Third semester at AgroParisTech

Throughout the third semester at AgroParisTech, Bioceb students from Cohort 4—Track 1 underwent professionalizing activities encompassing scientific seminars, visits to laboratories and platforms, and master classes dedicated to management. These activities are settled in the framework of the Green Line Project module, whose flexible organization leaves room for creativity and innovative teaching formats.

The highlights include:

• Visit at Institut Pasteur (10th October, Paris) where they met Philippe Glaser (Research Director) and the Bioceb 1st Cohort PhD student Elena Lopez Rodriguez,

• Scientific day of the Biosphera Graduate school (28th November, Palaiseau) where they presented a poster on their GLP work and participated actively in a brainstorming session on Bioeconomy,

• Master class dedicated to European project management (2nd and 3rd December, Paris),

• “Jazz and management” workshop (12th December, Palaiseau) organized during AgroParisTech International Days,

• And, finally, a trip to Toulouse (19th-20th December), including visits of Toulouse Biotechnology Institute (TBI) and Toulouse White Biotechnology (TWB) demonstrator.

All these activities have as common purpose to prepare students to their first steps in their professional careers. Beyond soft skills development, they give them the opportunity to meet researchers and managers involved in innovation processes, thus providing them with inspiring examples and contacts for their future projects.

Many thanks to all the contributors to these activities and events: Philippe Glaser (Research Director leading the group “Ecology and evolution of antibiotics resistance” at Institut Pasteur), Bao Tuong Diep (Consultant in European projects setup and management, Director of development at Keynum), Didier Burgaud (coach in management and jazz men, Head of consulting at Qualintra) and the musicians of the Didier Burgaud Swing Orchestra (Yves Nahon, Simon Teboul and Vinh Lê), Gilles Truan (Director of Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, Bio & Chemical Engineering), Olivier Galy (Director Operations & Technologies at Toulouse White Biotechnology), Elena Lopez Rodriguez (Bioceb alumnus), and Iker Pardo Larrabeiti (AgroParisTech alumnus).