The Governance Team

The Vice President carries out a policy that ensures a stable and favorable scientific and material environment. This is in support of the different disciplines in the research units, and in respect of their specificity, to enable eco-responsible research at the highest level.

In agreement with the research units and the Clinical Research Groups, in close collaboration with the presidential and decanal teams, and in the transparency of the decision-making processes, it promotes disciplinary research and research at the interface of disciplines, both within the Sorbonne University Alliance and at the regional, national, European and international levels.

Through a committed funding policy and strong partnerships with research organizations, the vice presidency encourages the implementation of emerging projects and supports research that takes on the challenges of society, notably through Institutes and Initiatives, service units and shared platforms.

It works to simplify and rationalize procedures to enable professors and researchers to spend more time on their research, by promoting a multi-year approach to projects.
This approach defines and promotes an ambitious doctoral policy with the support of the doctoral college and pursues a committed postdoctoral policy. It ensures the quality of support for doctoral candidates and young researchers.

It promotes innovation and encourages the transfer of knowledge and expertise to civil society. To this end, it coordinates the University Innovation Pole (PUI) and its ecosystem, which will be deployed at Paris Parc. The dissemination of knowledge and scientific communication are part of its missions, as well as the material valorization and development of entrepreneurship.

It is particularly concerned with ensuring that science is trustworthy, honest, open and ethical.

Being a student has many facets: in the acquisition of knowledge and disciplinary skills; openness to the world, the arts and culture; and access to healthcare and study spaces. The Vice President is responsible for all educational policy, questions relating to education, student life and study conditions in a coherent project. He/she drives the University's initial and continuing education policy, as well as its student and campus life policy, in close collaboration with the student vice president and the faculties.

It has a global vision of the mission of lifelong learning, at the heart of and at the interface between disciplines, and defines its strategic directions. It ensures relations with secondary education and the close link that prevails at the University between research and education. Thus, it works, in conjunction with those in charge of academic programs, on the rapid transfer of knowledge from laboratories, initiatives and institutes. It coordinates pedagogical practices at the bachelor's and master's levels to ensure the quality of research-based training, the internationalization of education and the integration of students into the workforce. In the context of changing practices, particularly those linked to the advent of digital technology, it supports the policy of disseminating educational content.

Supporting Sorbonne University's Alumni policy, it ensures the enhancement and reinforcement of the institution's reputation in order to attract talent and diversify the public, thus promoting openness to society and the construction of the community of belonging of Sorbonne University students. It jointly promotes student success, academic, cultural and sports development, student commitment and student health.

It has a policy that makes each student a full-fledged actor in campus life, by supporting all student initiatives. It promotes a policy of inclusiveness and equality, diversity and the fight against discrimination, which guarantees everyone, regardless of gender, social origin, course of study or health, to ensure students benefit from the same rights and the best conditions.

The Vice President is responsible for the University's policy of openness and commitment to the community, in conjunction with the Sorbonne University Alliance and its partners. He helps position the University as a key player in public debate and works to bring together the arts, sciences and humanities. This mobilizes the University's actors and resources to share the approaches and knowledge developed in its various components, to nourish societal debates, in a plural and contradictory perspective, and to reach out to diverse audiences, citizens as well as public and private decision-makers. Education, expertise and the cultivation of a critical eye are major public roles of the University, which must be supported by targeted actions.

The vice president is responsible for Sorbonne University's commitment to the transition to open and participatory sciences, in terms of education, research, innovation and access to scientific culture. He leads the actions related to obtaining the certification in "Science with and for society", by developing the mediation, expertise and consulting capacities of the University and by promoting scientific contributions to the media, the general public, as well as public and private actors. It leads the policy of promoting the cultural and scientific heritage of the University, notably through the Sorbonne University Presses and the University's scientific and artistic collections.

The actions carried out must help to understand the major contemporary issues through multidisciplinary perspectives but also to make the university better known, by promoting what the disciplines are and what they do, including rare disciplines, little known or unexpected works.

The Vice President defines and implements the University's international, territorial and socio-economic development policy. He coordinates all of these partnerships in a spirit of cooperation in all the fields covered by the University.

This policy ensures that the University's position as a major player in the European space is strengthened and developed and contributes to discussions defining European policy in higher education and research, particularly through the University's participation in European networks (LERU, EUA). It works on the development of the University's global strategic partnerships, notably for the 4EU+ Alliance and for Sorbonne Abu Dhabi in relation with the faculties. It strengthens and animates these strategic partnerships, in order to intensify the number of student and staff exchanges and to enrich their academic experiences. It initiates scientific collaborations and exchanges with other partners in more specific fields.

It coordinates and encourages the development of cooperation with members of the Sorbonne University Alliance, local authorities and socio-economic players, by participating in the best possible articulation with the University's innovation ecosystem, calls for tenders and international initiatives (e.g., Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), networks of the European Alliance 4EU+).

It works to develop industrial partnerships and interfaces with socio-economic players on selected themes, integrating social innovation, investment in disruptive technologies and the sustainability of their uses, profound transformations that also involve initial and continuing education.

The Vice President oversees the social agenda and the implementation of measures relating to careers, by continuously promoting social dialogue within the institution. He or she actively implements a policy of improving the quality of life at work, social action, recognition and appreciation of the commitment of the University's staff. It encourages everyone to experiment, particularly with regard to the organization of working hours and the right to make mistakes. It is responsible for implementing a human resources policy designed to support staff throughout their careers and to recognize and value their work. It promotes the implementation of adapted and individualized training for all personnel.

He/she initiates and coordinates a policy in favor of professional equality between men and women, the promotion of diversity and the fight against discrimination, paying particular attention to situations of disability.

The vice president is responsible for steering the University's budgetary policy and defining the strategic directions of multi-year resource management, in close collaboration with the entire presidential team. He/she ensures the implementation and monitoring of the management of the University's resources and means. To define and monitor these orientations, he/she takes into account the strategy of all of the institution's structures. It ensures that the decisions made include a dimension of financial and human sustainability, and that the choices made benefit the University as a whole, its development and its influence, with a view to equity.

It works to define a sustainable budget and ensures the implementation of a budgetary analysis and a clear and efficient management of financial resources, to enable the University to best ensure its public service missions, in the service of research and the transmission of knowledge. He/she oversees the development and monitoring of agreements on objectives and resources (COM).

The vice president drives and supports the digital transformation in all the University's missions and services. He/she pilots the digital master plan for the benefit of everyone. Working with the relevant vice presidents and vice deans, he/she is responsible for reflecting on and proposing changes in activities, professions and organizations in order to take advantage of new tools and uses. Its objectives are to implement a policy of coherent evolution of the information system and its interoperability, to support the communities in the appropriation of new technologies and the development of new digital uses. From a multi-year perspective, it ensures that the choice of resources, investments and their use are optimized in a continuous improvement process.

The student vice president was elected at the board of Director's meeting on January 20th, 2022.

The Vice President is responsible for a multi-year property policy that enables the University to benefit from infrastructures that serve its missions.

He/she leads the elaboration of the multi-year real estate strategy plan (SPSI), the maintenance and major maintenance renewal plan (GER) and the collection of data and real estate indicators, enabling the development of a real estate strategy for Sorbonne University. It monitors real estate projects in conjunction with the faculties, ensuring their strategic interest, their financial sustainability, their implementation and their preventive maintenance. It integrates the sustainability dimension in all elements of this strategy.

It pilots the University's sustainable development policy in a participatory manner, with the entire University community. Based on the sustainable development charter, he/she leads the deployment and reinforcement of a specific action plan in the fields of sustainable consumption, education, sustainable mobility, biodiversity, public health and communication.

With the goal of continuing to build a common culture at Sorbonne University, the missions carried out by the Vice President are designed to meet the needs for efficiency, simplification, sharing and collegiality. He/she addresses these issues by tackling regulatory and functional aspects as well as the development of strategic projects in a participatory approach.

Its objective is to define and implement an organizational improvement policy. It drives the evolution of Sorbonne University's organizations and operating practices. It leads the reflection on the governance model, its implementation through the statutes and the articulation of the institution's bodies. It leads the work of clarifying the decision-making circuits as close as possible to the actors in charge, for a coordinated operation of the different structures and services. It works on the definition of procedures that favor trust and rationality in a continuous improvement process. In permanent contact with the faculties and components, it organizes and facilitates the sharing of information and the consideration of field problems.

It establishes methods of co-construction to involve the community in the definition of strategic orientations and the institutional project. It defines a mechanism for listening to and working with all stakeholders in a framework that encourages the expression of individual proposals intended to benefit the group. It is responsible for the development of major transverse institutional projects in response to calls for projects (e.g. PIA) and evaluations (e.g. HCERES). It coordinates responses to strategic dialogues with the government.