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Master’s degree

Information Technology for Smart and Sustainable Mobility

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Enrolment to this programme will be open at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France to EU students from 26 February to 24 March 2024.

About the Master’s Degree

Presentation

The Information Technology for Smart and Sustainable Mobility (IT4SSM) programme offers a unique combination of European courses in the Information Technology domain for the areas of smart technologies dedicated to smart cities applications with a specific attention to the sustainability of the designed solutions.

This Computer Science Master programme aims to provide knowledge and practical training as ITs in the new context of intelligent mobility while considering current issues of ethics and sustainable development. Smart mobility requires expertise in new techniques and technologies (Internet of Things, distributed data management, security of exchanges, etc.) and skills for the analysis, design and development of new algorithms and softwares for decision support in smart cities.

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A combination of courses taught by four EUNICE universities

This Master’s degree is the very first co-created programme to be offered in the framework of the EUNICE European University alliance.
This programme includes courses taught by four of the alliance’s European partners, enabling students to benefit from their respective expertise.
Courses are provided by:

  • Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (France)
  • University of Cantabria (Spain)
  • Poznan University of Technology (Poland)
  • University of Vaasa (Finland)

Courses are taught in English (B2 level required).

Programme

Contents

The content of this Master’s degree covers different IT topics for the development of sustainable and mobile applications.

The aim is to train the student in decision making:

  • based on data, from IoT, embedded and distributed devices…
  • with security considerations
  • assisted by ethical, human-centered AI (ML, agent…) and Operational Research (optimisation, problem solving) methods and tools (modeling & simulation of the services, digital twin)
  • with human (HCI, VR, personalisation, citizen participation) and environmental (sustainability, impact study) approaches,
  • with legal and business considerations
  • applied in the mobility domain (urban services part)
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Organisation

Distance learning: hybrid mode (face to face for courses topics and distance learning for others)

Location:

  • Valenciennes (France) – Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Campus Mont Houy
  • Santander (Spain) – University of Cantabria (to be confirmed)

Enrolment

Admission requirements

This Master’s degree is open to any European student.

For the 1st year – Master 1: open to students with a Bachelor degree in Computer Science (after a degree or a Licence/Bachelor) or another engineering or technology specialty that fulfills the following requirements:

  • design and programming skills in C or equivalent, and highly desirable in Java or equivalent object oriented language;
  • at least B2 level equivalent skills in English (ability to attend courses delivered in English).

Application procedure

Enrolment to this Master’s degree at Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France will be open to EU students from 26 February to 24 March 2024,on the French website “Mon Master“.

Application is based on a registration file including previous diploma scores, and possible interview.

Tuition fees

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Further studies and career opportunities

Discover further studies and career opportunities after the IT4SSM Master’s degree.

Contact

For any question regarding the IT4SSM Master’s degree, please reach out at master-it4ssm@uphf.fr.