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Key initiative public policies for transition (KIPPT) 2024-2026

Today's societies are facing numerous complex, cross-cutting challenges that call into question the sustainability of our development model and our ability to live together as a society. Environmental, climatic, demographic, political and technological (particularly digital) changes are all challenging our lifestyles, development models, production, consumption, work organization, education, healthcare, spatial planning and mobility.... These changes bring both opportunities and risks, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. They are thus a source of risks of social, political and economic breakdown, which directly call into question the governance of our societies. Supporting transitions towards new, more sustainable and fairer development models has become a challenge for public players.

To meet this challenge, the Montpellier site offers a dynamic environment for high-level social science research in a variety of disciplines: economics, law, political science, geography, education and training, management and sociology.

The aim of the Key Initiative Politiques publiques de transition (KIPPT) is to boost the visibility and encourage local, national and international interaction between scientists at the Montpellier site whose work in the social sciences is linked to transitional public policies. On the one hand, it aims to federate researchers and structure them into a sustainable network. In this way, KIPPT will help to stimulate exchanges and synergies, and give visibility to the Montpellier site's collective expertise on public policies for transition. On this basis, 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 players. To this end, various partners such as local authorities - notably the Occitanie Region and Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole - companies and associations are involved in the project.

A broad, multidisciplinary definition of public transition policies

KIPPT supports a broad definition of transitional public policies, around the 3 pillars of the I-site - feed, protect, care - and beyond. It considers public policy, public action and governance from a multidisciplinary perspective.

It brings together a number of laboratories from the I-Site's Social Sciences cluster around three main themes:

Axis 1 : Stimulate exchanges between laboratories and disciplines around key sectoral themes on the site, such as climate/energy transition, ecology, digital technology, agriculture and food, mobility/transportation, health, etc.

Axis 2: promote 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-functional issues linked to the governance of transitions.

  • Designing public transition policies (PPT), putting them up for public debate and evaluating them
  • Issues related to TPP implementation: cooperation between players, sectors, levels of government, financing, citizen/civil society participation, etc.
  • Issues of conflictuality/acceptability of transition policies
  • Issues relating to the methods and instruments used: cost-benefit, multi-criteria, incentive, regulatory, pricing, planning, trajectory, etc. approaches.
  • Challenges linked to the evolution of stakeholders' perceptions, opinions and behaviors in the face of transitions

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