The writing retreat is designed to help PhD students deliver a successful CSI report and their first draft thesis. 

The aim of these two and a half days is to come together with others sharing the same objective: to produce a written text. By making writing a group activity, concentration and perseverance are improved, and it becomes possible to fully focus on the task. The writing/break periods are structured to further help eliminate mental load.

At the start of each writing period, participants set themselves precise objectives. These objectives are reviewed at the end of the period in order to adapt the objective for the following period. The objectives are shared with a partner to help commit to them, but are not judged. The aim is to get a better idea, over the course of the retreat, of what it is possible to do in the given time.

The retreat is open to all PhD students in the Arcane and CBH Graduate School scientific perimeter.
Laboratories involved: BGE, BioSanté, Cermav, CROMA, DCM, DPM, GIN, HP2, IAB, IBS, Institut Néel, LBFA, LCBM, LETI, LEPMI, LIPHY, LNCMI, LPCV, LPNC, LRB, MEM, SyMMES, and TIMC.