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

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 58 trainings 124 opportunities 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 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) i n 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

61% France 39% foreigners 2009/ /11 Europe37 %39 % Afrique23 %15 % Asie14 %21 % Amérique5 %7 % Australie1 %0 % Nationalities

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

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