
Postgraduate studies in Care Design
Degree: Diplôme de design Bac +5: Postgraduate studies / Master's level degree
Prerequisites: 3 years of undergraduate studies in design
Admissions: On our application website
Location: Nantes
Teaching language: French
Postgraduate studies / Master's level degree
A master's level degree program to put its skills at the service of care, attention to others and health to deepen its design methodology.
This program leads to the master’s level degree (Diplôme de design) certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education.
A master's level degree program in Care Design
In this Master's level degree program, students will be invited to build up expertise in the design of solidarity, to participate in the deployment of design in healthcare and to consolidate new professions in public design.
This program is taught in the school's Care Design Lab, which aims to train designers in two years in the fields of health, social action and public innovation.
Care design focuses on new ways of conceiving and producing responses centered on people, communities and ecosystems in order to live together harmoniously and create common ground.
Particular attention will be paid to integrating environmental concerns into eco-design, circular design and low-tech solutions.
The Care Design master's program is taught in the school's Care Design Lab, a platform for research, training and innovation in the fields of healthcare, public action and social action.
Main themes
- Health: prevention and care
- Quality of life: rhythms of life, ethics, autonomy, longevity, fulfilment, community life (place and role within the community)
- Environmental and social mediation: understand and give meaning to life experiment so as to take effective actions and consider the user as a stakeholder.
- From individual identity to the collective identity: the sharing of skills, experience, abilities and memories (solidarity and empathy)
Other pathways
The two years of the Care Design master's program are taught in French.
This program is entirely taught in French. If you hold a bachelor degree in design and are interested in a program taught in English in Nantes, we suggest you Le Studio France “International Design Strategy” program.
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Curriculum
The Master's level degree consists of 3 years of undergraduate study combining creativity, collaboration and collective emulation, and 2 years of postgraduate study focusing on the strategic dimension of design (project management, diversification of learning contexts, cross-disciplinary approach, in-depth study, etc.).
The master's program of this degree covers the 4th and 5th years of the program.
The two years of the Care Design master's program are taught in French.
The Diplôme de design Bac +5 is awarded by the final jury to students who have obtained:
1. a minimum score of 800 points at the TOEIC test*;
2. a score greater than or equal to 10/20, which breaks down as follows:
- for 40%, mark attributed to continuous monitoring,
- for 60%, mark obtained at the final defense relating to the student's path (end-of-study project, internship and any other element chosen by the student).
More information on validation of the master's degree
Courses take place at L'École de design Nantes Atlantique. It is made up of workshops and theoretical courses with an experiential teaching method. Each student receives individual support throughout the course.
Admission requirements
This program is open to all applicants who either:
- hold a Bachelor’s Degree in design, or
- have completed three years of undergraduate studies in design, equating to at least 180 ECTS credits
You may apply before actually receiving the degree or having completed your undergraduate studies.
However, admission will only take effect once the degree is obtained or the undergraduate credits have been validated.
Applicants whose level we assess to be insufficient may be recommended to follow a semester or a full year in our 3rd Year of DN MADE / International Class before entering the master’s program.
Final admission will only take effect when the necessary visa is obtained, if applicable.
English
If you are not a native English speaker, we ask that you provide proof of your English proficiency (minimum level of 600 points at the TOEIC test or equivalent).
The Master’s degree being subject to the validation of 800 points in the TOEIC, you will be required to take the TOEIC exam during the course.
French
A French level equivalent to 4/B2 assessed by a TCF1 or DELF2 test is required to join the program.
Application can only be done online on our application website
Applications are organized into 9 admission sessions:
- November session: registrations until November 29, 2024
- December session: registrations until December 20, 2024
- January session: registrations from January 1 to January 31, 2025
- February session: registrations from February 1 to 28, 2025
- March session: registrations from March 1 to March 31, 2025
- April session: registrations from April 1 to 30, 2025
- May session: registrations from May 1 to 31, 2025
- June session: registrations from June 1 to 30, 2025
- July session: registrations from July 1 to 25, 2025
The two years of the Care Design master's program are taught in French.
1. Online application and payment of the application fees (€50);
2.Uploading all the required documents for application:
- Résumé (CV);
- Portfolio;
- Reports of the last two years of study in design;
- Copies of degrees and certificates;
- Copy of your identity card or passport;
- Cover letter (letter of intent);
- English certification (optional)
3. Application file review and interview;
4. If your application is accepted, you will be asked to electronically sign a teaching contract & to proceed to the first payment of the tuition fees to confirm your enrollment.
Admission results within 15 days.
- French students and European Union students: €8,900 per year
- Non-European Union students: €9,900 per year
+ CVEC (Student and campus life contribution): contribution set at just under €103 per academic year CVEC website
The school itself does not offer any scholarship. However, according to your country of residence and your particular situation, different possibilities may be available to finance your studies in France: government grants, funding granted by international organizations and NGOs, private fellowships...
Campus France has a scholarship search engine which may help you identify a scholarship available in your situation (country of residence, degree being prepared etc.).
- 4th year: February 2026 (semester 8)
- 5th year: September 2025
These dates are given for information only and may be subject to change.
For more information to help you to prepare your arrival & life in Nantes Studying in Nantes.
Double degree
During their fifth year, students enrolled in postgraduate studies taught in French in Nantes can prepare a double degree to improve certain skills.
Teaching staff
Director of Care Design Lab
Clémence Montagne
Head of program: Marine Belluet
Teachers:
- Lucile Artignan - designer and doctoral student in social and critical geography
- Simon Boussard - service, health and social design
- Vincent Chiffoleau - designer
- Yves Cotinat - scriptwriter and comic strip artist
- Marketa Fingerova - anthropologist
- Emmanuel Gilardeau - designer
- Jean-Yves Guillet - product designer, project manager and urban design specialist
- Paul Juin - designer
- Clémentine Laurent-Polz - architect HMONP, project manager and specialist in accessibility and circular design
- Stéphanie Le Carluer - architect HMONP, project and brief manager, specialist in environmental requirements
- Mikaël Le Tohic - designer
- Maureen Lois - designer
- Pauline Merlet - linguist
- Aude Nyadanu - specialist in organisational innovation in healthcare
- Pauline Oger - designer and doctoral student in information and communication sciences
- Loélia Rapin - designer and doctoral student in computer science
Job prospects and further education
Equipment, applications, arrangements of spaces, and services related to:
- Health design
- Solidarity design
- Public design
- Participatory innovation in public life
- Social innovation through design
- Design responses to vulnerability
- Capability design
- Aging well
- Educational innovation
- Educational and recreational tools
- Leisure and sports
- Ecodesign
- Energy transition design
As all our postgraduate studies, our program in Care Design lead to the Master’s level degree in design, certified by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and registered in the Registre National des Certifications Professionnelles (the French directory for vocational qualifications or RNCP) as a Level 7 Master’s level degree.
The Master’s level degree confers the "Grade de master", and you can pursue your education at a PhD level.
- Lucile Artignan - Design Researcher & PhD student at Wello
- Anissa Moukaouame - Industrial Designer at Saint-Gobain Research North-America
- Pauline Oger - Inclusive designer & doctoral student at Signes de sens
- Irene Lopez Abarca - Head of the Organizational Innovation through Design Lab at Angers University Hospital
- Iéléna Delaunay - Creative Graphic Designer at Studio Kluif
Partners
- Apajh Fédération,
- Clinique Jules Verne,
- Groupe VYV,
- Handipharm,
- Crédit Agricole Atlantique Vendée,
- Nantes Métropole Habitat...
- Nantes Métropole
- Fondation d'Auteuil
- Nantes University Hospital
- Banque des territoires
- City of Le Havre
- City of Quimper...
Contact
Do you have a question about admissions to this master's level degree program? Contact us at international-admission@lecolededesign.com
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Degree: Diplôme de design Bac +5: Postgraduate studies / Master's level degree
Prerequisites: 3 years of undergraduate studies in design
Admissions: On our application website
Location: Nantes
Teaching language: French