Graduate School in Paris seeks students willing to cross disciplinary boundaries to address systemic challenges — a model that tests whether academic structures can adapt to planetary-scale problems.
The École Universitaire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire de Paris (EURIP) has opened applications for its 2026 cohort, explicitly targeting students interested in working across disciplines on what it calls “the grand challenges facing our world.” Hosted by the Learning Planet Institute, the graduate program positions itself as training ground for researchers who won’t stay within traditional academic silos.
The framing matters. EURIP structures itself around problem-driven inquiry rather than departmental logic — the kind of institutional redesign that governance innovation requires but universities rarely attempt. Whether the model produces researchers capable of addressing interconnected crises, or simply adds interdisciplinary credentials to conventional career paths, remains an open question.
The application window represents a modest but concrete test: can educational institutions be reconfigured to match the complexity of the systems they study? Paris becomes one more site where that experiment unfolds, joining similar efforts from Arizona State’s College of Global Futures to Utrecht’s Copernicus Institute. The challenge isn’t recruitment — it’s whether graduates find pathways that reward boundary-crossing work.