L'Académie Notre Europe
What is the Académie ?
Initiated by Enrico Letta, President of the Jacques Delors Institute, the Académie Notre Europe is a place for training, exchange and knowledge sharing on European policies. It was created in 2017, within the Jacques Delors Institute.
For nearly 30 years, the Jacques Delors Institute has developed extensive expertise on European issues and built up a vast network of experts, practitioners and high-level decision-makers involved in European integration. The Académie draws on this wealth of resources to offer a range of activities aimed at bringing young people closer to the EU, enabling them not only to better understand European issues but also to nurture their sense of belonging and European citizenship.
The Académie’s mission
The Académie fulfils the lifelong information and training missions that are part of the DNA of the Institute named after Jacques Delors. True to the legacy and thinking of Jacques Delors, the Académie aims to promote in its activities the different dimensions of knowledge on which Jacques Delors believed lifelong education and training should be based: learning to know, learning to do and learning to be and live together.
The target audience for our activities is young people aged 16 to 35 because, as Jacques Delors asked in 1989: “How can we build Europe if young people do not see it as a collective project and a representation of their own future?“.
Learning to know
Develop curiosity and understand the world with rigor and openness
Learning to do
Acquire skills to act and innovate in all areas of life
Learning to be
Build one’s personality and cultivate personal growth
Learning to live together
Develop understanding, tolerance and cooperation among all people
The Académie’s activities
The Académie’s flagship initiative is its free annual training programme on European citizenship, which has welcomed more than 600 young people since 2017.
Each year, the Académie also organises two major events, bringing together several hundred young people: the Jacques Delors Conference and the Jacques Delors Agora.
The Académie develops a wide range of civic activities each year aimed at strengthening young people’s access to information, awareness and engagement. Some initiatives are long-standing and regularly renewed, such as its participation in the Europe Day organised by the City of Paris and its educational sessions in schools and other educational institutions. Other initiatives are developed on a one-off basis, in response to current events or emerging European issues. In 2025, for example, the Academy created the theatre play “Delors entre les mains – Le flambeau de l’architecte” and, ahead of the June 2024 European elections, conducted an information and awareness-raising campaign targeting young people.
