Graduate School@UGA thematic research training program

REACH is one of the 15 thematic programs for research training at University Grenoble Alpes’s (UGA) Graduate School, welcoming students as of their first year of their master’s degree.

REACH program is a selective training course created as an academic minor, built for French and foreign students desiring to become researchers, in order to provide them with a training in practice-based research and research creation. 

REACH offers an unprecedented cross-disciplinary training among arts, history, literature and languages studies. This training course will complete the existing master’s degrees with experimental forms of collaborative work (exhibitions, films, performances, digital museums, creative writing…) which will enable a wider exchange of knowledge and know-how between the university and society. The classes will be taught both in French and in English.

REACH also has at its disposal the MaCI - Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation-, a new building open in 2020 at Grenoble cam, created to bring together training and research.

The topics that REACH proposes to explore raise several questions.

What answers can arts and culture provide us with addressing the major questions brought about by a future, that seems so difficult to imagine. “Culture being social connection itself », as Edgar Morin stated, asks us to question this shared destiny we are heading for, and the form it will take.

Theme for 2023-2028 | Memory(ies) and materiality(ies)

Sub-themes:

• Gestures - promotion 2025/2027

• Tactile memory - promotion 2024/2026

• Memory(ies) and materiality(ies) - promotion 2023/2025

Theme for 2021-2024 | And after? The "fabrique" of the future

Sub-themes:

• Living gestures - promotion 2022/2024

• Ruins - promotion 2021/2023

Concerned masters

Master's degree in Artistic creation
Master's degree in Arts, Literary and civilisation studies (ALC)
Master's degree in Foreign and regional languages, Literatures and civilisation studies (LLCER)
Master's degree in History
Master's degree in Art History

Support structures and partnerships

ILCEA4 (Institut des Langues et Cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie)
UMR 5190 LARHRA (Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes)
UMR 5316 LITT&ARTS (Arts et pratiques du texte, de l’image, de l’écran et de la scène)
LUHCIE (Laboratoire Universitaire Histoire Cultures Italie Europe)
CRESSON (Centre de Recherche sur l’Espace Sonore et l’environnement urbain, Grenoble team of AAU laboratory)
SFR Création, Arts in the Alps
UFR SoCLE (Sociétés, Cultures et Langues Étrangères)
UFR LLASIC (Langage, Lettres, Arts du Spectacle, Information et Communication)
UFR ARSH (Arts et Sciences Humaines)
Performance Lab
ED LLSH (Langues, Littératures et Sciences Humaines)
ED SHPT (Sciences de l’Homme, du Politique et du Territoire)
And numerous partnerships with foreign universities.

This project benefits from State aid managed by the Agence nationale de la recherche (French National Research Agency) as part of the future investment programme under the reference ANR-20-SFRI-0007.