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CeAND The Center of Excellence on Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CeAND) is an interdisciplinary research network that aims to foster interaction between researchers, professionals in the field, families, and individuals affected by these disorders in order to promote and disseminate best practices in care and education. CeAND website CoEN The overall objective of the Center of Excellence in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CoEN) in Montpellier is to build collaborative research activity in neurodegeneration research across borders, focusing on critical mass and excellence. CoEN website

Investments for the Future The Investments for the Future program represents €35 billion, including €22 billion earmarked for higher education and research to strengthen France's competitiveness on the world stage. Of this €22 billion, nearly €18 billion takes the form of competitive calls for projects. Montpellier University is heavily involved in this program through numerous projects that it leads or partners with. Find out more ERC Grants The European Research Council coordinates and funds scientific projects "at the frontier of knowledge" within the European Union with grants that reward scientific excellence. This program is open to all disciplines. Current European Research Council projects: ERC Starting Grant Erika Burioli (Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory) with the HYPERCAN project on transmissible cancers in mussels.Portrait of Erika Burioli Paul Antonio (Montpellier Geosciences) with the UBEICH project, which proposes a new experimental method to refine the dating of the Earth's inner core.Portrait of Paul Antonio ERC Advanced Grant David Mouillot (MARBEC) whose BLUE-AFRICA project will enable transdisciplinary research to be conducted to assess the potential of coastal marine resources in reducing poverty and emigration in rural areas of East Africa affected by land aridification. Read the press release ERC Synergy Grant Daniele Di Pietro (Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck) with the NEMESIS project, which aims to understand how to overcome current technological barriers in numerical simulations of complex physical problems. Portrait Daniele Di Pietro Past ERCs Sara Cavaliere (Charles Gerhardt Institute of Montpellier) with the SPINAM project, which focuses on electrochemical devices for hydrogen energy conversion and storage. Video report with Sara Cavaliere Key initiatives In order to pursue its strategy of supporting the scientific communities that make up the site's unique identity, the I-SITE Program of Excellence (PEI) certified five new key initiatives in April 2024. Three of these are internationally oriented and funded by the UM2030 project of the France 2030 program – IDéES "Integration and Development of Idex and I-SITE," while the other two, funded directly by the PEI, aim to bring together communities from different research structures in Montpellier around interdisciplinary themes in order to give them greater visibility. Key international initiatives UM 2030: Foods: Nutrition and Food Systems Vect-OH: Infectious Risks and Vectors in a One Health Approach Water: Water Key PEI initiatives: KIPPT: Public Transition Policies CLAPAS: Local Collaborative Research Actions on Plant and Agrosystem Health

Contemporary societies face numerous, complex, and cross-cutting challenges that call into question the longevity of our development model, its sustainability, and our ability to function as a society. Whether these challenges relate to environmental and climate change, demographics, politics, or technology (particularly digital technology), they call into question our lifestyles and our models of development, production, consumption, work organization, education, healthcare, spatial planning, mobility, and more. These changes bring opportunities, but they also generate risks, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. They are therefore sources of social, political, and economic disruption that directly challenge the governance of our societies. Supporting the transition to new, more sustainable and equitable development models has become a challenge for public actors. To meet this challenge, the Montpellier site offers high-level social science research in various disciplines: economics, law, political science, geography, education and training sciences, management, and sociology. The objective of the Key Initiative on Public Transition Policies (KIPPT) is to enhance the visibility and promote local, national, and international interactions among scientists at the Montpellier site whose work in the social sciences is related to public transition policies. On the one hand, the aim is to bring researchers together and structure them into a sustainable network. The KIPPT will thus help to stimulate and encourage exchanges and synergies and raise the profile of the Montpellier site's collective expertise in public transition policies. On this basis, the KIPPT also aims to structure a "science/society" relationship by acting as a bridge between researchers working on transition policies and public and civil society actors. To this end, various partners such as local authorities (notably the Occitanie Region and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole), businesses, and associations are involved in the project. A broad and multidisciplinary definition of public transition policies KIPPT supports a broad definition of public transition policies, based on the three pillars of I-site—feeding, protecting, and caring—and beyond. It approaches public policy, public action, and governance from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together numerous laboratories from the I-Site's Social Sciences cluster around three main areas: Area 1: stimulating exchanges between laboratories and disciplines around key sectoral themes on the site, such as climate/energy, ecological, digital, agricultural, and food transition, mobility/transport, health, etc. Area 2: promoting reflection on the coherence and articulation between public transition policies and integration issues. Particular attention is paid to the cross-cutting issue of inequalities on the one hand, and to territorial projects as vectors of integration to address tensions between sectoral and territorial logics on the other. Axis 3: Address cross-cutting issues related to the governance of transitions. Issues related to the design of public transition policies (PTPs), their public debate and evaluation. Issues related to the implementation of PTPs: cooperation between actors, sectors, levels of government, financing, citizen/civil society participation, etc. Issues of conflict/acceptability of transition policies Issues related to the methods and instruments used: cost-benefit approaches, multi-criteria approaches, incentive instruments, regulatory instruments, pricing, planning, trajectories, etc. Issues related to changes in stakeholders' perceptions, opinions, and behaviors in response to transitions Actions to promote the creation of a scientific community A call for multidisciplinary and multi-laboratory research projects "Structuring" projects "Impulse" projects A platform dedicated to KIPPT link Project monitoring and promotion Resource center for the community Three scientific days

A researcher at the Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering (LMGC) in Montpellier, Katerina Ioannidou was awarded the CNRS bronze medal in 2024 for her work in statistical physics on porous concrete. Her research contributes to the design of materials capable of storing energy and sequestering carbon.