DEFEND MAN AND EARTH EACH AND EVERY DAY

1 - Teaching philosophy :

5 years of continuous grading

Is designed to steer each student towards :

An initial course selection and a continuous grading system throughout the five years to graduation,
Personalized collaborative building of your professional or personal project,
Funding: 30% of our students are bursary recipients.

120 academic partners

Diverse and professional services offered :

A large selection of courses offered,
Research laboratory experiments to address real company issues ,
Pre-production trials in technological premises,
15 to 18 months internships to experience the company world first hand,
Multicultural experience for one or more months: 120 academic partners, over 25% of our students are foreign students, 30% of our students go abroad either for training or study periods.

30% student bursary recipients

Involvement in the challenges the earth is facing :

Mastery methods :

International skills in scientific expertise and management
Future problems in attractive sectors: agricultural resources, biotechnologies, nutrition, food safety, innovation processes, sustainable development

Engineer

has a solid scientific base, both cutting edge and adaptable;
is able to ask questions, analyze data and offer solutions, particularly of a technological nature;
is able to work in a global and often complex environment ;
is able to combine conceptualization and action .

Manager

supervises the different activities for which he/she is responsible ;
participates in the strategic planning of a company ;
is able to manage teams and projects and to communicate to different groups, including international contexts .

Engineer and Manager

respects others and fulfils commitments ;
has developed his/her skills and know-how by working closely with professionals (internships, projects, case studies etc).

Research in FESIA schools :

30 laboratories and research teams
180 lecturer/researchers some of whom have excellent international reputations: some are doctoral supervisors who can manage research projects
“Technological halls” to test products in pre-production trials
partnerships with research centres (CNRS, INRA, Institut Pasteur) and international universities (Wageningen, The Netherlands, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, Kunming, China, ESALQ, Brazil) .

Research, one of the pilars of our students training :

to master research tools and methods,
to acquire rigor and scientific curiosity,
apprenticeship through supervised projects, internships in research centres and final dissertations,
doctoral possibilities.

Applied Research and Product Development possibilities in companies :

Agro-food industry: product characterization, consumer testing, behavioural studies .
Environment: soil pollution study, development project for local co-operatives.
Agriculture: expectations and behaviour of the various sectors (milk production for example).
Management: market research, company restructuring study, employee training .

A long international relationship :

A strong advantage of our schools that sets us apart :

each year 900 FESIA students go abroad either in internships or on study periods
double degree possibilities in 6 renown universities in Europ and the USA and soon others in MERCOSUR,
set test English level of 750 TOEIC points by the Engineering Title Commission.

Planning international careers and foreign plants :

Masters course for international students, in diverse fields such as :
- Animal production processes in Europe ,
- Agri-ecology ,
- Viti-culture and wine production,
- Agricultural economics and management.
Training periods outside France
- for example Master CHENG in Agribusiness in China