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Introduction
The Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) is a physical and intellectual space dedicated to training through research, particularly in biology, and to new ways of learning. Its methods are based on digital innovation, collective intelligence and learning by doing.

In partnership with the Paris Descartes University & the Paris Diderot University, CRI offers a variety of university courses; the FDV Bachelor’s degree (Frontières du Vivant), the Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary and Innovative Approaches to Research and Teaching (AIRE) which includes two courses, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Living (AIV) and Education & Technology (Edtech).

The CRI also has a Frontieres du Vivant doctoral school N°474.

It hosts various associations created by students such as WAX Science (What About Xperiencing Science), les Savanturiers, HelloTomorrow, le Gamilier, or IGEM Paris Bettencourt. It is directed by François Taddei and financed in part by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation.

History
In the years 2000 François Taddei & Ariel Lindner, both searchers at Inserm got the idea of creating an interdisciplinary facility. Mid 2000, their project financial support for the Bettencourt Foundation. The Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) was finally founded in 2005 and experiments and spreads new ways of learning, teaching, conducting research and mobilizing collective intelligence in life, learning and digital sciences.

Objectives
The CRI’s main role is to promote new educational techniques and strategies to empower students to take initiative and develop their own research projects. Mentors, research institutions, private companies, and foundations, such as the Bettencourt Foundation, provide the support for the student-created research projects and activities.

The aforementioned activities range from the first French synthetic biology team (iGEM Paris Bettencourt, for the MIT-sponsored iGEM (international genetically engineered machine) competition) to the Paris-Montagne Science Festival, and the Science Académie, an outreach program that allows high schools students from underprivileged neighborhoods to discover their creativity through science.

The CRI also hosts the laboratory facilities of the U1001 unit of the French National Institute of Health & Medical Research (INSERM) in Paris-Descartes University’s Medical School.

During 2012 and 2013, the CRI activities have expanded with the following new projects:

The new Institute for Learning Through Research (Institut Innovant de Formation par la Recherche – IIFR Paris Descartes / PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité) was inaugurated in March 2012 by the International Scientific Committee of the National Innovative Training Program (IDEFI) of the French Ministry of Research. The IIFR organizes different workshops, PhD courses, an executive program and it will launch a new Master Program in September 2014. In September 2013, the IIFR activities were awarded an UNESCO Chair for “Learning science”.

The Citizen Cyberlab European Consortium (citizen science) was launched in September 2012 with funding from the EU 7th Framework.

Knowledge adventures for kids / Savanturiers : these scientific workshops in parisian primary schools (children 9-10 years old) began in September 2013, in partnership with the City of Paris.

In July 2013, the CRI was also selected by the City of Paris to design and develop an innovative MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) that will launch its first projects in 2014.

The rapid growth of the CRI led in 2013 to the search of new facilities to welcome all the new members of the CRI team: part of the team (wet lab) moved to a new building located at 8-10 rue Charles V at Paris 4e, while the U1001 Inserm lab team and the wet lab activities remained in the Faculty of Medicine at Paris 14e – Port Royal.

The CRI cofounders, François Taddei and Ariel Lindner, have many publications in general-interest scientific journals, and their research endeavors have been recognized by several awards.

François Taddei is a member of various working groups on the future of research and education (France 2025, OECD report, etc.), and has been nominated at the French High Council for Education in 2012.

Management
The management team of CRI is made up of François Taddei Founder, Director, Ariel B. Lindner Founder, vice director, Gaëll Mainguy Director, Development and International Relations, Sophie Pène Director of studies and Amodsen Chotia.

Programs
CRI offers bachelor degree, master degree, and Ph.D. courses across the field of life science, world's health, technology and education.

License FDV
FDV is a scientific bachelor program at the University Paris Descartes. Different from ordinary bachelor programs of biology, the frontiers of life sciences program is focusing on life science and interdisciplinary training.

Master AIV
The Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Sciences (AIV) is a two years master degree program, which aims to tackle quantitative approaches on different interfaces with Life Sciences. The AIV is mainly based on learning through research internships and collaborative projects. The AIV program is in cooperation with Paris Diderot and Descartes universities and supported by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation.

Master Edtech
This master program aims to prepare future teachers, researchers, and entrepreneurs. The students will able to understand the digital transformations happening in education and able to design relevant and educations challenging projects.

FDV PHD Program
The FdV Doctoral School was founded in 2006. The school obtains students trained in varying disciplines (e.g., biology, physics, medicine, economy, linguistics) from around the world. The FdV is an interdisciplinary training to promote pioneering research projects involving interactions between a wide range of academic fields in the tracking to understanding living systems, education, and discovery.

DU - Diplômes D’Universités
The DU targets actors, who can actively contribute to the development of the knowledge society and who want to innovate and work on co-construction and transmission of knowledge. Students will be sensitized to existing practices and guided to learn how to create method scalable to multiple environments.

Organization of CRI
The CRI has a broad set of research activities, which follow an open, collaborative research approach to tackle the world's health and education challenges. These are distributed across the life, learning, and digital sciences and focus on the following broad topics:  Open Health, Open Learning, Open Synthetic, Open Transition, and Open Phronesis

The CRI has 21 clubs.

The Cognitive Architecture Club' has been created in order to create a perfect working space that can be modular, and adaptive to people’s needs, linking knowledge in cognitive sciences and architecture & design.

Tomorrow's Pedagogy' is a club that aims to explore best pedagogical practices by observing alternative classrooms, reviewing academic and theoretical literature, and applying interesting findings to various learning environments. The goal of the club is to facilitate the spread of these practices to help students, teachers, and school systems adjust to meet the demand for 21st-century skills.

The Practical Philosophy Club is a weekly meeting to discuss a diverse set of philosophical topics and find ways of implementing it into one’s daily life.

External actors
Hosted at the CRI:
 * SAPIENS: Depending on Université Sorbonne-Paris Cité (USPC) and hosted at the CRI, SAPIENS (Services d’Accompagnement aux Pédagogies Innovantes et à l'Enseignement Numérique de Sorbonne Paris-Cité) was created in 2014. It aims to help teachers to explore new pedagogical practices, acquiring new professional competencies and familiarizing with digital tools. The training can be collective (workshops) or individual (personal meetings, MOOCs). SAPIENS realized an Escape Game on pedagogy to raise university researchers’ awareness to pedagogy at the university.
 * The Conversation is an online media creating articles of news and analysis on various topics. Their content is created by researchers and academics. Their particularity is their partnership with Universities which is aimed at spreading their knowledge to the general public. Being a free online platform, they give the possibility to readers to have access to reliable and qualitative information.

Partners:
 * Fondation Bettencourt
 * Paris Descartes University
 * MakeSense
 * Maker's Asylum
 * Mairie de Paris
 * Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur
 * Sorbonne Paris Cité
 * Paris Diderot University
 * INSERM
 * INRA
 * Seventh Framework Program
 * ANR

Holomath
“Jouer, découvrir et apprendre l'histoire de la science et l'actualité de la recherche scientifique.” The project will use the mixed reality headset developed by Microsoft: HoloLens. It involves many actors that provide their help on their expertise domain.

External actors: Institut Henri Poincarré, One More, CRI, Holo-Light, IMAGINARY, Henry Segerman, Marie-Paule Cani.

Les Savanturiers – L’école de la Recherche
Created in 2013 by François Taddei and Ange Ansour, the project Savanturiers is an educational programme that aims to encourage education through research from preschool to high school.

By connecting teachers with researchers from different fields, teachers are trained and helped  to conduct research projects with students in class and during extra-curricular workshops.

The Savanturiers program has three main objectives:
 * 1) Inviting teachers to set up research-based projects in various scientific fields, with support from an affiliated mentor
 * 2) Helping teachers in constructing their reflexive and expert position. The Savanturiers design and facilitate MOOCs to introduce members of the education community to Education through research as applied to a particular field
 * 3) Research in education. The Savanturiers carries out research in diverse areas such as : emerging practices in classes, practices implemented as part of education through research, digital instrumentation of learning through research, external evaluation of the programme, define the theoretical framework.

IGEM
The International Genetically Engineered Machines (IGem) competition is the first student team competition in Synthetic Biology and was created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. It has been since 2007 that the CRI team has been participating in it and solving real-world challenges. Every year, students from different countries build living systems of their own design during summer. In 2013, the IGEM team of the CRI won the Grand Prize at the World Championship Jamboree. As all many of CRI’s educational activities, the IGEM competition is “a unique educational opportunity for young students of any background, many without prior lab experience, to build their own project and present it on a global stage.”

In 2013, over 200 teams from top universities worldwide competed in project categories such as Environment, Food & Energy, Health & Medicine, Manufacturing, and more.

DITOS
Doing It Together Science (DITOs) is a pan-European network of universities, science galleries, museums, art organisations and NGOs crossing multiple countries and languages. DITOs proposes many innovative events across Europe focusing on the active involvement of citizens in science. Through Citizen Science people are empowered in exploring, measuring and experimenting with the world around them. It is by this collaboration that resources and expertises are combined to raise awareness, build capacity, and innovative lasting solutions grounded in society.

Life at CRI
Life at the CRI is an open and collaborative experience. Students of different nationalities and disciplines research and collaborate on biological and social science projects. The program is situated on the 20th and 21st floors of the Tour Montparnasse, with personalized learning spaces, shared classes, offices and lounges overlooking Paris. Classroom and teaching style is a mixture of traditional, reversed or alternative in structure, depending on the class. Students are encouraged to utilize the spaces as they choose, seek help from & use the resources made available through clubs, partnerships and work spaces in order to accomplish their research & project objectives.