Call for applications: Research-Creation Diploma (RCDA)

This one-year course is aimed at students who have completed a Master 1 or Master 2 in a particular discipline, students from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, art and design schools or engineering schools.

The aim of the courses is to acquire new methodologies, develop autonomy, creativity, collective work and project management in future scientists, professional artists or administrators from the world of culture.

The ARRC also enables the development of a critical reflection on the role of science and technology in contemporary societies.

Presentation of the diploma

Artistic practice and encounters with high-level artists and scientists enable ARRC students to develop theoretical and practical reflection on contemporary artistic creation and on scientific and technological research: the role of imagination and sensitivity, the production of meaning and knowledge, investigation, critical thinking, reflexivity, the perception of science and the construction of audiences, and analyses of the complexity of interactions between science, technology and society.
The ARRC programme is structured around teaching units allowing the acquisition of knowledge and methodologies specific to research-creation, and practical modules favouring transdisciplinary experimental work.

The Research-Creation Year aims to enrich the training for tomorrow's professions of future researchers, teachers, teacher-researchers and professionals in all sectors of activity for which ENS Paris-Saclay and, more broadly, the University of Paris-Saclay provides training.

The training lasts 1 year and takes place from mid-September to mid-July.

• The first semester (mid-September to the end of January) includes approximately 50 hours of practical and theoretical teaching as well as the completion of a collective research-creation project.
• The second semester is devoted to a research internship, carried out in a place where a research-creation project can be developed: a scientific laboratory, an artist's studio, an artistic company, a cultural institution, a scientific popularisation association, a centre for scientific and technological culture, etc.

What are the pre-requisites?

• For students from the Ecole Normale Supérieure wishing to join the ARRC, validation of one of the courses offered by the Scène de Recherche is recommended;
• For any student wishing to apply to the ARRC, an experience (academic or personal) combining science, technology and art will be appreciated.

Who can apply?

• Students after a M1 or M2 in a particular discipline
• Normaliens: specific year of study, ideally in the 3rd year of the degree after the M1 year
• Students from art and design schools or engineering schools