The term "industriation" invites us to return to the sources of industry, which defines the design and production activities of society, in order to break away from practices that are outdated by current environmental and social expectations. The project relies on the experience of the interdisciplinary ENAMOMA program at PSL University, an engagement for creative and responsible alternatives in fashion and materials, built through the collaboration of Paris Dauphine Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, l’Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and Mines Paris – PSL. The team proposes to extend the experiments initiated by the collaboration of a fashion designer, Mossi Traoré, with industrial players looking for solutions to revalorize organic and mineral waste in open loop. A first exploratory research was lead through an educational interdisciplinary project. It stressed the importance of approaching the development of materials by taking into account the conditions imposed by waste, while transforming it into an opportunity material with high creative and collaborative potential. The project plans to extend and deepen the experimentations with collaborative research, with regular sharing of knowledge and interpretations and research by practice. Four steps will be associated: (1) The research will be based on a comparative analysis of the reuse of two types of waste, one organic, the other mineral, led by the same player. (2) It will define credible avenues for material development with a scientific, sensory, societal and organizational approach. (3) Experiments will put to the test the diverse applications both in terms of material and industry. (4) The results will be transformed into a guidebook for a museum structure, intended to become an immersive training tool for different types of audiences (youth, student, professional). The research will be valued in complementary journals and an exhibition will valorize the project. Benefits are expected at several levels, with first of all the development of recycling solutions at different levels of maturity, with attention paid to industrialization and life cycle issues beyond the development of the material. An industry expert will support the project team in that direction. The project also aims to support, through its method, the evolution of the creative process in the fashion sector where actors must rethink their practices to face environmental challenges. The media coverage of the first initiatives of Mossi Traoré highlights the leading force of this type of development. The project thus aims to support the emergence of creative personalities of a new kind, able to build bridges between sectors and between actors located at different stages of the value chain, and to engage consumers in new behaviors. The construction of a customizable guidebook for amateur and expert audience finally aims to support the transformation of practices through education.

The institutionalization of programs that signal corporate virtue, usually placed under the heading of “Corporate social responsibility”, is a central feature of the contemporary mutations of capitalism. While most studies focus on CSR discourse and devices, this project offers an innovative take on « responsible capitalism », by placing the lens on its managers, their work activities and their professional milieus. Through its focus on CSR professionals, the ProVirCap project pursues a triple theoretical ambition: 1/ to shed light on the reconfiguration of the borders between the market, the state, and civil society; 2/ to understand the transformations of professionalism in global companies; 3/ and to examine the ways in which gender shapes the virtuous face of capitalism. Carried out by a team of nine researchers renowned for their expertise on various management fields associated with CSR, the project will benefit from the cross-fertilization of several analytical perspectives: sociology of work, professions and organizations, economic sociology, political science, management studies, as well as gender studies. The research design combines qualitative (in-depth interviews, observations) and quantitative methods (CV scraping, questionnaire survey), and relies on a double comparison: between management fields associated with CSR (sustainable development, responsible investment, diversity and work quality, human rights, corporate giving, ethics) and between national cases (France, USA, Spain). The close dialogue with an international, interdisciplinary expert committee will anchor the project in a transnational field of research on responsible capitalism. The dissemination of the results among professionals of the sector, beyond academic circles, will help promote social sciences in a field that is particularly receptive to exchanges with academia, and contribute to the reflection around the transformation of capitalism – an issue that, against the background of the Covid-19 crisis, appears ever more vital for contemporary societies.

The aim of the project is to contribute to the understanding and to the enhancing of cross-border area resilience with regard to the risk of disasters with considering two topics in particular the resilience of medical dependent citizens and the management of volunteers in a cross-border area. Scientific knowledge and decision-makers contribution to cross border areas resilience to disasters will be enhanced with an interdisciplinary approach combining conceptual and empirical researches, decision support system engineering and a campaign of experiments. Results of the project will be novel models for the thematic of cross border area resilience and on the perspective of medical dependent citizen and volunteers; a decision support system constituted of an assessment tool and a multi-agents system based simulation software; a set of experiments rapports on the utility, usability and acceptability of the solution developed and practical experience for resilience to disaster stakeholders. Project will be conducted by a team constituted of two German institutes (KIT and University of Wuppertal) and two French institutes (ARMINES / Mines Paristech and Paris-Dauphine University). Project will be monitor by a steering committee constituted of representative of relevant stakeholders (NGO’s, local government representative, experts on disaster resilience). We focus on a reference region in the French-German border geographical area. The overall work plan is structured in work packages. The first work package aims at building a shared culture of cross border areas resilience to disasters by the mean of a state of the art review and definition of key concepts and associated scenarios. Then three interconnected work packages structure activities of the project. Engineering-based work package (WP2) aiming at the definition and the development of the decision support system for managing medical dependent citizen and volunteers in cross border area constituted of a multi-agents system based simulator developed by KIT IKET and a method for assessing and enhancing cross border areas resilience to disaster performance developed by ARMINES. Social-sciences-based work package (WP3) aiming at conducting a multi-disciplinary empirical study about medical dependant citizen and volunteer management in the context of cross border area resilience to disasters conducted by Paris-Dauphine University, KIT IIP and University of Wuppertal. Experiments-based work package (WP4) aiming at testing, calibrating and validating utility, usability and acceptability of the decision-support system developed conducted by ARMINES and KIT IKET with the support of the other partners. A synthesis of scientific, empirical, experimental and operational results of the project will be realized in the last phase of the project in order allowing the definition of the transfer means of the results to potential end users such as city organisations and other players. Efforts will be made to communicate the result of the project in both scientific and industrial journals and symposia.

Disruptive technologies are achieving the digital transformation by supporting more decentralized coordination processes and more responsive modes of governance. Applied the provision of public good and to the design and implementation of public policies, these technologies could favor new combinations of public and private interventions to benefit from a more decentralized and organic collective governance, and from more efficient public services. The aim of this proposal is to develop analyzes and to manage experimentations to explore how these technologies could: (i) propose alternatives to state-based governance by empowering communities and facilitating self-governance; (ii) support new organizational arrangements among heterogeneous stakeholders to provide public services; (iii) and enhance the performance of the public sector. Since digital technologies are diverse and result into different types of (organizational) impacts and since governments are responsible for very different types of actions, the project will consider three main roles of the governments and will analyze how digital technologies will impact each of them. First, we will investigate how digital technologies could change the ways rights and the enforcement of rules are guaranteed, with potential important consequences for the rule of law in our democracies and economies. Second, we will study how the ability of the government to regulate the behaviors of organizations and groups is impacted, which question the regulation of the info-structure and of digital platforms. Third, we will explore to what extent the renewal of the relationship with the citizens and with the operators in charge of the provision of services of general interest could impact upon their quality, but also upon the social compromises behind their definition. In all the three domains of investigations we will combine general investigations to study how disruptive technologies question the traditional organizations and vectors of public action, with field studies and targeted experimentations performed in cooperation with governmental agencies, tech companies and (individual or professional) users. We will analyze in particular (i) the alternative design of digital services, (ii) the sustainability of the business models supporting them, and (iii) the feasibility of the institutional changes necessary to allow their implementation. To better inform policies and collective choice making in matter of disruptive public governance technologies, it is essential to analyze in depth the societal, economic and political challenges behind alternative technological designs. Also, data and technology ubiquity are likely to have direct effects on individual and group behaviors, on the social and organizational structures and thereby on the nature institutions. We therefore propose to embrace a multidisciplinary perspective anchored in institutional and organizational science, combining economics with political science, law, sociology, and management. This perspective will be articulated with capabilities in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence to study the interactions between the dynamic of technological change and the transformation of the institutional set-up, and of social interactions. The consortium, still under construction, will be organized around a core group of scholars renowned for their expertise on the interaction between the technology and institutional and organizational arrangements. They are all working in academic institutions hosting centers of excellence in data-science and in digital technologies. The consortium will also involve governmental agencies and private corporations not only to run experiments, but also to benefit from their expertise in exploring innovative applications of disruptive technologies, and to manage a consistent dissemination policy in cooperation with them.

The objective of the project Lisohasif is to theoretically reformulate the questions linking innovating societies, dependency/frailty and home. Among others, questions concerning frailty such as continuing living home, the development of social link and intergeneration relationship are studied. These questions are analysed with both focuses on social innovation (which services could encourage the frail elderly to redevelop social link/capital? How could the development of informal community of practices inside cities contribute to reinforce intergenerational relationships?) and technological innovations (which mechanisms could facilitate the easy moving of elderly between home and exterior world?) The first expected result is to propose an analysis of the needs of frail elderly in the years 2030. To do that, it will be necessary to take into account the complex and moving environment in which these persons live. We will search to identify how these needs differ from those of today and on which economic models they are based. The second result, issued from the phase of innovating design is to propose services and goods which answer the needs of frail elderly in 2030 and to develop the economic models needed to launch them