Research management and science foundations

General culture and curiosity...

Conference on ethics in the workplace: 2h
Information on bibliographical research, presentation of research tools and engines, and plagiarism (definition, risks). 1 TD slot
Management part 7h
- First session (3h): several speakers will distill knowledge about the company, its macroeconomic ecosystem, stakeholders (internal and external), and its various functions (human capital, CSR, accounting, etc.). Students divide into groups of 5, choose a business issue (from among several presented) and set about addressing it in project mode. At the end of this first session, they present a GANTT with a breakdown of tasks.
- In the second session (3x1h20), teams are invited to join a working group (a group of teams sharing the same subject), which will be assigned to them by e-mail, in order to:

Present the analysis for 15' max (English possible with bonus) before a jury with a 5' "question-answer" exchange
Carry out two collective feedback sessions: Based on all the elements presented during the session, each team draws up two cognitive maps, one on the response to the problem and the other on the obstacles and success criteria of a project

Evaluation criteria
- 35% Individuals: public speaking_in English (bonus) active listening participation in the Retex, presence
- 65% Collective: analysis of the subject, synthesis of information, prescription of actions, evaluation of impact, project management (compliance with deliverables, phasing, etc.).).
In the event of absence from the second session, the student will not be graded. As 65% of the test is based on a collective mark, there will be no make-up tests.
History of science, content subject to change depending on the lecturer, 3 h

History of science and technology: what for?
Bibliography The image of science, past and present History of science and scientific culture.
History of the scientific method

Its first theorists: Bacon, Descartes and Galileo The experimental method according to Cl. Bernard (1865) This method is not self-evident The difficulties of objective observation The discussed interest of experiment The first experimenters: Galileo, Redi, Lavoisier, etc. Diderot's synthesis (1753) and the Encyclopédie's point of view From laboratory experiment to collective experiment.
Conclusion: There is no definitive science (cf. the number of planets) Importance of debate and controversy Science is not neutral.




Histories of science

The scientific history of science The philosophical history of science The historian's history of science. Is the history of science continuous or discontinuous? Le progrès scientifique selon Auguste Comte (loi des trois états) (1830) Les obstacles/ruptures épistémologiques de Gaston Bachelard (1938) Le fonctionnement de la science (paradigmes, crises, révolutions scientifiques, etc.) selon Thomas Kuhn (1962) L'œuvre de Paul Feyerabend.



Projet Fondement des sciences
Follow-up and final presentation to be defined Group work
Restitution en juin.

Concevoir, animer et réussir un projet, Bouzdine-Chameeva, Labruffe, Afnor, 2011
PM2Project Management Methodology Guide 3.0.1, European Union, 2021
Project Management 2.0., Kerzner, H., 2015
La Gestion de Projet, Nasr, P., 2016