With the increased terrorist threat, there is a renewed interest in emergency inter-organizations coordination, and in particular between medical and non-medical first responders teams in extreme contexts, notably in multiple terror attacks. We are currently facing a growth in crisis complexity, due to multiple factors that need further investigation. As a consequence, organizations need to change their responses. They tend to increase the number of plans, while trying to preserve some agility for the first responders. The effectiveness of the response heavily relies on the preparation and coordination of the first responders, e.g. the various emergency medical groups, police services, fire brigades. Within this perspective, the project’s objective is twofold. First, it ambitions to advance knowledge on coordination, sensemaking and learning in extreme contexts. Second, it aims at improving the emergency responses in terms of coordination, training and the learning processes related to the management of extreme crises. The project will study the coordination of first responders teams (mainly medical emergency groups, police units and fire brigades) in extreme settings and their coordination with second responders (in particular hospitals departments). In this attempt, the project will: - Assess the impact of the increasing complexity in extreme situations on the coordination and decision-making of first responders; - Determine the conditions of effective coordination by identifying the success and failure factors in the organization and coordination of responders to extreme crisis; - Propose new organizational forms of coordination, recruitment, training and learning modalities.

Background Different countries have launched national reporting programs on hospitals based on quality and safety measurements. Beyond technical definitions, a key-issue is to ensure that an effective improvement is ensured due to the implementation of these measurements. However, the hypothesis that an indicator spontaneously induces such an improvement is not so clear. During the implementation phase can be considered a relation between the indicator, the hospital‘s organisation of work, and the actors who composed it. On this relation depends the real use of the indicator, and consequently its impact in terms of improvement. This project addresses this issue of the use of quality and safety measurements. Objectives The objectives are twofold: 1. Analysis of the indicator as a pertinent assessment system for improving quality 2. Analysis of the indicators‘ roles. The objective is to understand how the relation between quality and safety measurements, sensemaking given by professionals, and the organisation of work generates different roles. Methods The field of analysis is based on a French national program of indicators, Compaqh, which tests 43 indicators on a hospital panel (n= 44 à 100, depending on the topic). The methodology is qualitative, comprehensive, and comparative with a Canadian initiative. The research team is composed of representatives of two disciplinary fields: management science and psychology of work. The duration of the research is three years. Two types of seminars are considered: empirical (follow-up of the data collection process) and contributory (data analysis). Expected Results This project can produce a new knowledge on the relation between quality and safety measurements, sensemaking and organisation of work. It can also help to understand how measurements can construct an adequate representation of the organisation of work. Based on the results, operational recommendations could be developed in order to: - Identify quality and safety topics that can be assessed through measurement - Consider appropriate actions of quality improvement - Optimise the design of Quality and Safety indicators as well as the implantation phase

The goal of this project is to determine the impact of greenwashing on investors’ portfolio allocations and asset prices. Specifically, we want to develop methods to estimate the level of greenwashing used by firms. This will enable us to study which firms use greenwashing most (within which sector, ownership structure etc.), and how it affects portfolio allocations and asset prices. Our tools aim to help regulators reduce transition risk when designing new policies, and investors when selecting assets. We will use state-of-the-art methodologies in Artificial Intelligence, such as Natural Language Processing (NLP). This project includes four Work Packages (WP). We start from the research hypothesis that when greenwashing is uncovered, it is most often reported in the newspapers. News may even be the direct source that investors use to update their beliefs on greenwashing and as a result their portfolios. In the first WP, we will measure the extent to which greenwashing practices are discussed in the financial news, and contaminate the discussion on climate risk. In the second WP, we aim to detect greenwashing at individual firms by comparing the contents and tonality of corporate websites, press releases and financial news articles related to a given firm. The underlying idea is that if a firm makes misleading claims, the contents and tonality used by these three communication channels in their coverage of the claims will be different. The third WP will be an industry-oriented paper that will aim to disseminate results to practitioners. The fourth WP will contain tasks related to project management. This project has a strong interdisciplinary component and is at the confluence of three topical subjects: 1) transition to sustainability as a response to climate change, 2) use of AI to deal with big data, and 3) financial portfolio allocation. It is both original and ambitious: original as it builds on a literature in finance that almost completely ignored the possibility of greenwashing, and ambitious because greenwashing is, by nature, difficult to identify and measure. This project will build a toolbox that researchers will be able to use and further develop freely to advance research on climate risk. We will make all our algorithms publicly available after publication, hoping that they can serve as a basis for further research on greenwashing and more generally on the disclosure of misleading information (e.g., related to social issues) by firms.

This proposal seeks to enhance the capabilities of the EU for implementing conflict prevention and peacebuilding interventions through sustainable, comprehensive and innovative civilian means. It intends to address some of the dilemmas and paradoxes of external interventions that aim for local ownership in third countries, by exploring principles, processes and tools that can enhance EU capabilities. This will be achieved through the project’s Review, Reflect, Recommend and Innovate objectives. ‘Review’ will assess past and ongoing conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives of the EU and its partners, focusing on three types of EU interventions: multi-track diplomacy, security sector reform, and governance reform. The assessment will be based on field research in Georgia, Mali, Ukraine and Yemen, and desk reviews looking beyond these countries. ‘Reflect’ will create a ‘community of practice’ providing forums for dialogue that will bring together policymakers, civilian and military practitioners, academic experts and beneficiaries of EU interventions. These will validate and apply the evidence base by focusing on cross-cutting themes: local ownership, gender, multi-stakeholder coherence, civil-military synergies and ICTs. ‘Recommend’ will elaborate the project findings into a tailored set of recommendations and enhance their impact through direct policy engagement and an international dissemination strategy. ‘Innovate’ will contribute significantly to civilian conflict prevention and peacebuilding by identifying research priorities and tools, and enhancing the potential of ICTs. The project Whole-of-Society Approach to Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding is a conscious attempt to address the relationships of peacebuilding actors within a wider cultural and institutional context. It deals with issues of coordination, synergies and inclusivity of peacebuilding efforts, where diverse stakeholders have a role to play in the process.

EXPAND will develop a toolbox for implementing ‘Challenge Based Idea Accelerators’ and run a first Idea Accelerator focused on homelessness.The toolbox is aimed at higher education teaching staff and will enable a practical new method responding to the need for more civic engagement, developing new problem solving skills and stimulate social entrepreneurship in students. The proposed project builds on the creativity of students combined with design thinking and challenge-based education to tackle societal challenges, with a focus on homelessness in the pilot programme. We call out for students, innovators, creative thinkers, tech people and the higher education world, in particular, to join forces and bring heavyweight social challenges in the spotlight. Our project aims to forge unlikely alliances across a wide spectrum of partners to define a viable, replicable and scalable methodology for tackling systemic societal problems.In this project, we will design a 4 month idea-accelerator with a strong focus on the needs analysis of the challenge in question resulting in a public demo day.The alliance will consist of business school teaching staff, design thinking experts, social enterprise leaders with expertise on how to tackle the issue and startup professionals. These different actors will work together in order to finetune the methods to the specific environment and challenge, in this case homelessness.