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L’encadrement de doctorants est un processus complexe où activité de recherche, connaissances et individus sont étroitement liés dans un système d’interaction évolutif entre doctorant et encadrant(s). Nous décrivons ici le dispositif EDEN (École des doctorants et encadrants de l’Inra) de l’Inra (Institut national de la recherche agronomique) qui a l’originalité de s’adresser aux binômes doctorant-encadrant(s). Partant de nos objectifs de formation et de notre posture pédagogique d’accompagnement de la réflexivité du binôme, nous présentons le dispositif EDEN et en dressons un bilan après six années d’activité.

Training doctoral students and supervisors together at Inra, a multidisciplinary research instituteDoctoral supervision has been described as a complex process, where research, knowledge and individuals are intertwined in a bidirectional transformative process involving both the student and his/her supervisor(s). In this article, we present EDEN, an original training programme for the supervisory dyad in which the doctoral candidate and his/her supervisor(s) are educated together for multidisciplinary collaboration in the French research institute Inra. We explain our vision of the PhD process as a professionalization and peer-learning process that relies on a mentoring relationship aiming to develop scientific autonomy in the young researcher. Based on these training objectives and our pedagogical posture to support the reflexivity of the dyad, we review the EDEN program after six years of training experience.