Join the Junior Research Lab (JRL)

General theme of the course

The Junior Research Lab (JRL) is an eight-week teaching unit dedicated to learning through research. Students can choose their research theme, benefit from the support of senior researchers and are encouraged to develop co-training. It is a bridge between academic input and research activity, an opportunity for students to exchange with students from other disciplines, other countries and to prepare a long-term personal research project.

It puts students in the position of managing a research project from the construction of working hypotheses, the acquisition of data, their analysis and the sharing of their research in written and oral form. The scientific and transversal objective of this module is therefore to enable students to develop their ability to:

1. Improve autonomously their academic knowledge through the reading of scientific literature and the development of their critical thinking skills
2. Conduct a research activity,
3. Manage a scientific project using the AGILE methodology,
4. Plan the phases of acquisition, analysis and sharing of the products of their research,
5. Use analytical tools,
6. Organize their approach with a view to reproducibility and quality of results.
7. Work in a small (4/5) multicultural group, both face-to-face and at a distance,
8.  Write a scientific article that is a product of their research,
9.  Present a scientific project orally in English in 180'.

Scientific disciplines: The scientific topics of the research project are addressed through the field of expertise of l’Institut Agronomique, i.e, mainly in biology, ecology, sol sciences, agronomy, rural economics. Every year, a team of academics is volunteering for mentoring the students during their project. Available discipline varies accordingly.