Master Territories and TransitionsProgram flyer

1. Aim
2. Advantages of the program
3. Who is it for?
4. How to apply?
5. Career prospects
6. The program
7. Grants and scholarships
8. Contacts

Aim

At a time when the challenges of transition are becoming increasingly significant at local level, they are strengthening territories as major players in sustainable economic development. The Master's degree in Territories and Transitions trains public or private sector executives capable of designing, assisting in the decision-making process and organising projects or public policies that contribute to the transition towards more sustainable societies and economies.

Advantages of the program

Partnership with Sciences Po Lyon and a multidisciplinary approach

The second year of the Master Territories and Transitions is organised in partnership with Sciences Po Lyon. Students from SE² learn alongside students from Sciences Po Lyon and from other backgrounds including geography, law and town planning.

Double degree with Canada

Students can apply to spend the first year of the Master’s program at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC).

They will qualify for a double degree – the Master Regions and Transitions and the Canadian Master in Organisational Management. For further details, contact the Head of International Relations. (richard.baron @ univ-st-etienne.fr)

Support for the transition into employment

To help you gain work experience and facilitate your transition into employment, you will take part in an internship lasting between three to five months in the first year of the Master’s program. The second year takes the form of a 10-month traineeship during which you will carry out a study commissioned by a local or regional authority.

Who is it for?

Joining the master at Year 1

• Students who hold a Bachelor level with a significant amount of courses in economy and quantitatives methods: Bachelor in Economy,  Bachelor in Management, etc.
• Employees on a retraining program who hold a university degree or who have professional experience judged sufficient by the system of profesional skills validation.

For continuing education, please contact the Service Universitaire de Formation Continue.

Joining the master at Year 2

• Students who have completed the first year of Master Regions and Transitions at Saint-Etienne School of Economics and of students of the speciality Regions and Transitions from the fourth year at Sciences Po Lyon.
• Students who have completed the first year of a Master’s degree or who hold an engineering degree equivalent to four years of higher education in economics, political science, geography, town planning or economic and social administration.
• Candidates applying for a resumption of studies and employees on a retraining program who hold a university degree or who have professional experience judged sufficient by the University Executive Education Department (fr)
  
  

How to apply?

Admission is based on application and subject to availability.

For more information, please refer to our "Admission" page.

Career prospects

• In local or regional authorities: local government manager, economic development or sustainable development director, policy officer in charge of attractiveness, innovation, transition, etc.
• In national public bodies (e.g. national regional development agencies, ecological transition agencies): program manager, policy officer, analyst
• In consultancy work: local development consultant, analyst
• In local or regional industry, sector or professional bodies or competitiveness clusters: director, project manager, policy officer. In local or regional development agencies or associations: project manager
  
  

The program

The first year of the Master Territories and Transitions consists in a year of pre-specialization. It prepares the students to integrate the second year of the Master Territories and Transitions. 
The objective is to train territorial economic developers capable of carrying out territorial diagnoses to guide public policies, implement and lead these policies and evaluate their relevance, particularly from a sustainable development perspective.  
It mobilizes basic skills in microeconomics, macroeconomics and data analysis, and specific skills in spatial data collection and processing, public policy evaluation, strategic management and environmental economics. 
An important place is given to project-based teaching and professional training through a compulsory internship of 4 to 6 months. 

The second year of the Master Territories and Transitions runs over 12 months, 10 of which are spent on a traineeship contract. You will alternate between one week attending classes at SE², followed by three weeks in your host organisation. 
The course is taught by lecturers and researchers in economics, political science, law and management, as well as by experienced professionals (consultants, presidents of national associations, administrative directors of local or regional authorities and regional national parks, etc.).

MASTER 1 TERRITORIES AND TRANSITIONS COURSE
TERM 7
UE 7-1: Core Courses 

• Evaluation of public policies
• International economics
• Environmental economics 1

UE 7-2: Specialization Courses

• Institutions and local public policies
• Economics of innovation 1
• Démarche de veille
• Industrial organization and competition law (optional)
• Prerequisite - Game theory (optional)
• Prerequisite - Econometrics (optional)
  
  

UE 7-3: Methods and tools for economics

• Data analysis
• Econometrics 3: Discrete choice models

UE-7-4: Professionalization

• Business English
• Foreign language 2

TERM 8
UE 8-1: Core Courses

• Sustainability development policy
• Economic geography
• Territorial economic intelligence
  
  

UE 8-2: Specialization Courses

• Geographic Information System
• Econometrics 4: program evaluation
• Economic challenges (optional)
• Economics of innovation 2 (optional)

UE 8-3: Professionalization

• Internship
• Masterclass
• Professional integration - Preparation of the Professional Project
• Business English

MASTER 2 TERRITORIES AND TRANSITIONS COURSE
TERM 9
UE 9-1: Management and evaluation of public policies

• Territorial prospective
• Conception of a development project
• Evaluation of public policies
• Local public finances and budget strategies
• Public markets and sustainable development

UE 9-2: Local democracy and decision support

• Building political decision
• Facilitation, participation and public politics design
• Lobbying

UE 9-3: Territorial strategies

• Tools and methods for territorial analysis
• Development workshop
• Strategic diagnosis
• Strategy and change management

UE 9-4: Research

• Research methodology

TERM 10
UE 10-1: Businesses, economy and territories

• Engineering of European regional financing
• Economics of territorial policies
• Economic land observatory
• Economics of energy transition
• Circular economy

UE 10-2: Environment, sustainability and transition

• Transition politics
• Territorial energy policies
• Environmental redirection
• Urban project management
• Biodiversity and territorial development

UE 10-3: Challenges of territories' sustainable development

• Seminars
• Territories and international action

UE 10-4: Apprenticeship

• Traineeship
• Traineeship review
• Business relationships
• Skills monitoring and professional project

Grants and scholarships

The Saint-Étienne School of Economics offers a number of grants and scholarships each year for students starting the Master Territories and Transitions:

• Scholarships awarded based on academic achievement
• Research grants for master’s students intending to continue to a PhD.
  
  

Contacts

Program Directors
Nelly Exbrayat
Joint Director of the Master Territories and Transitions
se2 @ univ-st-etienne.fr (se2 @ univ-st-etienne.fr)

Anne Pisot
Joint Director of the Master Territories and Transitions
se2 @ univ-st-etienne.fr (se2 @ univ-st-etienne.fr)

Registrar
Sandra Idir
sandra.idir@univ-st-etienne.fr (se2 @ univ-st-etienne.fr)
Phone : + 33 04 77 42 13 85