Teacher: Stéphane Douady (CNRS - Université de Paris)

Overview: The workshop, set during a retreat in the Sologne region, intends to assemble free spirited students, and researchers from broad scientific backgrounds to conceive creative projects at the interface with Life, Learning and Digital Sciences.

The CIRP workshop attempts to provide the primary basis for collegiality and communication through dialogue and brainstorming on open questions in Life Sciences, Education Design, Entrepreneurship....

Aims of the workshop:

• To be able to focus on an important question and to define the means to approach it from different angles
• To be able to zoom out (have a broader view) and zoom in (be precise and define the key points)
• To think and express your ideas more clearly.
• To gain confidence in your ideas.
• To be able to discuss, reject or accept ideas.
• To learn to take constructive scientific criticisms
• To learn how to write a research proposal.
• To discuss questions thoroughly.
• To learn to interact with people from different backgrounds.

Teacher: Annemiek Cornelissen (CNRS - Université de Paris)

Overview:

This course is built of a series of seminars, each prepared by two students from different backgrounds, presenting in detail an interdisciplinary research paper of their choice. The underlying hypothesis, background and the results are discussed in detail and the different techniques explained.

In addition, the students are asked to integrate pros, cons and questions rose by the other students on the online course forum and suggest further experimental/modelling approaches with respect to their conclusions from the paper at stake.

All students participate weekly in the course forum, contributing their insights and questions on the article at hand.

Teacher: Danijela Vignjevic (Curie)

Overview: The course consists of a series of seminars, each initiated by two students from different backgrounds, presenting their review of scientific literature concerning a subject of their choice.

The research question, the motivation, scientific background and results are discussed in detail. In addition, students are required to tackle one emergent research question from their review by proposing a detailed method (experimental or theoretical/computational) to attempt to solve the question, and the motivation for the proposed method.

Course objective: Develop the students' ability to:

• find relevant and broad literature on a scientific subject of their choice
• delve into the background of said subject
• prepare a review in the form of a presentation aimed at an interdisciplinary audience.

Teachers: Manuel Théry (CEA), Stéphane Douady (CNRS - Université de Paris), Olivia du Roure (ESPCI), Danijela Vignjevic (Curie)

Overview: For the ZiZo course, you can choose among 3 different exercises:

• Grant writing: You will have a month to write a grant, then the groups that chose this exercise will review each others' grants and modify it accordingly.

• The book: You will choose to present a book, among a proposed selection of popular science books.

• Lab Tree: You will reconstruct and present the history of a chosen lab.

Teacher: Gabrielle Fausté

Course objectives

The goal of the project management course is to equip students with the required professional skills and tools to be able to manage their personal projects, learning and workload effectively. As a result of this course, they will get an understanding of the processes and activities of project management applied to individual work, hands-on experience in applying these theories in order to create a tailored project management system, as well as elements of effective collaboration.

Learning goals

• Students will be able to design a personal project management system to organize their personal, learning and project work: identify and list tasks, resources, dependencies, … Choose a set of tools (digital and analog) to track and organize their workload
• Objective setting, evaluation and reflection on completion and effectiveness
• Managing stakeholders and communications for complex projects
• Collaborating effectively in complex settings
• Developing skills of self-awareness, reflexivity
• Adopting a scientific approach to task and project management: setting goals, designing experiments (course of action), deploy, evaluate and learn, adjust
• Knowing the specificities of the main project management schools (agile, waterfall, ...) and how to choose the most relevant methodology depending on the tasks at hand

Competences developed

• Reflexivity and self-awareness
• Self-organization
• Self-efficacy
• Time and task management
• Effective collaboration
• Effective communication
• Future of work

This unit is a course of at least 4 ECTS of your own choice, which you take according to your career path. Do you want to learn more about a certain subject, or rather take some soft skills course? You can personalise your trajectory with the course that suits you best. You can either:

• Pick a course from the M1 list (if you joined directly in M2)
• Pick a course from another track of the AIRE Master
• Pick a course outside the Learning Planet Institute
• Pick a course from the ones we offer (Entrepreneurship or Skills&Data).

This is the first of the two mandatory internships in our M2, and it must be performed in the Parisian area as it is mandatory to follow first semester courses at the Learning Planet Institute. It is an internship of 4 or 5 months in the lab of your choice, and you will defend it with an oral presentation during a public event that you will organise with your M2 colleagues and with students from the FIRE doctoral school: the Thematic Workshops.

This is the second mandatory internship that you will have to perform in M2. It can be done abroad. It is an internship of 4 or 5 months in the lab of your choice, and you will defend it at the end of the year in late June - early July with a poster presentation.

As part of the Master program, students attend monthly Masterclasses, which are special lessons given by invited speakers. The goal is to have our students interact with high-level scientists from all over the world, who come to share not only their science, but also an overview of their career, with positive and negative moments. It is a moment of open interaction and inspiration.