Master Sustainability Science - Applied Social Sciences in Energy and Environmental Transitions (ASSET)
Target level
Master degree level
ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Component
Collège Sciences Sociales et Humanités (SSH)
Language(s)
English, French
Presentation
Global changes, climate change and the biodiversity crisis, have and will profoundly transform the ways in which economic and social actors act with respect to energy and the environment. Research and expertise in these fields insist on the need to open up disciplines to each other in order to develop a solid theoretical corpus and solutions to highly complex problems. Sustainability sciences are today at the heart of these issues and of this transdisciplinarity.
The study of the interaction between human and natural systems gives the social sciences a determining, even central, role. Economics, geography, sociology and law are involved in the orientation of these actions, their understanding and implementation, as well as in the education, dissemination and explanation of these transitions and transformations.
The new GREEN Graduate School, which is the result of the latest project on "Structuring training through research in initiatives of excellence", is a school of training through and for research that combines "hard" and social sciences. The Master of Applied Social Sciences in Energy and Environment is one of the graduate programs of this school that formalizes the first two years of training for students in the social sciences (Economics, Geography, Law, Sociology).
Program
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GREEN Graduate Program - Master of Applied Social Sciences in Energy and Environmental Transitions ( ASSET ) : geographic specialization
The UPPA is opening a 5-year integrated Master’s/PhD program of excellence linked to the research fields of energy and the environment with research-intensive training in multiple fields.
The "Master of Applied Social Sciences in Energy and Environmental Transitions ( ASSET )" is a course on the mention science of sustainability. It is an interdisciplinary graduate training of excellence in 2 years of training in sustainability sciences from the perspective of social sciences.
It deals with the problems of energy and environmental transitions by crossing the knowledge, skills, and experiences of research professors from different disciplinary families and by operating as much as possible in a collaborative configuration (where the knowledge acquired is then shared), and from project-based and problem-oriented teaching.
GREEN Graduate Program - Master of Applied Social Sciences in Energy and Environmental Transitions ( ASSET ) : sociology specialization
The UPPA is opening a 5-year integrated Master’s/PhD program of excellence linked to the research fields of energy and the environment with research-intensive training in multiple fields.
The "Master of Applied Social Sciences in Energy and Environmental Transitions ( ASSET )" is a course on the mention science of sustainability. It is an interdisciplinary graduate training of excellence in 2 years of training in sustainability sciences from the perspective of social sciences.
It deals with the problems of energy and environmental transitions by crossing the knowledge, skills, and experiences of research professors from different disciplinary families and by operating as much as possible in a collaborative configuration (where the knowledge acquired is then shared), and from project-based and problem-oriented teaching.
Admission
Admission requirements
Please note that all students holding a French national Bachelor's degree and students from EU countries are concerned by this calendar.
- If you have received your admission notification by June 24, 2022, you must confirm and proceed with your administrative registration between July 4 and 8, 2022.
- If you have received your notification of admission on or before June 25 and July 13, 2022, you must confirm and proceed with your administrative registration on or before July 18, 2022.
- If you received your admission notification on or after July 14, 2022, you must confirm and proceed with your administrative registration no later than August 26, 2022.
How to apply
Send your applications to :
- Patrice Cassagnard (patrice.cassagnard @ univ-pau.fr) for a specialty in Economics
- Christine Bouisset (christine.bouisset @ univ-pau.fr) for a specialty in Geography
In your message, please indicate :
- your name, your first name, your university, your country of origin, the level of your last diploma
- Send a curriculum vitae of 2 pages maximum in pdf format, indicating in particular your level in French and English
- A letter of motivation of 2 pages maximum
- Your results since your baccalaureate
The rankings will be published in mid-June.
Application deadline: March 14 to June 1, 2022
- Examination of applications by the recruitment committees: until June 23, 2022
Main phase
- Administrative registration: until July 8, 2022 at the latest
1st complementary phase
- Notification of responses to applications for admission: no later than July 13, 2022
- Administrative registration: no later than July 18, 2022
2nd complementary phase
- Notification of responses to applications for admission: no later than July 22, 2022
- Administrative registration: no later than August 22, 2022
