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Subject: Environmental Sciences, Eco-biology and Land Use French University Partner: Ecole Nationale Superieure d’
Agronomie Montpellier This partnership consists in faculty exchanges (for both teaching and research purposes) and reciprocal student research internships. A large array of jointly new courses has been accredited at both institutions since the lauching of the program. The partner institutions have developed distance learning and videoconferencing technology in order to make courses at both institutions available to all students. To make this partnership sustainable in the long term, additional sources of funding have been sought and obtained by the partners, from institutions such as the National Science Foundation, environmental consulting firms or regional governments. Contacts: Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Agronomie
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Bio-ecology and water sciences, coral reef protection Building on the preexisting contacts between the two departments of history, this partnership has unfolded in the fields of Science of Education and Linguistics. It allows faculty and graduate students to respectively teach and take courses at each other's institution, within the participating Master’s or research programs. Distance learning technologies, videoconferencing in particular have been mobilized to that end. Participating students have through this collaboration earned course credit equivalent to up to a semester’s or a year’s course load in their home program. Master’s theses have also been co-directed allowing for a truly international master’s program. Contacts: Universite Mac Bloch
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Engineering The Cornell University College of Engineering and Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP) have developed an innovative dual degree program. The 2-2-1 program allows students to spend their two first years at their home institution, the next two at the partner school before coming back to their home institution for the fifth year. They receive the Diplome d’Ingenieur from ECP and the BS and MEng degrees from Cornell. Students willing to spend a shoter time abroad can spend a summer or semester at the other partner university working in a faculty member’s research lab. To make this agreement sustainable, faculty exchange has been facilitated. Contacts: Ecole Centrale Paris
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Material Physics, Master Optics After a long period of association through research projects and educational programs focused on undergraduate level, these universities have decided to launch a global education and training platform focused on graduate students and joint doctoral supervision. In order to deepen the partnership, some classes on each side have been reciprocally recognized and credited. Other institutions such as Université de la Mediterranée or Clemson University are integrating this partnership so as to strengthen the network in the field of polymer. Additional laboratories are discussing ways to be associated to the program. Contacts: University of Central Florida
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Applied Maths for Finance This dual Master's degree is the fruit of several years of collaboration between these institutions through the Alliance Program. Students spend the first year of their Master's program at their home university and the second one at the partner university. They obtainboth the Ma in Mathematics Applied to Finance at Columbia University and the Master's Degree in Science and Technology in Applied Mathematics (with specialization in probabilities) at Ecole Polytechnique. Additionnally, both institutions have developed internship opportunities for students and built stronger contacts with recruiters in order to assist students in building their future career. Contacts: Ecole Polytechnique
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Electronic Music and Applied Multimedia Art This partnership was launched through a visit of SAIC faculty to Aix aimed at exploring the multimedia projects and common ground between the two institutions. Fourth-year students from each side spend a four-month stint at the partner university, in particular in Digital Multimedia. Students are closely followed while abroad sending weekly reports via email to their tutors and blogs to the school website. There has been interactive video-conferences on the occasion of festivals and are expected to take a greater part of the project. Contacts: SAIC
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Musical and Electro-acoustic composition Both partners have been highly committed in this agreement. Firstly a university Diploma was created in “Instrumental Composition, Electroacoustic and New Technology”. During the student exchange, a musical piece created by the French and the US students was included respectively in the program of the Berkeley New Music Project concert and in the one of the Manca Festival in Nice. Both institutions have tried to integrate the students in some professional activities such as the organization of a concert in Paris for the European project “Ensemble Aleph”. For the next step, the partners envision to create a joint professional Master’s diploma. Contacts: CNMAT (Berkeley)
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Science of Education and Linguistics This shared master aims at educating a new generation of pharmaceutical scientists. Already existing courses are provided by both institutions in each master by video, tele and audio-conference. Joint courses are also delivered via internet. Students from both sides have also been exchanged at the master level for a six months training. This partnership has become a real joint program by having in common a certain number of credits validated on both universities. Contacts: Universite Louis Pasteur
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Nanotechnology, Electrical and Computer Engineering This partnership allows Master's students participanting in it to earn two degrees: a Master's of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from GIT and the Diplome National de Master Nano et Micro Technologie from USTL. This program has two parts: a three semester academic program taking place in Atlanta, Metz and Lille and a 6-9 months internship in the US and Europe. This partnership is based on preexisting courses and benefits from the existing infrastructure of distance learning. About 20% of the courses are delivered by distance learning thanks to the extensive distance learning network existing at Georgia Tech. Contacts: Georgia Tech (Atlanta)
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Mechanics and Material Science Since the beginning of their collaboration in the area of research in 2005, both universities have launched this dual Master's program which allows students to complete approximately one half of their courseload at each institution and obtain a master's degree from each. The strength of the collaboration lies in the clear complementarity between the universities. Nebraska has a comparative advantage in Mechanics and Rouen in Materials. Faculties teach on site but also use distance learning methods. Native graduate assistants are employed in order help the students overcome the language barrier. Contacts: Universite de Rouen
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Natural Resources and Environmental Management for Sustainability This project consists in a natural resources and environmental management certificate program. The program is based on new courses dealing with interdisciplinary, holistic problems on the local and global scales. Joint teams of French and US students work on cases using videoconferencing and other electronic means. Students are offered internships and/or research experiences abroad as part of this partnership. Contacts: Universite de Purpan
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Innovation Management, Administration des entreprises In order to train French and US professionals with strong analytic skills, the students accomplish a 12-months program divided in one semester at IAE and the other at NCSU. They are provided theoretical courses, workshops and conferences jointly offered by IAE and NCSU professors. Exchanged students also work on practical projects, case studies and internships sponsored by corporate innovation and technology partners in France and the U.S. In addition to the student immersion, exchanges of faculty and administrative staff ensure bicultural integration throughout the program. Contacts: IAE
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Art Markets and Visual Studies This partnership provides a joint cross-disciplinary graduate program at the interface of Art History, Visual Studies and Economics in order to train a new kind of bi-cultural experts in Art Markets and Visual Studies. Each institution hosts students from the other partner institution. Both coursework and credit at the host institution are transferred to the home institution. Two faculty from each side are exchanged each year for short time visit to assess the development of the partnership. Contacts: Universite Charles de Gaulle Lille III
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Film Studies and Production This annual exchange program has allowed each side to benefit from the field of excellence of the other: third-year scriptwriting students from La Femis and third-year film students from Columbia. French students at Columbia University write a full-length feature script in a workshop with other Columbia students and take classes in American film production. As for American students, they direct a short fiction film and take part in all the stages of film making. Fourth year production students have also made an internship with distributors during the Cannes Film Festival. Contacts: Columbia university
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