Redirect your career towards blue growth
This one-year online training offers a unique learning opportunity in marine science and management. It is open to English-speaking candidates with a professional experience of at least 3 years in the same field of activity and / or graduate of a master's level program in a scientific or non-scientific theme, wishing to reorient towards marine resources.
- Duration: 1 year (intake in September) - Fully online
- Main objectives: open/boost/redirect your career toward Blue Growth
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
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]
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 Finance for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
- Fisheries for Blue Managers [6 ECTS]
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].