Scientific programs

PARIS team

ALTERMAP

Dates: 2021-2024

The ALTERMAP project aims to foster pedagogical innovation in the study of geographical imaginaries and representations of spatial otherness. More specifically, it focuses on the role of mental maps in undergraduate geography teaching and in research training at the master’s level.

Vilmouv

Dates : 2022 - 2026

This project explores the connection between mobility and urban transformations in the Mediterranean, within a context of major political and socio-economic changes. At the intersection of urban studies and mobility studies, it draws on a multidisciplinary and international team of specialists in urban issues, mobility, and migration.

Sustainability of renewable energies

Dates: 2023 - 2025
The project aims at assessing the sustainability of electric renewable energy along the value chains, the concept of sustainability being understood in its social and environmental sense.

MobiTIC

Dates: 2020 - 2024

MobiTIC is a collaborative research program that gathers public research institutions (CNRS, IFSTTAR), the national statistics bureau (INSEE) and the main mobile network operator in France (Orange). We aim to develop a reproductible methodology to produce representative indicators of people presence and mobility, frequently updated and at very fine spatial and temporal scales.

RECORDS

Dates: 2020 - 2024

Through this project we aim to better understand the diversity of individuals musical taste, listening practices and effective music consumptions on streaming platforms. We develop indicators measuring the effects of recommendation (human and machine) on the listening history of users. To fulfill these objectives we combine traditional survey methods with big data analysis. The program is based upon a partnership between social scientists, computer scientists and one of the major music streaming platforms in France.

ANR-DFG Imageun – In the Mirror of the European Neighbourhood (Policy). Mapping Macro-Regional Imaginations (2020-2024)

Dates: 2020 - 2024

The aim of this Franco-German research project is to analyse the specifically geographical dimension of the imaginaries that animate regional integration in this part of the world, by crossing the analysis of textual and iconographic corpuses, in order to identify and study the regions of the world to which the populations of five countries occupying different situations in the region feel they belong: Germany and France, Turkey, Tunisia and the United Kingdom.

Encyclopedia of Sciences Geography-Demography field

Dates: 2018 - 2025

Conception and writing of about 80 books presenting the knowledge and know-how of geography and demography for students and researchers (master and doctorate level) as well as for the general public. The books will be published in French by ISTE and in English by Wiley.

Mobiliscope – Cities around the clock

Dates: 2017 - 2025

Places are not the same at night and during the day : people move daily and make changes in neighbourhoods densities and their social structures. Mobiliscope is a geovisualization platform to explore how areas and segregation change over a 24 hour period.

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