Entry requirements
This course is for students who want to become urban planners and are interested in the challenges of territorial development. Students who have completed their first year of a master’s degree in urban planning, geography, or another subject concerning territorial issues, architecture or engineering can apply for the course. Students with a master’s degree in economics, management, or any social science other than geography, but who are interested in this field can also apply.
Benefits of the program
The course specifically focuses on economic issues, such as the sustainable development of territories and territorial development strategies. Students are exposed to problems that can be applied to many professional situations and take part in a professional workshop.
Acquired skills
This course teaches students about contemporary territorial situations and aims to get them to use their knowledge to launch, design and encourage projects that are part of a territorial development policy.
Students will therefore develop analytical, reflective and reflexive practical skills. Analyse territorial issues and actions / Define a territorial issue from the perspective of different scales of collective action / Identify problems / Manage complex and unpredictable situations that require strategic approaches.
The course also develops the practical skills needed for projects in upstream or downstream phases of public action, from micro to macro territorial levels, and using global or sectoral approaches. Observe and study territorial dynamics / Develop diagnostics / Strategically monitor regulations, tools, methods and the economic, social, cultural and political environment / Restore, share and debate knowledge / Mobilise local actors and facilitate networks / Develop prospective scenarios / Construct territorial development strategies and develop strategic plans / Implement communication strategies / Design, create and manages programmes, contracts, procedures or projects / Advise and help decision-making and/or provide services and support to project leaders / Evaluate actions and policies.
Maximum capacities
30
Registration details
Based on the Applicant's country of residence, applications are to be done online, through the eCandidate portal (Université Gustave eiffel), or through the Campus France (Etudes en France) portal.
Course venue
Schedule of studies
3 to 6 months internship from April onwards.
Your future career
Students will have job prospects in support, expertise and engineering for territorial development, in the design phases of action plans and their implementation. Graduates will mainly be employed in: diagnosis, studying, monitoring, advice-assistance-decision support, strategic planning, forecasting, territorial marketing, organisation and coordination of stakeholder networks, programming, project management and public policy evaluation. Potential employers are: - Public bodies with territorial development policies (local authorities, the State, urban planning agencies), advisory and decision-making support organisations (consulting firms, design offices), companies involved in territorial development projects (SNCF, EDF, RATP), land management organisations (EPFIF, SAFER), planners/builders (EPA, OPAC, OPH, ESH), property development companies.
Study objectives
This course aims to give future professionals a framework for thought and operational knowledge so that they can implement and coordinate public and/or private actions for territorial development. Globalisation and competition between territories, the emergence of new economic models, financialisaton, increasing inequality, ecological imperative and the redefining of major global balances have made the social, economic and environmental trends affecting territories increasingly complex and interdependent. This makes the global situation increasingly uncertain. Based on understanding and analysis of these trends, the course provides and structures the practical knowledge needed to develop territorial-based responses for each developmental challenge (economic, social, cultural, tourism, etc.). This allows students to understand how to mobilise and organise the available resources in their territories on several different levels. For example, land resources, infrastructure and associated services, economic functions, innovation and new forms of territorial value creation.
Major thematics of study
Urban planning, Geography, Political science, Economics, Sociology
Study organization
La formation démarre par une semaine de pré-rentrée commune à l'ensemble du Master pendant laquelle les étudiant.es sont accueilli.es par l'équipe enseignante, qui leur transmet des informations pratiques. Les enseignements courent sur les deux semestres. L'atelier professionnel, dispositif pivot de la professionnalisation en tant que réponse à une commande effective, se déroule du début du premier semestre jusqu'au milieu du second. D'avril à septembre, les étudiant.es réalisent un stage professionnel d'une durée de trois à six mois. Ils et elles rédigent en parallèle un mémoire, dont la soutenance se déroule, au plus tard, courant septembre.
Modalités d'admission en FC (formation continue) :
Admissibilité sur dossier.
Admission après entretien et épreuve écrite.
Procédure eCandidat (de l'Université Gustave Eiffel) et via Campus France.
Modalités d'admission en FI (formation initiale) :
Admissibilité sur dossier.
Admission après entretien et épreuve écrite.
Procédure eCandidat (de l'Université Gustave Eiffel) et via Campus France.
Modalités d'admission en FA (alternance) :
Ce parcours n'est pas ouvert à l'alternance.
Options
The course is made up of a series of mandatory teaching units. Students who are particularly interested in research can choose the Research Option, which teaches scientific research practices in addition to the modules of the course.
International
If students have organised an Erasmus stay in the first year of their master’s degree, they will be able to complete it in the first semester of this course. Therefore, this option is only available to students who studied their M1 in urban planning. The professional internship in semester 2 can also be carried out abroad.
Major thematics of Research
The course works closely with three of EUP’s research laboratories: Lab’Urba (Urban Engineering, Environment and Housing), Latts (Research Centre of Technologies, Territories and Societies) and LVMT (Mobility, Urban Planning, Transport Laboratory).
Co-accréditation :
Le parcours s'insère dans une mention co-accréditée par l'Université Gustave Eiffel et l'Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC).
→ Plus d'informations sur le M2 Développement et Territoires : ressources, politiques et stratégies sur le site de l'EUP : https://www.eup.fr/formations/le-master-urbanisme-et-amenagement/m2-deter-developpement-et-territoires-ressources-politiques-et-strategies/
