The "Sustainable Worlds" program
To develop knowledge of sustainable resources on a changing planet.
The thematic program
Biodiversity loss and global environmental changes, including climate change, raise crucial questions whose complex social and economic impacts call for multidisciplinary and collaborative responses.
Faced with an ever-changing world, the need to establish sustainable practices and models is becoming increasingly apparent. How can our academic communities contribute to a more sustainable world?
The program seeks to shed valuable light on this question by promoting the research work of members of the Sorbonne University Alliance, and to create a favorable environment that offers teachers and researchers the resources they need to develop projects related to these issues.
The challenge
Striking a balance between growing human needs and the preservation of our planet. The need to make the transition to a sustainable world requires collective awareness, and the adoption of environmentally-friendly practices.
The "Sustainable Worlds" program aims to respond to this imperative. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and fostering collaboration, the Sorbonne University Alliance stimulates research projects tailored to the different challenges of our time.
Using a holistic approach, combining research strengths in ecology, mechanics, chemistry, biology, engineering, mathematics, physics, philosophy, sociology, geology, economics and geography, the Sorbonne University Alliance intends to actively contribute to building a future where humans and nature coexist in harmony.
The scientific steering
The program is led by a team of two scientists from member institutions of the Sorbonne University Alliance:
- Yann Douze, Associate Professor of Electronics and Computer Science at Polytech Sorbonne - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Sorbonne University
- Emmanuel Gendreau, associate professor in environmental sciences - researcher at the Institute of Ecology and Environment - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Sorbonne University
Their role is to define, propose and implement the program's scientific policy, in close liaison with the other two programs, and in synergy and complementarity with Sorbonne University's three faculties, the Alliance's 20 Multidisciplinary Institutes and Initiatives, and all its members.
The binomial is assisted in its action by a scientific committee.
Composition :
- under construction