Master's degree in urban planning and development - Housing and urban renewal policies and projects course

The Tuc-Med Course aims to train experts in urban planning in differentiated contexts, capable of integrating environmental risk management issues in the face of climate change, but also innovative ways of thinking about and making the inclusive city.

Focused on innovative teaching methods, the master's programme seeks to:

• train urban planners on the scale of Mediterranean countries to meet the challenges of urbanisation;

• develop interactive and applied teaching methods (workshops in the field in the countries concerned (Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia);

• encourage the co-construction of micro-projects with local players in order to give a practical and operational dimension to the training;

• enable comparative approaches to methods and contexts to enrich know-how and skills;

• grasp the issue of technological, environmental and political risks to meet the challenges and issues of the Mediterranean rim.

Students from multiple disciplinary backgrounds who demonstrate an open-minded approach to the vulnerability of territories and the international approach.

The urban planning and development major is a two-year programme: entry to M2 is by priority after obtaining an M1 in Urban Planning and Development.

It is possible to apply for direct entry to M2 after obtaining an M1 in another discipline after obtaining an M1 in another discipline.

The student must have an M1 in urban planning or any other compatible M1 after examining the equivalence of the courses.

It is recommended that you have followed courses on the dynamics of cities and territories and the challenges of sustainable development ; that you have a good command of cartographic tools ; that you have experience of territorial diagnosis.

The training is organised in the form of a sandwich course: 3 weeks per month in a company (with an employment contract) and one week to 10 days per month at the place of training that is the IUAR.

Programmed teaching is divided between theoretical and practical teaching and workshops in the field, in Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco or France, with partner schools/universities.

• FDSP, Marseille

The course is based on the work and expertise developed over many years by the teacher-researchers at LIEU (the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Environnement Urbanisme). Students receive research training as part of a compulsory dissertation at the end of their studies.

The skills acquired by students on the Tuc-Med pathway concern:

• comparative analysis of the contexts à scale of Mediterranean countries;

• the ability to co-construct micro-projects with local stakeholders;

• the learning of know-how and intervention methods adapted to the Mediterranean context;

• learning about technological, environmental and political risks in the Mediterranean context.

Supervised work of various kinds (workshops, micro-projects...) punctuate the course sessions.