Nantes Université coordinates the UNOE network in collaboration with 15 universities and international chairs following an agreement signed in 2024 with UNESCO.
It is one of the great French universities. Located in the west of France, it has more than 42,000 students and 42 research laboratories.
It has made open education one of its priorities. It is committed on a daily basis to an ambitious policy of initial and continuing training, open and inclusive, and encourages knowledge as a common good freely accessible to as many people as possible.
The UNESCO Chair RELIA (Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence)
The UNESCO Chair RELIA (Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence) is a team of six people working within Nantes Université and playing a central role in its “Open approach“.
The Chair is dedicated to open education by participating in major national, European and international projects. It is at the centre of projects related to innovation, working with other universities, institutional partners such as the Ministry of National Education and Youth, the Digital Directorate for Education, European partners in the framework of Erasmus+ projects, but also companies and associations such as Class’Code.
Its fields of intervention revolve around research, mediation, valorization, production and training, through projects on education and artificial intelligence.
Colin de la Higuera
Colin de la Higuera is a professor and a researcher in computer science at Nantes University and within the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N). He is the holder of the UNESCO Chair RELIA (Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence).
His research work focuses on machine learning, a field of Artificial Intelligence in which he collaborates with researchers around the world. He is internationally recognized for his vision and inspiring mentorship in the field of open education, including linking these issues to those of artificial intelligence.
He led the creation of the Unitwin Network on Open Education, which brings together 16 institutions from 14 countries.
