A l'UM la science [S02-ep29]: From festivals to Cefe's experimental field

This week on A l'UM la science, Cepel political scientist Emmanuel Négrier takes us through his latest study on festivals. The report takes us on a field trip to Cefe with Thierry Mathieu and François Vasseur. Finally, Tristan Rongere, a Master's student in management of ecological transition and the circular economy, tells us about his Véloptimiste project. The program is broadcast every Wednesday at 6pm on Divergence FM 93.9.

Here we are... The last topic of the season before the summer break and the switch to Divergence FM's summer schedule. The sun and the heat are already here, and with them the desire to escape and get far, far away from the concrete. Everyone will choose their destination: sea, mountain or river, campsite or hotel, in France or abroad. And then there are those for whom summer is all about music, culture and festivals. With friends or family, festival-goers have become a public in their own right over the last few decades, no longer satisfied with a single concert or show, but dreaming of a complete immersion, an almost total experience in a made-to-measure universe for 2, 3 or 4 days. Because a festival isn't just about culture, it's also about living together, sometimes as a committed citizen, as our guest would say, a little ephemeral republic.

Three years ago, to better understand this phenomenon and draw up a "pre-covid" inventory, the French Ministry of Culture launched a major study conducted by the Department of Forward Studies, Statistics and Documentation, as well as by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine cultural agency and Cepel, the center for political and social studies at the University of Montpellier. Political scientist Emmanuel Négrier took part in this study, and talks to us about it today as a little foretaste of the vacations.

In the second half of the program, we take you to Cefe, Montpellier's center for functional and evolutionary ecology, where Thierry Mathieu and François Vasseur show us the experimental field platform : 5.5 hectares of land with greenhouses, aviaries, beehives and horticultural tunnels, all facilities for experimental evolutionary ecology.

Our last-minute guest is Tristan Rongere, a Master's student in management of ecological transition and the circular economy. He will tell us about his Véloptimiste project: 7,000 km across Europe to meet the key players in the ecological transition.

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Coproduction: Divergence FM / Université de Montpellier
Animation: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interviews: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Reporting and editing: Aline Périault
Production : Naomi Charmetan

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