Collège Doctoral PRESUniversité Lille – Nord de France

http://collegedoctoral.pres-ulnf.fr/

Joël CUGUEN

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Some metrics 4,03 M inhabitants in the region156 000 students - 14 000 international students7 200 graduate master / year

Dunkerque

Lille/Villeneuve d’Ascq

Valenciennes

Arras

Calais

Boulogne/MerSt Omer

Béthune

Cambrai

Liévin

Douai

Lens

Maubeuge

Lille métropole: 3 Universities and 2 Engineering School- Lille 1: Sciences and Technologies- Lille 2: Law and Health- Lille 3: Social Sciences- Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie- Ecole Centrale de Lille

3 multi-disciplinary/multi-site Universities - Littoral – Côte d’Opale- Artois- Valenciennes – Hainaut–Cambrésis- Ecole des Mines de Douai

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PRES ULNFResearch potential

• 6 Universities, 3 engineering schools (30 institutions)• 200 research laboratories• 4 100 R-T & R, 3 200 administrative staff• 70% of research employees in labs associated with

national research organizations (CNRS, Inserm, Inria, Inra, …)

• 6 regional thematic doctoral schools• 2 500 PhD Students• 450 theses / year

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Doctoral college• 2 500 PhD students (38% international students)• 450 theses per year

• 6 Regional Doctoral Schools - Sciences de la Matière, du Rayonnement et de l’Environnement- Sciences Pour l’Ingénieur- Biologie et Santé- Sciences Economiques, Sociales, de l’Aménagement et du Management- Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société- Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et de Gestion

• 2 Departments- International Initiatives department- Careers and Employment, skills training department

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Doctoral collegeCollège Doctoral

de l’Université Lille Nord de France Directeur scientifique Joël CUGEN

ED SMREED SPIED BSL

ED SHSED SESAM

ED SJPG

Département Action Internationale

Directeur scientifiqueMoussa NAIT-ABDELAZIZ

Département Carrières et Emplois

Directrice scientifique Laurence DUCHIEN

Directrice administrativeNathalie BERTEAUX

Ingénieur de recherche

Chargée de mission « Suivi des doctorants et Action

Internationale »Ingénieur d’Etude - Céline CAULIER

Chargée de mission« Dispositif d’accompagnement des

doctorants vers l’emploi »Ingénieur d’Etude - Aïcha AARAB

Assistante administrativeCathary TARBALOUTI

Technicien

+ network of 25-30 Professional Insertion Referents coming from all economical sectors

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Doctoral School: Missions & Objectives

• Coordinate PhD students program and monitoring their curriculum– Authorization for thesis registration at the beginning and each year– Implementation of the Thesis Charter, with possible mediation if

necessary– Selection of reviewers, monitoring committees

• Offer additional scientific and technical training– Technical training ("HPC", industrial property, …)– Support for the organization of summer/winter young

researchers schools• Promote interdisciplinarity and international mobility

– Transdisciplinary seminars, mobility meetings– Financial support for mobility– Implementation of agreements with international partners

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Doctoral School: Missions & Objectives

• Promote the employability of PhD students and assist them in defining their professional project – Help in the definition of professional project– Openness to business world– Training (training plan, communication, project management) – Participation to the « Doctoriales » seminar,– “New chapter of the thesis” – skill valorisation (with a human resource

coach)– Preparation for the job search

• 1 director, 1 or 2 assistants, a board with 6-7 people

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Department of International Initiatives

• Call for projects (2 per Year): incoming and outgoing mobility of PhD students, seminars or advanced courses

• Visiting Professors - short visits • Annual award thesis "International Research” - 1 in S&T and 1 in SHS• Franco - Wallon Interreg program ProDoc “Process of employability of

doctors and doctoral skills development with companies and non-profit organizations » - Web site http://www.pro-doc.org/- Forum Doc’Emploi - http://www.ulb.ac.be/rech/ed/docemploi.html

• French courses to facilitate the integration of foreign PhD students• (In progress) Integration seminar for foreign students

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Manage all the actions to support the employability of doctors for the 6 Doctoral Schools of the Region• PhD students: 35 thematic seminars divided in 8 themes

- Define the professional project and optimize the job prospect- Prepare for a business creation (company, association)- Develop and enhance skills and innovation potential- Communicate knowledge and training to university teaching- Locate the research activity in the socio-economic and institutional

environments- Scientific mediation – communication skills- « Doctoriales » seminar week / 75 PhD students (ProDoc – F-B)

- http://pro-doc.org/doctoriales/accueil.html- June Conferences of June (4)

• Supervisors: 2 seminars per year • Socio-economic environment: panels, forum, social networks

Department of Careers and Employement

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Department of Careers and Employement

• Metrics in 2011-2012– 1 136 registrations– 541 PhD Students– 32 seminars – 54 sessions – 98 days– Cost of seminars: 95 Keuros - Funded by the PRES (50%) and by

Doctoral Schools (50%)

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Employment status in March 2011 for graduate PhD in 2008

• ORES survey published in Oct 12– http://www.univ-lille-nord-de-france.fr/sites/default/files/

telechargement/ores/Docteurs2008_en2011_parGD.pdf– 95% have a job with > 2200 euros (before taxes)– 51% in Nord-Pas de Calais region, 30% in other parts of France, 19%

abroad– ¼ of PhDs has participated to DCE seminars– 100% of PhDs who participated at least one DCE training have a job

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