The Impact and Attractiveness of Research-Based Education - REAL@SU Project

These research strengths are widely found across the university's UFRs, departments, and faculties, and are currently structured around major disciplinary areas. They nourish educational programs through dedicated transversal structures: a College of Bachelor's and Master's programs with its majors and minors; internationa and multidisciplinary institutes and initiatives established based on the experience of the Labex; and a Doctoral College that has been structuring doctoral training within the Sorbonne University Alliance for several years already.

The aim is not only to give greater visibility to multidisciplinary initiatives and their stakes in close connection with disciplinary departments, but also to organize Master's and Doctoral levels into colleges that support the transversal initiatives.

As part of some major axes of Sorbonne University’s strategic plan, the project aims to help us fully leverage the key asset represented by the integration of our programs with research, in order to meet the needs of today’s world:

•  The demand for a critical approach to research practices themselves,
•  The necessity of an increasingly open and international approach,
•  The requirements of openness and flexibility in training programs.

To address these challenges, the actions will develop our research-based education along four main axes:

1. Embed research-based education at the heart of disciplinary fields: promote creative teaching and study practices based on the strengths of UFRs and departments; intensify relationships with research organizations to deepen and increase the already significant involvement of researchers in education;
2. Develop programs based on research conducted at the interfaces of disciplinary approaches to tackle societal challenges: translate into education the exploration of disciplinary interfaces through research, relying on the institutes and initiatives of the Sorbonne University Alliance;
3. Expand research-based education for the acquisition of transversal skills: support students, regardless of their discipline, in acquiring transversal skills, particularly data culture, research ethics and scientific integrity, entrepreneurial and innovation capacities;
4. Open research-based education to the global context: while research has always been international, it is now more so than ever. Educating through and for research means opening students up to the world.