LIFE Graduate School mission:
To develop a fully integrated research-training interface, emphasizing interdisciplinarity and innovation, to encourage international exchanges and to place highly qualified students in exciting work environments where they can develop their skills.


The ambition of the LIFE Graduate School (EUR Life) is to cultivate a new generation of life scientists capable of tackling fundamental changes in science and becoming key players in the evolution of the socio-economic sector. We achieve this by creating synergies between research, education, and employment, with an international focus.
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A STRATEGY BASED ON 4 MAJOR AXES

 

INTERDISCIPLINARITY

Students have a wide choice of minor teaching units that ensure the acquisition of multiple skills within the 8 Graduate Schools of Université Côte d'Azur. The objective is to allow each student to shape their own academic path according to their professional aspirations.

DISCIPLINARY EXCELLENCE

Disciplinary excellence, essential for conducting research, is one of the key pillars of EUR LIFE. The courses in the Master's program in Life Sciences ensure the acquisition of fundamental knowledge and skills related to the research carried out in the laboratories within the EUR LIFE network.

INTERNATIONALISATION

EUR LIFE's internationalization strategy is reflected in the establishment of international Masters programs, disciplines taught in English, close collaboration with the Labex of Université Côte d'Azur, close partnerships with foreign universities, and the organization of international Summer and Winter Schools.

INNOVATION

We build strong partnerships with local, national, and international companies in the Biotech, Medtech, and Big Pharma sectors. We conduct individual discussions with each company to meet the needs of our students, provide them with a valuable offering, and enable them to create innovative projects.

 

OUR VISION


 

We wish to cover the entire spectrum encompassing:

  • Modeling (biology, medicine)
  • Data analysis (statistics, machine learning)
  • Method development (computer science, applied mathematics)

To achieve this, our goal is to use the Doctoral School of Life and Health Sciences (ED 85) as a toolbox to integrate talented students trained in scientific interfaces into our laboratories. Physics, chemistry, computational approaches, big data processing, and machine learning can now interact with each other under the common umbrella of Université Côte d'Azur.
 

DS4H, SPECTRUM et LIFE graduate schools are strongly connected to each other, just like the institutes LJAD, INRIA Center, INPHYNI.

This unique ability to bring together all stakeholders creates a singular potential to fuel the current evolution of Life Sciences and Health towards the modeling and processing of massive, high-resolution datasets.

Our scientific vision is to provide high-level training to students and scientists from both the life sciences and mathematics, physics, and computer science. The programs offered will foster collaboration at the interfaces between these complementary scientific communities and create a virtuous circle by uniting stakeholders around a shared educational ambition, thus leading to new research projects across these communities.
 

LIFE Graduate School : a component of Université Côte d'Azur, distinguished by an Initiative of Excellence (IdEx) label

Université Côte d’Azur won the prestigious Initiative of Excellence (IdEx) label in 2016. This distinction, awarded by an international jury, positions the university among the top 10 research-intensive French universities, provides it with additional resources to further accelerate its progress, and marks the recognition of a university capable of positioning itself in the global competitive arena.

Its UCAJEDI project offers a strategy targeting the three major challenges of this century: resilience and sustainability of territories, economic and societal transformation through digital technology, well-being and aging, through tools and programs promoting the development of research, training and innovation.

Learn more about the Academies of Excellence

Within the framework of the UCAJEDI program, five academies of excellence have been created, which build new interactions between researchers from different disciplines in the following five areas: 

Academy 1 : Networks, Information, Digital Society
Academy 2 : Complex Systems
Academy 3 : Space, Environment, Risks and Resilience
Academy 4 : Complexity and diversity of living things
Academy 5 : People, Ideas and Environments


These academies of excellence are streamlined and responsive structures that foster creativity and innovation in research at Université Côte d’Azur. Annual funding allows the academies to support initiatives developed within their respective frameworks, according to their own specific procedures.

The mission of the academies is to:

  • To create spaces for intellectual exchange that allow for the emergence of new concepts;
  • To support innovative, original and high-quality projects so that they can establish themselves in the national and international research landscape.