ECTS
60 credits
Duration
1 year
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Presentation
The Biodiv'In master course "Double competence in ecology and biodiversity management" is presented on the website of the GEB Master mention "Gestion de l'Environnement et de la Biodiversité": www.ingénieurs-ecologues.fr
This is a scientific and technical training in ecology at a generalist level in the fields of competence at bac+5 of :
Environmental and ecological engineering.
Management and conservation of biodiversity.
It is based on a single year of training at the M2 level, the course does not include a M1.
This training prepares graduates with a Bac+5 degree of the "technical engineer" type, and does not prepare them for jobs as senior technicians (e.g. naturalist technician, because these require specific and long apprenticeships that will not be provided in this course) or for jobs as researchers or teacher-researchers. From these two restrictions, this course opens up a very wide field of jobs at the baccalaureate+5 level more or less related to scientific ecology and contributing directly or/and indirectly to the conservation of biodiversity.
The course is open to both initial and continuing education, with or without an apprenticeship or professionalization contract.
In general, 100% success rate.
Success rate
Objectives
The Biodiv'In course is open to graduates of a 5-year degree in another specialization than general and applied ecology. Already graduates of a Master 2 or an engineering school (possibly in their 5th year when the school allows it in equivalence), or any other equivalent diploma abroad, the students of this course will be able to ACQUIRE A SECOND COMPETENCE IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ECOLOGY in addition to their FIRST professional competence, specific to their initial training in bac+5. After one year of training, the graduates of this course will be BI-COMPETENT professionally, their 2nd common skill being scientific and technical ecology applied to the management and conservation of biodiversity, the first being specific to each. Thus, the course allows its students to add to their initial training course, the "In", a 2nd skill, the "Biodiv'", and thus to "put ecology in their professional engine".
The Biodiv'In course therefore involves a training project that aims to :
- To evolve in one's "first job" in order to better integrate biodiversity issues into one's career, we speak of "greening" one's job and professional reorientation;
- Changing jobs to integrate a new profession within the professional field of ecology and biodiversity, we talk about professional reconversion.
- Each student will be more or less in one or the other of these two professional objectives at the end of the Biodv'In course.
Know-how and skills
Whatever their professional project, students in the Biodiv'In course have little or no scientific and technical background in ecology. The main and common skills and competences targeted by the course are therefore :
- Scientific and technical bases in ecology at the generalist level to Bac+5.
- Knowledge and methodologies of environmental and ecological engineering.
- Knowledge and methodologies of biodiversity management and conservation.
- Project management and communication applied to the professional field of ecology and biodiversity.
- Approach, methodology, analysis and scientific writing.
- Innovation and business creation.
A set of optional courses, pedagogical projects and the 6-month internship, or even the 6+2 month work-study program, allows students to specialize more or less in professional engineering skills of the "Studies" type or management skills of the "projects/missions" type. On the other hand, to specialize more or less in aquatic or terrestrial ecology.
Organization
Special arrangements
The training year can be carried out over two distinct academic years, not necessarily successive, by splitting the first semester (September-February) from the second semester (March-August).
Open in alternation
Type of contract | Apprenticeship contract, Professionalization contract |
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see the organization section
Program
The schedule of the Biodiv'In course is limited to one year of training. It is divided into :
- 6 months of teaching (September-February) and 6 months of internship (March-August), in the classical way:
- 4 months of teaching (September-November then January-February) and 8 months of apprenticeship (November-December and March-August), in the alternating route.
The teaching part of the program, both traditional and apprenticeship, includes, depending on the set of options and projects chosen by the student
- 180 to 195 hours of teaching in the form of courses, tutorials, practical work, or field work.
- 214 to 268 hours of educational projects.
The work experience part, depending on the traditional or apprenticeship route, lasts 6 to 8 months full-time (35 hours/week) as a trainee or apprentice respectively.
The 60 ECTS teaching program is divided into:
- 4 compulsory teaching units for 12 ECTS.
- 2 units of compulsory pedagogical project for 8 ECTS.
- 6 optional teaching units for 14 ECTS
- 1 unit of compulsory work experience for 26 ECTS (internship or apprenticeship).
Ecology Fair-1
2 credits1hChoice 1
4 creditsYour choice: 1 of 2
Management and exploitation of living resources
4 creditsConservation ecology
4 credits
EU CHOICE 2
10 creditsChoice of 1 of 3
EU Choice 4
EU CHOICE 3
10 creditsYour choice: 1 of 22
Urban ecology
2 creditsSustainable exploitation of animal resources hunting
2 creditsEcology of marine and coastal ecosystems
2 credits8hAgroecology
2 creditsConservation Biology
2 creditsStream modeling
2 creditsEcological engineering and restoration (ERC sequence)
2 creditsBehavioral ecology
2 credits6hGEMAPI (Management of Aquatic Environments and Flood Prevention)
2 creditsMediation and Governance of territories
2 creditsEcology Fair-2
2 credits1hEcology Environment Anthropo Society (Pyrenees seminar)
2 creditsTools and methods for the dynamic study of marine ecosystems
2 credits3hManaging a participatory science project
2 creditsImpacts of climate change on organisms, ecosystems and
2 creditsAdvanced GIS
2 creditsIndividual Project in GE 1
2 creditsGIS
2 creditsGlobal changes: characterization, impacts & adaptations
2 creditsCommunication of organizations
2 credits15hNew technologies for the study of Biodiversity
2 creditsBioremediation pollution
2 credits
EU CHOICE 4
10 creditsPollution and bioremediation of ecosystems
EU CHOICE 7
6 creditsYour choice: 1 of 22
Urban ecology
2 creditsSustainable exploitation of animal resources hunting
2 creditsEcology of marine and coastal ecosystems
2 credits8hAgroecology
2 creditsConservation Biology
2 creditsStream modeling
2 creditsEcological engineering and restoration (ERC sequence)
2 creditsBehavioral ecology
2 credits6hGEMAPI (Management of Aquatic Environments and Flood Prevention)
2 creditsMediation and Governance of territories
2 creditsEcology Fair-2
2 credits1hEcology Environment Anthropo Society (Pyrenees seminar)
2 creditsTools and methods for the dynamic study of marine ecosystems
2 credits3hManaging a participatory science project
2 creditsImpacts of climate change on organisms, ecosystems and
2 creditsAdvanced GIS
2 creditsIndividual Project in GE 1
2 creditsGIS
2 creditsGlobal changes: characterization, impacts & adaptations
2 creditsCommunication of organizations
2 credits15hNew technologies for the study of Biodiversity
2 creditsBioremediation pollution
2 credits
Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
4 creditsEcology Keys
2 creditsM2-GE Apprenticeship Project
6 creditsTools of the territorial dialogue
2 credits
End of studies internship M2 GE Biodiv'In
22 creditsCOGITHON
4 creditsProfessionalization M2 GE
4 credits
Admission
How to register
Applications are made on the following platforms:
French & European students:
- For M2, students must submit their application via the e-candidat application: https: //candidature.umontpellier.fr/candidature
International students from outside the EU: follow the "Studies in France" procedure: https: //pastel.diplomatie.gouv.fr/etudesenfrance/dyn/public/authentification/login.html
Target audience
The Biodiv'In program is open to graduates of a 5-year degree program in a field other than general and applied ecology. The following are eligible to enter the course directly into M2:
Graduates of any master's degree in France, except for professional master's degree courses in ecology such as "IEGB"; at the margin, a graduate of a "research" master's degree course in ecology is also eligible.
Graduates of any engineering school in France; at the margin, a student in his 5th year of his engineering school provided that it is of a scientific nature (agronomy, veterinary, Environment, Mines, SPI, etc.)
Any other degree abroad equivalent to a university baccalaureate.
Graduates who have acquired at least one year of full-time professional experience after their first degree are sought in priority.
Candidates with an apprenticeship or professionalization contract will be given priority.
Necessary pre-requisites
Designed to be accessible to people who have not followed any scientific education in ecology, or even necessarily a basic scientific curriculum, the Biodiv'In course includes 3 compulsory teaching units on scientific ecology and biodiversity management, and counts for 10 ECTS. A good general culture in science and ecology is necessary! This culture will come from an initial training, a professional background, or a voluntary and personal approach (evening classes, self-training, associative activities, etc.) and will have to bring the base of knowledge and skills allowing to follow and pass the general and applied ecology teachings, of licence level, given in the Biodiv'In course.
A clear and precise professional project allowing to argue a feasible and relevant training project via the Biodiv'In course!
Written English proficiency to use and produce scientific and professional resources.
Recommended prerequisites
Professional or volunteer experience, or teaching/training equivalent to approximately 50 hours of undergraduate biology, ecology and environment.
Knowledge and practice of the scientific process, reasoning and analysis.
A knowledge and an involvement, or better an activity, personal and significant in the field of the environment, and/or ecology, and/or nature protection.
And then
Further studies
The Biodiv'In course trains graduates of the "engineer-technician" type on the job market at bac+5. It does not prepare for further studies via a doctoral school, a thesis and a doctoral degree. Nevertheless, the Master's degree in Environmental Management and its Biodiv'In course, like all the masters recognized by the French Ministry of Higher Education, is the necessary and sufficient prerequisite to apply for a doctoral school... It will not prevent any future Biodiv'In graduate from being able to exercise this right and to succeed!
Continuing your studies abroad
No further studies are directly proposed by the Biodiv'In course in France or abroad.
Professional integration
The double competence of Biodiv'In graduates is specific to both the initial training and the professional experience of each candidate BEFORE entering, and to the pedagogical choices of each student during the training, the professional fields and branches, the jobs and employers, of the potential job market are very numerous and diversified.
The main professional fields are in France and abroad:
- Ecological and environmental engineering sector
- Biodiversity management and conservation sector.
- Engineering and water management sector.
- Engineering and energy management sector.
- Agriculture, forestry, agri-food and agronomy (agroecology and bio).
- Engineering and management of waste and pollution.
- Transportation engineering and management sector.
- Construction and development sector.
- Economic, commercial and financial sector (circular economy, green finance, short circuits, etc.)
- Political and legal fields
- Human health sector
The main employers are in France and abroad:
- Design offices.
- Associations, cooperatives and NGOs
- Private companies, SMEs, ETIs and large companies.
- Local authorities (regions, departments, local communities, and communes).
- Public establishments (including applied research laboratories).
- Central and deconcentrated services of the state.
The main "executive level" jobs are in France and abroad:
- In charge of studies
- Design engineer
- Project Manager
- project fe
- Research Engineer.
- Curator