Institut europeen·European Institute (IE·EI)

The Institut européen·European Institute (IE·EI) is a department of CIFE, which is registered at the Academy of Nice as a private institution of higher education.

It is committed to:

• Academic excellence: Its faculty consists of renowned academics providing students with expert knowledge
• Professionalisation: Our aim is to transmit not only academic knowledge but also those Professional skills and competences required in European and international organizations
• Interdisciplinarity: all problems are dealt with from the perspective of different academic disciplines in order to gain an all-embracing understanding of today's world
• Internationality: each year students come from all over the world, representing on average 15-20 nationalities
• Tolerance: in an international community, we owe each other respect and the recognition of our differences
• Learning and living Europe: students not only learn about European integration, but experience the continent from different perspectives by living in Berlin, Canterbury, Nice, Rome, Istanbul or Tunis.

IE·EI can look back on a long history.

The first class of its graduate programme came to Nice in 1964. At that time, it was the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales which accommodated them. It was successively directed by Alexandre Marc, Guy Michaud, Claud Nigoul and Matthias Waechter. Since then, the programme has never ceased to develop and diversify. The 1990s, after the fall of the iron curtain, saw the introduction of a term spent in Berlin, and German became a teaching language. In 2005, when the EU opened accession negotiations with Turkey, a second branch of the programme started, taking the students from Istanbul to Nice and Berlin. Some 2000 students from more than 100 countries have graduated from the two branches of IE·EI 's programme. They now work for European institutions, international organizations, NGOs, universities, public administrations and enterprises.