Research News - November / December 2021 #6

[Videos] The Agorantic Research Federation in videos: its actors, its projects, its perspectives

Discover or rediscover the Agorantic Research Federation through five videos!

Presentation of the Agorantic Research Federation

Signature of a collaboration contract: Esch2022 project

Avignon University, the City of Esch, ESCH2022 and the Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte have signed a collaboration contract to study "Participation in the new cultural third places of the Esch2022 territory: Building IV, FerroForum & Kamelleschmelz, DKollage.

This subject will be studied by three researchers from the Culture & Communication Laboratory of Avignon University: Emilie PamartSenior Lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences, Jean-Christophe VilatteLecturer in Education Sciences at the University of Lorraine, and Pascal Quiduresearcher and teacher (PRAG-IUT Avignon).

This project started on 1 October 2021 and will last until February 2023 (17 months).
>> More about ESCH2022 

Signature of a framework agreement between Avignon University (EMMAH), the municipality of Fontaine de Vaucluse and the Syndicat Mixte du Bassin des Sorgues

Avignon University, the Syndicat Mixte du Bassin des Sorgues and the commune of Fontaine de Vaucluse have signed a 5-year framework agreement for research collaboration on "The study of a particular hydrogeological object: the karstic spring known as La Fontaine de Vaucluse.
This agreement will allow Mediterranean Environment and Agro-Hydrosystems Modelling Laboratory (EMMAH) to further their research on this topic.

December 2021 - Clémentine Leroy

Clémentine Leroy is a PhD student in ecophysiology. She is working on wild beesThe aim is to use physiology to establish sensitivity profiles for bees according to both the environment in which they live and the resources available to them.
She is also involved in mediation and popularisation of science, and has been selected for the Sciences en Bulles 2022 competition which allows doctoral students to summarise their work and their life as a student researcher in the form of comic strips.

>> Discover his portrait

November 2021 - David Galli

David Galli is a lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences. Her research focuses on the "living" spectacle, which allows for a practice of scientific research that meets artistic creation.
He studies this form of research-creation from scenes of contemporary life, where communication through digital interfaces is becoming increasingly important.

>> Discover his portrait

Farid Chemat, once again ranked among the world's most cited researchers - Clarivate Ranking 2021

For the fourth consecutive year, Farid Chemat, University Professor in Chemistry, teacher-researcher at Avignon University and director of the Research Group in Eco-Extraction of Natural Products (Green) in the UMR 408 INRAE-Avignon University, is ranked among the most influential researchers in the world.

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Ceremony for the 30th anniversary of the IUF and presentation of medals to the winners

On 5 November 2021, the 30th anniversary of the IUF (1991-2021) was celebrated and the two new classes of Juniors and Seniors, 2020 and 2021, were installed. On this occasion, Paola Ranzini and Johnny Douvinet received their personalised IUF medal, struck by the Monnaie de Paris.

was appointed a senior member of the IUF on 1 October 2020 and a junior member on 1 October 2021.

>> More information - News from the IUF - 08/11/2021

Inauguration ceremony of the LSBB2020 project achievements

On 16 November 2021, the LSBB (Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit de Rustrel) hosted the inauguration of the LSBB 2020 project, with two new galleries, which will very soon house the first section of the Equipex MIGA, as well as a technology hall.

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Upcoming thesis defences

Discover the welcome guide for international researchers and PhD students

Avignon University welcomes foreign professors, researchers, doctoral students or post-doctoral fellows wishing to come and teach in our institution or to do a research stay in one of our laboratories.

Are you planning to join us? To make your arrival in Avignon easier, we have published a bilingual French-English guide to help you prepare for your stay.

>> Reception of international researchers and doctoral students

What is the LIFE VineAdapt project?

The project LIFE VineAdapt is a European project, coordinated for the French part by two professors from the IMBE laboratory (Avignon University): Armin BischoffProfessor of Plant Ecology and Plant-Arthropod Interactions and Olivier BlightThe project aims to test and use plant biodiversity (grassing) to increase the resilience of wine production to climate change. The aim of the project is to test and use plant biodiversity (grassing) to increase the resilience of wine production to climate change.

>> [European project] What is the LIFE VineAdapt project?

Data Management Plan Workshop for ANR Project Coordinators

The project engineering and international development division of the DARI, in

in collaboration with the IT department of the University Library, organised on 8 November 2021 a workshop on the Data Management Plan for ANR project coordinators.

Indeed, since 2019 and in accordance with the National Plan for Open Science, project leaders funded by the ANR are obliged to provide a Data Management Plan within the first six months of their project. The workshop aimed to take stock of the resources available and the difficulties encountered by project coordinators in this exercise. It allowed to address more broadly the issue of Avignon University's open science policy and the needs of teacher-researchers in terms of support for open access and open data.

Éditions Universitaires d'Avignon, Collection MidiSciences : " L'eau : introduction à une ressource rare (Christophe Emblanch, Sarah Jourdren)

The MidiSciences collection, created in 2018, offers scientific summaries, written and produced with a view to sharing knowledge widely. This title is a perfect example of this approach: richly illustrated, it facilitates the understanding of contemporary issues related to this resource. The water cycle, availability, catchment area/supply basin, green water/blue water, water footprint...

>> Read the introduction on the EUA website
>> Listen to the broadcast of 29/11/2021, Christophe Emblanch interviewed by Teddy Follenfant

The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation announces the first winners of the "Science with and for Society" call for labelling

As part of the measures resulting from the research programming law on the theme of "Science with and for society", and on the proposal of the jury, the Minister Frédérique Vidal has drawn up the list of the first university sites to receive the "Science with and for society" label.

>> More about the winners

Videos: "Open Science in the Spotlight

The Toulouse Capitole University - SCD and the Couperin Consortium, in partnership with the URFIST Occitanie, have put online a new video mini-series
"Open science in the spotlight.

This mini-series, produced in a humorous way, has several objectives:

• Raising awareness among doctoral students and young researchers about the dissemination of knowledge
• Informing researchers about the challenges of Open Science
• Deconstructing prejudices about open access scientific publishing

Episode 1: My thesis in Open Access
Episode 2: Open Access as a complement to traditional publishing
Episode 3: Open my data
Episode 4: Researchers as actors of open science

Cap-4-Multi-Can'Alert project

As part of the "Cap-4-Multi-Can'Alert" research project, funded by the ANR and the SGDSN, and coordinated by Johnny Douvinet, a new public alert platform will be available in France by June 2022 at the latest.
>> Read in Challenges - 26/10/2021 

Publication of an article in "Pour la Science

In the October 2021 issue of "Pour la Science", Elise Buisson, Marie-Ange Ngo Bieng and Thierry Gauquelin published an article entitled "Pour une reforestation raisonnée" (For a reasoned reforestation), which shows that restoring degraded forest environments is not simply a matter of planting trees.
>> Read the article in "Pour la Science" - 18/10/2021

Implanteus Lectures 2022

19 January
14H30-16H00 Garry Martin: "Conserving High Atlas agrobiodiversity, a lecture about your initiative and its impact on socio-economy and biodiversity?

>> Follow the video conference live
>> https://implanteus.univ-avignon.fr/

MidiSciences 2022

From 1 to 2 pm, Hannah Arendt Campus, amphitheatre 2E01
Live broadcasting

27 January Talking differently, thinking differently", by Frédéric Jeorge

3 February Antioch on line: the contribution of the Princeton digitized excavation archives", by Eric Morvillez

Science Café

8.30 pm, Avignon - Restaurant Françoise6 rue du Général Leclerc

6 January Permaculture, a field in reinvention

20 January Ecosystem disturbances, the emergence of new
diseases.

10 February Cybercrime, who are the new crooks?

24 February Artificial intelligence and the jobs of tomorrow.

Lectures at the university - 18:00
Avignon - Hannah Arendt Campus

27 January With Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond
"One day, one voice

24 February With François Marchal
"What is it about man that makes him special?

>> Avignon programme