Entry requirements

Students with, at a minimum, a Master 1, from a wide range of professional backgrounds and studies (urban planning, economic development, political science, architecture, geography, law, engineering, etc.)

Benefits of the program

The course trains urban planning professionals to take up the challenge of intersectoral and inter-institutional articulations of public action in order to integrate the social and economic challenges of sustainable urban development. This is a work/study course focusing on learning methods that combine university knowledge, research and professional experience. This approach is all the more important as the current context calls for innovations that challenge both urban research and the daily inventiveness of urban planners.

Acquired skills

1. Contextualize, organise space and solve problems in integrated urban projects.
2. Work in project mode within complex stakeholder systems.
3. Integrate social, environmental and economic issues.

Maximum capacities

21

Registration details

Applications are to be done through the eCandidate portal (Université Gustave Eiffel). Due to French Apprenticeship Legislation, this track is not open to applications through Campus France (Etudes en France) [Candidates residing abroad at the time of application].

Course venue

Schedule of studies

After five weeks of classes, students alternate periods of two weeks in a professional organization and two weeks at the university until May, when students work 100% of the time in a professional organization.

Your future career

Integrated Urban Development is a training course aimed at promoting professional integration upon graduation from the Master's degree.

The roles may be as follows: research manager, manager of missions, operations, urban planning, development, equipment, local development, economic development, real estate, Europe, strategy and partnership, inter-territoriality, integration, urban policy or urban renewal.

However, professional development through research, for example in the form of a doctorate backed by an agreement with a company or public body, is perfectly feasible and compatible with training. The teaching team will ensure that such vocations or skills are identified and supported.

Professional integration

Future professionals will work in four main fields:

> Territorial and urban analysis: researcher.

> Public policy and project development: urban planning project manager (planning or project), equipment project manager, local development project manager > Partnership creation: Europe project manager, strategy and partnership project manager, inter-territoriality project manager.

> Project management: Integration project manager, City Policy, Urban Renewal Project, Local Development, urban project, These professions are mainly carried out in local authorities (in particular within the departments in charge of urban planning, participation, local development), in urban planning agencies, local development agencies, social housing, sectoral administrations (culture, sport, etc.) but also with private or para-public operators in urban development or with design offices.

Study objectives

Train professionals to face the challenges of integrated urban development

This course trains future professionals in integrated urban development, a new challenge for public and private urban action. How should the renewal of urban spaces be conducted in a context of public finance austerity, transformations of urban challenges and changes in the relationship between spaces and societies? This issue challenges professionals to understand territorial transitions and spatial changes, to decompartmentalize sectors of public action, to create new forms of cooperation and to approach problems and solutions involving several fields. The objective is to train professionals in these new contexts of action and to act in interface roles. This requires a renewal of knowledge, approaches and skills.

Favour an educational approach that combines academic knowledge and professional experience

The DUI course is organised according to a work/study principle, alternating between university and professional work, based on professional development methods that combine academic knowledge and professional experience. This work/study approach is all the more important as the current context calls for innovations that challenge both urban research and the daily inventiveness of urban planners. As students alternate between university and a professional context, teaching methods are based on situations encountered in companies and assessment methods are adapted to the specific situation of learners. These methods place students/learners in a pro-active and reflective posture with regard to their own learning and their ability to develop new solutions.

Produce new knowledge on new problems in differentiated territorial contexts and know how to use it

This course promotes professional development based on the capacity of the research approach to equip future professionals in their ability to explore and formalize new problems and challenges. This objective, which may seem counter-intuitive fro an educational point of view, has resulted in very good feedback from both socio-economic partners and students.

With this objective in mind, we have designed a system organized into 3 complementary components:

1/ The action-research workshop explores a concrete problem posed by a socio-economic partner in order to develop an description of the problem and a methodology and to produce new knowledge for operational projects or public policies.

2/ The study trip: to continue the work initiated during the workshop, visits are organised to cities in different territorial contexts (metropolitan France, medium-sized cities, rural areas) that have developed innovative experiments related to the subject of the workshop. Meeting with the stakeholders of these experiments (elected officials, technicians, experts, etc.) leads to critical reading and capitalization by the students through the creation of a report on their trip.

3/ The study day is a day organised and run by students during which they present the results of their work and organise conferences and debates with speakers from the academic and professional world.

This threefold learning method is an innovative approach in several ways: it results from a close articulation between several aspects of the course; it anchors an action-research approach in apprenticeship training and develops students’ skills in defining problems and producing new knowledge while remaining connected to a social requirement; it places students in a pro-active and reflective posture with regard to their own learning.

Major thematics of study

Urban Planning and Development

Study organization

Formation en alternance, le parcours Développement Urbain Intégré est une formation centrant ses enseignements sur l'acquisition de compétences dans une étroite proximité avec des enseignant.es-chercheur.euses accompagnant l'étudiant.e tout au long de son année universitaire. De même, le parcours offre des dispositifs pédagogiques multiples permettant des allers-retours entre temps en entreprise et temps en université avec, par exemple, des ateliers d'analyse de pratiques et des séminaires thématiques où sont convoqués les expériences des étudiant.es. Enfin, il est fortement connecté aux problématiques de recherche, condition permettant l'émergence de réponses aux problèmes nouveaux auxquels est confrontée l'action publique urbaine, par la réalisation d'un atelier de recherche-action, d'une journée d'études et d'un mémoire de recherche.

Modalité d'admission en FC :

Ce parcours n'est pas ouvert à la formation continue.

Modalité d'admission en Alternance :

Sur dossier (lettre de motivation, CV, notes antérieures) et oral.

Options

N/A

International

N/A

Major thematics of Research

This course is based on the scientific environment of the Ecole d'Urbanisme de Paris, structured around the Research Centre of Technologies, Territories and Societies (LATTS - UMR 8134), the Lab'Urba laboratory (EA 3482) and the Mobility, Urban Planning, Transport Laboratory (LVMT - UMR T - 9403) whose areas of scientific research are particularly focused on the issue of integrated urban development. In addition, mechanisms for training through research are developed in the course, in line with the expectations of professionals (thesis, practice analysis workshop and action research workshop).

Partenariats :

École des Ponts ParisTech.

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 Urbain Intégré : stratégies et projets sur le site de l'EUP : https://www.eup.fr/formations/le-master-urbanisme-et-amenagement/m2-dui-developpement-urbain-integre-strategies-et-projets/