ISblue, Interdisciplinary Graduate School for the blue planet, is a new graduate school based in Western France which aims at attracting excellent international students, consolidating synergies between Universities (UBO, UBS) and engineering Schools (ENSTA Bretagne, ENIB, IMT Atlantique, École Navale), improving skills in Marine Sciences at international level and increasing involvement of researchers in graduate teaching. The core of the project is to promote new strategies for innovative training and to embed students into marine research work at early levels.
Interdisciplinarity is especially at the core of our project: two Master interdisciplinary Units of the IUEM Masters (“Enjeux et Problématiques” and “Science et Société”) are already supported by ISblue, favouring links and exchanges between students from different fields, creating elements of common culture and opening to scientific issues and societal challenges in Marine and Coastal Sciences.