TRAINING FOR RESEARCH AT

THE STRASBOURGUNIVERSITY

Pascal BOUSQUETLaboratory of Neurobiolgy and Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Clinical Investgation Center Medical School – University Hospiltal - INSERM

Strasbourg – France Les HôpitauxUniversitairesde STRASBOURG

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 : 58Number of registrations : 2898Number of PhD students accepted : 2084

Doctoral School(DS)

LIFE SCIENCES and HEALTH3 components based on:

• Excellent quality research activities and structures

• Rigor for management of doctoral students

• Diversity of trainings and paedagogic actions

Biologie Moléculaire, Cellulaire, Plantes,

Microorganismes23%

Biophotonique-Pharmacologie

6%

Ecophysiolgie4%

IGBMC28%

Interface Chimie-

Bio

Neurosciences15%

Recherche-Biomédicale

18%

Presentation of the DS

2008-2011• 29 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) in 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% France39% foreigners

2009/2010

10/11

Europe 37 % 39 %

Afrique 23 % 15 %

Asie 14 % 21 %

Amérique 5 % 7 %

Australie 1 % 0 %

Europe39,3%Amérique

6,8%

Moyen-Orient

Asie20,9%

Afrique

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

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !