Welcome week (September), core modules (September-January), Exams (December-January) and Christmas holidays (December).

Sustainable development requires not only the piecemeal improvements of separate parts of production, consumption, and waste management but must also make sure that, for example, environmental impacts or anthropogenic material flows, are reduced from a system-wide perspective. Because catalysis allows for more efficient, less energy-intensive, and more selec­tive chemical reactions, it is regarded by many as an enabling technology to promote overall sustainability. Therefore, it seems essential that students acquire concepts on how to think about catalysis in a global and sustainable way.

After the welcome week and introductory events, the 1^st semester is planned to provide fundamental knowledge on all declinations of catalysis (heterogeneous, homogeneous, enzymatic). Transversal skills based on life cycle assessment will let the students apprehend the principles of sustainable chemistry. Lectures will be given by all partners, physically or using videoconferencing.

Poitiers	Green Chemistry	6 ECTS
Poitiers	Heterogeneous catalysis and eco-efficient processes	5 ECTS
Tarragona	Homogeneous catalysis	5 ECTS
Aveiro	Microbial and Enzymatic Catalysis	5 ECTS
Poitiers	Analytical tools	6 ECTS
Poitiers	Life cycle Assessment	3 ECTS

 

The second semester will be dedicated to an internship (February-June or July) in a partner or affiliated Institution. The aim is to work in a different declination of catalysis than the one the student will choose for the 3^rd semester. This will allow the students to widen their knowledge in 2 different fields of catalysis.

                                                           

For example, if a student wants to specialise in homogeneous catalysis, he/she will do the internship in enzymatic or heterogeneous catalysis. The main goal is to broaden the students’ vision of catalysis and make them go to different laboratories and learn different work habits (30 ECTS).

Specialisation in one of the declinations of catalysis (September-December-January): students who will choose heterogeneous catalysis will study at UP, students who will choose homogeneous catalysis will study at URV and students who will choose biocatalysis will study at UA (30 ECTS). Exams will be held in December or January.

 

Homogeneous catalysis at University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain)

Introduction to computational chemistry	6 ECTS
Structural determination techniques	6 ECTS
Organometallics and homogeneous catalysis	6 ECTS
Asymmetric Synthesis	4.5 ECTS
Supramolecular Chemistry	4.5 ECTS
Multidisciplinary seminars	3 ECTS

 

Biocatalysis at University of Aveiro (Portugal)

Seminar	12 ECTS
Nanochemistry*	6 ECTS
Spectroscpic techniques*	6 ECTS
Biocatalysts	6ECTS
Agroforestal chemistry*	6 ECTS
Medicinal chemistry*	6 ECTS
Macromolecular chemistry*	6 ECTS

* 2 courses to be chosen

 

Heterogeneous catalysis at University of Poitiers (France)

Catalytic nanomaterials	6 ECTS
Activated chemical processes	3 ECTS
Solid-state analyses	6 ECTS
Environmental remediation	3 ECTS
Quantum modeling of materials and interfaces	3 ECTS
Low or zero carbon energy	3 ECTS
Company management and bibliography on heterogeneous catalysis	6 ECTS

Master thesis in the same specialisation chosen during the previous semester. The master’s thesis can be prepared in a research laboratory of a partner university or an associate partner organisation (industry or research centre) or in any other company offering a research-oriented topic for the master’s thesis (30 ECTS).

                                                           

End of the 4^th semester (September) at University of Poitiers : thesis defence and diploma ceremony.