UE Ouverture - Sciences, techniques, communication, ethics

Enable students to acquire scientific skills complementary to their original field of study, and consolidate their general culture.
Introduce students with a chemistry background to notions of Biology/Biotechnology, and students with a biology background to notions of Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry.
Raise students' awareness of ethics and scientific communication issues.
Share the scientific cultures of engineering students from ENSCBP (CGP and AGB streams) and ENSTBB.
Build and organize bibliographical research, theoretical reflections, surveys and joint projects.


This module is designed jointly with ENSTBB. It is open to a limited number of students from ENSCBP (maximum 12 from the CGP stream, maximum 12 from the AGB stream) and ENSTBB (maximum 12). It is a compulsory prerequisite for students wishing to follow the Chemistry and Bioengineering specialization.
The module takes place over four weeks:

Setting up prerequisites, the first week.

For trained biologists: "Organic Chemistry" and "Physical Chemistry of Polymers"
For trained chemists: "Basics of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Biotechnology" and "Proteins and Enzymes"


With the use of an interactive "dictionary" to help students get to grips with the vocabulary of Biology and Chemistry, to facilitate rapid learning of knowledge in a scientific field which is not the initial one.

Lectures by external speakers spread over 3 weeks.

These conferences will focus on ethics, social responsibility, scientific communication and intellectual property.
Examples of lectures:

Management and human resources
Popularizing scientific knowledge
Intellectual property: technology watch and patents
From the production of scientific knowledge to modes of technology transfer
Ethics and innovation in the pharmaceutical field
Managerial design promoting well-being and efficiency at work
Relations between science, technology, society and ethics
A week of practical work

Production of a recombinant protein by genetic engineering - for chemists by training.
Synthesis of a fluorescent monomer - for trained biologists.


A project is to be carried out in teams over the four weeks. Students must define and develop a topical scientific subject at the interface of chemistry and biology, with societal implications. Teams will be mixed ENSCBP/ENSTBB.
The module will take place at ENSCBP (with the exception of Biology practical work, which will take place at ENSTBB).

UE Ouverture - Sciences, techniques, communication, ethics