Academics at the UBE

Academic programs at the UBE foster the personal and professional development of our learners.

To achieve our goals, the UBE has set up a number of special programs within its 400 courses and majors:

Ideal conditions for studying

Whether you’re working in a group, alone, in quiet conditions, in an individual space or not, the UBE boasts 11 specialized libraries, each with its own set of facilities. The UBE also has a number of “third places,” including the “Le Cortex” library, where users can relax, work or eat on site; and the Atheneum, the university’s cultural center, which is open all day.

Computer rooms are also freely available at the Maison de l’Étudiant (Student Center) and in the various campus buildings, as is extensive wi-fi coverage. For students with disabilities or health issues, there are also distance learning options such as the robot beam, to help them pursue their studies in the best possible conditions.

A favorable teaching environment

The UBE is committed on a daily basis to ensuring that teachers can find the answers to their questions about and aspirations for their teaching practices. With its teaching support services including the CIPE (Center for Pedagogical Innovation and Evaluation, Centre d’Innovation Pédagogique et d’Évaluation) and the PNR (Digital Pedagogy and Resources, Pédagogie Numérique et Ressources), the UBE provides its teachers with facilities to help them fulfill their teaching responsibilities:

• Leave to pursue Pedagogical Projects (CPP)

• Teaching residencies

• Year-round training and coaching by teaching support services

• Flexible teaching to encourage student commitment, motivation and perseverance

To ensure that the UBE Education Project continues to evolve in line with the changing needs of its users, 30 new actions have been planned, focusing on three key areas: studying, teaching and working at the UBE. The aim is to bring the Université Bourgogne Europe fully into the 21st century.

Why this project ?

Force est de constater que la question de la formation à l’université est un sujet majeur tant il est traversé, Clearly the question of academics at the university is a major issue, as evinced by changes of all kinds that have been happening for several years now. This observation is based on the day-to-day reality of universities, which are undergoing major transformations linked to:

• users, their expectations, needs and behaviors

• societal expectations and regulatory frameworks, both national and supranational (European Higher Education Area)
• teaching practices, including evolving objectives, methods and tools
• recent transformations linked to the public health context

These changes in our university environment have prompted us to reflect on our education methods.

Has education changed, is it changing, must it change? We want to dive into this question, and to work together to draw up an institutional project on the subject, in order to reflect on and build the university education of tomorrow.

What is a University Education Project ?

The UBE is a multi-disciplinary institution with a healthcare component, serving almost 35,000 students. It is one of the components of the French higher education system, supported by a community as rich as it is diverse. The aim of this project is to define our vision of what education means to us.

The aim of this project is to establish our specific educative policy (intentions, objectives and organizational and operational methods) and to translate this policy into coherent strategic orientations and principles of action.

Our institution-wide project will be defined by the contributions all of us make, whatever our activities, responsibilities, functions or status within the university, because we all have “things to say” about academics at the UBE. The États Généraux (general assemblies) is the first step in this collective project, a step which will last a maximum of three years.

Official launch of the “États Généraux” (EG) on academics

Message from Sophie Morlaix and Karen Fiorentino

Message from Edith Salès-Wuillemin and Stéphane Tizio

“États Généraux” (EG) on academics  (drop-down menu)

The Université Bourgogne Europe continues to implement its University Education Project as part of a collective commitment.

Launched in December 2020 and running until February 2021, the first stage of the Etats Généraux enabled 1,221 members of our university community to express their views via an online survey.

Of these, 60% were students and 40% staff. Two thirds of all respondents did so anonymously. We were able to see that the main concerns of the university community in terms of academics revolve around:

• support within academic programs,
• the organization of academic programs,
• their content,
• as well as personal and professional opportunities for students.

At the end of April 2021, the second stage of the États Généraux brought together 42 students, teaching staff and support staff in small working groups to analyze and then highlight the key ideas arising from the responses previously collected.

Participants identified invariants and laid down principles for academics in our university. As a result, the University Project will be founded on the following statement of intent: “University education at the UBE seeks to further the personal and professional development of our students. This can be achieved through three axes: support, organization and content. Finally, each of these axes is regulated by 3 principles: accessibility, adaptability and coherence.”

Actuellement, le travail mené consiste à recenser l’existant concernant la formation et son environnement dans notre établissement pour alimenter ce découpage. Des propositions nouvelles seront par la suite présentées dans les mois à venir, afin de répondre aux aspirations de la communauté universitaire concernant la formation dans notre établissement.

Accédez au rapport « Enseigner et apprendre au XXIe : les perspectives de l’UBE »

30 proposals for academics (drop-down menu)

Since the end of 2020, the UBE has been reflecting on its academics. The Etats Généraux, which involved more than 1,000 members of the University, provided us with a scientific definition of our educative goal (“University education at the UBE seeks to further the personal and professional development of our students. This can be achieved through three axes: support, organization and content. Finally, each of these axes is regulated by 3 principles: accessibility, adaptability and coherence”)“) and 30 proposals to make our establishment an enabling environment for learning, teaching and working.