2021 Booklet of Chairs

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In 2012, UPPA launched a distinctive initiative with the creation of research and education chairs.

Several aims were pursued:

  • to invest into significant scientific projects in accordance with the strategy of the university
  • to create a task force dedicated to these specific research objectives
  • to tighten the relationships with private and public partners, placing them within a five-years horizon instead of the traditional three-years partnership format
  • to provide an increased visibility, thereby promoting the outreach of upcoming results and strengthening our international network.

With E2S UPPA I-site, this framework has been significantly expanded. New chair formats have been launched, in addition to the existing format directed at established researchers.

Junior chairs for young promising researchers, and part-time international chairs hosting researchers with a very high international visibility have been created.

Facts (2020)

34 chairs in 2020

  • 13 Junior Chairs
  • 15 Senior Chairs with partnerships
  • 4 International Academic Guest Chairs
  • 2 International Guest Chairs with partnership

Teams

  • 86 permanent employees
  • 88 PhD
  • 151 Post-doctorate

A considerable increase in the potential of scientific experts for UPPA

The objective is to drastically increase the scientific power of E2S UPPA, and at the same time, to embed – at the very starting point of the chair – research and education as the scientific team built up around a chair should have also educational responsibilities within the flagship programs of E2S UPPA.

70 doctoral positions and more than 100 one-year post-doctoral fellowships have been offered within these chairs, over a wide variety of scientific topics in line with the ambitions and missions of E2S UPPA.

Private and public partners

This unprecedented effort was made possible due to a wide participation of private and public partners. Their decisive input is acknowledged in the description of each specific chair.

Each project results from the convergence between scientific issues, stakeholders’ needs and, above all, the interest in the mutualisation of concerns and efforts. Our experience shows that it has been beneficial to everyone.

The E2S-UPPA cofunded chairs

TEENA Chair for a smoother transition

Xavier Arnauld de Sartre is the holder of a new senior partnership-based Chair devoted to studying the impacts of the energy transition on the regions and local populations.

Research director at the CNRS and in the PASSAGES laboratory, Xavier Arnauld de Sartre was also appointed as the holder of a senior partnership-based Chair in September 2018, whose members include Total, the Compagnie d’aménagement des coteaux de Gascogne (company for the development of the Gascony hillsides), the pôle Avenia, the BRGM (French bureau of geological and mining research), and the Pau Béarn Pyrénées conurbation. Called TEEN (standing for “the regions in the energy and environmental transitions”), this E2S UPPA Chair is the result of is his relentless work upstream. “The opposition to urbanization and industrial projects is what fueled our approach, and our aim is not only to explain this but also to find solutions,” sums up Xavier Arnauld de Sartre. “The current energy transition is a source of many uncertainties: local authorities lack legitimacy, organizations are sometimes strongly opposed to the transition itself, technologies are not yet sufficiently mature so that they can be used without risk, and so on. All this makes the social tensions in the regions all the more visible.” The disagreements concerning the nuclear waste burial site in Bure is just one example. To lift these restrictions, the researcher is inviting the Chair partners to examine the regional scope of their actions in order to help them better understand what is at stake. For this purpose, Xavier Arnauld de Sartre has the support of a strong team composed of a senior researcher responsible for projects involving local authorities, a junior researcher in charge of subsurface projects, two post-doctoral researchers and three PhD students.

Contact :

xavier.arnauld @ univ-pau.fr