Overview: The workshop 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.

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.

Overview:

This course is built of a series of seminars, each prepared by a group of 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.

Overview: The course consists of a series of seminars, each initiated by a group of 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: Pierre Poulain (UPC)

Overview: This course focuses on mastering data science methodologies for climate-related data analysis. Emphasis is placed on creating effective data visualizations for diverse audiences and developing critical thinking skills to evaluate these visualizations in the context of climate change.

Teacher: Gabrielle Fausté

Course objectives

The course objective is to equip students with a broad culture of entrepreneurship as a framework used to identify problems that can be turned into opportunities, and creatively generate ways of solving that problem with limited means. They will develop entrepreneurial skills that combine a range of technical, management and personal skills. These skills build upon an entrepreneur's first assets: who s·he is, whom and what s·he knows. They can apply to both the development of personal projects or to create a new business.

This unit is a course 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:

• Follow the PhD track course, if you wish to pursue a PhD after your M2
• Pick a course from the M1 list (if you joined directly in M2)
• Pick a course outside of the Learning Planet Institute

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 organization of your choice, and you will defend it with an oral presentation.

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 organization of your choice, and you will defend it at the end of the year in June with an oral 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.

During this week-long event, the students present a project and invite speakers to talk around a scientific topic. Thematic workshops are a great opportunity to organise an event with your peers from the ground up: invite speakers, decide topics, advertise the event, take care of the logistics, etc. It’s also an opportunity to meet with students from different disciplines and class years, as the event mixes M2 students and 2nd year PhD students. By organizing this event, you will learn critical skills around project management, public speaking, organization skills and you will get the opportunity to network with scientifics in your field.