Master in public management - Territorial security and management (1st and 2nd year)

-Initial training: graduates with a Bachelor's degree, mainly in management, economics or law, or with a degree equivalent to a Bachelor's degree.

-Continuing education: professionals in equivalent positions in the public or private sector, in line with the professional development or consolidation project proposed by this program.

In line with the objectives of the training program, blocks of knowledge and skills (BCC) are offered.

Master 1:

- Understanding the environment of public and non-profit organizations

- Managing public policies in a context of societal transition

- Managing in public, non-profit and community organizations

- Apply a scientific method to public and territorial management

- Prepare/reflect on professional activity and social commitment in a changing world

In Master 2 :

- Understand the environment of organizations involved in territorial security

- Managing public policies to steer resilient territories

- Manage organizations by implementing protection and prevention measures

- Apply a scientific method to build and disseminate knowledge in the field of territorial security

- Develop one's career path and commitment to society by promoting one's expertise within a professional network

> Master 1
Work-study program or compulsory 2-month internship

The first year is common to several courses. It enables students to develop the skills essential to future public managers. In the second semester, a system of options (by block) enables students to draw up their career plans and move towards the "Security and Territorial Management" field.

Courses are taught on a semester-long basis, in the form of lectures and tutorials.

> Master 2
Work-study program

Students have 12 weeks of classes in Aix-en-Provence, on the Ferry site (from September 2025) and on the ENSOSP site (1 week per month). They benefit from work experience (around 3 weeks a month) and have exams spread over the academic year, enabling them to go back and forth with the field.

Theoretical and practical courses are combined with field experience, thanks to in situ visits and simulation exercises with socio-economic partners. Academics and practitioners from a variety of fields, including civil protection, local authorities and other public administrations, are involved in the curriculum.

Students wishing to prepare for state and local civil service entrance examinations can take an intensive preparatory course: the IMPGT + Talents in Public Services Prep.

Summary course content for the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 academic years (indicative - subject to change)

Master 1 - semesters 1 and 2

Courses shared with the 8 Master's courses in Public Management (except MESS)

- Understanding the environment of public and non-market organizations: Conceptual and theoretical foundations: French public institutions and the main principles of public management, Administrative law for the public manager, Societal issues and public policies: cross-disciplinary approaches, European institutions and governance, Public policies and systems: sectoral approaches, Opening lectures and workshops.

- Managing public policies in a context of societal transition: Societal issues and public policies: cross-disciplinary approaches, Designing public policies: innovation and co-creation, Managing a territory, Public policies and systems: sectoral approaches, Steering and evaluating a public policy

- Managing in public, non-market and public-interest organizations: Conceptual and theoretical foundations: French public institutions and the main principles of public management, Design and organizational behavior, Project management (tools and methods), Leadership and team management, Managing the performance of public organizations.

- Specialties in SMT management functions: Evaluation of user-perceived quality, Societal issues and environmental public policies, Changes in local authorities, European mechanisms for territorial cooperation.

- Applying a scientific method to public and territorial management: Public policy design: innovation and co-creation, Territorial management, Design and organizational behavior, Research methods: information processing and retrieval, Quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Option 1: Public manager ethics and deontology, Option 2: Research awareness

- Preparing/reflecting on professional activity and social commitment in a changing world : Research methods: processing and reporting information, English, Supporting students in the professional world.

Cross-disciplinary courses: Serious Game, Internship or apprenticeship

Master 2 - semesters 3 and 4

- Understanding the environment of organizations contributing to territorial security: Local authority law, Public order and liberties, Security and responsibility, Territorial knowledge, Economics of territorial security, Role-playing in risk management, Unlikely seminar.

- Managing public policies to pilot resilient territories: Territorial knowledge, Territorial data analysis, Diagnostic methods, Risk scenario, Territorial security economics, Capability response design, Risk management role-playing, Dissertation

- Manage organizations by implementing protection and prevention measures: Security and liability, Feedback, Intelligence and cybersecurity, Risk management role-playing games

- Applying a scientific method to build and disseminate knowledge on territorial security: Analysis of territorial data, Diagnostic method, Feedback, Dissertation

- Develop your career path and your commitment to society by promoting your expertise within a professional network: Risk management role-playing games, Dissertation

Further study:

- At the end of the 1st year of the Master's program: students can continue their studies in the 2nd year of the Public Management Master's program in Territorial Security and Management, or in one of the 8 other programs in this Master's program offered at the IMPGT, or in one of the other Master's programs in Law-Economics-Management.

- At the end of the two-year Master's program: students can continue their studies with a PhD in Management Sciences.

Career opportunities :
Graduates of this Master's program can move into the field of territorial security by joining the State or local civil service (with the possibility of joining the "Prépa Talents du Service Public" program offered by the IMPGT, to prepare for the competitive entrance exams). Graduates can also enter the private sector through consulting organizations or civil security research bodies at territorial, national or European level.

Admission is subject to application.

Master 1 - on the Mon Master platform

Candidates with a Bachelor's degree, mainly in management, economics or law, or with a degree equivalent to a Bachelor's degree. Applicants from political or social sciences or other backgrounds are also considered, provided they can demonstrate a good academic level and a clear motivation to change direction.

Master 2 - on the E-Candidat platform

Candidates who have completed the first year of a Master's degree in Public Management, or who have completed other university courses (law, economics, management), or who hold equivalent positions in the public or private sector, in line with the professional development or consolidation project proposed by this program.

VAP (Validation des Acquis Professionnels) is available for students who do not have the required level to enter the program.

This course has been developed in partnership with theEcole Nationale Supérieure des Officiers de Sapeurs-Pompiers based in Aix-en-Provence.