This school, encouraged by Geo-Raman IX^th meeting in Sydney, is a CNRS thematic school that is sponsorized both by the European Mineralogical Union and French Society of Mineralogy and Crystallography (SFMC) from the following observation:

• Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for research in many fields of Erath Sciences and related sciences;
• the usual low education level in Raman spectroscopy in the undergraduate courses for students in Earth Sciences, which is an obstacle to derive high quality scientific information from Raman spectroscopy relevant for Earth sciences.
• the availability of many “plug and play” commercial instruments which could be used properly

Therefore, the aim of this school is to provide the fundamental basis of Raman spectroscopy (theory, instrumentation, chemometry) and to cover the different fields in Earth sciences for which Raman spectroscopy provides relevant data.

An EMU notes book will be available at the conference for every participant.