An experienced and dynamic team Management Team of the Doctoral Pedagogical Team of the Doctoral School School The ABIES training offer Cyril KAO Elisabeth MALTESE [email protected] [email protected] ABIES Doctoral School Director A graduate of U.P.V Montpellier and U.N.C. Chapel Agronomics Engineer (1993), ENGREF Engineer Hill in living languages and linguistics, Elisabeth (1994), Doctor of Water Sciences (UPMC, Maltese has been teaching French to non-French An innovative procedure ENGREF, 2002). Certified Research Director at doctoral applicants since the founding of the ABIES UPMC in Earth Sciences (2008). A hydrologist at Doctoral School. Her trainings are developed for accompanying doctoral applicants CEMAGREF for 12 years, Cyril Kao joined along two axes: practical usage of the language and AgroParisTech in 2007 as assistant scientific coursework focused on the written works of the director. He has been Director of the Doctoral doctoral applicants. in constructing their professional future School since May 2012. Donald WHITE Irina VASSILEVA [email protected] [email protected] Donald White has been working as a course A doctoral thesis constitutes both high-level training through research and an initial but complete professional Deputy Director of Doctoral Studies at AgroParisTech developer, trainer, team leader and consultant in PhD in Information and Communication Sciences Europe for over 35 years. experience. In support of the scientific management supplied by the Research Units, the ABIES Doctoral School and Research Engineer of the French Ministry of He specializes in contextual analysis of learning training offer aims at giving the doctoral applicants tools to progressively elaborate their personal professional Higher Education and Research, Irina VASSILEVA needs with a view to developing professionally has extensive experience in higher education oriented learning outcomes and promoting project. These trainings, which run throughout the three years of thesis and beyond, are firmly anchored in Euro- and research as well as in international relations. the acquisition of professional skills. pean standards for doctoral education and take full account of advice drawn up by recruitment cabinets specia- He has developed approaches for identifying She has managed numerous European lized in jobs for young doctors. and multilateral projects. middle-term training needs for engineers, and has carried out operations of knowledge transfer Corinne FIERS during company restructuring. The ABIES training offer is thus based on European educational national recruitment cabinets which integrate the full range of [email protected] recommendations, confirmed AgroParisTech-ABIES expe- profile needs as expressed by potential employers (research Corinne Fiers manages doctoral administration Eric BIRLOUEZ rience in European projects (Erasmus Mundus, Initial Training organisations, enterprises, administrative institutes, etc.) both in at AgroParisTech. She guides doctoral applicants [email protected] Networks) as well as on the analyses made by several inter- France and worldwide. through the steps of the inscription procedure, IAn INA-PG Agronomics Engineer and Sociologist, their re-inscription and thesis defence. Eric Birlouez has been animating training sessions She is in charge of compiling the administrative on professional insertion for doctoral applicants, dossier leading to the PhD. project management, oral communication, meeting animation and associated skills since the The 12 competences expected founding of the ABIES Doctoral School. In parallel, by research organisations when recruiting he runs activities as a freelance consultant (studies, a young researcher* consultancy, reflective problem solving, etc.) while teaching the history and sociology of nourishment, Cyril KAO Bureau A 201 Scientific competencies subjects on which he has published several articles Irina VASSILEVA Bureau A 206 • Scientific knowledge Personal aptitudes and books. Corinne FIERS Bureau A 205 • Ability to formulate a research issue Project and team management / interpersonal skills • Capacity for analysis and grasp • Creativity Claude HOLL skills of sophisticated IT tools • Ability to work in a team • Open-minded approach [email protected] • Motivation / Involvement Claude Holl is an INA-Paris Agronomics Engineer, • Communication skills • Adaptability with a PhD in the Science of Education. • Language skills He is also a University of Strasbourg Certified • Business culture and management skills Research Director and senior consultant at EP-TE • Awareness of the pertinence (Pedagogical Enterprises – Educational Trajectories), * In the 8 studied countries (France, Germany, Finland, of the research and its impact on the Direction des Formations Doctorales - AgroParisTech where he co-animates or assesses innovative Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan environment pedagogical projects (according to their themes, 19 avenue du Maine and the United States). methods or target publics). Source: APEC / DELOITTE Study 2010 75732 PARIS CEDEX 15 FRANCE Other interests of Claude Holl are the philosophy, http://www.eurocadres.org/IMG/pdf/APEC_EN_Skills_and_competencies_needed.pdf Phone : +33 1 45 49 88 52 / + 33 1 45 49 88 51 history and sociology of science. Fax : + 33 1 45 49 88 63 ABIES web site: http://www.agroparistech.fr/abies/ Skills Portfolio Annual VITAE Forum An individualized track for each doctoral applicant The Skills Portfolio is a tool offered to the applicant to Organized by AgroParisTech help him/her progressively reflect about his/her professional project by cataloguing acquired skills. Every year the students of the Engineering School In order to improve attractiveness of European doctoral what their country of origin or working language, their field of Use of the Skills Portfolio is: (Engineering Students, Master Students, Doctoral education, The European Commission has laid out a series of competence or professional desires. - obligatory (the contents and overall reflection is not strictly Applicants) organize two days of meetings and debates recommendations (Bologna Process, Salzburg Principles, etc.). assessed, although some elementary components of the training with professionals from the job sectors linked to their One of the main points of the European referential consists in The originality of the procedure lies in the reflection carried track are); trainings. The presence at the Engineering School of setting up an individualized track for each doctoral applicant. out by the doctoral applicant along with his/her scientific - individual and personal; human resources actors from several enterprises offers The thesis is indeed considered be a real job through which the supervisors and with the accompaniment of the pedagogical - accompanied by explanations and illustrations presented a unique opportunity for students to familiarize applicant should acquire a certain number of skills and aptitudes team. This work is based on the use of the “Skills Portfolio,” during training sessions and in interactions with the scientific themselves with the needs of enterprises and better adapt corresponding to the needs of a wide range of professions. a tool which helps the doctoral applicant construct his/her directors of the research project; the construction of their own skills as well as learn how personal project. - continued throughout the thesis, from its inception and to propose them to interviewers at the end of the thesis. The ABIES Doctoral School procedure aims at completing through the oral defence or even slightly after, to facilitate job the training acquired within the welcoming teams by favouring By progressively building his/her personal professional project, interviews of the young doctor during professional insertion. the development of certain transversal competencies: the doctoral applicant identifies the competencies to develop geographic mobility (presentations of posters or oral communication, linguistic skills, project culture, creativity, etc. or reinforce throughout the 3 years of thesis. The applicant presentations at international conferences, trainings lasting The ABIES training offer consists in implementing an original thus develops his/her autonomy and becomes the main actor Trainings in English and French several weeks or months in foreign countries to master a specific pedagogic approach useful for all doctoral applicants, no matter of his/her own project. Depending on their professional desires, AgroParisTech technology or method, joint supervision of theses, etc.); doctoral applicants can participate in most of the trainings in thematic mobility (work at disciplinary interfaces); sectorial French and/or English. In addition, international applicants who mobility (research projects co-financed by the private sector). wish can have accompaniment in French to help them master Proposing the appropriate means the language. There are several specific training programmes oriented towards international and/or enterprise work within the • Capitalizing upon and remaining inspired by experience • Constructing a coherent training offer and implementing a A procedure oriented towards mobility framework of the AgroParisTech network of partner acquired within the framework of European Programmes (ITN tool, the Skills Portfolio, for which the applicants receive training The Doctoral School – with the support of the welcoming organisations (ParisTech: