IREDU (Institut de Recherche sur l'Éducation : sociologie et économie de l'éducation)

What IREDU (Institut de Recherche sur l'Éducation : sociologie et économie de l'éducation) does

IREDU (Institut de Recherche sur l'Éducation : Sociologie et Économie de l'Éducation) is a French public university research institute operating as research unit UR 7318 within Université Bourgogne Europe (formerly Université de Bourgogne), headquartered in Dijon, France. Founded in 1971, IREDU conducts scholarly research on the effectiveness and equity of education, professional insertion, career pathways, and the relationship between education and employment. The institute employs 27 staff including professors, associate researchers, doctoral candidates, and research engineers, and has been a regional associated centre to Céreq since the late 1970s.

IREDU's core outputs are scientific publications, research projects, and academic training rather than commercial products. It maintains three publication series (Cahiers de l'IREDU, Notes de l'IREDU, Documents de travail de l'IREDU), a regular Veille documentaire monitoring service, a documentation centre, scientific seminars and colloquia, and three affiliated master's programs (ERSEE, CCRF, PESE) plus a doctoral program. Current research is organized around two axes for 2023-2027: social and school conditions of success, and professionalization paths, integration, careers and training-employment links. Notable ongoing projects include ForGer, LISA, UTRÉPRO, CAFOCexpress, BACHELOR, Motiv'IA (applying NLP to teachers' oral assessments), and RePrive.

IREDU does not operate a commercial business model. As a public research institute, it is funded through university allocations, government research grants, and institutional partnerships rather than product or service revenue. Its primary stakeholders are the academic research community and French education policymakers, and its outputs are distributed via open-access publications, seminars, conferences, and its documentation centre.

Name

IREDU (Institut de Recherche sur l'Éducation : sociologie et économie de l'éducation)

Legal name

Institut de Recherche sur l'Éducation : Sociologie et Économie de l'Éducation

Website

https://iredu.u-bourgogne.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1971

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

IREDU is a publicly funded French university research institute (UR 7318, founded 1971) within Université Bourgogne Europe, conducting scholarly research on education effectiveness, equity, and training-employment relationships, and publishing academic works and training doctoral and master's students.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Research and Academic Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Research Administration & Compliance (Sponsored Programs, IRB/REB) (EDADAKAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

University/College Continuing Education (Extension) Programs (EDAAAEAA)

Keywords

• Education research
• Sociology of education
• Economics of education
• Academic publishing
• Doctoral training

Headquarters

HQ city

Dijon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public research funding: As a research unit (UR 7318) of Université Bourgogne Europe, IREDU operates as a publicly funded academic research institute. Funding comes from the university, government research agencies, and potentially French national research grants (ANR).

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

IREDU is a French academic research unit that conducts scientific research on the sociology and economics of education, publishes working papers and research notes, organizes seminars and colloquia, runs a documentation center and documentary monitoring service (Veille documentaire), and delivers graduate-level academic programs including three Master's degrees (ERSEE, CCRF, PESE) and doctoral training. Its audience is the academic, policy, and educational-institutional community.

Product overview

IREDU (Institut de Recherche sur l'Éducation) is a university research institute (UR 7318) at Université Bourgogne Europe that functions as a center for educational sociology and economics research. Founded in 1971, it operates as a platform for research, publication, and academic training rather than a traditional product company. Its offerings include three publication series (Cahiers, Notes, and Documents de travail), documentary monitoring services, a documentation center, scientific seminars and colloquia, and three affiliated master's programs plus doctoral training. The institute conducts research on educational effectiveness and equity, and publishes scholarly work on these topics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cahiers de l'IREDU: Collection of research publications from IREDU
• Notes de l'IREDU
• Documents de travail de l'IREDU

Products and services

• Master ERSEE (Master's program) Research-oriented Master's degree offered at Université Bourgogne Europe in association with IREDU, providing graduate-level training in education research. Targeted at prospective graduate students pursuing careers in education research and policy.
• Master CCRF (Master's program) Research-oriented Master's degree offered at Université Bourgogne Europe in association with IREDU, providing graduate-level training in education research. Targeted at prospective graduate students pursuing careers in education research and policy.
• Master PESE (Master's program) Research-oriented Master's degree offered at Université Bourgogne Europe in association with IREDU, providing graduate-level training in education research. Targeted at prospective graduate students pursuing careers in education research and policy.
• Doctorat (Doctoral program in education research) Doctoral training program hosted at Université Bourgogne Europe in association with IREDU, offering supervised PhD-level research in the sociology and economics of education. Targeted at doctoral candidates pursuing advanced research careers in education.
• Centre de documentation (Documentation Center) On-site documentation center maintained by IREDU that provides bibliographic and documentary resources in education research. Serves academic researchers, students, and institutional visitors.
• Veille documentaire (Documentary Monitoring Service) Documentary monitoring and curated bibliography service run by IREDU, tracking recent publications in the sociology and economics of education. Serves the academic research community and policy stakeholders.
• Séminaires de l'IREDU (Research Seminars) Recurring academic seminar series hosted by IREDU at which researchers present work-in-progress in the sociology and economics of education. Serves the academic research community, graduate students, and visiting scholars.
• Colloques de l'IREDU (Conferences) Periodic academic conferences organized by IREDU that bring together researchers and policy stakeholders to discuss topics in the sociology and economics of education. Serves the academic and policy research community.

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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AI capability2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Céreq (Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1970Regional associated centre since the late 1970s. IREDU has developed expertise in professional insertion and training-employment relationships in partnership with Céreq. This long-standing collaboration has shaped the institute's research orientation.
• Université Bourgogne EuropecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIREDU operates as a research unit (UR 7318) within Université Bourgogne Europe. The university provides institutional support, infrastructure, and administrative framework for the institute's research activities.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Centre Alain Savary (IFÉ/ENS Lyon): Education research and resource centre within IFÉ focused on reducing educational inequality. It addresses topics closely aligned with IREDU's Theme 1 (social and school conditions of success), although it is more applied/practitioner-oriented.

Direct peers

• LIRDEF – Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Didactique, Éducation et Formation (Université de Montpellier): Interdisciplinary French education research lab covering didactics, sociology, and education policy. It is a structural peer to IREDU in scale, mission, and academic positioning within French education research.
• IFÉ – Institut Français de l'Éducation (ENS Lyon): France's largest dedicated education research institute, hosted at ENS Lyon. It operates in the same sociology/education research category as IREDU, with comparable outputs (publications, doctoral training, policy advisory), and competes for similar French national research funding.
• CREN – Centre de Recherches en Éducation de Nantes: University-based education research lab at Nantes Université. It conducts sociology, didactics, and education-policy research with comparable publication, doctoral, and seminar outputs to IREDU.
• Céreq (Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur les Qualifications): French public research centre on training, qualifications, and the training-employment relationship. IREDU is one of its regional associated centres, and the two share an overlapping research agenda around professional insertion and education-to-work transitions.
• OSC – Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (Sciences Po): Sciences Po's CNRS-linked sociology research lab. It applies quantitative and qualitative methods to social change, including education, and shares IREDU's social-science research infrastructure and publication/output model.
• LIEPP – Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d'Évaluation des Politiques Publiques (Sciences Po): Interdisciplinary lab evaluating public policies, with significant education policy work. It is structurally similar to IREDU in being a university-based research unit producing evaluations, working papers, and policy-relevant research.
• ESO – Espaces et Sociétés (Université de Caen / Université de Rennes 2): French social-science research unit covering spatial and social dynamics, including education and social inequalities. It shares IREDU's quantitative-and-qualitative sociology research posture and public-university affiliation.
• CREF – Centre de Recherches en Éducation et en Formation (Université Paris Nanterre): Education research lab at Université Paris Nanterre covering sociology, training, and adult education. It is highly comparable to IREDU in thematic focus (training-employment, professionalisation) and institutional form.
• CIRCEFT – Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Formation et l'Enseignement Supérieur et le Travail: Inter-university French research centre focused on higher education, training, and work. It overlaps directly with IREDU's Theme 2 on professionalisation paths and training-employment links.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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