While the live performance sector is increasingly attractive, especially for young professionals, taking into account the health of professionals has long been underestimated. As such, recent studies highlight a significant and growing malaise among artists. This project aims to identify the specific factors in the construction of the health of performing artists (and more specifically in the field of music, theater and dance) according to three levels (institutional, collective and individual) with a view to contribute to the improvement of prevention approaches, likely to be appropriated by players in the sector, in all their diversity. We seek to understand the links between the work activity of performing artists, their working conditions and the possible impacts on their mental, physical and social health. Our research problem is formalized as follows: in what way and how the joint consideration of the institutional, collective and individual levels of the health of performing artists is a lever for the prevention of occupational risks? We are thus seeking to identify the obstacles and resources to health to enable the construction and implementation of innovative systems where primary prevention plays its full role. Given the specificities of the live performance sector - its specific forms of employment, the conditions of exercise, the particularity of the relationship of subordination, its attractiveness, in particular for younger generations and its consequences on health... - the latter seems to us particularly relevant to study in order to identify the ways and means of improving the health of artists, based not only on the challenges facing the entertainment world but also on its history and culture. Added to this is that artistic creation is the fruit of a decision-making trio (administrative, technical and artistic) as well as the result of the action of two different populations that are the intermittent and the permanent of the show on the same event. To investigate this environment, qualitative methods will be used to question the players in the sector, observe companies and experiment with innovative participatory mechanisms to put the issue of health at the heart of the collectives. Several companies with different profiles are ready to open their doors to us in order to support them over several months. To carry out this JCJC research project, Elsa Laneyrie, MCF in work psychology and ergonomics will collaborate with researchers from five laboratories, an essential institutional partner and companies. Over 42 months, several studies will be deployed in order to identify the systems implemented, the knowledge already mastered by the actors, the individual and collective strategies deployed by the artists in order to build their own health. A report will be produced in parallel in order to keep track and present the actions undertaken within the companies. The conclusions will be such as to highlight the prevention strategies to be deployed to make health a central issue for the development of the sector and the profession of artist. We want to mobilize the sector and all stakeholders to identify sustainable resources to build and prevent health. More broadly, we hope that the conclusions of this work will make it possible to reduce professional risks, strengthen job retention, develop social dialogue, equip institutions to intervene as closely as possible to the needs of intermittent workers.

The C-maphore project aims at creating innovative learning materials to improve phonemic awareness as well as reading and writing in a mother language (L1) and a foreign language (L2), through in-person and online teaching. We will test the effect of 1) personalized external manipulable representations of phonemes thanks to digital tools and 2) prototypes for explicit phonemic awareness tasks and the improvement of phonographemic awareness. This project meets the needs for learning materials expressed by teachers and speech specialists, a need spotlighted by the pandemic lockdown. The experiment will allow us to improve the tools, but also to collect data that we will analyze to get a better understanding of the role of external representations by taking into account the state of the art about cognition (synaesthesia, mirror neurons) and the processes at work when learners discover the written system of a language.

The research Rethinking and Experimenting with Practices in Emerging Associations - Third Places (REPAé) aims to identify practices and non profit organizations functioning that guarantee debate, decision-making and democratic human relations within emerging non profit organizations. It is part of a participatory research carried out in partnership between university and non profit organizations in education non profit organizations. The research team hypothesizes that other forms of practices are deployed particularly in third places, that have emerged these recent years, in connection with multi-non profit organizations, multi-activities halfway between places of living and working. The research aims to shed light, with the actors concerned, links between work and activist engagement experienced in these places, as well as the relationships of power and domination inherent in all collective life. The notion of use and collective experimentation that makes up the place will thus be questioned, as well as the intentions to do things differently with emancipatory tools and practices. The REPAé research provides for the implementation of a qualitative and participatory survey through observation and self-analysis of the non profit organizations practices in progress in these places. It aims to better understand a question shared within a collective made up of employees and volunteers from the non profit sector, by combining experiential and academic knowledge. It will then be a question of promoting, experimenting with and circulating forms of practice resulting from the investigation in third places within other associations and in university and professional training.

The two largest machine-readable text corpora of Medieval French have been built in two independent, though cooperating, projects in France (ENS-LSH Lyon: ICAR, UMR 5191) and Germany (ILR, University of Stuttgart). The central theme of this project is the syntactic annotation of both corpora in a joint project, so that researchers can base their research on both resources, according to shared principles. The project will use and, if necessary, develop tools for automatic and manual annotation on both morphology and syntax levels. It will keep tools and resources as system-independent as possible and thus ensure their reusability in future research. The project will be an important contribution to closing the gap between English and French medieval corpus resources and constitute an important impact for future work in diachronic syntax. The collaborating scholars world-wide will embed the annotation project in their diachronic linguistic research on various syntactic subjects. The added value of the German-French cooperation over two national projects is the simultaneous coordinated work on two different corpora according to shared standards. Only an intense well-structured cooperation between both groups will provide a resource on such a scale and having such an extensive chronological span (7 centuries). The collaborating scholars will embed the annotation project in their diachronic linguistic research on various syntactic subjects, and the henceforth possibility to process such a large syntactically enriched corpus will enable to discover many new evolution processes and to verify existing theories.

The aim of this project is a diachronic study of the uses, semantics and discourse values of the French prepositions à, en, par, contre, dès, devant, entre, pour, sans, sur, sous, vers and dans from Old French to the present. The study, which will be instrumented and based on a statistical and distributional approach, will bear on the variations in the combinational behaviour of prepositions depending on date (diachronic evolution), genre and author. One area of special interest will be the detection of the highly specific combinations into which the prepositions enter. We will study the rise, reorganization and fall of fossilized prepositional structures. We expect to get an innovative view of diachronic evolution thanks to a model of analysis based on two sets of methodological procedures: (1) a study of the interdependence between the quantitative (uses of prepositions) and qualitative (values) dimensions, and (2) a study of the principles which have underlain the search for added semantic and discourse values in diachrony – a veritable driving force of language change One of the requisites of the project – which will also be one of its major contributions – will be the construction of an annotated and lemmatized corpus spanning every stage of the history of French and balancing genres and text types. This corpus, set up jointly by the French and German teams, will be based partly on resources already available in Lyon (mediaeval era), Tours (16th century), Nancy (ATILF) and Cologne (modern French, 17th - 20th centuries). A proactive approach will be taken to give open access to as much of the corpus as possible.