Newsline of the Board of the Faculty of Science of October 9, 2019

Vote on grants

The Board unanimously approved the grant applications submitted by the following associations:

• Biotrace: for their 15th scientific congress on the theme "Man and his place in his environment" to be held during the 1st week of February 2020 on the Triolet campus. Grant of €300;
• IGEM Montpellier: to take part in the international IGEM synthetic competition organized by MIT in Boston. The project will focus on the creation of a new molecular tool called KARMA: fusion of a VHH and a protease to be able to specifically target proteins and degrade them in a complex environment for the fight against cancer and antibiotic resistance. Grant of €300.

Vote on agreements

The Board voted in favor of the following agreements:

- Inter-component with Polytech for the FdS Language Department;

- with the Université Claude Bernard - Lyon1 and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon;

- with the Université Numérique and the Université de Montpellier - La Faculté des Sciences ;

- between the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and the Faculté des Sciences ;

- loan agreement for the "Head and Hands" exhibition with Lycée Jean Monnet (Montpellier);

- equipment loan agreement with Cevenn'Essences.

Presentation of 2 sponsorship agreements with Schlumberger and Total SA. The Board approved these agreements.

Employment campaign for professors and lecturers

The Director of the Faculty presented the profiles of positions 623PR63 and MCF65-64 to the meeting. These 2 positions will be put to the vote of the Faculty's Select Council on October 23.

Update from the Licences and PACES working group

Mr. Richard Arinero, Pedagogical Manager of the Licence curriculum presented the audience with an analysis of L1 flows over the last two academic years, as well as the effects observed since the introduction of Parcoursup. It was noted that at the start of the new academic year, there are 281 fewer students enrolled pedagogically than in 2018-2019.

Of the 1489 registrants, 1047 came from Parcoursup, 54 were foreign students registered via Campus France and around 50 were accepted outside the procedure.

There was a drastic drop in the number of repeaters (around 350 fewer than in 2018-2019). This drop can be explained by the fact that between 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 the pass rate remained stable at around 37%, while the number of registrants fell from 2228 to 1770.

In the absence of the decree on access to medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and midwifery courses, it is difficult to put a figure on its impact on flows into L1 and its inclusion in the Parcoursup call data settings.

Diplôme Universitaire Formation aux études scientifiques françaises

Presentation of the creation of a University Diploma "Training in French scientific studies". This DU will enable Chinese students, previously selected on the basis of their Gaokao level (equivalent to the French Baccalauréat) and having a scientific level equivalent to the French scientific Baccalauréat, to adapt to French scientific teaching. They will be offered a preparatory course including subject-specific teaching and French as a Foreign Language, with a view to joining the Faculty's L1 program.

The Board approved the opening of this degree in January 2020.

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