Forests and their Environment a master course in AgroParisTech Nancy, France

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1 Forests and their Environment a master course in AgroParisTech Nancy, France Mathieu Fortin, Meriem Fournier, Daniel Epron, Bruno Ferry January 2018 Contact : bruno.ferry@agroparistech.fr

2 AgroParisTech school Created in 2007 Merger of three smaller schools Agriculture (INA-PG) Food science (ENSIA) Forestry (ENGREF) Eight campus in five regions

3 Academic partnerships with 85 foreign universities in 27 different countries In terms of people, 2000 undergraduate students 450 PhD students 230 academic staff

4 Nancy Campus Major APT site in forest science Source : GoogleMap

5 Nancy Campus Major APT site in forest science Source : GoogleMap

6 Nancy District habitants The historic capital of the Lorraine region Close to the Vosges Mountains Close to Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg College Town with University of Lorraine, AgroParisTech and other schools students

7 Nancy District History Porte de la Craffe (14 th century) Palais ducal (16 th century) Place Stanislas (18 th century)

8 Nancy District Green spaces La Pépinère, 23 ha 500 m from the campus Plateau de Malzéville, 400 ha 5 km from the campus

9 Nancy Campus (formerly ENGREF) Founded in 1824 Source : GoogleMap

10 Nancy Campus (formerly ENGREF) A lot of interactions with different organizations In Nancy National Institute in Agriculture Resarch (INRA) National forest service (ONF) National forest inventory (IFN) University of Lorraine Close to Nancy University of Freiburg, Germany (NFZ) AgroBioTech Gembloux, Belgium

11 Nancy Campus (formerly ENGREF) All these partners cover a large array of fields in forestry Ecology Genetics Ecophysiology Economics Growth and yield Inventories and statistical methods Wood quality and properties

12 Nancy Campus (formerly ENGREF) Different programs Forest Engineering Master in science PhD Master programs jointly managed by AgroParisTech and the Lorraine University

13 Nancy Campus - Facilities Possibility for two self-paying students to use Erasmus + mobility grants from the UEF Scholarships from the Labex ARBRE (local funding agency for forest research and teaching) Two scholarships available For foreign students of the FEN master course Selective allocation

14 Nancy Campus - Facilities A library A unique collection documents Support from the staff

15 Nancy Campus - Facilities An experimental forest Forest of Brin 20 km from Nancy 600 ha

16 Nancy Campus - Facilities On-site residences 76 rooms 12 studios Priority given to foreign students Monthly rent for one room 150

17 Different Master s majors (2 nd year) Agrosciences, Environment, Territories, Forest, Landscape Plant-environment interactions (in French) Natural ecoystems conservation and restauration (in French) Forest and farm ecosystems management (in French) Wood, forest and sustainable development (in French) Forests and their environment (FEN) (in English)

18 FEN s objectives Train experts in the diagnosis and monitoring of forest ecosystems Provide enough scientific background for the students who want to carry on with a PhD

19 FEN s schedule First semester (Sept Jan) 10 courses (30 ECTS) Second semester (Feb Aug) A 5 to 6-month internship (30 ECTS) Gathering the data, analysing them and writing the thesis Defence at the beginning of september

20 FEN s schedule First semester Decision support systems for resource management Models in forest management Geographical information systems (elective) Project in forest management ECTS Resource management for ecosystem services Forest communities and forestry 6 Spatial and ecological modelling Biogeochemical cycles in forest ecosystems Advanced statistics (elective) Understanding tree structure and functions Resource economics and policy European forests: challenges and opportunities 3 Sylviculture and engineering Introduction to the forestry context in Lorraine 3

21 FEN s schedule First semester Forest communities and forestry : 2 days in the field Introduction to the forestry context in Lorraine : 4 days tour

22 FEN s schedule Second semester You must find your internship in November at the latest The internship starts in February. What you need is A topic A host institution A supervisor An academic tutor

23 FEN s schedule Second semester Example of internship Title Host institution Supervisor Academic tutor Economic and ecological effects of tree species conversion in Southwest Germany Chair of Forestry Economics and Forest Planning University of Freiburg Pr. Dr. Marc Hanewinkel Dr. Mathieu Fortin

24 FEN s schedule Second semester We strongly encourage foreign students to do their internship in France and Fench students to do theirs abroad If you do your internship in France, the host institution has to give a stipend of around 550 /month

25 Thank you for your attention Vosges mountains, automn