MAPE

   

Objectives of MAPE
Calcareous Lion on the Alexandre III bridge, Paris

Spots of important concentrations of pollutants in their atmosphere, water and soil, cities also comprise important concentrations of materials in their ancient and contemporary constructions and inside them (museums, libraries, archives…). The protection and renovation of these materials have multiple aspects: scientific and technical, economic and political, esthetic and historic, that means cultural, then influencing the citizens’ quality of life. These protection and renovation must be based on a scientific diagnostic of the causes of the degradation, in order to build a strategy for the choice of durable materials, their maintenance and preventive conservation.

The teaching approach of MAPE is synthetic: study of phenomenons and mechanisms at the interface of materials and atmospheric, hydric, pedologic and biologic environment, and predictive modeling of them.

The behavior of universally utilized materials in ancient and contemporary buildings will be detailed: those of stone, glass, metals and cements-mortars-concretes. Other materials will be tackled above all through their involvement into Cultural Heritage (art objects, historical monuments, museums…): renderings, stained-glass windows, wood, mural paintings and frescoes, paper and audiovisual supports

Besides University teams like those of Paris VII, Paris XII (LISA, CERTES, Laboratory of Metallurgy…) and Messina Universities or of the European University Centre for Cultural Heritage in Ravello, those of extra-university institutions are involved in the teaching of MAPE: Research and Restoration Centre of French Museums (C2RMF, Louvre, Joint Research Unit Ministry of Culture-CNRS, www.c2rmf.fr), Historical Monuments Research Laboratory (LRMH, www.lrmh.fr), Research Centre for Conservation of Graphic Documents (CRCDG, Joint Research Unit Ministry of Culture-CNRS, www.crcdg.culture.fr), Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB, www.cstb.fr), Inter-regional Centre for Conservation and Restoration of Heritage in Marseille (CICRP, www.cicrp.fr).

Organization of MAPE
Stained glass windows, Sainte Chapelle, Paris
MAPE is a 9-month course of full-time study. The teaching takes place in the first semester only (September to January).  It is structured around 10 core courses (UE, teaching unity), nine of which are mandatory. A last one has to be chosen by the students among UE within or outside the Master SGE. All UE are validated by a written examination. The second semester consists in a stage in a Research Laboratory for example in an University or/and Research Institution like CNRS (LISA,  CERTES…), Ministry  of  Culture  (C2RMF, LRMH, CRCDG…), High School (Ecole Centrale…), Research Centre (BRGM, CSTB, Saint Gobain Recherche…), an Agency for Air Quality Survey (Airparif…). In order to validate the second semester, a written report and an oral presentation will be delivered by the student at the end of this stage.

Targeted skills and professional issues
Exposure of glass samples to the atmospheric pollution, St Eustache church, Paris

The final aim of MAPE is giving to specialists in Environmental Sciences or Physico-Chemistry of Materials a complementary competence on problems arising from the degradation of Materials in anthropic Environmment: diagnostic of degradations and scientific study methods of weathered Materials, causes, preventive maintenance, predictive modelling of the behavior of Materials, risk assessment, cost assessment of maintenance-restoration.

 

The professions which are above all aimed by MAPE are those of Environmental Research and Monitoring of the Environment, with a special skill to treat of problems concerning materials, problems more and more in concern in research laboratories, in national and international programs, environmental quality survey networks…

After MAPE a pursuit in Doctorate is possible, depending on the number of grants got by the speciality from the Ministry of Research via Paris VII and Paris XII Doctoral Schools, from French Agency for Environment and Energy Control (ADEME)…and the public and private research laboratories

Stages 2004-2005
This first year has integrated 8 students. The document below list subjects and laboratories.
 Stages MAPE 2004-2005.pdf [9 KB]

 

First half of the year

Practical School on monumental heritage of Paris (UE1) 3 ECTS
Stone and glass facing atmospheric pollution (UE2) 3 ECTS
Stones, water, salts in interaction (UE3) 3 ECTS
Physical and chemical methods of diagnostic of the alteration of materials (UE4) 3 ECTS
Problematics of conservation-restoration of materials of the cultural heritage (UE5) 3 ECTS
Metal degradation in the environnement (UE6) 3 ECTS
Chemistry of urban and industrial pollution (UE7) 3 ECTS
Physico-chemistry of aqueous media (UE8) 3 ECTS
English (UE9) 3 ECTS
Free Option : among SGE Master or outside (UE10) 3 ECTS

Second half of the year

Work in laboratory 30 ECTS

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