Agathe Euzen Co-organizes and will speak at these meetings on Wednesday, June 26, 2019 (Agence Française de Développement, Paris)
The ambition behind the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 6 on water, commits us to thinking and acting collectively to end persistent inequalities and the degradation of our environment. Population growth, urbanization, increased vulnerabilities, and the risks of drought and flooding linked to climate change: in this context of global change, it is necessary to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs.
How can we encourage decision-makers to make the SDGs a political priority at both the local and global levels? How are local actors working to contribute to the SDGs? How can we encourage changes in corporate practices and behaviors to better preserve this essential resource?
The "Water at the Heart of Change" meetings, jointly organized by AFD, PFE, and CNRS on June 26 in Paris, will bring together high-level figures for a day of reflection where local actors, whether citizens, managers, decision-makers, researchers, or elected officials, will take turns questioning our individual and collective abilities to engage in a dynamic of change, sharing real-life "stories" from different regions in order to finally identify levers that can accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
The Laboratory Council of LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires, et Sociétés, UMR8134) joins other research units in opposing the reduction in the number of permanent positions advertised by the CNRS.
In 2019, the number of research positions open for competition fell dramatically by 50 (i.e., 1/6th of the positions created). This reduction is part of a general decline in the recruitment of permanent staff within the CNRS, and more broadly in scientific employment within universities. Since 2005, the total number of CNRS researchers has decreased by 5,001. Furthermore, this decline is set to continue over the next five years: according to the CNRS management, the institution will lose 80 staff per year across all professions (technicians, engineers, researchers) until 2022.
This reduction threatens French public research and the excellence it claims to represent. It condemns an entire generation of young scientists to precariousness by keeping them in a cycle of short-term contracts that do not allow them to conduct research with peace of mind, or by forcing them to emigrate, if not to prematurely end their careers. For these reasons, we are calling for a moratorium on the reduction in the number of permanent positions and the implementation of a public scientific employment policy that is commensurate with the wealth and major challenges of our society.
1 Source: CNRS Social Report, 2016, http://bilansocial.dsi.cnrs.fr
will speak on Tuesday, June 12, 2019, at the HCAAM (High Council for the Future of Health Insurance) seminar on the topic:
The transformation of practices, modes of cooperation, and work organization during the deployment of telemedicine systems in healthcare facilities.
Geneviève Zembri contributed to the book:
Hosting the Olympic Games. Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy
Edited by Marie Delaplace and Pierre-Olaf Schut
Routledge, September 2019, 248 p.
She wrote a chapter with Cécile Doustaly:
This chapter introduces the Heritrisk research program in comparative urban studies analyzing the role of heritagization in the reduction of risks and detection of opportunities typical of mega urban projects. The methodology relies on the theoretical analysis of categories of uncertainty and heritagization, reinforced by both authors' fieldwork, interviews, and literature reviews. The contribution tests the theoretical and methodological framework by focusing on the opposite examples of the London (2012) and Athens (2004) Olympic Games to fill research gaps on post-Olympic logics. Indeed, a future Olympic site is often a wasteland, on hold, with an uncertain future. From the conception of the project to its legacy, actors are exposed to (unmeasurable) social, political, financial, archaeological, regulatory, etc. uncertainties that can become (measurable) risks or opportunities. The construction costs and upkeep of Olympic infrastructure amount to long-term risks. Spontaneous or planned forms of heritagization concern all scales, time frames, and human dynamics. In what way can heritagization, when it implies preservation and enhancement of urban, archaeological, historical, and environmental assets, answer these issues in anchoring the Olympics successfully in their territories? The first part contextualizes how Athens' and London's Olympic projects were fitted into wider urban strategies, and analyzes which governance models were chosen. The second part identifies and crosses types of risks and forms of heritagization to set out the theoretical and methodological framework. The third part cross-analyzes the risks, uncertainties, and opportunities faced by the two projects. The fourth part demonstrates how heritagization can be a response to these uncertainties and risks, while the conclusion highlights its strengths and limitations, particularly in terms of governance. We conclude that heritagization can be an efficient way to limit risks and seize opportunities in Olympic urban projects, but can be contested and can clash with conflicting temporalities and logics, notably financial ones.
David Guéranger is organizing this seminar on Thursday, May 23, 2019, as part of the Labex Futurs Urbains, Transerversal group: Cities and Digital Technology
The seminar presentations will focus on:
- the impact of the digital transition on local government professions
- changes in the organization of information systems in municipalities
- supporting digital transformation in local authorities
- local administrations and open source software: successes and failures.
Emmanuele Giordano will participate in the APERAU conference to be held between June 16 and 21, 2019, in Strasbourg.
Link to the APERAU website.
Emmanuele Giordano will participate in the EUGEO Congress to be held May 15-18, 2019, at the University of Galway (Ireland).
Link to EUGEO Congress 2019
Valérie November and Florent Castagnino will participate in the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019) in Valencia (Spain) from May 19 to 22, 2019.
As part of Guillaume de Syon's stay at LATTS, visiting researcher and professor of contemporary history at Albright College, we invite you to a three-part seminar that will examine the visual dimensions of aerial culture.
Three sessions will take place on May 16, 2019 (2:00-5:00 p.m.), May 23, 2019 (2:00-5:00 p.m.), and May 28, 2019 (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) in room V003 of the Vicat Wing of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. (more…)
Pascal Ughetto is organizing a study day for the journal Activités devoted to the theme of Space and Time in the Age of Digitalization.
The event will take place at 41, rue Gay-Lussac, Paris 5e, on May 16, 2019.
The program for the day and registration details can be found on the journal's website: https://journals.openedition.org/activites/3686
Local authorities and the financing of the energy transition
François-Mathieu Poupeau
is co-organizing the sixth session of the seminar "Local authorities and the financing of the energy transition" with Carine Staropoli (PSE, University of Paris 1 and EPPP Chair) and Benoît Boutaud (European Institute for Energy Research) as part of the work of the Research Group on Local Government in Europe (GRALE). The session will focus on data policies
(big data
).
It will be held on Wednesday, May 22, 2019,
at the Maison des Sciences économiques (106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, Metro: Campo Formio, room 114).