Teaching methods include workshops, simulations, policy tracking negotiation training, intercultural awareness, project cycle management, and public speaking.
The accrediting body (France Compétences) verifies that at least three quarters of CIFE's graduates work in professional fields covered by this qualification.
They work as Senior officials in European institutions, policy officers within the UN framework, administrators, diplomats, consultants, researchers for think tanks, lobbyists, and academic experts.
Alexandre Marc, recognised by some scholars as one of the most renowned founding fathers of European Federalism[5] established CIFE as an educational institution where federalist ideas would be taught as a remedy against the oppression of individual liberty by both socialist collectivism and extreme nationalism.
Since its foundation, the institute has formed multiple ties of cooperation with universities notably in Germany, Italy, Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe to deliver academic education of international impact.
[9] This master's study programme is divided into the following branches by the unique characteristics of the faculty, the curriculum, the locations of lectures and the students.
Established over 40 years ago, the Trilingual branch of the Master in Advanced European and International Studies is the longest-standing educational programme of CIFE.
[9] To help the students analysing this process, the programme includes terms in Istanbul, Nice and Berlin, and it is complemented by a study trip to European and international organisations in Europe.
In Nice, the students continue to be cultivated with topics of both historical and contemporary significance with the help of distinguished professors, experts and current and former employees of EU bodies, governments and international organisations EU-wide; they undergo mid-term examinations and are taken to selected EU institutions international organisations and governments for formal visits.
The Master is focused on how to assess, manage and enhance private and public institutions’ governance with a wide range of economic and digital intelligence tools.
Face-to-face workshops that complement the virtual activities take place in different European capitals such as Berlin, Rome, Budapest or Brussels, where the participants get to meet each other and national decision makers, and constitute a dynamic, international network.
The programme is open to post-graduates and young professionals from Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Chinese Province of Xinjiang).
In general, they build networks among academic participants of the Online Academy in Central Asia and strengthen their abilities in scientific work and writing.
Innovative learning methods are adopted for senior citizens who would like to take part in the process of European integration actively and those who wish to help benefit Europe from their experiences and qualifications.
The ESOA helps the elderly generations contribute to the development of EU and, at the same time, their ideas and valuable experiences receive rescue from oblivion.
CIFE is also a research centre; its scientific production includes regularly books, brochures, and reviews focused on EU affairs, International Relations and federalism.
L'Europe en formation is a bilingual journal (which includes French and English articles) dealing with European integration, international relations and federalism, with a transdisciplinary approach bringing together political philosophy, law, economics, sociology and culture.