Redirect your career towards blue growth
This one-year master program offers a unique opportunity to reorient a career towards ocean and marine resources.
- Duration: 1 year (intake in September) - flexibility from onsite to fully online, part-time or full time
- Main objectives: to open, boost or redirect a career toward blue growth, through one of the specializations: conservation management, entrepreneurship & innovation, or human impact assessment
- Prerequesite: master or equivalent diploma in any discipline, or a 4-year bachelor.
Program
Schedule
The 1-year program starts in September and the class period ends in March. Then, students complete their professional project thanks to the skills and knowledge they have acquired. The teachings are online with a combination of video-capsules, practical activities and remote face-to-face. Most of the face-to-face take place in the French afternoons.
Common core modules
- The Blue Growth [6 ECTS]
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This course explores how marine science and socio-economy may combine for the development of communities. It introduces the economics of the ocean and provides basis on Environment Economics and Ecosystem Services with real case studies.
- Introduction to General & Marine Ecology [6 ECTS]
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This module introduces the basic elements of marine ecology on ecosystems and biodiversity, addresses the main threats posed by humans, and the main conservation measures with a particular focus on MPAs.
- Marine Resource & Environmental Law [6 ECTS]
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This module introduces the main lines of the law of the sea and marine resources at French, European and international levels. It provides an understanding of how the different actors can combine their actions at sea, and what can and cannot be done in relation to marine resources.
- 2 options [2x 6 ECTS]
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- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Remote Sensing for Research & Innovation
- Information System Tools
- Project Management & Communication
The specializations
CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT
Learn how to manage and protect a marine area by combining scientific and socio-economic perspectives
- Specialization courses
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- Ecology of Conservation for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
- Conservation Management for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
- Fisheries for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
BIOTECHNOLOGY & VALORIZATION
Join the Blue Economy to value (and protect) one of the unexpected potentials of marine resources from tourism to cosmetics & pharmaceutics.
- Specialization courses
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- Natural Resource Valorization [6 ECTS]
- Unexpected Potentials of Marine Resources for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
- Valorization & Intellectual Property [6 ECTS]
HUMAN IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Learn how to quantify the impact of humans on marine ecosystems to join environmental management
- Specialization courses
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- Environmental Impact Assessment for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
- Remote Sensing for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
- Information System Tools for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
Our hybrid and flexible teaching strategy
Our teaching modules are generally designed following a blended-learning approach articulated in learning blocks allowing students to prepare for their face-to-face interactions with instructors through prior asynchronous work.
- Preparatory work are composed of short video capsules, self-paced preparatory activities, and checkpoints for students to assess their learning progress.
- Face-to-face interactions are thus reinforced and enriched by constructive exchanges in the form of recitation, workshops and discussions.
Because Blue Managers students can have a busy schedule, the program offers a large flexibility.
- In semester 1, a large part of the classes are together with the students of the Science & Society track. Blue Managers students can participate to the Face-to-face sessions online or onsite, synchronously or by watching the recording of the session after with office hours.
- In semester 2, classes are generally held in very small groups, with timetables adapted to the students' schedules.
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YOUR PROFESSIONAL PROJECT
In order to design your (new) career in blue growth, you will be accompanied by a coach specialized in your target field.
- The first semester will allow you to prepare your new project with a coach.
- You should apply it in the second semester within the framework of an internship, a work placement or a feasibility study for the creation of a new start-up [12 ECTS].