To acquire the skills essential to meeting the new scientific and regulatory challenges of open science and to prepare yourself for the professions of the future.

The certificate-granting Scientific Data Management course, Europe’s first, is based on the scientific community’s observation that such training is needed. This need results from the implementation of open science policy, promoted by France’s 2018 National Plan for Open Science and the European Commission in 2012, as well as a concurrent demand to understand open data policy. Open science policy and open data are based on encouraging innovation via the development of the digital economy (an economy based on data). 

Data science marries computer science, math, and professional expertise to extract, explore, analyse and capitalise on masses of raw data, which are transformed into qualitative information used to solve problems or conduct innovative research.

The certificate, structured around standards developed by experts in the field, is a true asset for your professional career. Indeed, skills in scientific data management are sought after but graduates with such skills are extremely rare.

A scientific data administrator’s field of expertise is vast. The administrator must understand the meaning of open science and its challenges, as well as be an expert in the methods, concepts and tools related to new practices of managing and governing research data.

Your instructors will give you the tools to master the challenges of open science data and gain sought-after skills to apply in your daily work environment.