Training structure
Faculty of Science
Language(s) of instruction
French
Presentation
The course is based on theoretical instruction focusing on the relationship between water and society in countries of the North and South, practical exercises to confront students with real-life problems, and two professional internships. It is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Website: https: //www.master-eau.fr/eau-et-soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9).
Know-how and skills
Organization
Knowledge control
Program
Select a program
M1 - Water and Society (ES)
Water issues
3 creditsProject Management 1
2 creditsStakes actors regulation
3 creditsCHOICE 1
6 creditsChoice of 2 out of 6
Critical approach through films
2 creditsFrom planning to management of the territory
3 creditsBibliographic project
3 creditsSociology of scientific and technical controversies
3 creditsThematic English 1
2 creditsEconomic evaluation
3 credits
GIS practice
3 creditsEconomic instruments for water management
3 creditsQualitative survey methods
3 creditsThematic English 2
2 creditsManagement tools for evaluation
3 creditsGroundwater management
3 creditsInternship M1 - ES
6 creditsCritical analysis of a current issue
1 creditsIWRM Participation Practices
3 creditsQuantitative survey methods
M1 - Water and Society (WS) - APPRENTICESHIP
Water issues
3 creditsProject Management 1
2 creditsStakes actors regulation
3 creditsCHOICE 1
6 creditsChoice of 2 out of 6
Critical approach through films
2 creditsFrom planning to management of the territory
3 creditsBibliographic project
3 creditsSociology of scientific and technical controversies
3 creditsThematic English 1
2 creditsEconomic evaluation
3 credits
GIS practice
3 creditsAlternating project
3 creditsEconomic instruments for water management
3 creditsQualitative survey methods
3 creditsThematic English 2
2 creditsManagement tools for evaluation
3 creditsM1 ES Internship Apprentices
6 creditsCritical analysis of a current issue
1 creditsIWRM Participation Practices
3 creditsQuantitative survey methods
M2 - Water and Society (ES)
Water and Law
5 creditsScientific writing
3 creditsWater governance and the interplay of scales
3 creditsIrrigation and development
3 creditsWater and development
3 creditsProject Management-2
3 creditsHistory of water
3 creditsWater policy
3 creditsProfessions and actors of water and aquatic environments
2 credits0hInterdisciplinary Project 1 - ES
2 credits
CHOICE 1
5 creditsYour choice: 1 of 2
EU CHOICES 1-2
5 creditsEU CHOICES 1-2-2
2 creditsChoice of 1 of 3
Events project / Call for tender
2 creditsWater and Development
2 creditsWater and South
2 credits
EU CHOICES 1-2-1
3 creditsYour choice: 1 of 2
M2R preparation - ES
3 creditsWater and Climate Change
3 credits
EU CHOICE 1-1
7 creditsEU CHOICES 1-1-1
2 creditsChoice of 1 of 3
Events project / Call for tender
2 creditsWater and Development
2 creditsWater and South
2 credits
International Field Schools - North & South
5 credits
CHOICE 3
22 creditsChoice of 1 of 3
M2 Research Internship - ES
22 creditsM2 Professional Internship - ES
20 creditsM2 Professional Internship - ES
22 credits
Interdisciplinary Project 2 -ES
3 credits
M2 - Water and Society (ES) - APPRENTICESHIP
Water and Law
5 creditsScientific writing
3 creditsWater governance and the interplay of scales
3 creditsIrrigation and development
3 creditsWater and development
3 creditsProject Management-2
3 creditsHistory of water
3 creditsWater policy
3 creditsProfessions and actors of water and aquatic environments
2 credits0hProject Alternant ES 3
2 credits
CHOICE 1
5 creditsYour choice: 1 of 2
EU CHOICES 1-2
5 creditsEU CHOICES 1-2-2
2 creditsChoice of 1 of 3
Events project / Call for tender
2 creditsWater and Development
2 creditsWater and South
2 credits
EU CHOICES 1-2-1
3 creditsYour choice: 1 of 2
M2R preparation - ES
3 creditsWater and Climate Change
3 credits
EU CHOICE 1-1
7 creditsEU CHOICES 1-1-1
2 creditsChoice of 1 of 3
Events project / Call for tender
2 creditsWater and Development
2 creditsWater and South
2 credits
International Field Schools - North & South
5 credits
Internship M2 ES Apprentices
22 creditsAlternate project ES 4
3 credits
Project Management 1
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Project management brings together all the methods, tools and techniques used to organize the progress of a project and achieve its objectives, from the project idea to its completion.
A practical situation is planned with the help of exercises or case studies so that the students acquire the right reflexes and manipulate the tools of project management.
Stakes actors regulation
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Water is at the heart of multiple and contradictory issues, visions and interests. The articulation of these different elements raises the question of integrated management (IWRM) and regulation (in particular by public policies), of the balance between collective and private values, and of decision-making processes concerning collective issues, in short, of governance. Decentralization, water and sanitation services, basin management, the European Framework Directive, financial circuits illustrate, in particular, different facets of governance.
Functioning of aquatic ecosystems
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course should enable students to acquire in-depth knowledge of the functioning of aquatic ecosystems and to identify threats and vulnerability to local pressures and climate change.
It will also allow 1) to know the specificities of the functioning of benthic ecosystems and the ecological roles of its components, 2) to acquire in-depth knowledge in the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, 3) to acquire knowledge on the impact of chemical and biological contaminants (toxic and pathogenic microalgae), of climate change and anthropization on the functioning of aquatic ecosystems and on these components with socio-economic repercussions This EU will develop networks for monitoring the marine environment and the health of exploited marine animals by addressing mortality issues.
Functioning of hydrosystems
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This teaching is divided into two parts, one part concerning surface and atmospheric waters, the other part concerning groundwater. This UE is in continuity with the UE Water cycle of S1, and allows to lay the essential bases for the specific teachings of hydrodynamics and physical hydrology which will take place in S2. It is thus a transitional course between fundamental knowledge on the water cycle and specific knowledge on the study and characterization of surface and groundwater resources.
Theoretical courses associated with integrated tutorials are complemented by practical work on computers and hydrogeological maps.
Contaminants in the aquatic environment and sustainable development
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course introduces students to the contaminants in the aquatic environment, which are essential for the evaluation of risks to the health of ecosystems and humans and for the management of water resources. This is why the program integrates the presentation of the various contaminants of the environment and the regulations.
This course is taught by research professors and researchers (multidisciplinary course) who develop their research activities around the problems of contaminants in aquatic environments.
Water cycle watershed
Level of study
BAC +4
Component
Faculty of Science
The course is organized in 3 main chapters with alternating tutorials applied to engineering problems. In the first part, after describing the large water reservoirs on a global scale and the basic principles of the water cycle, the effects of human activities on this cycle are discussed. The second part is dedicated to the aerial part of this cycle from precipitation to infiltration. The third part focuses on aquifers and groundwater from the pore scale to the catchment scale.
Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The "Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate" module focuses on presenting the fundamental principles of atmospheric dynamics, ocean dynamics and provides a critical and documented look at climate change. The teaching is based on the analysis of official documents describing global change, documented lessons on key issues and applications on case studies in different global contexts.
The module is shared by the "Coastal engineering and rational development of the coastline" and "Water and coastline" courses of the STPE and Water masters. It can be taken by work-study students wishing to update their knowledge of global change and its relationship to weather and atmospheric processes.
Water and agriculture: scientific issues and questions
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The content of the module is structured as follows: -A series of lectures: 1-Water resources and food security, 2-Environmental impact of agriculture on water resources and aquatic environments, 3-Current advances and challenges in agronomic research for the optimization of water consumption by plants, and 4-Management of water demand in agriculture. -Tutorials: Food security and prospective scenario. -A prospective work in small groups will be implemented to produce scenarios related to the state of water resources and food production on a case study of a southern country.
Critical approach through films
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
From planning to management of the territory
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The lessons consist essentially of a presentation of the foundations of regional planning: the main legal frameworks are presented and analyzed (in a participative manner) legal frameworks and their constant evolution (Codes, Laws, Texts), the " doctrines We present and analyze (in a participatory manner) the main legal frameworks and their constant evolution (Codes, Laws, Texts), the "doctrines" that condition their application, but also the different technical "tools", whether they are procedures or file set-ups (Urban Planning Documents, or public or private construction or development projects). The tools and conditions for dialogue and consultation (examination of the different operating modes), the land approaches (land control and tools for this control), the evaluation of the multiple issues (financial, socio-economic and political), and finally the processes of decision making. The different aspects mentioned above are put forward as factors that condition the success - and therefore the successful spatial translation - of all development projects, whatever their nature and the dimension.
Focused on all the territories, the module is also focused on the specific problems of coastal areass and similar areas. Because coastal areas have their own specificities, a specific approach to these areas is essential to complete the general approaches (Coastal Law, Water Law, easements, evolution of frameworks and texts).
Finally, the backdrop of this module is the systematic highlighting of the multiple debates and issues involved in the confrontation between theemergency (or priority) socio-economic and the emergency (or priority) environmental emergencywith an understanding of the trade-offs and adjustments that this confrontation gives rise to. The topicality of the ecological and transitional emergency as well as the acceleration of confrontations / conflicts of interest are examined and put into perspective.
With respect to the management As regards the "management" of territories, presented in the title of the EU (" From planning to management of the territory") as a consequence of the planning stage, this theme is also described and analysed for each of the points declined that fall under planning, both as a consequence of the actions carried out and as a condition for success -in the medium and long term- of the projects implemented on a territory, whatever the scale.
Bibliographic project
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The Bibliographic Project course consists of training in documentary research, including the use of search engines, databases and bibliographic reference management tools. Students work in pairs on a subject they have defined themselves, in connection with their training. This documentary research is valued by the writing of a synthesis and a poster.
Sociology of scientific and technical controversies
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Sociologists of science consider that controversies are inherent to the process of knowledge production. They refer to (1) situations of discussion between scientists who oppose or agree on the data they produce, but also (2) mobilizations that develop in the context of institutionalized public debates or more informal exchanges. These controversies are an opportunity to observe science and decisions in the making, since they are nourished by knowledge that is not yet stabilized. They provide examples from which to rethink the relationship between science and society, and in so doing, the issues of technical democracy, at the interface of several disciplines.
Thematic English 1
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
TD courses in English for students in the Water Sciences program, aimed at professional autonomy in the English language.
Economic evaluation
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
At the end of this module, students should be able to understand an economic analysis of a water management project/policy. They should be familiar with the principles of cost-benefit analysis, know the valuation methods, parameters and indicators that can be used. They will learn to have a critical eye on the evaluations and on the parameters and indicators used.
GIS practice
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The GIS Practice course consists of a training in the practice of Geographic Information Systems, integrating the basic concepts concerning geographic information and the mastery of the free software QGIS. The majority of the course is devoted to an initiation through alternating lectures and practical exercises. At the end of the course, a personalized cartographic project allows students to remobilize the concepts seen previously. An introductory lecture with professionals allows to put into perspective the interest of GIS approaches in general hydrology.
Economic instruments for water management
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Qualitative survey methods
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course is an introduction to quantitative survey methods in the social sciences.
He is interested in the use of statistics and the definition of categories to describe the social world as well as the objectification of representations.
It proposes to put the questionnaire tool into practice by creating a questionnaire, administering it and analyzing its results.
Thematic English 2
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
TD courses in English for students in the Water Sciences program, aimed at professional autonomy in the English language.
Management tools for evaluation
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The module introduces managerial and multi-criteria approaches to the evaluation of water services.
The module focuses on the management of drinking water and sanitation services, as well as irrigation water services. It provides an understanding and a critical vision of the management tools of these services.
The module is organized in 3 main steps:
- Analysis and evaluation of the economic, financial and technical performance of water and sanitation utilities, with a focus on financial analysis and performance indicators of water utilities
- Environmental assessment with a presentation of global approaches (Life Cycle Assessment) versus local approaches.
- An analysis of the sustainability of services
The course is based on concrete case studies to illustrate the various concepts covered. Particular emphasis is placed on the relative character of performance, a multi-dimensional notion that evolves over time and varies according to the points of view considered.
Groundwater management
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Historically, the question of managing access to water resources was first raised for river water, which is closely linked to the climatic conditions of the moment, and for water delivered by man-made distribution systems. It is only more recently that the management of groundwater has been considered, as it is less subject to problems of cyclical shortage (except for the water tables accompanying rivers). In the majority of cases, access to groundwater is made on an individual basis, with each user (particularly in agriculture) accessing it by drilling at the place of his needs. But these underground resources also require management, because they are increasingly exploited and sometimes even overexploited.
This module addresses the issue of groundwater resources management by first presenting what each discipline of physical sciences (geology-hydrogeology, geochemistry, isotopy) and their tools brings to the knowledge of aquifers (at the geological level: outcrop, drilling, logging, seismic profiles ...; at the hydrogeological level: piezometry, pumping test, sampling points / outlets, quantities withdrawn ...): geometry, structure and hydrological functioning.
It then outlines the value of groundwater to the various uses that mobilize it. The economic value of groundwater is thus studied in this section (Qureshi et al., 2012). The difficulties of knowing about these groundwater withdrawals and the methods that can be used to reveal them are also specified.
It then describes the various problems posed by aquifers: current or future overexploitation of groundwater, degradation of groundwater quality, threat of saltwater intrusion, salinization of soils, etc.
Finally, it identifies the various methods for rebalancing groundwater supply and demand. Firstly, it sets out the means of increasing water supply (active management of groundwater, substitutions between resources) or avoiding the contamination of good quality water by less good quality water. Examples: active management of karstic aquifers (Lez system), artificial recharge (e.g. Seine catchment fields in Paris), inter-seasonal / inter-annual recharge (Llobregat, Catalonia), recharge with wastewater (California), damming to avoid contamination of freshwater by saltwater.
Secondly, it traces the solutions acting on water demand. These solutions are based on two drivers of individual decisions, which can sometimes be combined: maximization of individual utility and inclusion in a society that induces "pro-social" behavior. Solutions that act directly on the demand for groundwater (pricing, quotas, trading of water rights) will be explored, as well as indirect solutions (purchase of land that can protect a resource, agricultural or energy policies that can positively or negatively influence the development of individual abstractions, etc.).
Critical analysis of a current issue
ECTS
1 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
IWRM Participation Practices
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This module aims to bring students to a concrete understanding of the implementation of IWRM and participation in water management through an active pedagogical approach.
It is based on the "Cooplage" system for supporting the implementation of participatory approaches to water management, developed by researchers from the GEAU research unit, and the associated Agreenium MOOC Terr'eau & co.
The students will work in small groups, associating students from the different courses of the Water Master, on case studies resulting from the ongoing research projects of the lecturers. The learning will be done through the implementation of some tools of the "Cooplage" device on their case study, including modeling and participatory simulation in the form of a role play. In order to anchor their work, students will be put in contact with the holders of these case studies.
In view of the health constraints, this year the EU will take place entirely remotely. The modeling and the games will be done on a virtual table.
Quantitative survey methods
Level of study
BAC +4
Component
Faculty of Science
This methodological module offers instruction in qualitative survey techniques and inductive reasoning. Students will be trained to conduct open-ended interviews, conduct field observations and learn to analyze empirical data. Students will put these lessons into practice by conducting a collective survey on a controversy related to water or the environment (in connection with the lessons received in UE 118).
Project Management 1
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Project management brings together all the methods, tools and techniques used to organize the progress of a project and achieve its objectives, from the project idea to its completion.
A practical situation is planned with the help of exercises or case studies so that the students acquire the right reflexes and manipulate the tools of project management.
Stakes actors regulation
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Water is at the heart of multiple and contradictory issues, visions and interests. The articulation of these different elements raises the question of integrated management (IWRM) and regulation (in particular by public policies), of the balance between collective and private values, and of decision-making processes concerning collective issues, in short, of governance. Decentralization, water and sanitation services, basin management, the European Framework Directive, financial circuits illustrate, in particular, different facets of governance.
Functioning of aquatic ecosystems
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course should enable students to acquire in-depth knowledge of the functioning of aquatic ecosystems and to identify threats and vulnerability to local pressures and climate change.
It will also allow 1) to know the specificities of the functioning of benthic ecosystems and the ecological roles of its components, 2) to acquire in-depth knowledge in the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, 3) to acquire knowledge on the impact of chemical and biological contaminants (toxic and pathogenic microalgae), of climate change and anthropization on the functioning of aquatic ecosystems and on these components with socio-economic repercussions This EU will develop networks for monitoring the marine environment and the health of exploited marine animals by addressing mortality issues.
Functioning of hydrosystems
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This teaching is divided into two parts, one part concerning surface and atmospheric waters, the other part concerning groundwater. This UE is in continuity with the UE Water cycle of S1, and allows to lay the essential bases for the specific teachings of hydrodynamics and physical hydrology which will take place in S2. It is thus a transitional course between fundamental knowledge on the water cycle and specific knowledge on the study and characterization of surface and groundwater resources.
Theoretical courses associated with integrated tutorials are complemented by practical work on computers and hydrogeological maps.
Contaminants in the aquatic environment and sustainable development
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course introduces students to the contaminants in the aquatic environment, which are essential for the evaluation of risks to the health of ecosystems and humans and for the management of water resources. This is why the program integrates the presentation of the various contaminants of the environment and the regulations.
This course is taught by research professors and researchers (multidisciplinary course) who develop their research activities around the problems of contaminants in aquatic environments.
Water cycle watershed
Level of study
BAC +4
Component
Faculty of Science
The course is organized in 3 main chapters with alternating tutorials applied to engineering problems. In the first part, after describing the large water reservoirs on a global scale and the basic principles of the water cycle, the effects of human activities on this cycle are discussed. The second part is dedicated to the aerial part of this cycle from precipitation to infiltration. The third part focuses on aquifers and groundwater from the pore scale to the catchment scale.
Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The "Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate" module focuses on presenting the fundamental principles of atmospheric dynamics, ocean dynamics and provides a critical and documented look at climate change. The teaching is based on the analysis of official documents describing global change, documented lessons on key issues and applications on case studies in different global contexts.
The module is shared by the "Coastal engineering and rational development of the coastline" and "Water and coastline" courses of the STPE and Water masters. It can be taken by work-study students wishing to update their knowledge of global change and its relationship to weather and atmospheric processes.
Water and agriculture: scientific issues and questions
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The content of the module is structured as follows: -A series of lectures: 1-Water resources and food security, 2-Environmental impact of agriculture on water resources and aquatic environments, 3-Current advances and challenges in agronomic research for the optimization of water consumption by plants, and 4-Management of water demand in agriculture. -Tutorials: Food security and prospective scenario. -A prospective work in small groups will be implemented to produce scenarios related to the state of water resources and food production on a case study of a southern country.
Critical approach through films
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
From planning to management of the territory
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The lessons consist essentially of a presentation of the foundations of regional planning: the main legal frameworks are presented and analyzed (in a participative manner) legal frameworks and their constant evolution (Codes, Laws, Texts), the " doctrines We present and analyze (in a participatory manner) the main legal frameworks and their constant evolution (Codes, Laws, Texts), the "doctrines" that condition their application, but also the different technical "tools", whether they are procedures or file set-ups (Urban Planning Documents, or public or private construction or development projects). The tools and conditions for dialogue and consultation (examination of the different operating modes), the land approaches (land control and tools for this control), the evaluation of the multiple issues (financial, socio-economic and political), and finally the processes of decision making. The different aspects mentioned above are put forward as factors that condition the success - and therefore the successful spatial translation - of all development projects, whatever their nature and the dimension.
Focused on all the territories, the module is also focused on the specific problems of coastal areass and similar areas. Because coastal areas have their own specificities, a specific approach to these areas is essential to complete the general approaches (Coastal Law, Water Law, easements, evolution of frameworks and texts).
Finally, the backdrop of this module is the systematic highlighting of the multiple debates and issues involved in the confrontation between theemergency (or priority) socio-economic and the emergency (or priority) environmental emergencywith an understanding of the trade-offs and adjustments that this confrontation gives rise to. The topicality of the ecological and transitional emergency as well as the acceleration of confrontations / conflicts of interest are examined and put into perspective.
With respect to the management As regards the "management" of territories, presented in the title of the EU (" From planning to management of the territory") as a consequence of the planning stage, this theme is also described and analysed for each of the points declined that fall under planning, both as a consequence of the actions carried out and as a condition for success -in the medium and long term- of the projects implemented on a territory, whatever the scale.
Bibliographic project
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The Bibliographic Project course consists of training in documentary research, including the use of search engines, databases and bibliographic reference management tools. Students work in pairs on a subject they have defined themselves, in connection with their training. This documentary research is valued by the writing of a synthesis and a poster.
Sociology of scientific and technical controversies
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Sociologists of science consider that controversies are inherent to the process of knowledge production. They refer to (1) situations of discussion between scientists who oppose or agree on the data they produce, but also (2) mobilizations that develop in the context of institutionalized public debates or more informal exchanges. These controversies are an opportunity to observe science and decisions in the making, since they are nourished by knowledge that is not yet stabilized. They provide examples from which to rethink the relationship between science and society, and in so doing, the issues of technical democracy, at the interface of several disciplines.
Thematic English 1
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
TD courses in English for students in the Water Sciences program, aimed at professional autonomy in the English language.
Economic evaluation
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
At the end of this module, students should be able to understand an economic analysis of a water management project/policy. They should be familiar with the principles of cost-benefit analysis, know the valuation methods, parameters and indicators that can be used. They will learn to have a critical eye on the evaluations and on the parameters and indicators used.
GIS practice
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The GIS Practice course consists of a training in the practice of Geographic Information Systems, integrating the basic concepts concerning geographic information and the mastery of the free software QGIS. The majority of the course is devoted to an initiation through alternating lectures and practical exercises. At the end of the course, a personalized cartographic project allows students to remobilize the concepts seen previously. An introductory lecture with professionals allows to put into perspective the interest of GIS approaches in general hydrology.
Economic instruments for water management
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Qualitative survey methods
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course is an introduction to quantitative survey methods in the social sciences.
He is interested in the use of statistics and the definition of categories to describe the social world as well as the objectification of representations.
It proposes to put the questionnaire tool into practice by creating a questionnaire, administering it and analyzing its results.
Thematic English 2
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
TD courses in English for students in the Water Sciences program, aimed at professional autonomy in the English language.
Management tools for evaluation
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The module introduces managerial and multi-criteria approaches to the evaluation of water services.
The module focuses on the management of drinking water and sanitation services, as well as irrigation water services. It provides an understanding and a critical vision of the management tools of these services.
The module is organized in 3 main steps:
- Analysis and evaluation of the economic, financial and technical performance of water and sanitation utilities, with a focus on financial analysis and performance indicators of water utilities
- Environmental assessment with a presentation of global approaches (Life Cycle Assessment) versus local approaches.
- An analysis of the sustainability of services
The course is based on concrete case studies to illustrate the various concepts covered. Particular emphasis is placed on the relative character of performance, a multi-dimensional notion that evolves over time and varies according to the points of view considered.
M1 ES Internship Apprentices
ECTS
6 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Critical analysis of a current issue
ECTS
1 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
IWRM Participation Practices
Level of study
BAC +4
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This module aims to bring students to a concrete understanding of the implementation of IWRM and participation in water management through an active pedagogical approach.
It is based on the "Cooplage" system for supporting the implementation of participatory approaches to water management, developed by researchers from the GEAU research unit, and the associated Agreenium MOOC Terr'eau & co.
The students will work in small groups, associating students from the different courses of the Water Master, on case studies resulting from the ongoing research projects of the lecturers. The learning will be done through the implementation of some tools of the "Cooplage" device on their case study, including modeling and participatory simulation in the form of a role play. In order to anchor their work, students will be put in contact with the holders of these case studies.
In view of the health constraints, this year the EU will take place entirely remotely. The modeling and the games will be done on a virtual table.
Quantitative survey methods
Level of study
BAC +4
Component
Faculty of Science
This methodological module offers instruction in qualitative survey techniques and inductive reasoning. Students will be trained to conduct open-ended interviews, conduct field observations and learn to analyze empirical data. Students will put these lessons into practice by conducting a collective survey on a controversy related to water or the environment (in connection with the lessons received in UE 118).
Water and Law
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
5 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
It will be a question of studying the intervention of the territorial authorities in environmental matters and the action of the State services. For that, the competence of the territorial authorities in water management will be considered as well as the role of the structures of inter-municipal cooperation in water management and protection of the resource.
Students should have knowledge of the French jurisdictional organization, the normative hierarchy and legal balances. An introduction to legal mechanisms (notion of contract, rudiments of corporate law...) will then be useful. The use of contracts as a means of administering resources (public service delegations and public procurement) will be considered. In order for the theme of the study to be fully understood, in our region, it is essential to address the treatment of coastal waters
The study of the exercise of administrative police powers in the field of water management will be necessary to apprehend the law of ICPE and IOTA and to consider environmental territorial planning and water resource management (SDAGE, SAGE, and other schemes).
The law of watercourses in France and the study of the small and large water cycle will allow us to understand how risk planning and the implementation of what is called the GEMAPI competence have developed in recent years.
Finally, with a lawyer specialized in environmental law and particularly experienced in water resource litigation, students will be able to reflect on the mechanisms of conflict resolution.
Thus, it will be possible to question the effective participation of the public in water management, and then the recognition and the claim of the right to water and the right to sanitation
A quick look at EU water law and European environmental law will complete the training.
Scientific writing
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Every future Master's graduate, whether in a "Professional" or "Research" profile, must master the tools and codes of effective scientific written communication. Improving one's scientific writing skills is essential to enhance one's work and communicate it to one's peers, colleagues, clients...
Water governance and the interplay of scales
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Governance is a polysemous word that is used in opposition to government to indicate a less centralized form of power. The success of this term probably comes from its ambiguity. Indeed, it is a concept sometimes used to question the central executive power (monarchy, company management,...) in a context where it is perceived as hegemonic, sometimes used to claim more government, in a market context perceived as chaotic, but in which the dominant ideology is opposed to a centralized intervention. It is thus both a concept for demanding more and less government.
This course approaches governance from a critical and reflexive angle, with a historical depth that integrates the evolutionary trajectories of public action between globalization, Europeanization on the one hand, and decentralization and territorialization on the other, in contexts of growing uncertainty, global changes and transitions. In particular, it explores the following questions:
- Governance? Dominant concept, critical approach, institutional, socio-political context, emergence, evolution in a context of global changes?
- Construction of water policies and governance; Role of concepts and discourses; How can governance modes be influenced or changed? Better consideration of collective values promoted by IWRM? Importance of long time, historical depth and prospective ?
- What room for maneuver do the actors have at the local, national and international levels? What management strategies for a water territory? Illustration of the diversity of modes of governance
- Water governance: between integration and fragmentation?
- Water as an 'inter-connecting fluid' of actors and ecosystems: what governance of these interactions and their social translation?
Irrigation and development
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The three major irrigation models worldwide - large-scale irrigation, community irrigation and private irrigation - are presented in their historical context, based on an in-depth literature review and case illustrations, with a focus on the Mediterranean region.
These three different irrigation models are presented (ideology, construction, water management, agricultural development, actors, etc.) using a theoretical framework based on oxymorons. These models are then illustrated through different concrete cases, presented in PowerPoint presentations, videos and articles.
The different main references of each type of irrigation system will be presented and discussed. Each irrigation model is discussed with the students, who present their analysis through a guided exercise. Once the three irrigation models are understood, the course focuses on the analysis of rural development models related to irrigation. The analysis is based on a critical analysis of the dualist theory of development as applied to irrigation systems.
Water and development
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
KNOWLEDGE - To transmit knowledge (case of the Gironde), concerning :
- A - Water legislation
- B - Engineering in irrigation
- C - Evaluation and performance of water management systems
- D - Economic evaluation of public policies
- E - Management tools for economic regulation
- F - Financial management of development projects
- G - Water governance systems
- H - Environmental impact assessment methods
- I - Groundwater management
KNOW-HOW - Bringing concreteness and transmitting the view in situation of a territorial engineer through case studies to achieve, on the theme of water :
- an analysis and a territorial prospective ;
- actions of territorial conception (production with the control of the procedures, coordination in particular budgetary and piloting (relations elected) of territorial and urban projects);
- animation of territorial and urban projects (human resources management).
KNOWLEDGE - Learn to make project, while taking into account the heritage character of water and understand the jobs of a territorial engineer, which can be positioned on the following positions :
- a - Project Manager / Project Manager / Consultant / Engineer on the environment,
- b - watershed coordinator
- c - animator of SAGE, regional or national parks
I can provide a testimonial on the following trades:
- d - Water-environment officer in international organizations
- e - Environment manager in a company
- f - researcher or research engineer in environmental social sciences
Project Management-2
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course will cover project planning and estimation of work time per task, the SWOT matrix/sabotage exercise, risk management, organization and facilitation of meetings and oral presentation of the project. Other elements of project management can be addressed on a case-by-case basis such as financial management, the role of the project manager, relationships with partners, the use of tools such as the to-do list, Kanban, the shared calendar, etc.
In the continuity of the Project Management UE of the Master 1, the Project Management UE of the Master 2 aims at verifying the assimilation of the skills acquired the previous year and at going further by relying on a longer project (a few weeks to a few months), individual or in group, study project or personal project.
History of water
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The EU aims to provide elements to build a historical framework and analyze archives on water management.
It addresses the history of water management models, the history of hydraulic engineers and hydraulics, and the social and political history of water management in a Latin American country, Ecuador.
It also presents the departmental archive system.
Water policy
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Water-related issues are often presented from a purely technical and/or functional perspective. In this perspective, it would be a matter of "well" managing the resource (in an equitable, economical, nature-friendly way, etc.) according to the available scientific knowledge. However, this way of seeing things is not very realistic. Whatever the territorial scale concerned, water management is in fact largely structured by political issues.
Professions and actors of water and aquatic environments
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Hourly volume
0h
This teaching, through the intervention of professionals, gives students a vision of the professions and actors of water and aquatic environments in France.
The teaching corresponds to 4 sequences with speakers from local authorities, private engineering firms and government departments.
Sequence 1: Overview of the "Large Cycle" professions: Management and protection of rivers, flood prevention and "Small Cycle": Drinking water, sanitation, rainwater. This sequence defines the professions and evokes their evolution
Sequence 2 : Presentation of the public contracting (specifications, regulations, public markets), of the project management (studies answering to the public order, groupings) and of the execution (realization and follow-up of the works)
Sequence 3 : Regulatory files, monitoring of works by the water police : Checking the conformity of development projects, repression
Sequence 4: Jobs related to the management of aquatic environments: environmental contract (management and realization of management projects) and SAGE (local water planning, monitoring, observatory, data management, popularization, relation to science).
Through these sequences, the speakers present their job and the relations with the other actors of the water management.
Interdisciplinary Project 1 - ES
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This is a cross-disciplinary course that mobilizes a variety of tools and knowledge:
- in the form of a workshop,
- over a long period of time during M2: a single project organized in two complementary periods (Interdisciplinary Project 1 and Interdisciplinary Project 2) for common pedagogical objectives and skills acquisition.
It allows students to carry out an interdisciplinary project in its entirety, in the form of an interdisciplinary study relating to socio-political, economic, environmental and sanitary issues, hydrological or hydraulic modeling, risk management, etc.
Events project / Call for tender
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this cross-disciplinary course is to offer students from several courses the possibility of organizing an event project on a current theme related to water, in connection with their commitments, their professional project, society's issues, and the challenges of transitions and global changes. ....
The project is led by the students, from its definition to its implementation during the event, with the punctual support of the pedagogical teams at key stages of the project.
Water and Development
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this course, which is shared with the post-master's specialized master's degree in "Water Management" at AgroParisTech, is to provide students with a development profile with reference points on the challenges and organization of development projects on the theme of water (drinking water, sanitation, agricultural water).
This course alternates between testimonies, feedback from experts and professional development actors on water issues and testimonies from students (Specialized Masters in Water Management) or students who already have international experience in the field of water or agriculture.
This UE is opened in option for the students of the master sciences of water according to a numerus clausus of students.
Water and South
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
We often approach water resources and their management through knowledge and principles established in developed countries of the temperate zone. However, the countries of the South, starting with the Mediterranean and Africa, offer us an extreme diversity of social and environmental situations that force us to significantly modify our points of view and to question the validity of certain approaches that are too far removed from the reality of the field.
Researchers working mainly in southern countries use their concrete experiences to reflect on the specificity of hydrological and geochemical processes in very dry or very wet tropical regions, the consequences of anthropization and the challenges of sustainable management of water resources.
A significant amount of time is devoted to the critical analysis of scientific articles dealing with water resources and their management in the South.
Water and Climate Change
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this course is to present the current and future impacts on all sectors associated with water.
What is the evolution of all the climatic extremes such as droughts or floods, and of the regions impacted by these extremes? How does this impact on groundwater and surface water resources, on agricultural surfaces and irrigation methods?
What evolution on the rise of sea water and on the coastline? How does this impact the movement of current and future populations, what solution to propose on the management of the coastline ...?
Through various conferences given by specialists in different fields, and affecting all the courses of the Master Water, this EU will present the latest advances on this subject.
Through the sessions of TD and TP, the students will be brought to work in group on a topic in particular (this through an example) associating Climate Change with a domain of Water, to present in a synthetic way this subject. This work will be presented in the form of a mini-seminar, and will be the subject of the evaluation of this UE.
Events project / Call for tender
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this cross-disciplinary course is to offer students from several courses the possibility of organizing an event project on a current theme related to water, in connection with their commitments, their professional project, society's issues, and the challenges of transitions and global changes. ....
The project is led by the students, from its definition to its implementation during the event, with the punctual support of the pedagogical teams at key stages of the project.
Water and Development
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this course, which is shared with the post-master's specialized master's degree in "Water Management" at AgroParisTech, is to provide students with a development profile with reference points on the challenges and organization of development projects on the theme of water (drinking water, sanitation, agricultural water).
This course alternates between testimonies, feedback from experts and professional development actors on water issues and testimonies from students (Specialized Masters in Water Management) or students who already have international experience in the field of water or agriculture.
This UE is opened in option for the students of the master sciences of water according to a numerus clausus of students.
Water and South
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
We often approach water resources and their management through knowledge and principles established in developed countries of the temperate zone. However, the countries of the South, starting with the Mediterranean and Africa, offer us an extreme diversity of social and environmental situations that force us to significantly modify our points of view and to question the validity of certain approaches that are too far removed from the reality of the field.
Researchers working mainly in southern countries use their concrete experiences to reflect on the specificity of hydrological and geochemical processes in very dry or very wet tropical regions, the consequences of anthropization and the challenges of sustainable management of water resources.
A significant amount of time is devoted to the critical analysis of scientific articles dealing with water resources and their management in the South.
International Field Schools - North & South
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
5 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The issue at stake in the EIT is the sustainability of water resources linked to the evolution of uses in a North or South climate context subject to climatic changes and marked uses, notably agricultural.
M2 Research Internship - ES
ECTS
22 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
M2 Professional Internship - ES
ECTS
20 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
M2 Professional Internship - ES
ECTS
22 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Interdisciplinary Project 2 -ES
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Water and Law
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
5 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
It will be a question of studying the intervention of the territorial authorities in environmental matters and the action of the State services. For that, the competence of the territorial authorities in water management will be considered as well as the role of the structures of inter-municipal cooperation in water management and protection of the resource.
Students should have knowledge of the French jurisdictional organization, the normative hierarchy and legal balances. An introduction to legal mechanisms (notion of contract, rudiments of corporate law...) will then be useful. The use of contracts as a means of administering resources (public service delegations and public procurement) will be considered. In order for the theme of the study to be fully understood, in our region, it is essential to address the treatment of coastal waters
The study of the exercise of administrative police powers in the field of water management will be necessary to apprehend the law of ICPE and IOTA and to consider environmental territorial planning and water resource management (SDAGE, SAGE, and other schemes).
The law of watercourses in France and the study of the small and large water cycle will allow us to understand how risk planning and the implementation of what is called the GEMAPI competence have developed in recent years.
Finally, with a lawyer specialized in environmental law and particularly experienced in water resource litigation, students will be able to reflect on the mechanisms of conflict resolution.
Thus, it will be possible to question the effective participation of the public in water management, and then the recognition and the claim of the right to water and the right to sanitation
A quick look at EU water law and European environmental law will complete the training.
Scientific writing
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Every future Master's graduate, whether in a "Professional" or "Research" profile, must master the tools and codes of effective scientific written communication. Improving one's scientific writing skills is essential to enhance one's work and communicate it to one's peers, colleagues, clients...
Water governance and the interplay of scales
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Governance is a polysemous word that is used in opposition to government to indicate a less centralized form of power. The success of this term probably comes from its ambiguity. Indeed, it is a concept sometimes used to question the central executive power (monarchy, company management,...) in a context where it is perceived as hegemonic, sometimes used to claim more government, in a market context perceived as chaotic, but in which the dominant ideology is opposed to a centralized intervention. It is thus both a concept for demanding more and less government.
This course approaches governance from a critical and reflexive angle, with a historical depth that integrates the evolutionary trajectories of public action between globalization, Europeanization on the one hand, and decentralization and territorialization on the other, in contexts of growing uncertainty, global changes and transitions. In particular, it explores the following questions:
- Governance? Dominant concept, critical approach, institutional, socio-political context, emergence, evolution in a context of global changes?
- Construction of water policies and governance; Role of concepts and discourses; How can governance modes be influenced or changed? Better consideration of collective values promoted by IWRM? Importance of long time, historical depth and prospective ?
- What room for maneuver do the actors have at the local, national and international levels? What management strategies for a water territory? Illustration of the diversity of modes of governance
- Water governance: between integration and fragmentation?
- Water as an 'inter-connecting fluid' of actors and ecosystems: what governance of these interactions and their social translation?
Irrigation and development
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The three major irrigation models worldwide - large-scale irrigation, community irrigation and private irrigation - are presented in their historical context, based on an in-depth literature review and case illustrations, with a focus on the Mediterranean region.
These three different irrigation models are presented (ideology, construction, water management, agricultural development, actors, etc.) using a theoretical framework based on oxymorons. These models are then illustrated through different concrete cases, presented in PowerPoint presentations, videos and articles.
The different main references of each type of irrigation system will be presented and discussed. Each irrigation model is discussed with the students, who present their analysis through a guided exercise. Once the three irrigation models are understood, the course focuses on the analysis of rural development models related to irrigation. The analysis is based on a critical analysis of the dualist theory of development as applied to irrigation systems.
Water and development
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
KNOWLEDGE - To transmit knowledge (case of the Gironde), concerning :
- A - Water legislation
- B - Engineering in irrigation
- C - Evaluation and performance of water management systems
- D - Economic evaluation of public policies
- E - Management tools for economic regulation
- F - Financial management of development projects
- G - Water governance systems
- H - Environmental impact assessment methods
- I - Groundwater management
KNOW-HOW - Bringing concreteness and transmitting the view in situation of a territorial engineer through case studies to achieve, on the theme of water :
- an analysis and a territorial prospective ;
- actions of territorial conception (production with the control of the procedures, coordination in particular budgetary and piloting (relations elected) of territorial and urban projects);
- animation of territorial and urban projects (human resources management).
KNOWLEDGE - Learn to make project, while taking into account the heritage character of water and understand the jobs of a territorial engineer, which can be positioned on the following positions :
- a - Project Manager / Project Manager / Consultant / Engineer on the environment,
- b - watershed coordinator
- c - animator of SAGE, regional or national parks
I can provide a testimonial on the following trades:
- d - Water-environment officer in international organizations
- e - Environment manager in a company
- f - researcher or research engineer in environmental social sciences
Project Management-2
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
This course will cover project planning and estimation of work time per task, the SWOT matrix/sabotage exercise, risk management, organization and facilitation of meetings and oral presentation of the project. Other elements of project management can be addressed on a case-by-case basis such as financial management, the role of the project manager, relationships with partners, the use of tools such as the to-do list, Kanban, the shared calendar, etc.
In the continuity of the Project Management UE of the Master 1, the Project Management UE of the Master 2 aims at verifying the assimilation of the skills acquired the previous year and at going further by relying on a longer project (a few weeks to a few months), individual or in group, study project or personal project.
History of water
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The EU aims to provide elements to build a historical framework and analyze archives on water management.
It addresses the history of water management models, the history of hydraulic engineers and hydraulics, and the social and political history of water management in a Latin American country, Ecuador.
It also presents the departmental archive system.
Water policy
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Water-related issues are often presented from a purely technical and/or functional perspective. In this perspective, it would be a matter of "well" managing the resource (in an equitable, economical, nature-friendly way, etc.) according to the available scientific knowledge. However, this way of seeing things is not very realistic. Whatever the territorial scale concerned, water management is in fact largely structured by political issues.
Professions and actors of water and aquatic environments
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Hourly volume
0h
This teaching, through the intervention of professionals, gives students a vision of the professions and actors of water and aquatic environments in France.
The teaching corresponds to 4 sequences with speakers from local authorities, private engineering firms and government departments.
Sequence 1: Overview of the "Large Cycle" professions: Management and protection of rivers, flood prevention and "Small Cycle": Drinking water, sanitation, rainwater. This sequence defines the professions and evokes their evolution
Sequence 2 : Presentation of the public contracting (specifications, regulations, public markets), of the project management (studies answering to the public order, groupings) and of the execution (realization and follow-up of the works)
Sequence 3 : Regulatory files, monitoring of works by the water police : Checking the conformity of development projects, repression
Sequence 4: Jobs related to the management of aquatic environments: environmental contract (management and realization of management projects) and SAGE (local water planning, monitoring, observatory, data management, popularization, relation to science).
Through these sequences, the speakers present their job and the relations with the other actors of the water management.
Events project / Call for tender
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this cross-disciplinary course is to offer students from several courses the possibility of organizing an event project on a current theme related to water, in connection with their commitments, their professional project, society's issues, and the challenges of transitions and global changes. ....
The project is led by the students, from its definition to its implementation during the event, with the punctual support of the pedagogical teams at key stages of the project.
Water and Development
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this course, which is shared with the post-master's specialized master's degree in "Water Management" at AgroParisTech, is to provide students with a development profile with reference points on the challenges and organization of development projects on the theme of water (drinking water, sanitation, agricultural water).
This course alternates between testimonies, feedback from experts and professional development actors on water issues and testimonies from students (Specialized Masters in Water Management) or students who already have international experience in the field of water or agriculture.
This UE is opened in option for the students of the master sciences of water according to a numerus clausus of students.
Water and South
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
We often approach water resources and their management through knowledge and principles established in developed countries of the temperate zone. However, the countries of the South, starting with the Mediterranean and Africa, offer us an extreme diversity of social and environmental situations that force us to significantly modify our points of view and to question the validity of certain approaches that are too far removed from the reality of the field.
Researchers working mainly in southern countries use their concrete experiences to reflect on the specificity of hydrological and geochemical processes in very dry or very wet tropical regions, the consequences of anthropization and the challenges of sustainable management of water resources.
A significant amount of time is devoted to the critical analysis of scientific articles dealing with water resources and their management in the South.
Water and Climate Change
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this course is to present the current and future impacts on all sectors associated with water.
What is the evolution of all the climatic extremes such as droughts or floods, and of the regions impacted by these extremes? How does this impact on groundwater and surface water resources, on agricultural surfaces and irrigation methods?
What evolution on the rise of sea water and on the coastline? How does this impact the movement of current and future populations, what solution to propose on the management of the coastline ...?
Through various conferences given by specialists in different fields, and affecting all the courses of the Master Water, this EU will present the latest advances on this subject.
Through the sessions of TD and TP, the students will be brought to work in group on a topic in particular (this through an example) associating Climate Change with a domain of Water, to present in a synthetic way this subject. This work will be presented in the form of a mini-seminar, and will be the subject of the evaluation of this UE.
Events project / Call for tender
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this cross-disciplinary course is to offer students from several courses the possibility of organizing an event project on a current theme related to water, in connection with their commitments, their professional project, society's issues, and the challenges of transitions and global changes. ....
The project is led by the students, from its definition to its implementation during the event, with the punctual support of the pedagogical teams at key stages of the project.
Water and Development
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this course, which is shared with the post-master's specialized master's degree in "Water Management" at AgroParisTech, is to provide students with a development profile with reference points on the challenges and organization of development projects on the theme of water (drinking water, sanitation, agricultural water).
This course alternates between testimonies, feedback from experts and professional development actors on water issues and testimonies from students (Specialized Masters in Water Management) or students who already have international experience in the field of water or agriculture.
This UE is opened in option for the students of the master sciences of water according to a numerus clausus of students.
Water and South
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
We often approach water resources and their management through knowledge and principles established in developed countries of the temperate zone. However, the countries of the South, starting with the Mediterranean and Africa, offer us an extreme diversity of social and environmental situations that force us to significantly modify our points of view and to question the validity of certain approaches that are too far removed from the reality of the field.
Researchers working mainly in southern countries use their concrete experiences to reflect on the specificity of hydrological and geochemical processes in very dry or very wet tropical regions, the consequences of anthropization and the challenges of sustainable management of water resources.
A significant amount of time is devoted to the critical analysis of scientific articles dealing with water resources and their management in the South.
International Field Schools - North & South
Level of study
BAC +5
ECTS
5 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The issue at stake in the EIT is the sustainability of water resources linked to the evolution of uses in a North or South climate context subject to climatic changes and marked uses, notably agricultural.
Internship M2 ES Apprentices
ECTS
22 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Admission
How to register
Applications are made on the following platforms:
French & European students:
- For the M1, follow the procedure " My Master " from the website : https://www.monmaster.gouv.fr/
- 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