Governance

Origin of the project

UrbaRiskLab is the continuation of the Euridice Research Program (Risk Research Team, Crisis Management and Major Events Management).It was led in partnership with the General Secretariat of the Defense and Security Zone of the Paris Prefecture of Police, funded by the CSFRS and Labex Urban Futures, and directed by Valérie November (https://euridice.hypotheses.org/). The program (2015-2018) demonstrated the need to think in an interdisciplinary manner and, simultaneously, to conduct both basic and applied research. It also brought attention to the large pool of researchers working on these topics within Paris-Est’s ComUE (Community of Universities and Institutions), as well as beyond in the Greater Paris region, in France and internationally.

 

UrbaRiskLab is part of the I-SITE FUTURE Tremplin projects, whose primary goals are to encourage scientific risk-taking and to fundamentally structure research. Submitted and selected during the 2017 I-SITE FUTURE Tremplin call for projects as part of the “safe and resilient city” challenge, it was officially launched on September 27-28th, 2018 during a kick-off meeting.

Funding

The project is funded by the I-SITE (ANR – Agence Nationale de la Recherche) to December 31st 2022.

Partner institutions of the project

UrbaRiskLab maintains close links with the member institutions of the I-SITE Future consortium and more particularly with the founding members of the Gustave Eiffel University. These partnerships materialize within UrbaRiskLab by bringing together and pooling the skills and equipment of the research teams of these institutions around urban issues now understood in an interdisciplinary and common way.

Coordination

Project coordination:

  • Director: Valérie November (CNRS);
  • Head of steering: Alice Azémar (UPE);
  • Coordination assistance: Alexandre Geffroy (Université Gustave Eiffel).

A COMEX, which seconds the management of the project, is headed by: