Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Skills for organising and supporting learning in an evolving dynamic.
• Understand the learning process and research the various models and theories of teaching.
• Reflective practitioner skills.
• Critically read the results of scientific research in education and didactics and draw inspiration from them for their teaching activities, all the while drawing on various disciplines in human sciences to analyse and act in professional situations.
• Carry out, individually and with peers, a critical and rigorous observation and analysis of their own practices and the impact these have on pupils, in order to improve their teaching and develop the strategies and conditions for implementation to ensure effectiveness and equity.

Learning Outcomes of UE

The objective of this course is to initiate the students to the emerging field of Bioinspired Chemistry. The student will explore cases of living organisms and be inspired by biomolecular structures and natural processes (e.g. self-organization, cooperativity, biomineralization), in order to design new approaches of chemistry to be applied to the domains energy, health, (bio)materials, surfaces, catalysis, and information technologies.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Bioinspired Self-Assembly
I. Concepts: Biomimicry, Bioinspiration / Examples of bioinspired structures/materials  / Principles of recognition, self-assembly, self-organisation, cooperativity
II. Self-assembled bioinspired structures : DNA-inspired structures / Peptide-inspired structures / Molecular cages and receptors / Molecular machines 
III. Principle of Biomineralization
Analytical methods for biomolecular systems (10h + 10h practical works)
Mass spectrometry for biomolecules (J. De Winter et P. Gerbaux)
AA3: Applications des systèmes bio-inspirés (10h + 10h exercises)
Biomineralization / Supramolecular polymers / Artificial photosynthesis / Bioinpired catalysis, Artificial Enzymes  

Prior Experience

Not applicable

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q1 UE assessment

• Written examination - Face-to-face
• Oral examination - Face-to-face

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

Written exam (exercises) and oral exam (courses)

Method of calculating the overall mark for the Q1 UE assessment

written 50% / oral 50 %

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q1 UE resit assessment (BAB1)

• Oral examination - Face-to-face

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

oral exam

Method of calculating the overall mark for the Q1 UE resit assessment

Based on oral exam

Type(s) and mode(s) of Q3 UE assessment

• Oral examination - Face-to-face

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

Oral exam 

Method of calculating the overall mark for the Q3 UE assessment

Based on oral exam