In 2022, the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour opened a 5-year Master’s degree + PhD program of excellence in a variety of disciplines linked to energy and the environment 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.

Apply here from October to March

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

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.