Past Events ' Conference

L’Université Paris-Saclay, et le Centre d’Alembert organisent un colloque le 31 mai 2023 sur le thème "Sciences fondamentales et développement soutenable : que faudrait-il changer dans nos recherches ?" Quelles nouvelles questions éthiques posent à la recherche la dégradation de l'environnement et la persistance d’inégalités économiques et sociales ? La dégradation de notre environnement et la persistance d’inégalités économiques et sociales à toutes les échelles sont des réalités qui interrogent le monde de la recherche, bien au-delà des seuls spécialistes…

Dans le cadre de la plateforme épistémologie et éthique SOCA du projet ANR MetaGenoPolis (INRAE-INSERM- UCLy) sur la recherche sur le microbiote intestinal, l’UCLy organise un colloque international « SYMBIOSES, perspectives transdisciplinaires », les 8 et 9 juin 2023 à Lyon. Le projet ANR MetaGenoPolis a été initié en 2011 puis renouvelé en 2020 et peu à peu, l’étude de la notion interdisciplinaire de symbiose s’est imposée comme sujet de réflexion sur l’identité biologique, son devenir au sein de la relation symbiotique…

The Fondation Terre Solidaire is organizing the 2nd conference in its new "Youth and Climate" cycle on June 8, 2023, with the title "What ecology for the first concerned? The voice of young people from working-class neighborhoods". On March 13, 2023, the Fondation Terre Solidaire inaugurated its 3rd cycle of conferences entitled "Youth and Climate". The Foundation has chosen to focus its 3rd cycle on the climate generation. Through a series of conferences, the foundation is giving a voice to...

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), in partnership with the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), is organizing the second REFLEXIONS international symposium on June 9, 2023. This academic and scientific forum will bring together players from the public sector, the private sector and civil society to discuss and contribute to the understanding and resolution of issues linked to climate change, and more broadly to sustainable transition. The 2023 edition will focus on the regulation of...

AFAUP invites the general public, local authorities, gardeners and urban farmers to reflect together on the value of soils and the importance of preserving them, particularly in urban environments, at a conference-debate on Wednesday June 21, 2023. The accessibility and quality of soil is one of the main obstacles to the development of agriculture and gardening in urban areas. Marc-André Selosse will introduce the day on the notion of soil. Then, experts including Anne Barbillon, Camille Dumat, Antoine De...

The Fondation Jean-Jaurès is organizing a conference on June 22, 2023 on the theme "Should we fear artificial intelligence?" The Foundation welcomes Aurélie Jean, a doctor of science, entrepreneur and author specializing in algorithmic science, to discuss the risks of artificial intelligence, which she depicts in her novel, Résistance 50 (Editions de L'Observatoire, 2023), co-written with novelist Amanda Sthers. The discussion will be moderated by Jérémie Peltier, co-director of the Fondation Jean-Jaurès. Registration

On June 27, the HEC Transition association is hosting the Shift Project and Institut Rousseau to discuss the way forward for decarbonizing France, and to put the Plan de Transformation de l'Economie Française and the 2% Report for 2° into perspective, focusing in particular on the jobs and investments required. Guillaume Kerlero de Rosbo, Director of Ecological Studies at the Institut Rousseau, will be taking part to detail the report's measures in terms of jobs and investment. Program: - Introduction...

PCA Stream (Philippe Chiambaretta Architecte)*, in collaboration with Le Labex Futurs Urbains GT Ville et énergie (Université Gustace Eiffel), is organizing a seminar on "Energy de-escalation" on July 4, 2023. Program Session "Energy de-escalation in a post-disaster context" 9:30am - 10:00am Delphine Grancher (Laboratoire de Géographie Physqiue, UMR 8591): Rebuilding the island of Saint-Martin after Hurricane Irma in 2017, the missed opportunity of energy de-escalation 10:00am - 10:30am Eric Verdeil...

Following on from the first annual trades and skills conference held in March 2022, France Stratégie is organizing the second edition, this time dedicated to the employment challenges of the ecological transition, on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Following the first conference in March 2022, which focused on the presentation of the foresight exercise Les métiers en 2030, this second edition will be devoted to the employment challenges of the ecological transition. In particular, the aim is to share existing knowledge on...

I4CE (Institut pour l'économie du climat) and AJE are organizing a conference on July 5 on the theme "When the metropolis heats up to +4°C". Objectives: Anticipate the effects of +4°C warming, and prepare for resilience. Unthinkable just a short while ago, the scenario of +4°C warming in metropolitan France has clearly been adopted by the government in its forthcoming National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (PNACC 3). To make as many people as possible aware of this paradigm shift,...

A few weeks after the publication of the report Les incidences économiques de l'action pour le climat, France Stratégie is organizing a series of webconferences dedicated to the thematic reports and working groups that fed into the work of Jean Pisani-Ferry and Selma Mahfouz. The series kicks off on July 5 with the report on households and the distributional challenges of climate action. Given the pace and scale of the effort required to combat global warming, it is becoming increasingly...

As part of its global effort to develop an ethical framework for neuroscience, UNESCO is organizing an international conference on July 13 in Paris. Numerous renowned neuroscientists will take part in the discussions, along with policy-makers, business leaders and NGOs, to explore the immense potential of neurotechnologies, and address the ethical challenges they pose to human rights and fundamental freedoms. Neurotechnologies offer exceptional potential for human development - in particular for solving...

La manufacture des idées is organizing a meeting with philosopher Baptiste Morizot on August 27, 2023, on the theme of his latest book, "L'inexploré". For the first time since the advent of modernity, the nature of non-human beings escapes us. In an age of extinction and climate crisis, our relationship with living beings has been destabilized. For Baptiste Morizot, we have entered another "texture of historicity", the mythical time of environmental metamorphoses in which the...

France Stratégie is organizing a webconference on September 11, 2023 on the theme "Can we assess the impact of the ecological transition on well-being?", as part of the report "Les incidences économiques de l'action pour le climat". A few months after the publication of the report The Economic Impact of Climate Action, France Stratégie is organizing a series of webconferences dedicated to the thematic reports and working groups that fed into the summary report signed by Jean Pisani-Ferry and Selma Mahfouz. This...

As part of the ANR PACE (1) project - Migrant and refugee crisis in Europe, CERI is organizing the final colloquium on September 14 and 15, 2023, on the theme "Exile, passage and refuge. Solidarity and criminalization yesterday and today." This symposium aims to put into perspective the actions and situations of those involved in exile and the reception of exiles since the Second World War. The various conflicts that have marked the history of the twentieth...

The Académie des Sciences is organizing a symposium on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, in the Grande salle des séances of the Institut de France, on the theme "The legacy of René Thom, geometer par excellence". René Thom (1923-2002) was born on September 2, 1923. A geometer par excellence, he was one of those rare mathematicians who seem to "see" in spaces with any number of dimensions, as easily as ordinary mortals do in ordinary space. He received the...

For the 3rd conference in its "Youth and Climate" series, the Terre Solidaire Foundation invites you to join us online on Monday September 25 to discuss the relationship between young people and business in the light of the climate crisis. On March 13, 2023, the Terre Solidaire Foundation inaugurated its 3rd cycle of conferences entitled "Youth and Climate". The Foundation has chosen to focus its 3rd cycle on the climate generation. Through a series of conferences, the Foundation is giving a voice to...

The next Innovation Tuesday takes place on September 26 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm online (1) and focuses on the emergence of a major player in innovation: India. The aim is to gain a better understanding of the many facets of India's innovation dynamic, and to integrate it as an opportunity in its strategy for progress and international development. The indicators are green for India to play a growing role in innovation, with a scientific, technological and design power that is becoming increasingly...