In January 2023, EBI (Ecole de Biologie Industrielle) and Arts et Métiers, two prestigious engineering schools, signed a collaboration agreement for doctoral training. As a result, the EBInnov® research unit has joined Doctoral School 432, Science des Métiers de l’Ingénieur, enabling it to award doctoral degrees. This collaboration is the result of the complementary skills and joint involvement of the faculty and researchers from both schools in research activities.
A long-standing collaboration that now enables thesis supervision
The research topics of the EBI and its EBInnov® laboratory have been developed gradually in conjunction with the training of engineering students and based on issues facing the bioindustry, focusing on the development of products and processes in two areas of expertise: galenics and biotechnology. In this context, EBI initiated its first collaborations in 2006 with the Product Design and Innovation Laboratory (LCPI)Arts et Métiers a project to develop methods for evaluating glass packaging that take sensory aspects into account. The theses that followed, all on design projects, gradually expanded EBI's sensory expertise, until it became an international benchmark for non-food products. The collaboration then extended toArts et Métiers Processes and Engineering in Mechanics and Materials (PIMM) teamArts et Métiers research projects concerning the acceleration of product development methods through modeling. The shared "engineering" DNA between EBI and Arts et Métiers the growth in research collaborations naturally led to the EBINNOV® laboratory becoming affiliated with theArts et Métiers doctoral school. This partnership allows EBI doctoral students to benefit from the doctoral training offered atArts et Métiers, under the supervision of the EBInnov® Research Unit's faculty members.
Develop skills and initiate more research projects in health engineering and biological engineering.
Doctoral training provides doctoral students with personalized scientific supervision. It also prepares them for professional integration into the public or private sector through training designed to develop their scientific, cultural, and international outlook, as well as their managerial skills.
In the future, in addition to long-standing research partnerships with LCPI and the PIMM team, the goal will be to initiate projects in the field of health engineering and biological engineering, a key focus area for the EBInnov® unit. The EBInnov® Biotechnology team is developing research projects in the bio-functionalization of biomaterials for health and in the bio-production of biopolymers and secondary metabolites. These areas of expertise have applications in the health, cosmetics, and environmental sectors.
"At EBI, we have built EBInnov®, our own research unit comprising a Galenic team and a Biotechnology team. They work in the field to train our engineering students through research, and provide resources to the faculty by opening up opportunities for a variety of industrial and academic collaborations. We wanted EBInnov® to be integrated into an executive school dedicated to science and technology and strongly inspired by the role of engineers and the multidisciplinary approach they embody. ED432 recently restructured to create its Health branch, and we wanted to join it. This agreement allows our HDR teachers to supervise doctoral students in their own right and to forge fruitful collaborations within ED432, but also with other laboratories in France and internationally. Our doctoral students thus benefit from the exciting doctoral programs offered by ED432 and from an iconic network," addsFlorence Dufour, Executive Director of EBI.
About EBInnov®, EBI's laboratory dedicated to bio-product innovation
Closely involved in training its biology engineering students, EBI's EBInnov® research unit helps forge collaborations between stakeholders in its home region of Val d'Oise and its national and international academic partners to meet the innovation and development needs of the bio-industries. The EBInnov® research unit's activities cover the entire product innovation chain, from asset creation to process development, using state-of-the-art equipment. Through partnerships forged with industry and institutions since the EBI was founded in 1992, two areas of research form the DNA of EBInnov®: galenics and biotechnology.
EBInnov® Galenics: formulation, eco-design, industrial optimization, and modeling of the efficacy and acceptability of cosmetic and pharmaceutical forms.
EBInnov® Biotechnology: biosourcing, bioproduction, characterization, and development of active molecules, adjuvants, and materials with functional and therapeutic properties.
About theArts et Métiers Doctoral School
The Doctoral School of Engineering Sciences (SMI) - ED 432 is part of the HESAM University Doctoral College. Created in 2006, it is shared by Arts et Métiers the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers Cnam).
Within the Arts et Métiers Cnam institutions, ED SMI-432 is responsible for setting up and organizing doctoral training dedicated to the development of scientific skills that can be transferred to industry. This doctoral training is focused on the scientific study of technical phenomena in various fields of technological application.
The ED SMI draws on a large number of high-level research laboratories whose main thematic scope is centered around the disciplinary field of Engineering Sciences, and extends to life sciences and the environment.
The ED SMI aims to train doctoral students capable of implementing rigorous and innovative scientific approaches in order to break down scientific barriers. Whenever possible, this is achieved by placing doctoral students within an industrial and international project, enabling them to put their work into perspective with that of all project participants and to acquire solid experience in managing multi-partner and/or international research and innovation projects.
Through its 26 affiliated laboratories, ED SMI contributes to the scientific policy of these institutions in order to respond to scientific and societal needs as part of their mission to support the Industry of the Future.
Located in eight regions across France, ED SMI organizes training "through research, for research, and for innovation" leading to a doctoral thesis in the following fields:
Solid Mechanics and Materials
Fluid Mechanics and Energy
Design and Industrialization
Mathematics and Systems
Healthcare Engineering
