An original and diverse program offering 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 Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) 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.
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.
Two Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs)
- Dauphine Durable: enables Dauphine students to build knowledge in the areas of ethics, social responsibility and sustainable development.
- Responsible Business: a course 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.
Digital Resources
In May 2020, Dauphine-PSL co-founded the Université Virtuelle Environnement et Développement Durable (UVED; Virtual University of the Environment and Sustainable Development). This means that projects and resources from UVED are now available to Dauphine students.
Climate Collage event
This innovatinve tool allows the scientific knowledge detailed in the IPCC report to be presented in a fun and simple way. These workshops will take place in 2020 with 300 students.
Dedicated Initial Training and Executive Education courses
Initial training
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.
Executive education
Dauphine has a more extensive range of course offerings for executives, managers and directors of private and public organizations than any other French university. With more than 3,800 executives trained each year, the Dauphine Executive Education offering covers a broad variety of fields. In the area of the environmental and social transition, the course offering ranges from a dedicated degree program at master’s level to shorter specialized certificates, organized such that they enable participants to continue to work full-time and meet their professional commitments.
DD/RS lessons are integrated into many of our courses
The university offers multidisciplinary instruction that combines management, economics, and law, while also emphasizing the social sciences in order to develop students' ability to reflect.
The course "Major Contemporary Issues" was created in 2010 to address important social issues using a multidisciplinary approach. It has been enriched over the years by a lecture series on sustainable development and now reaches some 750 second-year students.
Since the fall semester of 2019, a lecture series on climate change and 21st-century crises has been offered as an elective for second-year students (24 sessions, each lasting 1.5 hours).
There are many courses on these topics, including: at the Bachelor's level, "Sustainable Development and CSR" and "Protection of Fundamental Rights"; at the Master's level, "Philosophy of Sustainable Development", "Gender and Public Policy", and "Data Science and Ethics".
There is a curriculum specially designed for international students in an exchange program dealing with such topics as Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century, Ethics and Compliance.
The Sustainable Careers Forum
The Sustainable Careers Forum took place at Dauphine last November, during which students got the chance to speak with a panel of various professionals in fields related to sustainable development, CSR, and social and cooperative economics.