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2026-2027 Schedule*

 

The Master of Bioacoustics (M1 level, 60 ECTS) comprises teaching modules + a two-months internship (24 ECTS). The lectures are in French or in English. 

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September to December

(teaching in French / enseignements en français)

(Location: University of Saint-Etienne)

Biostatistiques (30 h, 4 ECTS)

Ecologie des Populations (24 h, 4 ECTS)

Ethologie: mécanismes et fonctions (25 h, 4 ECTS)

Systèmes d'informations géographiques (20 h, 4 ECTS)

Anglais (44 h, 4 ECTS)

Préparation à la vie professionnelle (4 h, 4 ECTS)

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January 4-15: Bioacoustics Winter School (80 h, 6 ECTS; in English)

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February to March

(Teaching in English - 100 h)

(Location: University of Toulon)

Marine bioacoustics (6 ECTS)

      Bioacoustics of Cetaceans (whales, dolphins)

      Physics acoustics and antenna processing

      Jobs in bioacoustics

Data Acquisition (4 ECTS)

      Analogica and numeric antenna data acquisition

      Instrumentation

      Experiments at sea (Marine Base Pothuau -includes boat trip with recording of cetaceans)

      Signal processing and time-frequency representation

      Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

      Artificial Intelligence and multistream integration​​

      Large Language Models

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April-June: 2-months Internship (8 ECTS)

Scheduled internship if desired by the student at CIAN in Toulon (CNRS LIS or CNRS IM2NP).

It is possible to choose any other organization.

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(*): Please note that the schedule, module list and modules' contents, as well as the list of tutors are entirely provisional and only serve as an indicator of the program content. The organisers of the course reserve the right to modify any of these aspects depending on circumstances.

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