M2 Adaptation to climate change

Master's degree
Specialisations Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environment (STePE) | Science de la durabilité
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English
French

Master’s in Climate Change Adaptation (Sustainability Science track): over ten years of experience training professionals in adaptation, supported by cutting-edge research. Accessible to international students through blended and online learning, the program offers a shared core curriculum and three specialization tracks: Climate Change Adaptation (ACC), Acting in a World in Transition (AMT), and Anthropocenes, Local Terminalities, and Experimental Territories (ALTE).

This pioneering Master’s program in Climate Change Adaptation has, for over a decade, combined academic rigor with professional relevance. Offered in a blended and flipped-classroom format, it integrates online learning—through regularly updated video modules—with in-person sessions that foster exchange and hands-on experience. Grounded in cutting-edge research, it connects sustainability and adaptation issues to real-world contexts.

Students can tailor their focus through three specialization tracks: engaging directly in the field, exploring deeper societal challenges, or developing advanced technical expertise. Each track combines theory and practice through an internship, a thesis, or a collaborative challenge, rounded out by an immersive serious game experience. English texts are provided here as a courtesy to English-speaking students; most teaching is conducted in French.

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Présentation

Skills

Graduates of the Master’s in Climate Change Adaptation will be equipped to analyze contemporary adaptation challenges using both the analytical and operational tools of the social sciences.

Depending on their chosen specialization track, they will develop the ability to:

- Mobilize and produce highly specialized knowledge;

- Contribute actively to transforming professional practices in response to adaptation and sustainability challenges;

- Analyze sustainability issues across multiple scales and disciplinary perspectives;

- Design solutions and recommendations aligned with sustainable development goals in contexts of change;

- Implement expert communication strategies that support knowledge transfer and valorization.

English texts are provided here as a courtesy to English-speaking students; most teaching is conducted in French.

Objectives

- Train interdisciplinary experts capable of analyzing, anticipating, and developing concrete solutions to major sustainability challenges by integrating environmental, social, economic, and health dimensions.

- Foster a systemic understanding of the interactions between natural ecosystems, human societies, and the ecological and social issues of the 21st century.

- Promote an inclusive and equitable approach that seeks to reduce inequalities and enhance well-being while supporting the transition toward sustainable ways of living.

- Enable students to deepen their disciplinary expertise, engage it in dialogue with other fields, and generate new research perspectives on contemporary environmental crises.

- Combine this knowledge with the expertise of diverse stakeholders to co-design and implement realistic, innovative transition solutions in real-world contexts.. 

English texts are provided here as a courtesy to English-speaking students; most teaching is conducted in French.

Admission

Capacity

Available Places

20

Target Audience and Entry Requirements

Applicants to the Master’s in Climate Change Adaptation should have a strong disciplinary or interdisciplinary background, demonstrated either through completion of a first-year master’s degree or through substantial professional or associative experience. A genuine openness to working in interdisciplinary settings is essential.

The program coordinators seek cohorts whose diversity fosters intellectual and practical enrichment. Given the intensity and breadth of the learning experience required to address climate change challenges, only high-quality applications will be considered.

Because adaptation also calls for ethical commitment and engagement beyond cognitive ability, a clearly articulated motivation—and ideally evidence of extracurricular or civic involvement—will be key to admission.

English texts are provided here as a courtesy to English-speaking students; most teaching is conducted in French.

Application Period(s)

Inception Platform

From 15/04/2026 to 20/06/2026

Supporting documents

Compulsory supporting documents

Motivation letter.

All transcripts of the years / semesters validated since the high school diploma at the date of application.

Curriculum Vitae.

Additional supporting documents

Certificate of English level (compulsory for non-English speakers).

VAP file (obligatory for all persons requesting a valuation of the assets to enter the diploma).

Document indicating the list of local M2 choices available here : https://urlz.fr/i3Lo.

Supporting documents :
- Residence permit stating the country of residence of the first country
- Or receipt of request stating the country of first asylum
- Or document from the UNHCR granting refugee status
- Or receipt of refugee status request delivered in France
- Or residence permit stating the refugee status delivered in France
- Or document stating subsidiary protection in France or abroad
- Or document stating temporary protection in France or abroad.

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Teaching Location(s)

GUYANCOURT

Training campus

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Bus 5103, 5150, 5198, 7807
RER C Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Student restaurant (CROUS)
Student residence
Library

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