Introduction
"This sequence focuses on the analysis of the economic sector."
Why analyse the economic sector?
The need for new training, or the need to reform certain curricula, with a view to professionalizing trainees, is directly linked to "economic demand".
It is the interactions between the world of university and research and the professional "world" that will make it possible to understand professionals' expectations in terms of new skills.
The relations and exchanges between these different actors promote mutual knowledge; common actions and meetings allow the professional demand to emerge, and to set up professionalizing situations, to, finally, implement training adapted to the needs of future employers.
The decision to initiate a process of training creation or renovation can be highly strategic for a university. A formal approach to analyzing the economic context can be taken by the university's or faculty's decision-making bodies. This approach can also be implemented more informally, but it is likely to be less far-reaching and less formally binding on decision-making bodies.
The feedback from the "field" to the university can come from various sources: private professionals, teachers, researchers, government structures...
We will therefore see in this sequence and the following the different ways to interact with the professional world in particular.
