Centre international de formation européenne - CIFE

CIFE is a private institution of higher education and research founded in 1954. The breadth of its geographic engagement and the variety of its academic programmes testify to CIFE’s major commitments: a confident, future-oriented vision of Europe, an innovative concept of teaching and an awareness of the challenges of a changing world.

Offering a lifelong European education has always been one of CIFE’s major concerns. Its Executive Master in EU Studies for professionals, who continue their studies while pursuing their career, attests to this commitment.

CIFE has been at the vanguard in developing digital higher education programmes since its creation in 2003 of one of the first qualifying online study programmes in European integration. The teaching methods are regularly updated to include ever more interactive formats. Practical workshops provide the students with the skills and competences needed on the job market: negotiation, intercultural awareness, project cycle management, and public speaking.

CIFE is an institute of high level academic teaching, on European and international relations, in politics, economy, social and cultural affairs, governance and federalism – all topical subjects for reflection and research, and CIFE is reinforcing its longstanding character as a think-tank in these fields. 

A CIFE research department has been put in place in 2014, and since then develops its activities around five pivotal fields:

• Policy papers;
• Annual Symposiums;
• Research and publication projects;
• Continuing publishing and reinforcing the academic quality of CIFE's quarterly, "L'Europe en formation";
• Enlarging the academic and scientific network of CIFE.

The graduates of CIFE 's Master' s programs work as Senior officials in European institutions, policy officers within the UN framework, administrators, diplomats, consultants, researchers for think tanks, lobbyists, and academic experts.