International Professional Master in Management of Eco-Innovation

I would like to draw your attention to a new International Professional Master in Management of Eco-Innovation offered by the University of Versailles, France. This is a one-year, post-graduate, internship-based degree focused on management of technological innovations bringing environmental and competitive benefits to business and other end-users. The programme is taught in English by a consortium of university- and industry-based instructors at France’s leading environment-focused university.

The programme prides itself on making learning real, preparing graduates to manage eco-innovation from inspiration to solution. Distinctive benefits of the programme include:

· Learning in English while living in France
· A 50/50 division between classroom learning and internship-based learning with one of our six partners: Alstom, ADEME, GDF-Suez, Italcementi, Saur and SNCF
· An international model: course modules each taught by multiple instructors from the university, industry experts and partner representatives
· Modules in:
o Eco-innovation and competitiveness in a globalizing economy
o Methods and tools for economic and environmental evaluation
o Finance and entrepreneurship
o Social acceptability
o Major scientific challenges and technologies for sustainability
o Multiple skills modules (negotiation, creativity, language, science, finance)
· Internship Clinics where students can share and build upon their work place experiences
· An Integration Seminar where students will integrate and apply lessons learned in course work and internships to a problem by teams of students working together.

The programme is aimed at recent graduates in engineering or environmental sciences with a prior Master degree, or a Bachelor degree and equivalent experience, and industry professionals wanting to broaden their knowledge of eco-innovation management. Students with non-technical backgrounds are also welcome to apply, provided that they can demonstrate a substantial interest in and exposure to issues at the intersection of business and environment. The fee for the programme is 2000 euros.
The programme brochure and application form are available from the Econoving website (http://econoving.universud-paris.fr/ , download the brochure ).