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TRAINING FOR RESEARCH
AT
THE STRASBOURG
UNIVERSITY
Pascal BOUSQUET
aboratory of Neurobiolgy and Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Clinical Investgation Center
Medical School – University Hospiltal - INSERM
Strasbourg – France
Les Hôpitaux
Universitaires
de STRASBOURG
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
WATH ABOUT PhD TRAININGS ?
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
RechercheBiomédicale
18%
• 155 teams/436 qualified
scientists
• 462 applicants (7/7/2011)
• 410 PhD theses defended on
7/7/2011
Biologie
Moléculaire,
Cellulaire,
Plantes,
Microorganismes
23%
BiophotoniquePharmacologie
6%
Neurosciences
15%
Ecophysiolgie
4%
Interface
ChimieBio
IGBMC
28%
Doctoral training : courses in
English
at the Doctoral School
SOCIO-PROFESSIONAL
SCIENTIFIC
FALL SCHOOL 2011
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
•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
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:
Quality of the training :
• Transparency of decisions of
the Scientific council
• Validation of all the projects
• Jury with 42 seniors of UdS
and 2 to 4 external members
for selection of the projects
• Active agreement of the
whole DS communauty
• 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
Partnership ED/ Merck-Millipore
Welcome of foreign students
• All the formations in English
• 41 « sandwich » PhD theses
• 39% of the foreign PhD students
Nationalities
MoyenOrient
61% France
39% foreigners
Europe
39,3%
A mérique
6,8%
2009/2010
10/11
Europe
37 %
39 %
Afrique
23 %
15 %
Asie
14 %
21 %
Amérique
5%
7%
Australie
1%
0%
A sie
20,9%
A friqu
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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
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !