Graduate Schools et Graduate Programmes
The UBE and its partners announced the creation of Graduate Schools (GS) on September 1st 2024 to drive research within the new structure: Université Bourgogne Europe (UBE). The Graduate Schools are associated with Graduate Programmes (GP) which will promote the exchange of knowledge while providing additional training for selected students.
Graduate Schools : a four-pronged strategy
The members of the UBE share a joint research and training strategy divided into four main areas, all of which are firmly rooted in the regional environment.
In to the context of these key areas, four Graduate Schools have been created within the Université Bourgogne Europe to focus and stimulate research on these fundamental subjects :
Technological transitions, intelligent and sustainable materials;
Earth, environments, food and climate;
Systems and integrated approaches to health;
Arts, cultures and humanities in society.
In keeping with these major themes, and in order to guide and stimulate research on these fundamental subjects, four Graduate Schools have been created within the Université Bourgogne Europe :
- « Transitions intelligentes – Smart Transitions »
- « Une seule santé – One Health »
- « Patrimoine matériel et immatériel – Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage »
- « Créer les connaissances pour innover demain – Create knowledge for future innovation »
The main challenge of the Smart Transitions GS is to transform and adapt spaces into intelligent, sustainable and low-carbon territories in the face of the climate emergency. Cutting-edge research conducted by Université Bourgogne Europe laboratories focuses on the effects of environmental change on water resources, soil quality, biodiversity and agricultural practices.
This transformation will also involve highlighting the importance of energy independence and the nuclear industry. Université Bourgogne Europe will support local socio-economic players in phases of strategic transition, particularly in terms of Artificial Intelligence (AI), nanoscience and developing intelligent systems to support the energy transition and adaptation to climate change.
The One Health concept recognizes the interdependence of human, animal, plant and environmental health. It has emerged from the challenges of globalization and environmental change. This unified approach aims to guarantee global health by taking these different aspects into account.
The One Health concept will also mobilize the Université Bourgogne Europe’s research capabilities in the circular economy (BSB, UBE), ergonomics, cognitive psychology applied to health, rehabilitation, health philosophy and arts-health links.
Research in the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage GS focuses on institutions, work and norms, exploring issues of power, discrimination and inequality. They contribute to reinforcing the rules that govern life in society.
Université Bourgogne Europe plans to create a “Greater Campus of the Humanities” involving the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (UBE), the Dijon campus of Sciences Po Paris and the arts schools (ESAAB, ENSA, ESM BFC). It will promote joint teaching, applied research and artistic expression linked to creation, ethics, social and educational issues.
Reflection on the transmission of practices, mobility and spatial design will be another focus of research, with an international dimension thanks to the FORTHEM European Alliance.
Finally, the University Institute of the Vine and Wine (Institut Universitaire de la Vigne et du Vin, IUVV) will coordinate research on vines and wine within the Université Bourgogne Europe, and the arrival of the International Organization of Vine and Wine (Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin, OIV) in Dijon will enhance the visibility of work on this theme.
Society is constantly evolving and facing critical transformations. Maintaining a continuum from basic research to applied and industrial research is one of the keys to innovation, and one of the primary missions of universities.
The Creating knowledge for future innovation GS will promote the high-level fundamental research carried out in its laboratories, and contribute to the national and international reputation of Université Bourgogne Europe. It will encourage the emergence and detection of innovative avenues by creating a space for interaction between different disciplines around the master’s-doctorate continuum, with strong links to the research laboratories involved.
This GS will focus on exploring questions that mobilize a broad spectrum of disciplines and may result in new ways to encourage and stimulate the emergence of ideas and concepts leading to innovative research avenues.
Graduate Programs (GP) will emerge from these Graduate Schools: students will work across disciplines in different scientific fields, with a focus on major societal issues.
Each Graduate school is under the supervision of three members of UBE personnel :
- Graduate School “Smart Transitions” – Cédric Demonceaux (vice-president UBE), Laurence Mangenot (ESTP), Paul Fleurat-Lessard (UFR Sc & Tech, ICMUB)
- Graduate School “One Health” – Carine Michel (vice-president UBE), Sylvain Manfredi (UFR Sciences Santé, CTM), Daniel Wipf (UFR SVTE, Agroécologie)
- Graduate School “Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage” – Sandrine Rousseaux (vice-president), Leila Zaidi (ENSAD Dijon), Alain Chenevez (INSPE, LIR3S)
- Graduate School “Create knowledge for future innovation“ – Nadine Millot (vice-president UBE), Lucy Moser-Jauslin (UFR Sc & Tech, IMB), Jean-Marc Simon (UFR Sc & Tech, ICB)
Graduate Programmes to highlight cross-disciplinary skills
As part of the deployment of the Graduate Schools (GS), Université Bourgogne Europe and its partners have set up Graduate Programmes (GP). They will enable students to work in a cross-disciplinary way in various scientific fields, to address major societal challenges.
These programs represent complementary training for students selected from several master’s or equivalent degrees, and will promote knowledge sharing while stimulating interdisciplinary collaboration. This personalization will provide students with a truly differentiating element in their training.
The heads of these Graduate Programmes come from 10 different academic units/schools at UBE, reflecting a wide diversity of profiles.
The Graduate Programmes will meet three objectives :
- By grouping master’s degrees and doctoral schools from different disciplines around emerging themes.
- By offering stronger links with research in a variety of ways, including funding for trips to observation stations and visits to national centers with specific research facilities.
- By setting up summer schools.
- By encouraging the establishment of joint teaching units with FORTHEM European Alliance universities.
- By developing internships in foreign research laboratories within the FORTHEM European Alliance.
- With the establishment of an invitation program for international professors.
- By associating the institutions within the Graduate Schools and Graduate Programmes that are partners of the Université Bourgogne Europe and the university’s components.
- By offering students bridges between the various actors in Université Bourgogne Europe.
Discover the list of Graduate Programmes for the 2024-2025 academic year :
GS 1 – Transitions intelligentes / Smart Transitions
Présentation
In the face of the climate emergency and the challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050, our program is designed to equip future industry executives, decision-makers and engineers with a thorough and proactive understanding of the challenges associated with decarbonization.
Presentation
The Graduate Program envisaged is a global research seminar on sustainability. This 3-day seminar takes place in the spring, in the form of masterclasses presented by international and local researchers from the CREGO laboratory, specialists in sobriety issues in management.
GS 2 – Une seule santé / One Health
Presentation
The hospital is a place of care that is subject to intense and complex emotional, relational, ethical and societal challenges (health crises, crises in the supply of care, e-health, chronic diseases, end of life, organ harvesting, etc.) from which a common denominator emerges : the vulnerability of patients, their families and caregivers.
This context makes the contribution of human sciences and qualitative methodologies essential in understanding what patients, relatives and carers experience in care contexts.
Although quantitative research has long been favored over qualitative methods, quantitative methods are limited in explaining and understanding certain human phenomena. Focusing on the meaning of phenomena, and built on a constructivist paradigm, qualitative methods have gained in rigor and are now gaining ground in the scientific community. It is therefore important to train our students – tomorrow’s researchers – in the epistemology and methods of qualitative research, and to raise student awareness of the importance of their impact and relevance in the spheres of scientific and health policy.
Presentation
The “Global Health and Bioethics” graduate program aims to familiarize students with the One Health approach, not only by offering an in-depth study of the concept, its presuppositions and the phenomena that led to its development, but also by providing students with a multidisciplinary training that will enable them to think about the complex interdependencies between humans and non-humans in the Anthropocene.
Whether we’re trying to understand the health crises caused by zoonoses, which are themselves encouraged by deforestation; whether we’re studying the effects of anthropogenic climate change on ecosystems and human health; or whether we’re trying to analyze the effects of pollutants on human and non-human organisms, we come to the same conclusion : we need to link the study of health to environmental issues.
Presentation
The program aims to provide additional training to master’s students for their doctoral projects on the processes at play in human adaptation capacities (anticipation, feedback, regulation) or, on the contrary, resistance, in the context of the evolution of occupational health issues, in particular the consequences in terms of mental health and quality of life at work.
Presentation
The aim of the “Movement Signals and AI” Graduate Programmes is to train students in the acquisition, processing and interpretation of physiological data in the sporting and clinical fields, e.g., movement analysis, electroencephalographic/electromyographic activity, cardiac data and GPS. Students will benefit from training at the interface between movement sciences and computer science. They will learn to use state-of-the-art assessment tools, and will be trained in a wide range of cross-disciplinary processing of different types of data.
Presentation
Radiopharmaceutical chemistry is a cross-disciplinary science focusing on the design and preparation of molecules (or vectors) used for diagnostics (nuclear imaging) and vectorized internal radiotherapy. Unmet medical needs, coupled with strong growth in the radiopharmaceutical market, are generating an urgent need for advanced training in this field, particularly in research and development (R&D). The Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Graduate Programmes meets this need by offering a 40-hour summer school of lectures and practical courses.
GS 3 – Patrimoine matériel et immatériel / Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Presentation
The program covers research courses in six master’s degrees in the fields of Arts, Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences: History; Art History; Foreign and Regional Languages, Literatures and Civilizations; Humanities; Philosophy and Language Sciences.
It aims to complement each master’s course with an optional module of approximately 24 hours per semester over the two years of the master’s course (96 hours in total over the entire master’s course), covering the history of feminist movements and masculinities in several countries and linguistic spheres, the historiography of gender studies, the contribution of gender studies to research in the various disciplines of the humanities and, conversely, the contribution of the humanities to gender studies.
This additional training on the emerging theme of gender studies, in relation to current societal problems, which will be added to the basic training of master’s students, will provide a multidisciplinary orientation to their curriculum and enable participating students to take a different approach to their main field of study.
Presentation
The program aims to explore the place of the imaginary in our societies, particularly in those areas where it seems to be absent. This is the case of technological innovations (which nonetheless generate a wealth of anticipation and science fiction scenarios) and of lifestyle changes linked to the Anthropocene and its consequences. This finally is the case of the body, which appears to be a place of organic objectivity, whereas the imaginary of the body is multi-faceted and complex, intersecting with the experience of another body, the experience of drive, sexuality and the interactions between bodies.
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GS 4 – Créer les connaissances pour innover demain / Create knowledge for future innovation
Presentation
A specific protocol for bringing together art and science is methodologically consructed around a range of scientific knowledge and research themes. It is offered to students as a field for aesthetic and sensory experimentation, and as a framework for theoretical and societal reflection.
The ASA Graduate Programme is structured around three notions: scientific and aesthetic knowledge, research methods and the Anthropocene. The ASA program takes place over five consecutive days, with the first day devoted to the presentation of scientific and aesthetic knowledge, followed by three days of experimentation. The fifth day is devoted to contextualizing the research carried out in the context of the Anthropocene, and to synthesizing the workshop outcomes. In addition, this research will strongly question man’s place in his environment, through increased dialogue between different disciplines.
Presentation
The aim of the program is to train students enrolled in the master’s degree in Expertise and Research in Sociology and Economics of Education and the master’s degree in Medical and Environmental Humanities in the ethical analysis of research and expertise situations. The aim is to open up sociology and economics experts to the philosophical frameworks of scientific activity (law, ethics, political and macro-ethical issues, analysis of the conditions of production of scientific discourse and practices), as well as to open up philosophers to field research situations and expertise practices in education and training sciences. The program also aims to train master’s students in the ethical and political analysis of scientific activity, adding this transversal skill to those acquired as part of their primary master’s program.
Presentation
The Numerical Climate graduate program is designed to provide training in English in the use of numerical climate models and the analysis of their results. The program is intended for master’s and PhD students with a background in computer science, earth sciences or geography, enrolled at the uB and the universities composing the Forthem Alliance. In the case of uB courses, students in the SP2G, CClimat and BD-IA master’s degrees, as well as doctoral students in the E2S and SPIM doctoral schools, are the primary targets. The aim is to train between 20 and 30 students per session.
This training opens the door to a disciplinary field related to that of the students’ initial training, that of numerical climate simulation, with applications in programming and analysis of large databases in the field of climatology and the environment. Complementary training in the handling of climate models will complement the students’ geology, geography and computer science curricula, giving them a unique perspective on French and European territory and opening up additional career opportunities. Second-year master’s degree internship subjects incorporating this digital approach may subsequently be offered to first-year master’s degree students who have completed the Graduate Program.
The Graduate Programme takes the form of a 5-day summer school to be held at the end of June, at the end of the first year of the master’s program. It is structured around 4 teaching modules spread out over 5 days. In addition to these modules, there will be 3 lectures by researchers and short presentations of doctoral students’ research topics.
Presentation
The program aims to introduce students to the issues associated with fundamental research and its links with the rest of society. As the notion of innovation is present in all fields of knowledge, we will focus on the interactions between technical/scientific innovation, economics and language. The program thus offers a multidisciplinary vision of the place of scientific research in society and the conditions for mutual transformation.
Three complementary theoretical modules are offered. They serve to (i) present major innovations at the technological “frontier” in physics and chemistry, (ii) acquire elements of conceptualization and economic analysis of innovative and scientific activity, and (iii) reflect on the discursive elements on which this activity is built and transforms society. This knowledge is then put to use in a supervised project involving work on research funding mechanisms. This work introduces students to the various institutional aspects associated with funding instruments, and helps them to decipher the underlying logic in terms of science and technology, economic policies and language.
If you have any further questions about the Graduate Schools and Graduate Programmes, please contact Guillaume Albert, GS development project manager, at guillaume.albert@u-bourgogne.fr.
