[Inauguration] Avignon University and the UMR 7300 ESPACE launch the GIF (Geodata, Real Estate, Land) partnership chair

The GIF (Geodata, Real Estate, Land) partnership chair was officially launched on Friday 31 March 2023 on the Hannah Arendt campus of Avignon University.
Co-directed by Laure Casanova Enault and Guilhem BoulayThe GIF Chair has four founding members, all key players in the land and property sector: Adequationa consultancy firm specialising in data and property markets; the Ceremaa public institution specialised in the sustainable development of territories; Best AgentsFrench leader in online property valuation and Union sociale pour l'habitatUnion nationale des fédérations d'organismes HLM. These four partners, eager to contribute to scientific research, are contributing to the funding of the GIF Chair.

The Chair also benefits from the institutional support ofAvignon Universityof theUMR CNRS 7300 ESPACEand the SOUTH PACA Region.

The team, of about ten members, is composed of teacher-researchers, doctoral students, post-doctoral students and trainees in geography (UMR 7300 ESPACE) and statistics (Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Avignon - UPR 2151). The different specialities of the members give the chair an interdisciplinary approach that is essential for future research.

Focusing on the question of the selection of real estate by market players and its consequences, the GIF Chair's research programme will primarily use massive, geo-referenced and original data made available by the partners. It will be based on four main objectives:

• Identifying the behaviour of land and property buyers;
• The location of building construction operations ;
• The characterization of timeshare ;
• Estimating the value of land and property assets.

>> More information on the website: https://chairegif.univ-avignon.fr/

UMR CNRS 7300 ESPACE

The ESPACE laboratory (Étude des Structures et des Processus d'Adaptation et des Changements de l'Espace) is a joint research unit (UMR 7300) created in 1997, which associates with the CNRS three universities in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region: Aix-Marseille University, Avignon University and the Université Côte d'Azur.
ESPACE is a multi-thematic laboratory whose major research fields are, on the one hand, space-nature-society interactions around environmental issues and urban systems, and, on the other hand, theories, models and methods of spatial analysis.

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Partnership Chairs

Avignon University's "partnership chairs" programme aims to develop an ambitious research programme in collaboration with socio-economic partners who effectively contribute to the project. It also aims to support sustainable partnerships as well as to reinforce the dissemination of research results through the articulation of research and training and through open science.

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