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The University of Montpellier’s Research Ethics Committee was officially established on February 8, 2022. Its objective is to strengthen the mechanisms put in place by the University of Montpellier to promote awareness and the application of ethical and professional principles in response to the questions raised by scientific progress and its contemporary societal implications, regardless of the field of research. The Research Ethics Committee of the University of Montpellier is authorized to provide advisory ethical opinions on research projects and protocols across all scientific fields, particularly those involving human subjects, aspects of privacy, and data relating to human subjects. However, projects falling under Law No. 2012-300 of March 5, 2012, on research involving human subjects (known as the “Jardé Law”) and its implementing decree No. 2016-1537 of November 16, 2016, and falling under Articles R.1121-1-1 and R.1121-1-2 of the Public Health Code defining research involving human subjects, are, for their part, subject to the jurisdiction of the Committees for the Protection of Persons (CPP). Scope of Application and Operating RulesDownload GDPRDownload Calendar of Research Ethics CommitteesDownload Procedures for Submitting Cases to theUM Research Ethics Committee UM . Who can submit a case toUM  Research Ethics CommitteeUM  Research project leaders who are employees of the University of Montpellier and the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, as well as any employee assigned to a research unit under the primary supervision of the University of Montpellier or the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie. For users of the University of Montpellier and the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, it is the scientific supervisor (internship advisor, thesis advisor, HDR scientific advisor, etc.) who may submit a request toUM REC. 2. When should a request be submitted to theUM RECUM Requests to theUM RECUM submitted prior to the start of a project. The request must be submitted approximately three to four weeks before the meeting is held. 3. How to submit a requestUM  CERUM  The completed submission form must be sent by email. Would you like to learn more about submitting a request to the CER? There are important points to consider when completing the form: Data use: Data storage (retention period, practical safeguards, identity of the person responsible) Data archiving procedures Clarification of the procedure for disseminating data to the public Data confidentiality: Process/method for anonymizing data Data confidentiality management Application(s) used for data collection Details about the project/study: Study start date Duration of the experiment Details on the study’s conduct Order of magnitude of potential earnings Protocol based on study participants Interview guide / Questionnaire Explanation of acronyms Consent: More explicit consent Written consent from legal guardians for minors under 15 years of age Provide the informed consent form Information sheet: Details of information provided to participants Adaptation of information sheets to different audiences Indication of potential risks of the study in the information sheet 4. What is theUM  REC’s response timeUM  Advisory ethical opinions are sent to project sponsors within three weeks of the meeting. Would you like to learn more about the responses provided by theUM  RECUM  The REC may issue several types of opinions: Favorable opinion Favorable opinion subject to requested modifications* Unfavorable opinion Declaration of lack of jurisdiction *The opinion will specify the modifications, clarifications, or documents required for your research protocol. To submit your amended application: You must highlight your responses to theUM REC’s requests in the submission formUM Check the “amendment” box; Send it via email. Depending on the CER’s wording: “Approval by the file rapporteurs and the Chair of the Research Ethics Committee”: the file will be approved by the committee after receiving positive responses from the relevant parties. “Must be resubmitted to the Research Ethics Committee”: the application will be subject to a new review by the Research Ethics Committee.

Contemporary societies face numerous, complex, and cross-cutting challenges that call into question the viability of our development model, its sustainability, and our ability to function as a society. Whether these changes are environmental and climate-related, demographic, political, or technological (particularly digital), they challenge our ways of life, as well as our models of development, production, consumption, work organization, education, healthcare, urban planning, and mobility. These changes present opportunities but simultaneously generate risks, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. They thus pose risks of social, political, and economic disruption that directly challenge the governance of our societies. Supporting the transition toward new, more sustainable and equitable development models has become a challenge for public actors. To address this challenge, the Montpellier campus offers a dynamic, high-level social science research environment across 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 visibility and foster local, national, and international interactions among researchers at the Montpellier campus whose social science work relates to public transition policies. On the one hand, this involves bringing researchers together and establishing a sustainable network. The KIPPT will thus help to drive and stimulate exchanges and synergies and to highlight the collective expertise of the Montpellier site on public transition policies. On this basis, the KIPPT also aims to foster a “science/society” relationship by serving 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, centered on the three pillars of I-Site—feeding, protecting, and caring—and beyond. It approaches public policies, public action, and governance from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together numerous laboratories within the I-Site Social Sciences cluster around three main axes: Axis 1: fostering exchanges between laboratories and disciplines around key sectoral themes at the site, such as climate/energy, ecological, digital, agricultural, and food transitions, as well as mobility/transport and health… Axis 2: fostering 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, in particular, the 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 their evaluation. Issues related to the implementation of PTPs: cooperation among actors, sectors, and levels of government; financing; citizen and civil society participation; and more. Issues of conflict and acceptability of transition policies Issues related to the methods and instruments employed: cost-benefit and multi-criteria approaches, incentive and regulatory instruments, pricing, planning, trajectories, etc. Issues related to changing perceptions, opinions, and behaviors of stakeholders regarding transitions Initiatives to foster 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