The Graduate School EURIP offers students a space that invites them to deploy their projects and focus on their social impact while developing their scientific training. It is the Students project Hub - Challenge Hub.

By project, the pedagogy of the CRI intends to capture different facets:

Goal and vision: The general goal of the student, includes the master's degree in a vision of his medium-term future (define his project)

Community, trust and collaboration: A cooperative situation that gives autonomy and responsibility, and allows for the expression of daring and creativity in order to develop the power to act personally and collectively (project spirit)

Prototyping, learning by doing and agility: The experience of making and learning by doing, training in the representation of a concept in a physical model, and the culture of prototyping, to test a process, simplify a technique, replicate it and share it (think by doing it)

Curiosity and collective intelligence: A commitment of students, individual and collective, in the exploration and research dynamic of the CRI and its ecosystem, with a perspective of social and scientific innovation (response to the challenges SDG, Learning Planet, prospective, power to act)

Practice and skills: A range of practical activities/exercises and attitudes which translates a dynamic of engagement and allows the student to catalyze their knowledge and know-how into achievement (project pedagogy)

Place in the curriculum

The project is mentioned in the plan of studies as an alternative to an internship.

Students interested in the Student project Hub must apply before the start of the courses. If their project is accepted in the Hub, they will sign a specific learning agreement fixing the objectives of the semester, deadlines and deliverables.

Who can apply?

During the first semester of the academic year:

Students registered in M2 who already did their M1 at CRI.

Selected students registered in M1 who were admitted on the principle that their learning path doesn't belong exclusively to any of the three tracks (Life/Learning/Digital Sciences)

During the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021, 10 applications were submitted and 7 projects were accepted.

During the second semester of the academic year:

All students registered in M1 and M2.

How many places are available for full time projects?

During the second semester of the academic year 2020-2021, there is a capacity up to 15 projects to be hosted.

Call to projects opens the 12th January (including in the submission: Intention, motivation and goals, community of interest, sponsor, self-assesment of skills and analysis of needs and additional knowledge and skills, calendar of project management).

Deadline for submission Semester 2:

• Master 1: 1st February 2021 midnight Paris Time
• Master 2: 1st February 2021 midnight Paris Time

Answer from Evaluation committee

• Master 1: 19th February 2021
• Master 2: 19th February 2021

Terms and Conditions

One mentor is assigned to every student hosted in Challenge Hub

Mandatory actions:

• Take a” Learning by doing” class (taking the workshops of the Makerlab, courses/activities using Wet Lab, or become a member of a local innovation community, for the students abroad)
• Take a class at CRI or Mooc giving competencies in methodology: Personal Project management, Method for challenges (SDG field), Citizen sciences etc
• Take the course : Skills and data
• Follow M2 - CARA, BiBsyn Scientific bibliography, Research Project
• Follow M1- pré-CARA
• Fill very week Activity log and projects (on CRI Projects) and self-assessment of the skills progress

Calendar

• Each week : contact with mentor
• Each 2 weeks : participation in the Project reviewing and P2P session

Deliverables

• M2 : submission of publication, PhD application, documentation of the project , (Github or other),abstracts and keywords, etc
• M1 : submission of a prototype
• Presentation on Challenge Hub Day 1er juin

Apply to develop a science based personal project

The hub seeks to host students with concrete projects that are science based and/or science for good(SDG).

We particularly call for students with the following projects :

• Buid a personal research project
• Prepare research based series of publications
• Creating a PhD proposal
• Creating a science based entrepreneurial initiative for GOOD
• A science based interdisciplinary project that CANNOT be hosted at a company/startup/NGO/research lab
• A completely interdisciplinary personal learning path that require a learning by doing approach and don't belong to any of the three tracks (Life/Learning/Digital Sciences)
• Collective challenges similar to IGEM

DOWNLOAD the Project application template

And fill the application form BELOW, uploading the project application template(completely filled).