Innovative educational methods
- Université Gustave Eiffel /
- Training /
- Innovative educational methods
Supporting educational innovation is one of the ambitions of Université Gustave Eiffel. This innovation depends in particular on the university’s Centre for Pedagogical and Digital Innovation (CIPEN), a service aimed at developing in-house expertise that supports teachers, improving the attractiveness and international reach of educational programmes, and fostering entrepreneurship and teaching of excellence.
The Centre for Pedagogical and Digital Innovation (CIPEN)

Part of the I-Site FUTURE project, the Centre for Pedagogical and Digital Innovation (CIPEN) reflects a desire to offer enhanced support for teachers in their efforts to bring about pedagogical and digital transformation. This department of Université Gustave Eiffel aims to encourage innovations in teaching methods. It brings together pedagogical and digital support services for teaching in order to assist the main players, i.e. teachers and teacher-researchers, engage in this development process in order to meet the educational challenges of the 21st century. A truly central player in the pedagogical transformation of the university, it is at the service of the component institutions of Université Gustave Eiffel and all the courses it offers.
In order to meet the need for the development, deployment and support for teaching methods within the university, the CIPEN has a 6 department structure:
- The administrative and financial department provides administrative and financial support for projects and all activities, including cross-cutting ones.
- The digital and media department supports multimedia creation for the university. It provides audio-visual equipment for the classrooms and lecture halls and also implements innovative digital educational tools.
- The teaching methods department supports the teaching teams in the implementation of educational packages and promotes them. It also engages in communication about the packages. This department manages and supports the implementation of calls for projects and expressions of interest as well as participating in the implementation of major projects.
- The centre for the monitoring of pedagogical practices promotes, disseminates and evaluates pedagogical practices and supports the implementation of our quality approach in our courses.
- The CAPLA (Centre for Linguistic Pedagogical Activities) develops cross-disciplinary language teaching for students and staff as well as languages for specialists in other disciplines (LANSAD).
- The cross-disciplinary training department implements cross-disciplinary and experimental training courses.
CIPEN’s remit is as follows: