Master's degree in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (STAAE)

The STAAE master's degree trains highly qualified graduates capable of:

• Working in the public or private sectors in the fields of quality, safety and food science and technology (QSA pathway) or in the fields of biology and plant and fungal biotechnologies (BVBE pathway).

• Integrating environmental, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility issues into their activities.

Public interested in continuing or restarting studies in the fields of agricultural, food and environmental science and technology.

The training is divided into activities for the acquisition of scientific and technical knowledge and the development of personal and professional skills, as well as activities involving practical experience. Two internships in industry or in a research laboratory, of 2 to 4 months and 5 to 6 months, are carried out by the student in Master 1 and Master 2 respectively. The 1st semester courses of the 2 courses BBE and QSA are 80% common.

Les champs scientifiques du master sont ceux des sciences agroalimentaires et de la biologie environnementale.

Dans le parcours QSA, les connaissances fondamentales (chimie, biochimie, microbiologie, biologie moléculaire et cellulaire, nutrition, etc.) sont renforcées et centrées sur le secteur alimentaire. Ces connaissances servent à acquérir d'autres connaissances et des compétences (en toxicologie, en biotechnologies, en législation et économie du domaine, de la gestion d'entreprises et l'innovation, de la gestion durable de la qualité, de la santé au travail et de la responsabilité sociétale des entreprises.

Dans le parcours BVBE l'étudiant se spécialise progressivement dans les domaines de la biologie végétale et des biotechnologies environnementales et de développer sa capacité d'intégrer des approches transversales.

Graduates of the QSA course will be able, among other skills:

• to install or lead and improve a global food quality and safety management system, in accordance with health, socio-economic, legislative and environmental issues,

• to successfully lead a research and development project or an analysis and/or control strategy in the food sector, or to continue their studies in a doctorate in the fields of nutrition, toxicology and food science.

Graduates of the BVBE course will be able to apply the concepts, methods and techniques of plant, algae, fungi and microorganism biology and biotechnology in a research approach consistent with the issues of environmental biotechnology and sustainable development.

Compulsory internships in M1 (8-20 weeks) and M2 (24-36 weeks) carried out, at the student's choice, either in a public or private professional structure or in a research structure. Specific group tutored projects in each course.

Advice and personalised support for students is provided through introductory courses and preparation for professional life, taught by representatives of their future careers, and individual interviews with the teaching staff, enabling them to formalise the course of study that best corresponds to their expectations and profile, and thus make a success of their professional project.

The teaching staff and the BAIP assist students in their search for internships and/or jobs by providing them with offers and a catalogue of partner companies/laboratories. The professional integration rate of students is monitored by internal and OVE surveys at 6 months.

The Master's programme promotes international exchanges by offering 6 to 9 compulsory English credits, teaching of modules in English, internships abroad strongly encouraged in M1 and M2 and the hosting of students in the framework of Erasmus exchanges, Campus France and JCS international agreements.

Bachelor's or master's degree in chemistry-biology, biochemistry, nutrition, food science and technology and similar (QSA) and solid foundations in molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry (BVBE). Students who have validated the M1 automatically join the M2.