Hosting and supporting inter-disciplinary projects in humanities and social sciences
Implemented in 2001, the Institute of Humanities, social and environmental sciences (Maison des sciences de l'homme et de l'environnement Ledoux - MSHE) Ledoux develops a perennial and innovating project.
Its objective is answering the social demand and dealing with the new thematics that emerge in the research field, implementing a crossroad of international exchanges to favour the researchers insertion in the European and world research space and into increase the cooperation with socio-economic partners.
Presently, this federative structure gathers 14 research teams in humanities and social sciences of the University of Franche-Comté and the Technology University of Belfort-Montbéliard. Scientists in various disciplines, anthropologists, archaeologists, bio-statisticians, environmentalists, economists, epidemiologists, geographers, historians, jurists, linguists, literaries, paleo-environmentalists, philosophers, psychologists and sociologists gather important skills, especially on the thematic of territorial intelligence and on the relations between Human being, time and territory.
The MSHE animates a technological platform that gathers scientific and technical resources as regards mutualised equipments, software, data bases and skills.
The MSHE is also a logistical platform that offers to the researchers solutions to organize and manage their research programs, and to promote the results; its website participates to the information diffusion. Since January, the 1st 2008, the MSHE stature has changed: it has become a service and research unit (USR 3124 – CNRS-UFC/UTBM); consequently, this institute can temporarily receive French and foreign researchers and post-Phd students who come to work on its programs.
The MSHE scientific programming is structured in four research poles: "Transmission, identity, crossbreeding", "Archive, bases, corpus", "Human being and environment" and "Territorial dynamics"; this latest research field allows impulsing research activities that integrate the spatial dimension into the study of human phenomena and aim at understanding the territorial dynamics.
The results of the research activities led in humanities and social sciences are published in the collection "Les Cahiers de la MSHE Ledoux" by the "Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté".
Presently, more than thirty multi-disciplinary research actions are led. The MSHE steers a coordination action in the 6th framework program of research and technological development, four "white call" projects funded by the French National Agency for Research (ANR) and a French-Slovenian European associated laboratory.
