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Course 2024-2025

Work placement [SMATM212]

  • 18 credits
  • quarter
Language of instruction: French / Français

Learning outcomes

The location and the form of this research experience are selected by the supervisor of the master thesis and the responsible for the UE.

Objectives

  • Discover and get used to a new research environment, out of UNamur
  • Develop autonomy and scientific maturity
  • Handle a personnal research project
  • Get familiar with the researcher career in a specific area

Content

The research experience can take different forms. The student will be sent in one or several research centers, or could participate to activities in schools or colloquia, for a total duration equivalent to 3 months out of UNamur. A host, external to UNamur, will be identified for each part of the project. The proposed activities will be endorsed by the UE responsible, with a special attention to the respect of the objectives and the balance between the different students.

Table of contents

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Exercises description

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Co-requisites

Mémoire [SMATM201]

Teaching methods

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Evaluations

The final mark is based on 4 elements :

  1. the scientific report of the stage, to be delivered at the same dates as the Master theses, describing the precise objectives, the selected methods and the final results; this report has a length between 30 and 100 pages (without the annexes). It could be presented as a supplementary clearly identified chapter in the Master thesis, or as a separated document, following the circunstances and thematics. The results will be defended during an oral and public defense, just after the Master thesis ou at a different date, if the Master thesis is not presented the same year or  during the same session. The jury will be the same as for the Master thesis in the first case, and specifically designated in the second case.
  2. the evaluation reports (grid) of the different hosts
  3. the stage story, of maximum 10 pages, centered on the circunstances and conditions of the research stays, and on a critical analysis of the difficulties and benefits, to be sent 2 weeks before the deliberation of the session to the responsible of the UE.
  4. the opinion of the supervisor of the Master thesis

Recommended readings

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Language of instruction

French / Français

Location for course

NAMUR

Organizer

Faculté des sciences
Rue de Bruxelles, 61
5000 NAMUR

Degree of Reference

Master's Degree