Research contracts

Research

Research contracts

Contents:

Research Contracts

Research contracts are established between one or more higher education and research establishments and external partners, companies or local authorities, around a subject of shared interest in a particular field. Funded by the public or private sector, these applied research activities respond directly to the problems faced by organisations and serve the development of local areas.

 

BIOZE : Biomass Skills for Net Zero

Project objectives

Biomass projects are being developed in response to climate change issues but are faced with a lack of understanding and information from the various stakeholders or actors involved in the projects. The project will improve governance on the use of biomass to drive green transition, by providing capacity building for local authorities and experience sharing with citizens and biomass stakeholders. Inviting local authorities from the start of the project, BIOZE will develop tools and workshops based on their needs to increase awareness on bioenergies.

Our contribution

  • WP leader: roadmap of bioenergies projects.
  • Contribution to the state of the art
  • Contribution to the project’s dissemination (conferences, publications, etc.)

Team

Sébastien Bourdin and Fabien Nadou.

Research assistant: Hugo Delcayre.

 

VALNET: Recovering used fishing nets in a cementitious composite with low environmental impact

Project objectives

The VALNET project aims to:

  • Reduce the carbon footprint of the construction and public works sector, and more specifically of cement materials, by preserving non-renewable natural resources
  • Enhance the value of used fishing nets by incorporating their fibres into cementitious composites, and thus create an eco-responsible fibered concrete.

Our contribution

  • WP leader: societal and economical study
  • Business model, social acceptance and impacts
  • Supply chain organisation
  • Contribution to the project’s dissemination (conferences, publications, etc.)

Team

Amira Laifi, Samah Jradi, Amandine Lare, Hichame Benbitour

 

MECANO: Methanisation, Circular Economy, Agroecology, Normandy

Project objectives

Valorise local co-products that are currently waste, participate in the development of the methanisation sector locally and in a sustainable manner while taking into account questions of societal acceptability and improve the efficiency of the production of methanisers.

Our contribution

Project leader.

Team

Sébastien Bourdin. Research assistant: Hugo Delcayre

 

TBC: Connected dashboard

Project objectives

The objective of this project is to equip farmers with digital tools so that they can better understand the situation of their farm and benefit from a better ability to predict and anticipate the changes to be implemented. All the sensors and digital tools allow the introduction of services to be included in the dashboard proposed here. Digital technology opens up a multitude of applications, whether they be pedological, meteorological, human resources, agro-ecological or technical-economic.

Our contribution

  • Market Studies
  • Business Model

Team

Roland Condor + 1 Research Assistant

 

CLOLOCALL : Économie circulaire pour et au sein des régions et villes européennes

Project objectives

The CLOLOCAL Chair aims to deliver a training program to disseminate knowledge and keys to understand and implement Europeans policies, by highlighting the role of the European Union in the deployment of the circular economy. It also aims to create link between the researchers involved in the Chair and policy makers and citizens.

Our contribution

  • Project leader

L'équipe

Sébastien Bourdin, Amandine Lare, Marine Bastiège, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Florian Favreau, Fabien Nadou.

Research assistant: Nicolas Jacquet

 

DIBEST: Digital Innovation for Blue Economy and Social Tourism

Project objectives

The DIBEST project will support tourism microenterprises in the Atlantic coastal region in adopting digital innovations enabling them to increase their competitiveness, access to markets, and environmental sustainability.

Our contribution :

  • Literature review
  • Digital needs and impacts analysis
  • Dissemination

Team

Julian Hoffman, Mustafeed Zaman, Damien Chaney + 1 research assistant

 

SUD : Smart Urban Deliveries

Project objectives

The aim of the SUD project is to demonstrate that urban deliveries can be made using carbon-neutral and less harmful modes of transport, while remaining economically viable and meeting the needs of citizens.

The project will address three scientific objectives for the deployment of a sustainable distribution system in a multi-scale environment: (i) to analyse the introduction of new means of delivery in the city, (ii) to define fleet sizes and delivery locations and (iii) to study route planning in static and dynamic contexts.

Our contribution

  • Project co-leader

Team

Jakob Puchinger + 2 PostDoctoral students

 

PARIM : Agricultural and Industrial Partnerships for Methanisation

Project objectives

The aim of the PARIM project is to understand the conditions for setting up sustainable partnerships in the context of methanisation, thereby contributing to better management of biomass resources and accelerating the development of the sector, in particular by studying the emergence of forms of organisational innovation within the methanisation sector.

Our contribution

  • Project leader

Team

Sébastien Bourdin

 

RECCITer: Strengthening the Ecosystems, Collaboration and Competitiveness of Clusters and Innovation in the Territory

Project objectives

The aim of the “Renforcer les Ecosystèmes, la Collaboration et la Compétitivité des Clusters et l'Innovation sur le Territoire” (RECCITer) project is to study the impact of clusters in Normandy, and in particular to analyze how they fit into the Normandy region's smart specialization strategy (S3).

Our contribution

  • Project leader

Team

Sébastien Bourdin, Fabien Nadou, Romain Gibert, Yihan Wang

 

RaFFUT : Designing a biorefinery to promote the circularity of residual vegetable biomass in the Pays de la Loire region

Project objectives

The RaFFUT project aims to design a flexible, local biorefinery concept for the vegetable and horticultural sectors, i.e. capable of valorizing mixed deposits dispersed in space and time. RaFFUT proposes a prospective assessment, through scenario analysis, of the deployment of this type of biorefinery relative to alternative solutions (composting, methanization, land application). An integrated, multi-disciplinary and multi-actor approach will be used to construct this assessment.

Notre contribution :

  • GIS: Geographic Information System

  • Circular Business Models

Team

Sébastien Bourdin

 

Circular Economy Diagnostic

Project objectives

The objectives of the study are to draw up an in-depth inventory of the knowledge, practices and expectations of the various players in the area (civil servants, solution providers, companies, SSE players); to identify the main obstacles to the development of the circular economy on a local scale; to highlight the levers for action that can be mobilized between these various players. The results of this study will be used to define a roadmap for structuring actions in the region.

Our contribution

  • Project Leader

L'équipe

Sébastien Bourdin

 

DHAK : The role of digital helpers in reducing digital inequalities

Project objectives

The objectives of the programme are to identify the key characteristics of digital helpers, analyze the extent of their impact in reducing digital exclusion, explore the specific situations where digital helpers provide support, mapping out common scenarios and the types of digital challenges they help solve, determine the relationship the digital helpers have with the people they help and Provide actionable recommendations for local governments to better support, empower, and incentivize these informal actors.

Our contribution

  • Project Leader

L'équipe

Sébastien Bourdin

 

GGOELAAMP : Governance and Management in Overseas France and Europe for an Adapted, Developed and Protected Coastline

Project objectives

The main aim of the GGOLELAMP project is to address the challenges of adapting coastal and ultra-marine territories to climate change. The GGOELAAMP project aims at sustainable, multi-sectoral adaptation of coastal and ultra-marine territories. It is based on an approach combining nature-based solutions, community involvement and enhanced territorial intermediation, and focuses on environmental, economic and social resilience.

Our contribution

  • Project leader

L'équipe

Fabien Nadou

 

Territorial Diagnosis on the level of Digitalisation of Retailers-Artisans

Project objectives

Assess the technological maturity of local retailers and craftsmen. Two steps are required to carry out this assessment:

  • Diagnose the level of digitalization among local retailers
  • Propose concrete courses of action in response to the challenges and needs identified by retailers.

Our contribution

  • Project Leader

Team

Vincent Dutot

sylvaine castellano

Sylvaine CASTELLANO

Dean of Faculty and Research

Paris