Montpellier, France

SEM: Sustainable Energy and Materials

when 22 May 2023 - 16 June 2023
language English
duration 4 weeks
credits 6 EC
fee EUR 3600

This track offers about 64 hours of lectures, labs and projects related to some challenges in the fields of materials: from miniaturization to energetical and environmental issues. You will learn how to select or develop a material for a specific application, taking into account its environmental impact and adapting the size to gain in efficiency, to bring new properties.... During these 4 weeks you will be interacting with researchers experts in various fields of materials and discovering the activities developed in the South of France. The provisional syllabus of the track is detailed below. It includes some references that might support you during the school or guide your way for a more thorough exploration of the covered material

Courses:

-Energetic Solutions In The South Of France (ES) (18h Lectures + 12h Practical Works & Visit

-Materials For Sustainable Development (MFSD) (10,5h lectures + 5h practical works & projects)

-Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies (NANO) (10,5h lectures + 8h practical works & project)

-French Language and Culture, Interculturality: This track of about 24 hours offers a presentation of France and an immersion in the Occitanie Region (Regional economy, Art of living in the South of France). You will learn the basic French vocabulary (gastronomy and culture). During these 4 weeks you will also benefit from an introduction to interculturality and the cultural specificities of France.

-Tutored cross-disciplinary project on sustainability: During the 4 weeks, you will work in small teams supervised by a professor. The objective of the project is to work in groups from different cultures and scientific disciplines in order to write the specifications of an innovative product/service responding to one of the 17 sustainable development issues established by the United Nations.

If you want to learn about energetic solutions in the south of France, materials for sustainable development as well as nanomaterials and nanotechnologies while submerging in multi-culturality with student from all over the world while learning French and French culture, this FLOW course if perfect for you !

Don't forget to enroll before March 15th !

Target group

It is designed for international undergraduate students in Science and Engineering who have completed their first or second year of study and want to discover France, its language and its culture.

Course aim

Students will receive 64h of taught-in-english scientific and technological courses (lectures and practical), as well as 12 hours of cross-disciplinary project on sustainability and 24 hours of French courses and sociocultural activities.

Credits info

6 EC
2 European Credits (ECTS), corresponding to 1 US credit

Fee info

EUR 3600: For students from non-partner universities
Including:

Accommodation and meals (family home)
Transfers and local transportation pass
Scientific lectures and activities (64h, 4 ECTS*)
Cross-disciplinary project on sustainability (12h, 1 ECTS)
French courses and virtual sociocultural activities (24h, 1 ECTS)
EUR 1800: For students from partner universities
Including:

Accommodation and meals (family home)
Transfers and local transportation pass
Scientific lectures and activities (64h, 4 ECTS*)
Cross-disciplinary project on sustainability (12h, 1 ECTS)
French courses and virtual sociocultural activities (24h, 1 ECTS)

Scholarships

Merit-based scolarships available only for students from partner universities.