Graduate School for Energetic and Environmental iNnovation (GREEN)UPPA PhD Track Program

In January 2021, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour (UPPA) in the south-west of France was awarded the SFRI label (Structuring training through research) by the national government for its project of a graduate research school for energy and the environment: GREEN, GRaduate school for Energetic and Environmental iNnovation.

Open for enrolment at the start of the 2022/2023 academic year, this PhD-track 5-year program of excellence (Master's degree + PhD) aims to train tomorrow’s research managers, who are enlightened about the challenges of energy and the environment, and capable of understanding their complexity and proposing innovative solutions.

Like every graduate research school created in France since 2017, GREEN implements five-year programs of excellence combining a Master's degree and a PhD. The Honors students selected for GREEN Masters are all granted an annual stipend of 5,000 euros, allowing them to focus on their studies. Classes are taught in English.

The objectives of University of Pau’s Research Graduate School

• Providing research with highly qualified doctoral students and strengthening our international attractiveness,
• Consolidating our partnerships with companies through internships, doctoral theses, and involving them in training and in defining our curricula,
• Strengthening the master-doctorate research-innovation level of two of the colleges created within the framework of the I-SITE excellence label: STEE (Sciences and Technologies for Energy and the Environment) and SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities).

PhD-track Graduate Programs based on University of Pau’s strengths

The GREEN Graduate School, housing PhD-track Graduate Programs focused on pedagogical programs directly linked to emerging and/or high-potential areas of research (in Science and in Social Sciences & Humanities) is based on seven fundamental principles:

• Training in 5 years based on the skills of the research centres,
• Guaranteeing professional integration at the end of the master's or doctorate,
• Going beyond the traditional disciplinary approaches,
• Developping a broad scientific culture on energy and environmental issues,
• Training through research from the Master's level onwards and guiding high-potential students towards a PhD,
• Cultivating multidisciplinary approaches,
• Promoting international experience.

It supports the 5 missions identified by UPPA that are directly linked to major societal issues:

• Organising energy subsidiarity on a regional scale,
• Reconciling development, environmental safety and protection of biodiversity,
• Representing and building the territories of tomorrow,
• Adapting coastal, forest and mountain ecosystems to make them more resilient,
• Questioning borders and taking up the challenge of differences.

UPPA GREEN Graduate School co-directors:

• Guillaume Galliero, guillaume.galliero @ univ-pau.fr (guillaume.galliero @ univ-pau.fr) 
• Patrice Cassagnard, patrice.cassagnard @ univ-pau.fr (patrice.cassagnard @ univ-pau.fr)

This program is supported by the French National Research Agency as part of the "Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir" n°3 / France 2030 (ANR-21-SFRI-0003)