Training the key players in the energy transition
Training is one of IFP Energies nouvelles’ statutory missions. It fulfills this mission via IFP School.
IFP School provides young engineers with advanced graduate programs leading to professional qualifications in the fields of:
It has a dual ambition:
To achieve these objectives, it focuses on:
IFP School is supported by close partnerships with industry, which take a variety of forms. More than, 80% of IFP School students are sponsored and funded by around 50 French and foreign companies. This support has remained stable despite the economic crisis, demonstrating the strength of the School’s economic model.
In addition, the number of students is adjusted in liaison with partner companies on the basis of recruitment opportunities. The strategy ensures that IFP School remains in step with industry requirements.
Similarly, IFP School also updates the content of its courses.
In the energy transition context, course units have been developed on:
Thanks to the skills acquired, IFP School graduates are immediately operational for the energy and transport sectors and prepared for the jobs of the future in the field of NETs.
Industry has begun its digital revolution and, with it, professions are evolving. To reflect this, IFP School has introduced a significant digital component into its Masters programs, both in terms of program themes (data management, connected vehicles, energy efficiency and biofuels, for example) and the teaching methods and tools employed.
IFP School has two objectives:
IFP School employs innovative teaching methods promoting knowledge and learning by experimentation: this is known as learning by doing. The idea is to use field placements, case studies and interactive technologies, such as flipped classrooms, MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) and serious games, to validate knowledge. The technologies used may be immersive in nature, such as virtual reality, which provides a means of getting fully immersed in spheres which are difficult to access or highly regulated, or mobile learning tools, which, in the context of field trips, provide students with access to data specific to the location they are studying via a tablet application.
The School thus boasts a range of facilities and tools designed to help students shape their own learning more effectively.
New success for IFP School's "Oil & Gas" MOOC - 2016 edition![]() The 2nd edition of the IFP School's MOOC "Oil & Gas: from exploration to distribution", supported by Total, was enthusiastically welcomed by 21,000 participants from 148 countries: France, Nigeria and Indonesia being the most represented.
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IFP School has a strong international dimension; around half of its students are foreign nationals, from more than 40 different countries. What’s more, half of its graduate programs are delivered entirely in English.
This multicultural environment appeals to students and prepares them for an international career. It supports the strategy of international companies operating in host countries, determined to significantly increase the percentage of local employees. Finally, it meets the growing needs of state-owned companies in oil-producing countries for qualified specialist personnel.
In 2016, the five most represented foreign countries, with more than seven students for each of them, are:
This global outlook also extends to academic partnerships with prestigious international universities and engineering schools. These partnerships are hinged around joint programs, giving students the opportunity to divide their studies between the two institutions and hence obtain a double degree. Every yearsome 30 or so students graduate from these programs.
IFP School’s current partners are:
Off-site programs are also organized outside France in partnership with IFP Training, a subsidiary of IFPEN. They concern around a sixty graduates every year.
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“Companies are interested in our profiles because we are capable of using a multitude of tools to collect, process, manage and ensure the security of data, but also because they do not yet possess this type of expertise.”
Nisrine Drissi, student PDM specialized master program
80%
of IFP School students are sponsored and funded by industrial partners
31%
of women made up the 2016 intake: a number that has been rising in recent years
More than 21,000
participants from 148 countries signed up for the 2nd Oil & Gas MOOC developed in partnership with Total
13 000
This is the number of IFP School alumni currently working in the energy and transport sectors in more than 100 countries