Master ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE

Influence, Lobbying et Médias Sociaux - ILMS
Entry requirements
The training is for students from initial BAC + 3 training diplomas. It is open to students with training in the field of information and communication sciences and management and management and SHS in general, but also to more atypical profiles, as well as experienced professionals who can benefit from a VAP.
Benefits of the program
Urban Campus of Val d'Europe and building in the heart of Val d'Europe. Innovative projects and IFIS network, working with foreign partners. Mixed pedagogy: theory classes, tutorials, case studies and role plays. Empowered and creative tutored projects: com 'audits; lobbying; events; presence and digital influence strategies, com '2.0 actions. ; eve, computer graphics, serious games. Study trips to Brussels, seminars and research seminars.
Acquired skills
Ability to implement a process of decision-making analysis in companies, ministries, local communities; implement a watch and survey method; sort, value and transmit information; develop and implement a communication and influence strategy; master related social media strategies, relationships with influencers; think, formalize implement and evaluate lobbying / advocacy strategies; organize risk prevention in terms of digital identity and reputation, know how to manage crises; nurture an ethical reflection.
Registration details
Application by dossier downloadable on the Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University website: candidatures.u-pem.fr
Course venue
Institut Francilien d'Ingénierie des Services (IFIS) – 6/8 cours du Danube – 77700 SERRIS
Schedule of studies
The training runs every Thursday from October to July plus 6 weeks scattered throughout the year.
Your future career
Member of an economic intelligence unit in a company; Responsible for a reputational risk watch cell; Influencer, Information / Disinformation Consultant and Corporate Communications Strategy; lobbyist; Facilitator of networks of actors (federations, associations, groups) and communities (clubs, think tanks); Responsible for external, institutional, digital communication; Community manager, community manager especially on social networks; Watchman, investigator and analyst on social networks; Consultant in Public Affairs and Public Relations.
Professional integration
Graduates know how to design, implement, animate various strategies and processes: information monitoring, analysis, development, transmission of information, communication, lobbying. Finally, they possess multidisciplinary theoretical knowledge and know-how enabling them to master the processes and tools of information and communication in a wide variety of professional settings. The business of economic intelligence and influence are very diversified and they evolve quickly hence a non-exhaustive list of functions: Responsible for monitoring and managing reputational risks; Member of an economic intelligence unit in a company or consultant in IE strategies and agency influence; Consultant in corporate or institutional communication strategy; Lobbyist Advocacy Officer Campaigner Animator of networks of actors (federations, associations, groups) and communities (clubs, think tanks, political parties); Community manager, particularly on social networks (community management); Watchman, investigator and analyst on social networks; Consultant in Public Affairs and Public Relations.
Study objectives
The Influence, Lobbying and Social Media (ILMS) course prepares for sensitive information-management functions disseminated by organizations. It combines a managerial approach to information with the notion of economic intelligence, and a communicative approach to the processes and tools of influence and lobbying in the era of social media. The professions that graduate students access are very varied according to their curriculum and personal projects. Their career development also depends on their ability to build a coherent overall curriculum and personal ambition. Students integrate professionally in all areas of activity, in business, agency and community. They are not limited to exercising in external communication or standby functions. Some work on the articulation of EI, public relations and digital project support, social communication or public and political communication.
Major thematics of study
The training is mainly related to the field of information and communication sciences, but it is resolutely multidisciplinary. Case studies and tutored projects foster an interdisciplinary approach to economic intelligence issues. The disciplines in which the knowledge and the know-how are drawn are: Information sciences of communication. Theoretical approaches to organizations, decision making and information and communication processes. Management, management, digital project management. Economic intelligence, information engineering and watch. Risk Management an Computer Science - Database Creation and Management - Knowledge Management _ Big data and data marketing.d Crisis Management. Political Science, Sociology of Organizations Analysis of decision-making processes. Influence, lobbying, digital communication strategies, identity, image and reputation in the era of social media.
Study organization
The overall hourly volume for a student is 382h in Master 1 and 396 in Master 2, which is full time. The apprenticeship is done over the 2 academic years. Students who opt for two long internships, one in Master 1 and another in Master 2 rather than an apprenticeship must also validate their internships with a dissertation and a defense. Concerning the rhythm of the alternation, in Master 1, the students have intensive course at the beginning of the year then the alternation takes a rhythm of cruising with two or three days of lessons per week. From April, students are 100% present in their host company. They come back for a day in June for help and accompaniment sessions. Internship or apprenticeship dissertations are held in September - with the exception of students wishing to study abroad or CF students. In Master 2, students attend one day a week plus six intensive weeks spread over the year. All the students of the Master 1 who validate their year pass in Master 2. The orientation in a Master 2 rather than another at the end of the Master 1 in common core is done during a motivational interview with the leaders Masters 2. The wishes and plans of each student are studied and discussed, but the jury is sovereign. The teams include teacher-researchers charged with transmitting the knowledge and the academic methods. Many practicing professionals are responsible for conveying their experience and helping students in defining their career plans. All statuses (initial, continuous or alternating training) give rise to university tutoring. Apprentices benefit from the scoping work of CFA Descartes.
Modalité d'admission en FC :
Les étudiants doivent remplir un dossier de candidature en ligne comprenant notamment un cv et une lettre de motivation.
En cas d'admissibilité, les candidats peuvent être invités à répondre à des questions complémentaires ou à un entretien de manière à présenter leurs cursus et leur projet professionnel devant un jury.
Modalité d'admission en FI :
Les étudiants doivent remplir un dossier de candidature en ligne, qui comprend une lettre détaillée de motivation, répondant à trois questions précises visant à évaluer leur connaissance des métiers de l'intelligence économique, leur culture générale et leur projet de carrière.
La présentation du projet professionnel devant un jury est optionnelle. Elle dépend du niveau (relevés de notes, mentions, lettres de recommandation) et de la qualité du cursus (linéarité, variété des expériences de stages et des expériences extraprofessionnelles).
Modalité d'admission en Alternance :
Les étudiants doivent remplir un dossier de candidature en ligne, qui comprend une lettre détaillée de motivation, répondant à trois questions précises visant à évaluer leur connaissance des métiers de l'intelligence économique, leur culture générale et leur projet de carrière.
La présentation du projet professionnel devant un jury est optionnelle. Elle dépend du niveau (relevés de notes, mentions, lettres de recommandation) et de la qualité du cursus (linéarité, variété des expériences de stages et des expériences extraprofessionnelles).
Options
Nothing
International
Nothing
Major thematics of Research
The training is backed by the DICEN-IDF laboratory (Information and Communication Devices in the Digital Age - Paris, Île-de-France), a multidisciplinary research unit with a major anchor in Information and Communication Sciences . The laboratory Dicen-IDF (Devices of Information and Communication in the Digital Age - Paris, Ile-de-France) is a unit of research multi-guardianship (EA 7339) between the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, the Paris-Est University Marne-la-Vallée and Paris-Ouest University Nanterre La Défense. The laboratory is organized according to five themes: Cooperation and mediated collective action; Editorialization, patrimonialization, authority; Economic Intelligence, Decision & Territories; Publication and scientific communication; Data, mediation, valuation. All teachers holding this distinction are attached to this research unit. Some teachers are attached to the Institute for Management Research, IRG - EA 2354 or the LVMT Laboratory.
Partenariats :
Partenariat avec le CFA Descartes pour l'apprentissage.
Co-accréditation :
3eme Semestre
Courses | ECTS | CM | TD | TP |
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UE 1 - Veille et information élaborée The first program unit deals with information research, competitive intelligence methods and tools, and the intelligence cycle. Students get to learn how to collect process and provide clients with accurate quality information and analysis, easy to understand and visualize. They also get insights on Big data. | 9 | |||
Veille : sources, stratégie, outils et méthodologies | 3 | 28h | ||
Outils de production d'information élaborée et cartographie décisionnelle | 3 | 28h | ||
Enjeu et traitement des Big data | 3 | 28h | ||
UE2 - Communication This program unit is aimed to stand at the crossroads of many dimensions of strategic communication. The students are trained in institutional communication, philanthropy and sponsorship as well as crisis communication and management communication at a time of CSR. It presents the use of images as influence tools through semiotics and visual studies appproaches with an emphasis on the mechanisms of adhesion, engagement, personification and representation and assignation. | 9 | |||
Communication institutionnelle, mécénat et sponsoring | 2 | 8.75h | 8.75h | |
Communication de crise | 2 | 7h | 7h | |
Communication visuelle et audiovisuelle | 1 | 3.5h | 3.5h | |
Socio-sémiotique de l'influence, représentation, assignation | 2 | 7h | 7h | |
Communications d'entreprise et managériales responsables | 2 | 7h | 7h | |
UE 3 - Influence The Influence program unit apprehends issues such as media and information in an attention economy, with a focus on specific topics such as fact-checking, fake news, war news, infomediation. It also addresses the issues of identity, e-reputation, influencers and lobbying strategies in a web 2.0. context. | 9 | |||
Médias, information, économie de l'attention, infoguerre | 3 | 14h | ||
Communication web : identité, e-réputation, médias sociaux | 3 | 21h | ||
Influence et influenceurs et lobbying | 3 | 21h |
4eme Semestre
Courses | ECTS | CM | TD | TP |
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UE 4 - Lobbying The classes of the program unit on lobbying are designed as core skills to the Master's degree. It aims at mastering many lobbying methods and tools in various contexts (local, national, European), at being able to adapt one’s strategy to complex normative and deontological environments and to act accordingly to one’s own ethical principles. Lobbying and advocacy are examined in a multidisciplinary perspective. Rhetoric, argumentation and negotiation are taught through cases-studies, theatrical roleplays and serious games. It addresses soft power strategies and tools, from public and political communication perspectives with a specific focus on international public diplomacy practices. | 7 | |||
Soft power, communication politique et diplomatie publique | 1 | 5.25h | 5.25h | |
Rhétorique et plaidoyer : argumentation | 1 | 5.25h | 5.25h | |
Méthodes et outils de lobbying et plaidoyer | 3 | 10.5h | 10.5h | |
Environnement normatif, déontologie et éthique | 1 | 3.5h | 3.5h | |
Stratégies et techniques de négociation | 1 | 3.5h | 3.5h | |
UE 5 - Stratégies internationales et gestion de projets This program unit is built around to related skills, internationalization strategies and project management. The pedagogy is very much empowering since students work for a real client that meets internationalization of markets and careers issues. With the help of a mentor, they learn to respond to this client’s needs, they work in a junior business style on the brief, the creation, the delivery and the execution of the specifications. This requires them to activate personal and transversal skills. | 9 | |||
Conseil - Gestion de la relation client | 3 | 14h | 14h | |
Conseil - Livrable écrit et animation de réunion | 2 | 3.5h | 3.5h | |
Outils et stratégies internationales hybrides d'IE | 2 | 7h | 7h | |
Business English, Management, Lobbying and Public Relations | 2 | 12.25h | 12.25h | |
UE 6 - Techniques d'enquête et initiation à la recherche The 6th program unit aims to deepen students’ knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research techniques seen in the first year of Master. They are trained to scientific epistemology and methods in a professionalization perspective but also to allow some students to test their motivation to enter a doctoral program. They write a scientific article or pronounce a communication at a conference. By participating in a science popularization project and in the organization of conferences with professionals, students develop their relational skills, their event communication methods and benefit from networking-prone work environments. | 8 | |||
Méthodologies d'enquête qualitatives | 1 | 7h | 7h | |
Recherche et vulgarisation scientifique : mémoire, article | 5 | 10.5h | 10.5h | |
Conférences métiers - Business forums, interviews and trips | 1 | 21h | ||
Marketing et data driven marketing | 1 | 21h | ||
UE 7 - Tremplin professionnel The 7th program unit is designed as a professional springboard. Its main element is a lenghty work experience (block-release trainig ) apprenticeship, professionalization contract or internship of 5 months minimum. This unit is jointly assessed by academic tutors and tutors within companies. This professionalizing experience leads to the preparation of a skills’ assessment presented during a defense that is grouped with that of a scientific article (6th teaching unit). | 9 | |||
Alternance : apprentissage, stage (5 mois min.) | 6 | |||
Bilan de compétences | 3 | 7h |
Lucile DESMOULINS
Academic coordinatorIsabelle LE GOUILL
Master (en) ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
M2Influence, Lobbying et Médias Sociaux - ILMS
Summary
- Degree
- Master (en)
- Field(s)
- Sciences Humaines et Sociales
- Thematics of study
- ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
- How to apply
- Initial Education / Apprenticeship / Continuing Education / Recognition of prior learning
- Course venue
Institut Francilien d'Ingénierie des Services (IFIS) – 6/8 cours du Danube – 77700 SERRIS
- Departments and Institutes
- Institut Francilien D'Ingénierie des Services (IFIS)
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