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The IRDP (Institut de Recherche et de Documentation Pédagogique), is an institute dedicated to research and pedagogical documentation and an institution of the CIIP (Intercantonal Conference of Public Education in French and Italian speaking parts of Switzerland).
The Institute is principally in charge of coordinating and leading education research in French speaking Switzerland. It supports the activities of the CIIP with experts' reports and with its scientific investigations, conducts research projects or takes part in them.
It has made Neuchâtel its home since it was established in 1970.

The IRDP offers its competencies and its resources to any person, public or private organization concerned with education and training issues. They have access to:

• Advice, views, support, experts' reports, assessments
• Classes, conferences
• Documentary research through the IRDP's own as well as through national and international databases

The IRDP's activities were evaluated in 1977 and in 1990 by the OECD, and in 1997 by the Conseil Suisse de la Science (Swiss Science Council).

Within the framework of cooperation in Latin Switzerland and of the school coordination of French speaking Switzerland, the IRDP's flexible strategies, in the fashion of a small Europe of education, operate according to the principles of coordinated decentralization, joint research and interaction of the concerned partners.