Sixth International Conference of Territorial Intelligence in Besançon
It is pleasant for the director of the Institute of Human and Environment Sciences Claude Nicolas Ledoux (MSHE) to draft this editorial, to announce two important news.
The first information is the organization of the final international conference of the European programme caENTI, funded by the European Community in the 6th FPRD framework. This conference-balance will take place in Besançon, from October, the 15th to the 18th 2008. It is the ultimate international conference in the framework of the European programme caENTI that will have had 3, after Alba Iulia, in Romania, from September, the 20th to the 22nd 2006 and Huelva, in Spain, from October, the 24th to the 27th 2007.
This conference, which call for papers is opened on this website, will be devoted to the theme of Methods and Tools of Territorial Intelligence.
The MSHE [1] feel honoured to welcome this event at the end of a programme of territorial intelligence that has allowed mobilizing French and European partners during 3 years and reinforcing their cooperation in the research-action activity at the service of people weaken by their social status, their ethnical origin, disease, industrial reorganizations.
The second information is the preparation of a new candidacy in the 7th FPRD framework, to submit a network of excellence project, ENTI, European Network of Territorial Intelligence. This network aims not only to gather ground partners in the social field and academic researchers, but also to organise their cooperation in research programmes. From this point of view, the caENTI will have allowed girding a network of strong partners involved in concrete actions of diagnosis, evaluation of public policies, associative initiatives and initiatives to help the decision-making for territorial operators.
The caENTI will have offered an efficient experimentation platform where ground actors and scientists could jointly work, the latter ones being able to offer to the former ones well-tried survey, data processing, evaluation, diagnosis tools. The ENTI project will be able to take advantage of this background and to widen the network to new partners.
The caENTI is a MSHE emblematic action that is inscribed in the scientific programming of the Territorial intelligence research pole. It is a pole that regroups the research actions about territories, apprehended in the long term of their formation and in their more contemporary expression. Territory is a spatial framework that structures life and the people activity. This pole naturally gathers the archaeologists, paleoenvironmentalists, historians, geographers, sociologists, which study object is territory. These teams mostly belong to two mixed research units CNRS-university of Franche-Comté, the Chrono-Environment one (UMR 6249), which studies the territories archaeology in their social and environmental dimensions since the Neolithic, and the ThéMA one (Theorise and model to plan, UMR 6049) that studies the contemporary spaces and the economic and social activities on them.
This pole generates pride for the MSHE and fame for the HSS of Franche-Comté because of its research actions and of their national and international echo.
The scientific community of the MSHE is attached to the success of the caENTI and of the project of network of excellence that should prolong it in the 7th PCRD. I wish this beautiful project could be successful.
[1] Unit of Service and Research n° 3124, CNRS-university of Franche-Comté and university of technology of Belfort-Montbéliard.
