B2I Project Management

Scientific activities are more and more strongly structured in projects organized around specific objectives whose realization is limited in time. Designing and presenting a project have thus become essential skills both in the recruitment process and in professional activities. The objective of this course is to learn how to design and present a scientific project by writing a proposal corresponding to a request for funding for a 3-year project. This project can be fictitious or directly related to the objective pursued by the student at the end of the master's degree. The work carried out must allow the presentation of the scientific interest and originality of the project with regard to the state of the art, the methodology to be implemented, the provisional timetable as well as a rational planning of the necessary human and financial resources. The proposal will be the subject of an individualized feedback that will allow each student to identify the strong and weak points of his or her proposal.

The project design and writing work will help develop three essential skills:

1) to establish the state of the art of knowledge around a scientific question,

2) problematize and construct a method to answer a research question, and

3) know how to write a structured, synthetic and illustrated report in an efficient way.

Continuous assessment : 100%.