Students will carry out a supervised final research project as their Master thesis. The purpose of the thesis is to demonstrate the student’s capacity to design, conduct and analyse a scientific study based on the skills obtained during the first three semesters. Students from different disciplines will form clusters around trans-disciplinary research questions to address complex real-world issues that go well beyond their individual expertise. Each student will work on facets of the question that are related to its specific discipline, while collaborating with other students in its cluster.
Students will present their individual projects, results and relevant background literature in an independent Master thesis and a Master seminar that follows the procedures of scientific meetings. In addition, students from each cluster will generate a short report describing the collective effort to solve the real-world issue of their project.
Master theses will be carried out in one of the research units of the H2O'Lyon network, in collaboration with external organisations involved in watershed management and water sciences.
Examples of suitable Master thesis topics:
- Climate change and water resource
- Environmental risks and freshwater pollution
- Restoration and freshwater biodiversity
- Sustainable urban water management
- River health assessment and integrated diagnosis
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