Unique and diverse training on ecological and social transition
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL has been committed for several years to developing a program offering on the issues of ecological and social transition, aimed at candidates with diverse expectations and needs, and in a format that can be adapted to the goals pursued.
This Dauphine Durable program offering leverages the university’s best internal skills in the area of Organizational and Decision Sciences (law, economics, mathematics, management science, political science and sociology), combined with the high-level expertise developed at PSL Research University in the fields of geosciences, chemistry and life science.
From awareness-raising to specialized professional training, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL proposes a program offering with multiple aims for different audiences (initial training and executive education, from Bachelor's degree to Master’s degree), in adjustable formats (a series of one-hour live broadcast events, hybrid and digital events, e-learning materials, specialist certificates lasting a few days, issued at the end of the week and longer-term programs).
Université Paris Dauphine – PSL’s educational plan is based on scientific quality and professional integration, along with the aim of teaching students to be curious, open, and critically-minded; develop analytical, communication, and debate skills; and have the potential to promote active and responsible citizenship.
Beyond and in addition to the programs devoted to sustainable development and social responsibility, these cross-cutting issues apply to the broader educational offering as well as to student life. The programs are for students interested in these challenges in the context of businesses, NGOs, the federal government, local authorities, and global institutions.
Sustainable Development and ESR training
Université Paris Dauphine – PSL has for many years offered a set of specialist training courses as well as initial training and executive education
Initial training
Executive education
Mandatory classes in 1st and 2nd years of the Bachelor’s degree
In 2020, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL became the first higher education institution provide a compulsory interdisciplinary course on the ecological transition for all students in the 1st year of every bachelor’s program.
This « Ecological issues of the 21st century » course begins with an inaugural lesson with eminent experts and specialists invited each year, and accessible on Dauphine’s website.
The pedagogical goal is for students to understand the physical, biological, energy-related and social mechanisms that drive climate change.
This teaching is expanded in the 2nd year of the Bachelor's program with six courses focusing on climate justice,climate strategies, low-carbon technology, NGOs and greenwashing.
Issues that are disseminated in all programs
The issues of the ecological and social transition are now disseminated throughout the entire program offering.
A mapping of programs carried out in 2022 identified 300 credits dealing with the UN’s Objectives of Sustainable Development, including 65% of mandatory courses and almost 90% in Master's programs, and identifies some 180 speakers on these themes, for example: Sustainable Development and ESR, Protection of Fundamental Rights at the Bachelor’s level or Sustainable development philosophy, Gender and Public Policies, and Data Science and Ethics at the Master's level.
University workshops
In the fall of 2022, an initial mapping of courses dealing with the UN’s 17 Objectives of Sustainable Development was used as a springboard for a discussion with program managers and teachers interested in the various ways in which these issues are included in the programs.
In the spring of 2023, this dynamic took the form of “Dauphine Durable University Workshops” in order to strengthen our collective abilities to develop the program offering and to meet growing needs in this area, particularly in executive education.
These are designed to go beyond raising awareness of the environmental and social transition among teaching staff and launch a true transformation of our programs and of our teaching. These university Workshops provided the opportunity to expand the circle of colleagues already highly committed to these activities and to extend it to other non-specialist colleagues.
These Workshops continue with the introduction of pedagogical workshops in which teachers relate their experience in transforming disciplinary courses to incorporate issues of transition.
Led by PSL’s Pedagogical innovation center, these « pedagogical pauses » enable discussions between teachers from the various PSL institutions and should help to generate pedagogical collaborations between institutions on these themes.
Promoting sustainable professions among students
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL and the Dauphine Alumni’s Ecological and Social Transitions Club organized a careers event dedicated to professions and organizations relating to the ecological and social transition.
The aim was to show the great diversity of opportunities in the ecological and social transition and show that everyone can get involved at their own pace, in different sectors and positions, and to varying degrees.
Alumni from a wide variety of Master’s programs at Dauphine recounted their experience and discussed with students at a round table event, followed by an informative and inspiring networking event. Around one hundred Dauphine students took part in the event.
Courses and tools in the Bachelor's degree and the Master's degree
A required course for the Bachelor’s degree: The environmental issues of the 21st Century
The purpose of this course is to train students in issues related to the ecological transition so they will become agents of change, whether in marketing, finance, mathematics , computer science or economics.
“Dauphine Durable” SPOC
The “Dauphine Durable” SPOC enables students to build knowledge in the areas of ethics, social responsibility and sustainable development.
SPOC SIGMA Global Virtual Courses
The “Managing the SDGs” SPOC SIGMA Global Virtual Course is a program offered by six institutions in the “Social Impact and Global Management” (SIGMA) alliance.
A Certificate in Dauphine Durable: Ecological Transition and Social Responsibility
It develops Master's students' expertise in matters related to climate disruption, the ecological transition, and CSR. It meets the growing demand for skills as expressed by businesses.
Tools and events for raising awareness
Throughout the academic year, events on issues of the ecological and social transition are held, more than one hundred per year, but also frescos and workshops (Climate, digital, biodiversity frescoes, 2-tonne workshop, etc.)