Transcript THE ORGANISATION OF DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES IN FRANCE …

Collège Doctoral PRES
Université Lille – Nord de France
http://collegedoctoral.pres-ulnf.fr/
Joël CUGUEN
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Lille métropole: 3 Universities and 2 Engineering School
- Lille 1: Sciences and Technologies
- Lille 2: Law and Health
- Lille 3: Social Sciences
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie
- Ecole Centrale de Lille
3 multi-disciplinary/multi-site Universities
- Littoral – Côte d’Opale
- Artois
- Valenciennes – Hainaut–Cambrésis
- Ecole des Mines de Douai
Dunkerque
Calais
Boulogne/Mer
St Omer
Liévin
Béthune
Some metrics
4,03 M inhabitants in the region
156 000 students - 14 000 international
students
7 200 graduate master / year
Lille/Villeneuve
d’Ascq
Lens
Valenciennes
Douai
Arras
Maubeuge
Cambrai
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PRES ULNF
Research potential
• 6 Universities, 3 engineering schools (30
institutions)
• 200 research laboratories
• 4 100 R-T & R, 3 200 administrative staff
• 70% of research employees in labs associated with
national research organizations (CNRS, Inserm,
Inria, Inra, …)
• 6 regional thematic doctoral schools
• 2 500 PhD Students
• 450 theses / year
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Doctoral college
• 2 500 PhD students (38% international students)
• 450 theses per year
• 6 Regional Doctoral Schools
- Sciences de la Matière, du Rayonnement et de l’Environnement
- Sciences Pour l’Ingénieur
- Biologie et Santé
- Sciences Economiques, Sociales, de l’Aménagement et du Management
- Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société
- Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et de Gestion
• 2 Departments
- International Initiatives department
- Careers and Employment, skills training department
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Doctoral college
Collège Doctoral
de l’Université Lille Nord de France
Directeur scientifique Joël CUGEN
Département Action
Internationale
Directeur scientifique
Moussa NAIT-ABDELAZIZ
ED SMRE
ED SPI
ED BSL
ED SHS
ED SESAM
ED SJPG
Département Carrières
et Emplois
Directrice scientifique
Laurence DUCHIEN
Directrice administrative
Nathalie BERTEAUX
Ingénieur de recherche
Chargée de mission
« Suivi des doctorants et Action
Internationale »
Chargée de mission
« Dispositif d’accompagnement des
doctorants vers l’emploi »
Ingénieur d’Etude - Céline CAULIER
Ingénieur d’Etude - Aïcha AARAB
Assistante administrative
Cathary TARBALOUTI
Technicien
+ network of 25-30 Professional Insertion Referents coming from all economical sectors
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Doctoral School:
Missions & Objectives
• Coordinate PhD students program and monitoring their curriculum
– Authorization for thesis registration at the beginning and each year
– Implementation of the Thesis Charter, with possible mediation if
necessary
– Selection of reviewers, monitoring committees
• Offer additional scientific and technical training
– Technical training ("HPC", industrial property, …)
– Support for the organization of summer/winter young
researchers schools
• Promote interdisciplinarity and international mobility
– Transdisciplinary seminars, mobility meetings
– Financial support for mobility
– Implementation of agreements with international partners
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Doctoral School:
Missions & Objectives
• Promote the employability of PhD students and assist them in defining
their professional project
– Help in the definition of professional project
– Openness to business world
– Training (training plan, communication, project management)
– Participation to the « Doctoriales » seminar,
– “New chapter of the thesis” – skill valorisation (with a human resource
coach)
– Preparation for the job search
• 1 director, 1 or 2 assistants, a board with 6-7 people
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Department of International Initiatives
• Call for projects (2 per Year): incoming and outgoing mobility of PhD
students, seminars or advanced courses
• Visiting Professors - short visits
• Annual award thesis "International Research” - 1 in S&T and 1 in SHS
• Franco - Wallon Interreg program ProDoc “Process of employability of
doctors and doctoral skills development with companies and non-profit
organizations »
- Web site http://www.pro-doc.org/
- Forum Doc’Emploi - http://www.ulb.ac.be/rech/ed/docemploi.html
• French courses to facilitate the integration of foreign PhD students
• (In progress) Integration seminar for foreign students
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Department of Careers and Employement
Manage all the actions to support the employability of doctors for the 6
Doctoral Schools of the Region
• PhD students: 35 thematic seminars divided in 8 themes
- Define the professional project and optimize the job prospect
- Prepare for a business creation (company, association)
- Develop and enhance skills and innovation potential
- Communicate knowledge and training to university teaching
- Locate the research activity in the socio-economic and institutional
environments
- Scientific mediation – communication skills
- « Doctoriales » seminar week / 75 PhD students (ProDoc – F-B)
- http://pro-doc.org/doctoriales/accueil.html
- June Conferences of June (4)
• Supervisors: 2 seminars per year
• Socio-economic environment: panels, forum, social networks
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Department of Careers and Employement
• Metrics in 2011-2012
– 1 136 registrations
– 541 PhD Students
– 32 seminars – 54 sessions – 98 days
– Cost of seminars: 95 Keuros - Funded by the PRES (50%) and by
Doctoral Schools (50%)
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Employment status in March 2011 for graduate
PhD in 2008
• ORES survey published in Oct 12
– http://www.univ-lille-nord-defrance.fr/sites/default/files/telechargement/ores/Docteurs2008_en20
11_parGD.pdf
– 95% have a job with > 2200 euros (before taxes)
– 51% in Nord-Pas de Calais region, 30% in other parts of France, 19%
abroad
– ¼ of PhDs has participated to DCE seminars
– 100% of PhDs who participated at least one DCE training have a job
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