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Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives: An Agora for Food Democracy (AgoraFood) project
- Years: 2025 - 2029
- The project: How can we meet the major challenges set by the UN? This is the focus of interest for many players - citizens, scientists, politicians and entrepreneurs - in our contemporary societies. These major challenges, described as wicked problems, crystallize at the scale of territories and require public and collaborative innovation to tackle them (Hartley et al., 2013). These wicked problems call for territorial co-creation practices to accelerate ecological, economic and social transitions (TEES). Co-creation is a new paradigm of local public action and a new research agenda in public management (Torfing et al., 2021). The aim of this research is to investigate co-creation practices in the agricultural sector, where the challenges of TEES are particularly acute. The aim is to study the arrival of a new cooperative player - Sociétés Coopératives d'Intérêt Collectif (SCICs) - which have the particularity of being able to associate all stakeholders within a private company of general interest. As hybrid organizations (Battilana and Lee, 2014), SCICs appear to be particularly fertile ground for tackling the challenges of transitions (Ajates Gonzales, 2017; Michaud and Audebrand, 2018; Suarez et al., 2022). The aim is to study the extent to which SCICs can constitute spaces for the co-creation of local public policies that are disruptive, vectors of TEES, in the face of the dominant -destructive, productivist and socially unjust- model of the agricultural sector.
- Dedicated team: 4 researchers and 1 research engineer are collaborating on this project within the IMPGT.
- Project partners: IMBE, LEST, Bou'Sol, Manger Bio en Provence, Terre Adonis, ANR JCJC SCIC_AGRI
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Projet ADSIMPLI
- Années : 2025 - 2029
- Le projet : La simplification administrative est une priorité pour les usagers des services publics. Elle renvoie à la fois à l'aspiration pour un État régulateur qui entrave le moins possible l'activité économique, à la réduction des charges administratives subies par les entreprises et les citoyens, et à la réduction de la complexité des interactions entre les usagers et les services publics. Or la crise sanitaire a produit dans la pratique administrative un point d’inflexion avec des simplifications exceptionnelles découlant des volets organisationnel (modes de travail), juridique (droit transitoire, assouplissements et procédures d’exception) et technologique (canaux numériques de communication et de collaboration). Ce projet de recherche en management public se donne comme objectifs : (1) d’étudier empiriquement les pratiques exceptionnelles de simplification sous l’angle gestionnaire et juridique et de lutter contre leur oubli organisationnel ; (2) d’analyser leur adaptation à l’administration néo-wébérienne en tenant compte des perceptions des risques et de l’innovation par les agents et cadres publics, afin de promouvoir leur diffusion post-crise ; (3) d’analyser l’expérience digitale de la simplification et, en interrogeant les sciences de la communication et de l’informatique, les améliorations possibles par l’utilisation de robots logiciels (ex. Alliance universitaire UiPath) et de l’intelligence artificielle dans les aspects opérationnels et de gestion de la relation-usager (Busuioc 2020 ; Meijer et al 2021). Ce domaine confirme son actualité au regard de l’impulsion nouvelle donnée par le gouvernement au domaine de la simplification par-delà les alternances politiques (lancé printemps 2024, confirmé octobre 2024), et souligne la nécessité de poursuivre les recherches sur les leçons oubliées ou apprises, ainsi que leurs approfondissements au cours des quatre prochaines années.
- Équipe dédiée : 4 chercheurs, 1 doctorant et 1 ingénieur de recherche collabore à ce projet au sein de l'IMPGT
- Partenaires du projet : EM Normandie, LIRAES
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CIGeFor project - Dentelles
- Year: since 2024
- The project: Innovative cooperation for sustainable forest management in the Dentelles de Montmirail
On August 17, 2021, a fire destroyed 169 ha of forest and moorland in the Dentelles de Montmirail in the communes of Saint-Hippolyte-le-Graveyron, Beaumes-de-Venise, Le Barroux and La Roque-Alric. The forest ecosystems crossed by the fire have suffered a radical loss of biodiversity, and winegrowers have seen some plots of vines burnt to the ground.
In the wake of the emergency, a number of stakeholders came up with the idea of organizing this hitherto largely unmanaged forest so as to integrate all issues of collective and individual interest. These objectives are also enshrined in the higher-level strategic documents of the Parc Naturel Régional du Mont-Ventoux (PNR du Mont-Ventoux), the Communauté d'Agglomération Ventoux Comtat Venaissin (CoVe) and the Région Sud, which is responsible for regional forestry. - Project objectives: to develop the Association Syndicale Libre des Dentelles (ASL des Dentelles) and build a common vision using innovative territorial concertation methods consisting of a participative and iterative process to ensure that participants have the time, information and framework needed to work together. This common vision will be reflected in an operational sustainable forest management document supported by the ASL Des dentelles: a simple concerted management plan with the label of a forest economic and environmental interest group (GIEEF).
- Dedicated team: 4 researchers and 1 research engineer are collaborating on this project within the IMPGT.
- Project partners: Consortium comprising CNPF PACA, PNR du Mont-Ventoux, La CoVe, ASL des Dentelles, LPO, FNB Provence Alpes, ONF Unité Ventoux, ONF Pôle DFCI, COFOR PACA, CERPAM.
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ANR JCJC project SCIC_AGRI
- Year: 2021-2025
- The project: The current health crisis - in the same way as previous crises - renews the importance of critical research in the Human and Social Sciences (SHS). By accentuating the planetary challenges that require us to rethink the sustainability of our ecosystem, it requires us to think about new and alternative ways of making society and responding to contemporary economic, social, environmental and political issues (Adler 2014; Barin Cruz et al. 2017; Cheney 2014). As a result, any approach that contributes to a transition towards a more sustainable model seems necessary and desirable. Given its multifunctional nature (food and health safety, accessibility and sustainability of food resources, product quality, protection of resources and the environment, management and sharing of rural areas, etc.), the agricultural sector is particularly sensitive to these sustainable development issues (Sommer et al. 2018).
- Project objectives: The aim of this project is to study the arrival of a new cooperative player in the agricultural sector - Sociétés Coopératives d'Intérêt Collectif (SCICs). The aim of this research project is to determine to what extent, why and how SCICs have become an integral part of the agricultural sector.
how SCICs, as vehicles for social innovation, are destabilizing the agricultural sector.
- Dedicated team: 12 researchers (9 in management science, 2 in economics and 1 in sociology) Multi-site team - Toulouse (9), Montpellier (1) and Aix-Marseille (2) - made up of researchers from the network of the main coordinator, Charlène ARNAUD.
- Year: 2021-2025
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COGOV (H2020)
- Year: 2018-2022
- Co Production and Co Governance: Strategic Management, Public Value and Co Creation in the Renewal of Public Agencies across Europe - project Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies - CULT-COOP-11-2016/2017: Understanding the transformation of European public administrations
- Project objectives: This project aims to contribute to the renewal of European public administrations by locating, exploring and disseminating cutting-edge experiences of new, more participatory approaches to citizens across Europe.
The aim is to identify the practical application of emerging paradigms in public management: new public value, new public governance, digital era governance, participative approaches to the public sector (co-design, co-production, co-evaluation of public services and policies). - Dedicated team: 6 research professors, 2 associate experts, 5 interns, 3 research engineers
- Total budget: €4,559,299 AMU-IMPGT team budget: €380,167
- Partners: Project led by a consortium of 9 European partners - coordinated by Northumbria University
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INTERREG Grand Région SDTGR - Territorial development plan for the Grande Région
More information- Year: 2018-2021
- Description: The SDTGR project should lead to a Territorial Development Scheme (SDTGR) shared by all players in the Greater Region. The SDTGR is designed to stimulate innovation within the Greater Region and enhance its attractiveness, in particular by identifying the challenges and opportunities arising from the socio-economic development dynamics underway, and by defining an integrated polycentric and cross-border strategy to increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of the Greater Region. The first action consists in building a shared knowledge base and a common language. Based on socio-economic and territorial indicators, diagnoses will be drawn up to spatialize the issues at stake, leading to a series of maps presenting the risks and opportunities. On the basis of these results, the territorial development strategy will be drawn up, and the actions to be taken to ensure an operational component will be identified. With a view to achieving a shared result, the work will be the subject of cross-border participative workshops bringing together local stakeholders and thematic experts, in order to strengthen the support of stakeholders in the Greater Region. The SDTGR project works in close cooperation with the Inte rreg V A Grande Région projects Uni GR - Center for Border Studies and MMUST, to ensure overall consistency and knowledge transfer between scientific, institutional and operational players.
- Dedicated team: 3 teacher-researchers, 1 PhD student, 1 research engineer
- Budget: €1,491,628
- Partners : Université de Liège - Ministerium für Inneres, Bauen und Sport - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research - Moselle Attractivité - Ministerium des Inneren und für Sport Rheinland-Pfalz - Université libre de Bruxelles - Université catholique de Louvain
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Territoire départemental des Yvelines - Cultural policy
- Year : 2017-2019
- Research-action Research-action project with the Pôle développement culturel of the Conseil Départemental des Yvelines (78) under the direction of C. Arnaud and S. Serval - Partnership agreement between the Conseil Départemental des Yvelines (78) and ISM - UVSQ
Methodological expertise - semi-structured interviews
- Dedicated team: 3 researchers
- Partners: Pôle développement culturel of the Conseil Départemental des Yvelines (78) and ISM - UVSQ
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COST LocRef
- Year: 2013-2017
- European Cooperation in Science and Technology program "Local Public Sector Reforms: International Comparisons" (COST Action IS1207) - Member of the management committee for France (alongside Gérard Marcou) -Co-direction of Working Group 2 (WP2: "Internal (post-) NPM reforms " of European Local Governments "), with Riccardo MUSSARI (Italy) & Hilde BJORNA (Norway) - Animation of the early stage researchers network.
- Dedicated team: 1 researcher
- Partners: 25 European universities + Iceland- Israel- Switzerland- Sweden- Norway- Albania
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Diaconesses
- Year : 2016-2017
- Organizational diagnosis of human resources and suffering at work
- Dedicated team: 2 researchers, 1 PhD student, 1 intern
- Budget : €10,000
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Current music
- Year: 2012-2014
- Functional diagnosis of the Musiques Actuelles sector "Research program" (Design and management of a mixed-methods research program: Axis 1: Territorial operators - conduct of some forty semi-structured interviews; Axis 2: Audiences - administration and processing of a public questionnaire; Axis 3: Artists' trajectories - organization and facilitation of focus groups with amateur and professional artists.
Public release: June 26, 2014 - Conservatoire D. Milhaud d'Aix-en-Provence
- Dedicated team: 11 researchers, 3 interns
- Budget: €176,315
- Partners: Communauté du Pays d'Aix
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FIAL
- Year : 2012-2014
- Evaluation of opera awareness-raising initiatives carried out by the Festival International d'Art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence (FIAL) since 2007 Focus 2: Design of the research-action approach - coordination and facilitation of focus groups: production of steering tools, group interview guides, production of summaries
- Dedicated team: 7 researchers, 2 interns
- Budget: €35,339
- Partners: Festival International d'Art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence
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Economics of culture and knowledge
- Year : 2013
- Action research - Euro-Mediterranean territory - cultural and creative industries Project follow-up and development - organization of working meetings - drafting of various study documents and translation into English - search for partners - participation in various European calls for tenders - drafting of a final report
- Dedicated team: 3 researchers
- Partners: Institut de la Méditerranée
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Through the villages
- Year : 2011-2012
- Evaluation, assessment and prospects for the event: Par les Villages Research program (Design and management of the research program: Axe 1. Identify the motivations of the players involved in organizing the "Par les villages" event (Collectif d'artistes and Partners); Axe 2. Evaluate the perception of the event by local stakeholders (Artists' Collective, Partners, Institutional Environment); Axis 3. Analyze the specific features of "Par les villages" (innovative character, contribution of such an approach, perspective).
- Dedicated team: 5 researchers, 1 intern
- Budget: €10,000
- Partners : UPCAM
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Picasso-Aix 2009
- Year : 2009-2010
- Sustainable socio-economic impact of the "Picasso-Aix 2009" event Design and management of a "chemin faisant" evaluation using a mixed methodology. Focus 1. Identify and measure the economic, social and civic impact of the event; Axis 2. Identify the degree of satisfaction and expectations of stakeholders and the general public - Conduct 70 semi-structured interviews with members of the event organization and their main partners; administer and process a public questionnaire (1,200 respondents).
- Dedicated team: 4 researchers, 2 interns
- Budget: €95,000
- Partners: UPCAM-CPA-CCIMP
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REATE
- Year : 2009-2010
- Foresight and territorial strategies in the context of the mutualization of government services
- Dedicated team: 1 Associate Professor, 1 MCF, 2 interns
- Budget: €72,500
- Partners: DREAL PACA
