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December 2022 - As part of the EMME Master's programme, three M2 students enrolled in the specialisation course in botanical taxonomy, Alisa Shakurova, Kevin Potter and Marius Pavat, went to study Mediterranean vegetation directly in the field between 28 November and...

September 2022 – Every September, the academic year for the Master EMME begins with an Introductory Field Session (IFS) – a teaching unit taught during both the M1 and M2 years of the Master’s. This year, the weekend between these two IFS courses offered the perfect...

September 2022 – A new academic year, and a new Introductory Field Session (IFS) for the EMME M2 students. They started their second year in the Franche-Comté countryside, hosted at the Centre de vacances Les Fauvettes in Levier. They spent this first week with...

  Trigger warning: there is a photograph of a snake in this article. June 2022 – The first year of the master’s is almost finished for the 2021/2022 M1 class. During the M1 year, internships range in duration from 2 to 3 months. Most of the students started their...

In May 2022, a workshop was hosted at the university by Lise Dauphin and Raphaël Verollet, lecturers for the M2 EMME teaching unit: Taxonomic Specialisation in Bats. This workshop was organised by the French Society for the Study and Protection of Mammals (SFEPM) to...

Diana Ortiz Perez is a 2021/2022 EMME M1 international student from Mexico. Interviewer: Why did you choose France? Diana: I wanted to put myself into a challenging environment, because I believe that when I am in a different place than mine, my mind starts to act...

Alisa Shakurova is a 2021/2022 EMME M1 international student from Russia. Interviewer: Why did you choose France? Alisa: I'm a huge fan of studying and obtaining new scientific and social experience. Also, I always was interested to try different possible education...

This year, M1 and M2 students got new Master hoodies with the back logos designed by our very own M2 students Julie Manzinalli and Augustine Dhôte! Here is our very handsome bunch of M1 students in their hoodies with one of our teachers Mickael Sage on the top left.

February, 2022 - As part of the Ecological, Environmental & Spatial Data Processing unit, EMME M1 students were assigned by Francis Raoul to lead their very own study on spatial modelling of bird species and distribution in Besançon. Students split into pairs and...