ECTS
60 credits
Duration
2 semesters
Component
UFR Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines, SeFCo
Location(s)
Orleans
Presentation
The GAED Master's degree in Sustainable Development of Rural Territories - VDTR - is a continuing education course developed over year 2 of the Master's program. It is open to holders of a bac + 4 (human and social sciences, geography-planning, local development, agricultural engineering), or other training, subject to validation by a VAP.
This second year of the Master's program can be completed in two years.
Objectives
This course is designed for continuing education students who are already working in a professional environment, and who want to enhance their skills to meet the challenges of managing local and social development in rural areas, and to act as "coordinators of territorial development in a rural context".
It is aimed at professional integration as a local development agent within local authorities, country unions and associations, inter-communities, PNRs, public and semi-public institutions, but also in the associative world
(and SSE), consular chambers (agriculture, trades, commerce and industry), and consultancies. Skills related to the territorial and rural development professions focus on the local scale and the socio-environmental transition issues associated with the countryside and the development of territorial resources.
The master's program focuses on collaborative local development practices, with the aim of taking greater account of citizens' initiatives alongside those of local authorities and institutions.
Useful contacts
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
02 38 49 47 73
international[at]univ-orleans.fr
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CAREER GUIDANCE
DOIP
Tel: 02 38 41 71 72
E-mail : doip[at]univ-orleans.fr
Organization
Special features
Versatile training to develop cross-disciplinary and integrated approaches to regional development
Project-based teaching: project approach; active, collaborative teaching
Program
Semester 1
Competence block 1: Sustainable rural systems
- European ruralities: contemporary issues and development inequalities
- Sustainable food systems and transitions
Skills block 2: Approaches to territorial and local development
- Rethinking territorial development
- Con its and territorial management
Skills block 3: Tools and methods for regional diagnosis
- Cartographic design and applied cartography
- Data processing and statistical analysis
- Analysis: building and using a survey
Competency block 4: professional practices and research
- Practice of English in the research environment in
social sciences
- Approach to social research in rural studies
Semester 2
Competency block 5: Rural territories in action
- Territorial resources in the countryside in transition
- Territorial capacities for action in public action
- Socio-spatial inequalities and spatial justice
Skills block 6: methods and practices for understanding territories
- Survey methods in geography and social sciences: interview
sociological and qualitative
- Spatial analysis for territorial diagnosis
Competency block 7: Long internship (over 6 weeks) in a
local developmentstructure, or research dissertation
- Professional practice or research work with submission of a
professional report or dissertation.
Admission
Admission requirements
Open to continuing education students only, and for direct entry into year 2 of the Master's program.
Open to holders of a bac + 4 (human and social sciences, geography-planning, local development, agricultural engineering), or holders of other training and educational levels, subject to validation by a VAP. Applications for continuing education are received by SEFCO. They are assessed on the basis of qualifications already acquired, previous professional experience and career plans.
How to register
M2 application form to be sent to the following address:
Tuition fees
For students:
https://www.univ-orleans.fr/fr/univ/formation/droits-dinscriptions
For adults returning to school; consult SEFCO.
And then
Further studies
Further studies
The Master's degree can be followed by a doctorate (Bac + 8).
Professional integration
Career prospects
- Local development officer, territorial development officer, rural development officer
- Rural and territorial development coordinator
- Coordinator of Territorial Climate Air Energy Plans and European programs
- Leader, sustainable mobility project, Territorial Food Project - PAT-, etc.
- Local development, territorial development, social and rural development officer
- Development officer for socio-environmental transitions in rural areas
- Project and research manager in a design office
- Territorial diagnostics manager. Lecturer in rural vocational training structures