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Projects that continue after the defence
A final project ends with a defence, and some deserve to go further. The research institute keeps them a space, a supervisor and access to the laboratories of their field.
From a marked project to a carried project
The final-year project is first an assessment piece: it evidences mastery and joins the competency record. When it also answers a real need — an organisation's, a sector's, a territory's — it changes status and becomes work the institute supports beyond the programme.
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Defence and assessment
The project is defended before a board of practitioners, assessed and added to its author's competency record.
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Review of what comes next
The laboratory of the field examines what the project brings to the ground and what it still lacks to be useful.
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Hosting and supervision
A named supervisor, a working space kept open and a milestone schedule: the project keeps a structure after the programme.
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Transfer or creation
The result is handed to the organisation that posed the problem, added to teaching resources, or carried into a company by its author.
What the institute makes available
- A named supervisor from the field, committed to a milestone schedule
- The programme's working space and online environments, kept open
- Access to the datasets built by previous cohorts
- Intensive workshops and progress reviews with other project holders
- Guidance toward the entrepreneurship programme for those who choose to create
What the support represents
A hosted project keeps exactly the means that brought it into being: the programme's working space, the online environments, the datasets and a supervisor. Continuity is what counts, far more than volume: the 133 modules of the long-form catalogue produce work every year, part of which deserves to outlive its grade.
- named supervisor per project hosted
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- working space kept after the programme
- 1
- modules feeding the projects
- 133
- fields able to host a project
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Questions about a project's future
Do I need to stay enrolled to continue a project?
No: laboratory hosting continues after the award, with the same supervisor and the same working space. That is precisely the moment when a project most needs a structure around it.
Can a project become a company?
Yes, and it is a planned trajectory. The entrepreneurship programme carries the exercise over 18 months, and the research institute supports projects taking that direction after their defence.