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The Master program SoLEM: Solar Energy, Law, Economics and Management, is a highly innovative, new degree program preparing to tackle present and future challenges of the energy transition. It is a part of Solar Academy Graduate School recently awarded to University of Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB).
The Master program SoLEM is a two-year full-time Master’s degree, composed of 4 semesters representing a total of 120 ECTS (officially integrated in the European Bologna system of higher education).
→ Objectives
The core training, based on economics, management and law, provides knowledge on how to apply the main tools of economic analysis and develop an in-depth understanding of the energy transition, including its relationship with public policies, industrial transformations, business models, legal concepts and tools specific to the renewable energy sector, in particular solar energy.
→ Advantages of training
Innovative multidisciplinary education offers common introduction to economics and law, focusing on environmental economics and energy law (important challenges in the energy transition), and to engineering sciences, focusing on solar energy (highly growing sector of renewable energy) and on energy efficiency in building sector (responsible for over 40% of world primary energy consumption)
Projects and workshops complement this unique teaching experience.
From the first year of the Master’s program, close links between students and laboratories will be developed through the organization of research projects each semester, starting with the analysis of the state of the art and a research project. An interdisciplinary project prepared jointly by the students of both courses is also planned and finally the master thesis (« Master thesis »). Students will be fully integrated into the life of the research laboratories.
→ Careers
The objective of the SoLEM Master program is to train future researchers and senior executives from public or private institutions and companies. Firms from the energy sector, consultancy offices, government regulation offices as well as NGOs are interested in candidates with a dual set of skills, such as the ones you will develop in the SoLEM Master program.
→ Activity sectors
Administrative and support service activities | Specialised, scientific and technical service activities | Modelling activities | Specialised, scientific and technical service activities
→ International
Courses are taught by international experts and highly recognized partners from national and international research institutions and industry as well as by academic staff of USMB.
Disciplinary and international mobility, as well as immersion in an international research environment, are an integral part of the curriculum, bringing added value to students in terms of training and research. Grants for international mobility, awards for best projects as well as scholarships awarded for excellent academic results are available.
→ Internship
20 weeks minimum. International experience integrated into the training: teaching by international experts, possibility of internship or training semester abroad.
→ Continuing study
Ph.D. in Economics, Management, for solar energy deployment and energy efficiency,PhD in Energy Law within the Solar Academy Grduate Program or at a French or foreign university.
→ Requirement
Bachelor’s degree in economics and/or management, AES, law, geography and development.
The SoLEM program aims to recruit students with a bachelor degree in Economics, Management, Law, Humanities or Social Sciences, or equivalent. A minimum of 180 ECTS credits is required as well as a sufficient knowledge of English language. A good command in economics and statistics is expected.