Partners (degree awarding institutions)

Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy of Com­piègne (UTC) is the EPOG+ coor­di­na­tor. It is a found­ing mem­ber of “Alliance Sor­bonne Uni­ver­sité”, which received the French gov­ern­ment excel­lence ini­tia­tive grant (IdEX) in 2018. It is ranked 101–150 by Times High­er Edu­ca­tion (THE) in the 2018 Young Uni­ver­si­ty Rank­ings (uni­ver­si­ties estab­lished with­in the past 50 years). UTC is among the very best engi­neer­ing school in France. It is a place of aca­d­e­m­ic excel­lence where inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and inno­va­tion are sup­port­ed both in edu­ca­tion and research. UTC brings to EPOG+ its exper­tise on knowl­edge, inno­va­tion and the dig­i­tal tran­si­tion, its strong rela­tions with pri­vate actors and its capac­i­ty to gath­er skills from both acad­e­mia and the world of work and entre­pre­neur­ship. The EPOG+ pro­pos­al involves aca­d­e­m­ic staff from the COSTECH lab, an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research unit on tech­nol­o­gy and the triple inter­face “Man, Tech­nol­o­gy, Soci­ety”, includ­ing an empha­sis on cog­ni­tive cap­i­tal­ism. It is mem­ber of two research labs of excel­lence (LabEx) labelled after a nation­al com­pe­ti­tion: SITES/IFRIS on “inno­va­tion” and MS2T (on “sys­tems of systems”).

Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty (SU) is a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary, research-inten­sive and world-class aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tion, which received the French gov­ern­ment excel­lence ini­tia­tive grant (IdEX) in 2018. It is ranked 36^th by ARWU in 2018, 73^rd by THE World Uni­ver­si­ty Rank­ings in 2019 and 75^th by QS Glob­al World Rank­ing. Con­tin­u­ing the human­ist tra­di­tion of the Sor­bonne, it is devot­ed to meet­ing the sci­en­tif­ic chal­lenges of the 21st cen­tu­ry and spread­ing the knowl­edge cre­at­ed in its lab­o­ra­to­ries by its research teams to its stu­dents and to soci­ety as a whole. SU is made of three fac­ul­ties: arts and human­i­ties, sci­ence and engi­neer­ing, and med­i­cine. Its fac­ul­ty of arts and human­i­ties is today the largest fac­ul­ty in France in the field of arts, lan­guages, lit­er­a­ture, social sci­ences and human­i­ties. SU sup­ports the devel­op­ment of an inter­cul­tur­al con­text for its stu­dents through an inter­na­tion­al­i­sa­tion of its aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grams. SU brings to EPOG+ inter­dis­ci­pli­nary per­spec­tives in eco­nom­ics, soci­ol­o­gy, but also in the oth­er social sci­ences. With the “Sor­bonne Uni­ver­sité Alliance”, it has cre­at­ed the “Insti­tute for the Envi­ron­men­tal Tran­si­tion” (SU-ITE) which gath­ers 54 lab­o­ra­to­ries and about 2000 researchers work­ing on the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion. It is also a core mem­ber of “EIT Cli­mate-KIC”, the EU’s largest pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ship address­ing cli­mate change through innovation. 

The Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité (UPC) results from the merg­er, on March 20, 2019, of Paris Descartes (Paris 5) and Paris Diderot (Paris 7) Uni­ver­si­ties and the incor­po­ra­tion of the Insti­tut Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP). It also received the French gov­ern­ment excel­lence ini­tia­tive grant (IdEX). The Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité cov­ers a wide range of dis­ci­plines, with one of the most com­pre­hen­sive and ambi­tious edu­ca­tion­al offer­ings avail­able in the world. The objec­tives of this “inten­sive research” uni­ver­si­ty, which place it among the most pres­ti­gious insti­tu­tions of high­er edu­ca­tion in France and abroad, include the con­duct of top-lev­el research com­pli­ant with a code of ethics, world-class high­er edu­ca­tion cours­es, a dynam­ic stu­dent life, sup­port for inno­va­tion and knowl­edge trans­fer; con­struc­tion of a Euro­pean research and train­ing hub. The research lab involved in EPOG+ (LADYSS) is made of econ­o­mists, geo­g­ra­phers, polit­i­cal sci­en­tists and soci­ol­o­gists. UP brings to EPOG+ its knowl­edge and skills on ter­ri­to­r­i­al devel­op­ment, envi­ron­ment and social and sol­i­dar­i­ty econ­o­my, as well as inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approaches.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Turin (UNITO) is one of the biggest and most pres­ti­gious Ital­ian uni­ver­si­ties. It is ranked 201–300 by ARWU 2018. It is a “city-with­in-a-city”, pro­mot­ing cul­ture and producing/creating, research, inno­va­tion, train­ing and employ­ment. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Tori­no is involved in inter­na­tion­al research and train­ing. It is an inte­gral part of the local com­mu­ni­ty, and con­tributes to and encour­ages dia­logue between urban and sub­ur­ban actors, pro­motes cul­tur­al inter­ac­tion, social inte­gra­tion and devel­op­ment. It is an inter­na­tion­al actor and has part­ner­ship arrange­ments with many HEI and region­al and inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions. Its rela­tion­ships with uni­ver­si­ties abroad are increas­ing and in 2017 num­bered around 500 agree­ments with for­eign uni­ver­si­ties. Many bilat­er­al and mul­ti­lat­er­al agree­ments are with insti­tu­tions involved in the project. UNITO brings to EPOG+ the excel­lence in the eco­nom­ics of knowl­edge and inno­va­tion, and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary study of polit­i­cal sci­ence and economics.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Roma 3 (ROMA3) is a young, dynam­ic and mod­ern insti­tu­tion, found­ed in 1992. It has grown rapid­ly in num­ber of stu­dents and gained an excel­lent rep­u­ta­tion: it is well ranked in eval­u­a­tions of aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions its teach­ing and research. It is ranked 801‑1000 in QS Glob­al World Rank­ing and the School of Eco­nom­ics is among the top 25% of Ital­ian insti­tu­tions in the RePEc rank­ing. Found­ing prin­ci­ples of ROMA3 are the pro­mo­tion and organ­i­sa­tion of inter­na­tion­al research projects and net­works, high qual­i­ty edu­ca­tion and the dif­fu­sion of knowl­edge with con­stant inter­ac­tion with the local com­mu­ni­ty, envi­ron­ment pro­tec­tion, inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty, gen­der equal­i­ty and the eval­u­a­tion and pro­mo­tion of mer­it. ROMA3 brings to EPOG+ a com­bi­na­tion of socioe­co­nom­ic, finan­cial and eco­log­i­cal exper­tise, main­ly from a macro­eco­nom­ic perspective.