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Skills

Usages avancés et spécialisés des outils numériques

Développement et intégration de savoirs hautement spécialisés

Communication spécialisée pour le transfert de connaissances

Appui à la transformation en contexte professionnel

Travailler dans le cadre des projets pluridisciplinaires, de recherche, d'innovation et internationaux

Communiquer en contexte professionnel

Compétences spécifiques domaine d'application Chimie analytique

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Master's degree Chemistry of Materials for Energy and Environment (CM2E)

CM2E master’s degree offers a complete education program in the field of materials chemistry, by addressing all aspects related to their synthesis/elaboration, their fine characterization and implementation for specific applications, and the study of their characteristic properties.

This master’s degree allows you to find rapidly a job in the industry as a senior executive, in all sectors of activity using or designing materials, as soon as you have obtained the Master's degree. Alternatively, you can continue your training with a PhD thesis (+3 years) to obtain the doctor degree, which can be an advantage in several fields of research and development.

CM2E connects the academic laboratory environment and the industry while responding to energy and sustainable transition challenges. Among the various methods we teach, we attach particular importance to the sustainable elaboration and design of materials, focusing on biosourced methods. Students will acquire all the scientific skills to design materials, understand their properties at different scales (micro/nano) and know how and for which kind of applications they can be used. Materials are everywhere in our life. It has been this way since the dawn of time and will always be so in the future, however the methods to make materials are changing. CM2E adapts you to this evolution.

The education program, comprising lectures, supervised and practical work and case studies, is entirely taught in English by university lecturers and researchers doing their research activity at IPREM (Institute of Analytical Sciences and Physico-Chemistry for Environment and Materials) https://iprem.univ-pau.fr/en/institute.html, as well as external socio-professional stakeholders. We attach particular importance to the latest technological advances and applications (in the field of energy and health for example).

The first year’s program is common with BIM (Bio-Inspired Materials, see dedicated page). CM2E and BIM are separate in the second year, which should be anticipated by the choice of proposed options.

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Master's degree Bio-Inspired Materials (BIM)

The BioInspired Material (BIM) program offers an educational background connecting the laboratory environment with the living world to tackle ecological and sustainable transitions. However, mimicking strategies elaborated by Nature represents infinite scientific and technological challenges. These will be addressed using bioinspiration and biomimicry keeping in mind environmental awareness and ethics.

We hence offer our students a unique opportunity to explore and get inspired by living systems to develop novel materials. Our bioinspired approach focuses on cross-disciplinary lectures and trainings that will make students reconsider how they elaborate syntheses, formulations, and processing of tomorrow’s materials as needed by the industrial partners to build our future society.

The students will be trained to draw inspiration from Nature through a biomimetic approach. This multidisciplinary approach, which resorts to both fundamental science and materials engineering, is based on the observation and comprehension of living organisms within their ecosystems. To succeed in this training, students will have to grasp abstract concepts to design biological models adapted to scientific and technological developments.

The teaching program, comprising lectures, tutorial and practical work, as well as case studies, is primarily centered around student-based teaching pedagogical methods including project-based learning. Entirely in English, teaching is performed by university professors and researchers as well as socio-professional stakeholders. The practical works and case studies take place in the laboratories of the Institute of Analytical Sciences and Physico-Chemistry for Environment and Materials (IPREM) https://iprem.univ-pau.fr/en/institute.html. Through this approach, we wish to develop the student’s soft skills to encourage autonomy and stimulate curiosity, creativity, and emotional intelligence. The primary objective is to train future young researchers with special know-how in collaborative thinking and able to drive bio-inspired research projects.

The first year’s program is common with CM2E (Chemistry of Materials for Energy and Environment, see dedicated page). BIM and CM2E are separate in the second year, which should be anticipated by the choice of proposed options.

 

 

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GREEN Graduate Program - Materials Inspired by Nature and for Energy and Sustainable Technologies (MINEST)

The University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour offers a 5-year Master’s degree + PhD program of excellence in a variety of disciplines linked to energy and environmental research, the Graduate School for Energy and Environmental Innovation (GREEN).

Every student, whether French of foreign, accepted into the program will be offered a €5,000 stipend per year for the first two years.

N.B. Our Master's programs may not open if enrollment is too low.

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The MINEST Graduate Program

The Materials Inspired by Nature and for Energy and Sustainable Technologies graduate program (GP) aims to offer an educational background that enables a connection between the laboratory and the living world in line with the current challenge of ecological and sustainable transitions. Mimicking strategies deployed by Nature represents infinite scientific and technological challenges that will be undertaken by choosing bioinspiration and biomimetism.

With this program, unique in France, we ask students to explore living systems to get inspiration to develop novel materials while keeping in mind ethics and consciousness of their environment.

Multi and transdisciplinary training, which is at the heart of the biomimetic approach, will enable students to adopt new ways of thinking syntheses, formulations, and processing of tomorrow's materials needed by the industrial partners to build our future society.

In both the first and the second year of the program, students will be trained to draw inspiration from nature through a biomimetic approach. This multidisciplinary approach, which resorts to both fundamental science and materials engineering, is based on the observation and comprehension of living organisms within their ecosystems.

A strong effort of abstraction to establish biological models to be adapted to scientific concepts and technological developments will be key to the lectures.

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Published on 9/7/22 | Modified on 2/9/26

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