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TRAINING FOR RESEARCH AT THE STRASBOURG UNIVERSITY. Pascal BOUSQUET Laboratory of Neurobiolgy and Cardiovascular Pharmacology Clinical Investgation Center Medical School – University Hospiltal - INSERM Strasbourg – France. TRAINING FOR RESEARCH IS THE SAME
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TRAINING FOR RESEARCH AT THE STRASBOURG UNIVERSITY Pascal BOUSQUET Laboratory of Neurobiolgy and Cardiovascular Pharmacology Clinical Investgation Center Medical School – University Hospiltal - INSERM Strasbourg – France
TRAINING FOR RESEARCH IS THE SAME FOR BOTH BIOLOGY AND MEDICAL STUDENTS THE SAME DEGREES ARE REQUIRED FOR RESEARCH CARREERS
A MASTER DEGREE FIRST A LARGE LOCAL and NATIONAL OFFER
Doctoral Schools College Trainings follow-up The 2010/2011 list recorded 58 trainings, half of them offering a range of 2 to 7 groups, which allows up to 124 training oppotunities 124 opportunities 58 trainings 827 hours 4219 attendees
Doctoral Schools College Setting-up of a list of cross-disciplinary trainings and rules to be applied in the follow-up of these trainings. These trainings concern 9 main areas : - Knowledge of the the University and its surroundings - Europe, institutions and their functioning - Socio economic background, skills promotion and innovation potential - Languages including French for foreigners - Information and communication technologies - Additional tools : ¤ Oral and written communication ¤ Education and teaching skills ¤ Mediation and spreading of scientific and technical culture
Doctoral Schools College In addition to disciplinary education issued by the Doctoral Schools PhD students belong to, they have to attend cross-disciplinary training sessions (at least 54 hours) during 3 years. Their pathway can be customized in accordance with the director of the Doctoral School and requires signing an individual training plan. A software programme has been thought up for computerized management of cross-disciplinary trainings Number of trainings up to date : 58 Number of registrations : 2898 Number of PhD students accepted : 2084
Doctoral School(DS) LIFE SCIENCES and HEALTH 3 components based on: • Excellent quality research activities and structures • Rigor for management of doctoral students • Diversity of trainings and paedagogic actions
Presentation of the DS 2008-2011 • 29 research structures, 7 great domains • 155 teams/436 qualified scientists • 462 applicants (7/7/2011) • 410 PhD theses defended on 7/7/2011
Doctoral training : courses in English at the Doctoral School SOCIO-PROFESSIONAL FALL SCHOOL 2011 • Effective writing • Effective reading • Electrophysiology School of Strasbourg 2011 • Intellectual Property Rights • Special ED-Merck Millipore Partnership course : Developing your interviewing skills SPRING SCHOOL 2012 • Project management • Effective writing • Special ED-Merck Millipore Patrnership course : How to make the right impression and deliver clear messages along public speaking SCIENTIFIC WINTER SCHOOL 2012 • Metabolomics : a set of new analytical technologies to study the world of small molecules in biological systems • Congenital disorders and their embryonic origin • Biotechnology and application of antibodies • Biomolecular visualization with Pymol SUMMER SCHOOL 2012 • Molecular Anthropology • Stem Cells and Ethics • Biological clocks (circadian, cellular, somitic) • Introduction to Biological Data Analysis with Unix
DS management Scientific council 26 members 4 annual meetings Restricted scientific council 14 members 10 annual meetings Paedagogic council 7 members 4 to 6 meetings PhD committee
Quality prerequisite 2 Nobel prizes, 8 members of IUF, 9 teams ERC, 8 Academicians, UdS nominated for 8 structures of excellence Average ratio : 1.02 PhD student/senior scientist Quality of students : Mark > 12/20, master degree
Quality prerequisite Quality of mangement: Transparency of decisions of the Scientific council Jury with 42 seniors of UdS and 2 to 4 external members for selection of the projects Active agreement of the whole DS communauty • Quality of the training : • Validation of all the projects • Financing of >98% of the PhD students • Half time evaluation • Individual interviews • Bilingual welcome booklets • PhD engagement (student/mentor)
Results of PhDs (2010) Average duration: 43 months Annual number : 128 >86% more than 1 publication Average number of publications = 2,87/PhD
Training Programme • 108 hours to be validated • Scientific High level (theory and practice) in English • Socio-professional training from the DS in English • To noticed: Partenership with Merck-Millipore company (since 2010) ) • detailed structuration of the trainings
Welcome of foreign students • All the formations in English • 41 « sandwich » PhD theses • 39% of the foreign PhD students
Nationalities 61% France 39% foreigners
POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS LARGE VARIETY OF COUNTRIES >200 WITH SEASONAL VARIATIONS DIRECT AGREEMENT BETWEN THE APPLICANT AND THE HOST STRUCTURE UNIVERSITY FACILITIES CONCERNING ACCOMODATION, IN PARTICULAR
INVITED PROFESSOR POSITIONS SABBATICAL STAYS APPLICATION IS REQUIRED - HIGH STANDARD IN RESEACH AND TEACHING IN THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN