30 years of IMPGT

This inaugural conference marks the official launch of the anniversary year. It will be the occasion not only to present the full program of events for the year, but also to unveil the logo celebrating 30 years of the IMPGT, a symbol of three decades of excellence, innovation and commitment to training and research.

The IMPGT's Chair in Attractiveness and New Territorial Marketing (A&NMT) is organizing the 13th edition of the Place Marketing Forum, an international benchmark event for professionals, players and researchers in the field of territorial attractiveness. This major event will return to Aix-en-Provence, bringing together some 300 participants. Over two days, the Place Marketing Forum will highlight the most innovative initiatives in territorial marketing and encourage the sharing of experience between practitioners and researchers. The Place Marketing Forum illustrates the IMPGT's ability to bring together research, innovation and professional practices in the service of territories.

Further information: https: //placemarketingforum.com

The 2026 edition of the Journées Culturelles, organized by the IMPGT's OTACC Chair and the students of the Master's degree in Management and Law of Cultural Organizations and Events, adopts as its theme "Mediterranean Circulations: caring for territories, common heritages and shared futures". Conceived as a space for encounters and creativity, this event will celebrate a rich academic and institutional heritage through conferences and workshops, highlight innovative, inclusive and responsible contemporary practices, and project participants towards the future of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI), territorial management and Mediterranean cooperation. Through the prism of Mediterranean circulations, the JCC2026 fully embodies the values of the IMPGT and the OTACC Chair, as a place of memory, practices and foresight, linking past, present and future in a single collective and creative impetus.

Further information: https: //impgt.univ-amu.fr/fr/chaireotacc-JCC26

In a context marked by a growing lack of attractiveness of the care and support professions, both in the medical and medico-social sectors, the aim of this day is to open up a space for reflection and dialogue around the levers for improving the commitment and recognition of these essential professions. Organized by students in the Master's in Public Management (MESS) program, the event aims to encourage exchanges between paramedical and socio-educational staff, managers in the sector and researchers, in order to cross-fertilize viewpoints, share field experience and compare scientific and managerial approaches. The day will be structured around two round-table discussions, focusing on the current challenges of attractiveness and the outlook for professional development, as well as a number of participative workshops designed to explore concrete avenues for action. This event is intended to be a time for collective reflection, in the service of the future of the care and support professions.

IMPGT, in partnership with CERGAM, will be hosting the 15th edition of the International Association for Research in Public Management (AIRMAP) symposium. Under the theme "Knowledge and intelligence for public action in the challenge of transitions", the event will once again, after 2014, bring together nearly 250 international researchers for doctoral workshops, plenary lectures, thematic workshops and an awards ceremony. This event is fully in line with the research themes pursued by the IMPGT team, continuing a tradition of exploration and innovation on the dynamics of public action and the transformations that run through it.

Further information: https: //airmap2026.sciencesconf.org

To celebrate three decades of commitment, innovation and success, a festive and convivial evening will bring together the entire IMPGT community: staff, graduates, partners and students. The evening will be an opportunity to share a warm moment, revive memories, create new links and honor those who have helped make the IMPGT what it is today.

By invitation only

On the occasion of the IMPGT's 30th anniversary, this new season is at once a work of memory, transmission and experimentation. It questions the way in which cultural management is transforming itself in a context of multiple transitions: ecological, social, economic, digital and institutional. The project aims to bring together academic research, sound practice and student experience to build a collective voice on culture in mutation. Each episode becomes a space for situated reflection, produced from analyses made in essays on societal transitions and extended by writing and recording work. The episodes will be broadcast on Radio Grenouille and on the institutional channels of the IMPGT and Aix-Marseille University.

Students in the Master 2 Public Management program will be taking part in a new edition of the Séminaire Improbable, an Art Thinking experience that invites them to rethink public action through artistic creation. For three days, they will explore the improbable in the manner of artists, through lectures, workshops and critical sessions. They will create contemporary works of art that question our relationship with public service and society, and open up perspectives on public management thirty years into the future. The seminar will close with an ephemeral exhibition, during which visitors will be able to discover original creations, conceived as veritable "visual thoughts".

• Organization of afterwork sessions: Afterwork sessions dedicated to the various IMPGT courses will be organized to encourage exchanges between experts, graduates and current students.
• Emerging projects for IMPGT's 30th anniversary: As part of the Learning Service, students will propose projects such as the creation of a comic strip, an exhibition featuring portraits of graduates, or the creation of an anthem.

And actions proposed by student associations and IMPGT students

• IMPGT Gala by the BDE IMP'ACT: In March, the IMPGT's Bureau de la Vie Étudiante will be organizing an IMPGT Gala, an event bringing together students, graduates and staff for a festive and convivial occasion.
• Eloquence contest: Organized by the Eloquéncia association, this eloquence contest will highlight the rigor, commitment and strength of public speaking that IMPGT students will bring to tomorrow's local authorities, administrations and territorial organizations.
• Creation of 2 student associations: Échiquier Provence will offer university chess tournaments, free equipment and introductory chess courses on campus.
  Esprit Public will promote public sector involvement by building bridges between theory and practice, through a variety of formats (interviews, portraits, publications, events), and by bringing public service players closer to the student community.