INSIGHT
The INSIGHT project proposes to bring together and stimulate the various research communities of the institution, with a strong interdisciplinary foundation, around the processing of language data towards a high level of conceptualization (in context). We will develop thoughtful solutions to support, expand, and align research in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the one hand, and the humanities on the other. The objective is to address a major scientific challenge for the academic community, but above all to enable the development of effective technological solutions for the benefit of citizens.
I-META
“Metastructured Materials for Engineering (I-META)” aims to develop these new artificial materials to control different types of waves (acoustic, elastic, mechanical) and to create new demonstrators and systems producing unique properties and functionalities. The objective is to establish a solid platform and synergy between academic and industrial partners, bridging the gap between high-level disruptive fundamental research and applied research focused on the development of technology-oriented metamaterials with economic and societal impact.
On the scientific level, the ambitious and coherent objective of this IMPACT project is to design, explore, model, and achieve a new class of multiphysical materials, capable of structuring and controlling acoustic, elastic, and mechanical waves, as well as producing multifunctional metastructures with robust, broadband properties, establishing a new paradigm for compact, multifunctional devices for different types of waves. This objective is fully in line with one of the six major directions and challenges of the Lorraine Initiative of Excellence call for projects, namely “The evolution of materials issues in the 21st century (from resource-related questions to those linked to the circular economy, through metallurgy and new materials)”.
The I-META project is an interdisciplinary project composed of four scientific axes:
- Sustainable multifunctional metamaterials for low-frequency absorption and vibro-acoustic energy harvesting;
- Multiphysical mechanical metamaterials;
- Nonlinear acoustic metamaterials;
- Phononic skyrmions.
I-META is interdisciplinary because it synergistically combines different disciplines: applied physics, materials science and engineering, acoustics, mechanics, and scientific computing. It will also rely on our strong and fruitful national and international networks, but above all on our industrial partners and other funding agencies that support this IMPACT project.
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EPHemeris
Humanity and planet Earth have now entered the Anthropocene. This shift in era is characterized by the fact that human activities have become the main driver of all ecosystems. These disruptions threaten the sustainability of our societies by challenging climate zones, the quality of natural environments and their capacity to provide ecosystem services, our health and lifestyles, as well as the associated geopolitical stability.
To address these present and future changes, a paradigm shift is needed in the way we approach the processes governing interactions between ecosystems and human activities (that is, reaffirming the preeminence of bio-physico-chemical processes over economic principles). This means placing the question of planetary habitability at the core of our societies and understanding and overcoming deep divergences in the perception of risks, opportunities, and challenges associated with competing visions of future development directions towards a sustainable future.
To achieve this, we need to understand the conditions and parameters controlling the adaptation of living species and societies at all time and space scales, from the formation of our planet to the Anthropocene, and how anthropic activities and their externalities—often negative—(soil and water degradation, biodiversity destruction, massive use of chemical substances, deforestation, etc.) disrupt the habitability of ecosystems and, in return, affect the sustainability of human societies. These points form the core of the EPHemeris project, initially conceived by scientific communities with different but complementary expertise (geology, environmental sciences, humanities, and social sciences).
- bring together and unite the different scientific communities of the University of Lorraine;
- train the next generations of students;
- provide integrated knowledge to teachers, the general public, as well as economic and political decision-makers.
To do this, we propose an approach integrating scientific research, technological developments, de-innovation processes, academic training, lifelong learning, public outreach, and participation in citizen actions.
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TRAPPS
The aim of the Impact TRAPPS project is to bring together the research carried out at the University of Lorraine in the humanities, social sciences, public health, pharmacy and medicine in order to create a clearly identifiable research structure in the medical and environmental humanities domain at the national level and to strengthen interdisciplinary training programmes in health.
We have chosen to focus on analyzing health policies by examining the tensions between the global approaches and standards currently disseminated in the discourses on public health and the more specific situations linked to the local context in Lorraine. Within the field of the health humanities, the TRAPPS project adopts an original approach by focusing on moments during which health policies, standards and practices are in motion and in tension.
Transitions provide a privileged window for observing normative frameworks, their implementation and the sometimes conflicting or shifting receptions that they are subject to. Two kinds of transitions will be analyzed – the first one deals with the capacity of public health policies to support environmental transitions (as well as old transition as the emergence of the Occupational medicine in the mining context as contemporary ones with the case of lead poisoning among travellers exposed to metal contaminants or the case of inflammatory bowel diseases which increase with new feeding patterns) ; the second one focus on the capacity of public health policies to support biographical transitions (Mental health issues during incipient maternity and paternity, during the old age and the end of life).
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ABR
Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a critical threat to human, animal, and environmental health, due to the misuse of antibiotics and other compounds (biocides…). Alarming projections indicate that by 2050, ABR could surpass cancer as cause of death, with an estimated 10 million deaths per year. Combatting ABR requires a global ‘One Health’ approach, integrating human, animal, and environmental health aspects.
The LUE IMPACT ABR project proposes a comprehensive approach to address the entire contamination-dissemination chain by:
- Increasing public awareness and improving communication campaigns ;
- Understanding the mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer and the role of Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) in resistance dissemination ;
- Investigating the cycle of exposure and recontamination across ecosystems following environmental contamination by human and animal wastes.
To reach these objectives, our consortium federates scientists with a diverse array of expertise, ranging from microbiology to scientific mediation including biochemistry, structural biology, agronomy, zootechnics, environmental sciences, clinical medicine, social psychology, information and communication science.
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