Master's degree in Engineering and Environmental Management (IGE)
Île-de-France, France
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
French
PACE
Full time, Part time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 12,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Registration fees 800 € Possible funding: professionalization contract or industrial partnership ARMINES
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Introduction
Website: http://www.isige.mines-paristech.fr/formation/ige/
objectives
In a world of intense change, organizations face multiple challenges, among which environmental challenges play an important role: climate change, scarcity of resources, energy transition, loss of biodiversity, health issues ... They need managers and managers aware of these challenges, both creative and solution providers, but also able to develop a forward-looking vision in the longer term, to accompany these changes.
The IGE Master, while relying on its scientific DNA and its engineering culture, is renewed today to meet these needs and train these new managers. It offers young graduates and experienced executives from different backgrounds to translate their convictions into new skills for companies, taking part in a one-year adventure, between testimonies and meetings, experiments and various collaborations: a unique opportunity to the students explore the possibilities to draw the world of tomorrow, and reintroduce this spirit of enterprise and inventiveness into our societies.
Training
Diploma of Specialized Master MINES ParisTech of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles; RNCP certification n ° 27061
Academic period of 6 months (October to March), 6 months of professional mission (April to September) leading to the writing of a professional thesis sanctioned by a defense, with 2 courses:
- Full-time course: 6 months of classes / 6 months of company assignment
- Work-study path: 6 months of academic period with alternation of course modules and company stays / 5 months full-time assignment in a company
Place: MINES ParisTech, Fontainebleau campus and Paris
Academic part provided by many professionals and academics
Many projects supervised by professionals and research professors from MINES ParisTech
Created in 1992, 25 years of existence, more than 600 corporate missions
The program
The program is organized in teaching modules, 4 main modules for all students, plus 3 additional modules for full-time students.
The main modules allow all students to acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills for a future transition manager; Complementary modules allow full-time students to apply this knowledge and skills through specific projects, while alternating students have their business as a testing ground
Module A1: Preparing for Corporate SD Management Functions
Targeted skills :
Understanding of the organization of a company around the issues of sustainable development. From the linear economy to the circular economy. Knowledge of the framework that is required of the company.
contents
- Understanding of the Company: from its functions to the stakeholders
- Institutional and regulatory context
- Management systems and main standards
- DD, CSR, Corporate Reporting Strategies
- From the linear economy to the circular economy
Module A2: Analyzing and questioning the key challenges of tomorrow
Skills targeted: to acquire an ability of analysis, to be able to approach a question in a systemic way IGE Master - July 2018 3
contents
- How to react to climate change? (Mitigation or adaptation)
- What place to give to the living? (biodiversity, bio-mimicry, bio-materials)
- What energy for a post-carbon society? (efficiency, renewable energy, sobriety)
- What answers to the scarcity of resources? (industrial metabolism, economics of functionality, dematerialization)
Module A3: Developing projects around innovative tools and approaches
Targeted skills operational project management, mastery of tools (LCA, carbon footprint),
contents
- Implementation of a renewable energy or energy efficiency project
- Implementation of an eco-design approach in a logic of circular economy
- New approaches around water management
Module A4: Changing Scale
Skills targeted to acquire a global vision of a problematic, to grasp the complexity, to be personally confronted with a problem, to be aware of foresight, to know how to communicate
contents
- From local to global, from individual to collective
- Stakeholder analysis and environmental controversy
- Taking into account long-term effects, ethical issues and innovation management
- Urban approach
- Geopolitical analysis of issues and international approach
- Case Studies: Sustainable Campus Project, Urban Travel
Complementary modules (not alternating): To go further
Skills targeted operational project management, real life scenario, awareness of new business models and business creation
P1: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project
The Environment is a field where initiatives and innovations are multiplying. The objective of this module is to know the framework of development of Entrepreneurship projects from conception, to financial, marketing and legal editing, and to experiment the approach on concrete projects.
P2: Communication Project
Communication is an important issue to sensitize, motivate and convince the various stakeholders during the implementation of an Environmental or SD project. The objective of this module, supported by 2 educational institutions of PSL is to make work together students of various profiles (engineers, Master IGE - July 2018 4 journalists, managers, academics) to investigate and produce communication objects aimed at reliable information for the general public.
P3: Territorial project
The territories are important actors for the implementation of the ecological transition: each territory has its own challenges and must define a suitable strategy.
The students will work on a given territory and will bring their reflections and proposals on certain aspects of the territorial strategy: energy resources, mobility, industrial ecology ....
The professional mission
The professional mission carried out in the host organization following the academic program allows the student to analyze a given problem and propose innovative strategies.
This transfer of skills in the company is done with a personalized coaching by the ISIGE pedagogical team. At the end of the assignment and to obtain a specialized Master's degree, the student must write and defend a professional thesis.
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Curriculum
- Young graduates Bac 5: grandes écoles of engineering and management, Sciences Po, M2 (Economics, Law, Humanities and Social Sciences,)
- Young professionals (Bac 5 or Bac 4 with at least 3 years of experience)
- Experience and / or strong motivations on environmental themes / DD / CSR
Qualities and skills sought
Dynamism, commitment, ability to convince, entrepreneurial ability, openness, creativity, empathy
Strategic vision, ability to analyze and synthesize, good general knowledge
Prices
Tuition fees € 12,500 - Registration fees € 800 Possible funding: professionalization contract or industrial partnership ARMINES
Program Admission Requirements
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