Inria offers massive open online courses in digital science and technology
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Changed on 09/09/2025
Through programmes designed by Inria research teams, people at different levels of learning and experience in digital science and technology can train and update their knowledge with the courses available on the FUN platform.
Inria Chile and the Franco-Chilean Binational Center on Artificial Intelligence invite students, professionals and anyone interested to enrol in a series of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered via the France Université Numérique (FUN) platform. These open courses, taught in English and available online upon prior registration, help to build talents and contribute to everyone’s knowledge and hands-on experience in digital science and technology.
Inria’s MOOCs are designed for varied profiles, from the general public to engineers and specialists in advanced research areas, and typically last between 5 and 36 hours. All courses offer FUN-validated certificates for those who complete the selected training.
What is a MOOC?
MOOCs, or “Massive Open Online Courses”, are interactive online courses open to all upon registration. At Inria, they were launched for the first time in 2014, when these initiatives were only just emerging in France. Today, the offer combines the scientific expertise of Inria’s teams with innovative learning tools, supported by the Inria Learning Lab.
Since their launch in 2013 by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, MOOCs on the FUN platform have brought together more than 140 partner institutions, which have designed these programmes to offer a flexible, interactive and collaborative learning experience, resulting in millions of registrations and more than 50,000 certificates issued over the years.
Inria played a key role in the deployment and launch of the FUN platform in 2013. Following its success, the Inria Learning Lab was created in June 2016 with the mission of making digital learning a key research topic. The Lab focuses on producing a variety of digital training courses derived from Inria’s cutting-edge research, supporting the development of new educational technologies and showcasing Inria’s expertise in the digital field.
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These massive open online courses are a real lever for capacity-building: they allow researchers, academic teams, students — but also non-specialists — to progress at their own pace, with resources that can be integrated into classes and projects. Behind this offer there is a team which, since 2014, has sustained and improved it with dedication — researchers, teachers, developers and the Inria Learning Lab — making possible learning pathways that strengthen skills in digital science and technology, in particular in artificial intelligence, and that contribute to the democratisation of knowledge.
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Director of Inria Chile; Director of the Franco-Chilean Binational Center on Artificial Intelligence
Further information and enrolment:
An in-depth and hands-on introduction to predictive modelling using scikit-learn, a learning library and the core tool for machine learning in Python. Taught by the library’s own developers, the programme goes beyond a simple recipe book, teaching a critical approach to designing each step of a data science project.
Audience: Designed to be accessible without a strong technical background. It targets those who already have basic knowledge of Python programming, such as defining variables, writing functions and importing modules.
Enrolment deadline: December 19, 2025.
Environmental impact of digital technologies and it questions the idea that the digital transition is, by itself, ecological. Although it may seem “virtual” and dematerialised, its infrastructure consumes energy and non-renewable resources. The programme offers criteria and data to organise information that is often contradictory.
Audience: Open to all profiles, especially education professionals, secondary-school-age learners from 13 years old, and anyone interested in the environmental impact of digital technologies.
Enrolment deadline: December 11, 2025.
The AI Odyssey — History, Regulations and Impact: A European Perspective — Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, ideal for beginners and those curious about technology. The programme explores the four pillars of AI: its origins and fundamental concepts to demystify it; the regulations and ethical considerations that surround it; its performance and ability to transform industries such as sustainable development; and its impact on society, work and everyday life.
Audience: Open to everyone; no prerequisites.
Enrolment deadline: September 14, 2025.
A complete immersion in Pharo, a programming language oriented towards “live” development, allowing constant interaction with immediate feedback.
Audience: Experienced programmers. The course also includes an optional module for beginners.
Enrolment deadline:September 11 , 2025.
A deep immersion in Advanced Object-Oriented Design (OOD), designed to transform the way in which both beginners and experts approach software development. Based on more than 60 years of teaching experience, the programme explores fundamental concepts and advanced techniques over ten modules, covering everything from the essence of objects and message sending to methodologies such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and key design patterns such as inversion of control.
Audience: People with basic knowledge of object-oriented programming; to better prepare, take “Module 0: Warm Up” and the MOOC “Live Object Programming in Pharo”.
Enrolment deadline: 31 December 2025.
An introduction to the Semantic Web and the principles of Linked Data, fundamental technologies for data exchange between applications on the modern web. Throughout the programme, participants will progressively learn the pillars of this area: the essential concepts of linked data, the RDF data model for publishing and linking them, the SPARQL query language to access them, and the standards to integrate this information with other common formats such as CSV and JSON.
Audience: Participants should be familiar with basic Web notions (e.g. a browser) and be able to install software on their computer.
Enrolment deadline: 31 December 2025.
Designed for scientists and researchers who seek to transform their projects into ventures with social and sustainable impact. Through lessons with economists, CEOs and financing specialists, the programme teaches the fundamental principles to validate a market need, develop a prototype and present a solution effectively to attract technical and financial partners.
Audience: Intended for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, researchers and teacher-researchers from all fields, as well as engineers, technicians and innovation/valorisation leads seeking to develop an economic activity based on scientific results or related to their work.
Enrolment deadline: April 6, 2026.