UGA referent
Sandrine Caroly (Pacte, UGA/Grenoble INP)
Project's co-sponsors
Sandrine Caroly (Pacte, UGA/Grenoble INP)
Cécile Cornou (ISTerre/URD)
Nicolas Eckert (ETNA/INRAE)

Presentation document

After the first phase of the Risk@UGA CDP (2017-2021), a second phase is beginning towards a risk institute within the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA).
The Grenoble Risk Institute project, born within the framework of the CDP projects (interdisciplinary programs) of the UGA aims to build an institute of risk and resilience within the UGA. Since September 2022, this project has been supported by the UGA via the CDTool GI2R (2022-2024). Beyond the administrative aspects of the project, the objective is to create a sustainable and perennial risk institute beyond 2024, the exact format of which remains to be specified and co-constructed at this stage.

The objective of the Grenoble Risk Institute is to federate and energize local research on risk science, as well as training and to strengthen the position and visibility of the UGA in this field, in conjunction with its network of partners. To this end, the institute is positioned as:
i) a one-stop shop and a label for local researchers on the theme, for example to build joint responses to calls for projects (ANR, Europe, etc.)
ii) an interface aiming to put local researchers in network with the national and international international level, as well as with a large network of institutional, operational and private partners. private partners. In the short and medium term (2022-2030), the Risk Institute will play the role of interlocutor and local operator within the IRIMA PEPR for the UGA, which co-sponsors this PEPR.
On the other hand, the Risk Institute is not a funding agency (although it may, depending on its resources, support certain support certain projects or scientific activities), and is not intended to duplicate existing existing structures (Poles, Labex, etc.).
Within the institute, the work will consist of identifying needs and prioritizing and rationalizing requests.

Thematics

In terms of themes, the Grenoble Risk Institute is positioned in the field of risk science, which is becoming more and more autonomous at the international level as a field of research in itself, fundamentally inter and transdisciplinary. Its salient features are 1) to be interested in the cascading effects effects (e.g. an earthquake, causing a dam to burst, a flood with consequences on a Seveso chemical industry, causing an explosion and an emergency management and emergency overflow), 2) to work on the whole "risk cycle" and its various stages: hazard its different stages: hazard assessment, exposure anticipation, vulnerability and resilience management and resilience, crisis management, 3) to take into account climate change and the effects of human activity in an analysis and 3) to take into account climate change and the effects of anthropization in an analysis and management of decision-making adapted to these evolutions
(global change, systemic approach, different temporalities, sustainability).
To this end, the Risk Institute aims to develop interdisciplinarity between the life and earth sciences human, economic and social sciences and engineering sciences. In terms of priority research questions, these include i) taking better account of socio-environmental environmental changes within non-stationary risk measures, in order to produce risk projections over (ii) combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to risk assessment and risk management (ii) to combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to risk assessment, (iii) to experiment with participatory approaches and action-research on territories involving stakeholders (including citizens), iv) to develop models and simulation develop models and tools for simulation and decision support interfaced with multiple and heterogeneous data to anticipate and heterogeneous data to anticipate events and improve the links between risk assessment and and crisis management. The Risk Institute thus responds to several scientific challenges of sustainable planets and society, health, well-being and technology, supporting innovation and digital and digital technology in the service of people and society.

Internal structuration: 5 thematic clusters

In terms of structuring and coordination, the Grenoble Risk Institute is currently based on five "clusters" aimed at producing high-level scientific knowledge, as well as being involved in the partnership and teaching dimensions of the institute: Innovation for Resilience Resilience, Earthquakes and hazards, Mountain risks in the context of global change, Evaluation models for decision making, Anthropization and natural risks on habitat. These clusters cover all disciplines and have references in research, partnerships and training that allow them to be involved in the These clusters cover all the disciplines and have referents for research, partnerships and training that allow them to be involved in all the dimensions of the institute. The number of these clusters will evolve in the future in order to produce research in line with the social issues and with the challenges and social demands of the partner actors (research organizations, institutes industrialists, local authorities).

Structure

The institute is structured around (i) a CODIR, in which the promoters and leaders of the various clusters participate, (ii) a COPIL comprising the CODIR, all of the cluster referents and the local partners directly involved, (iii) a committee of partners (clusters, labex, national or international risk organizations and institutions, companies, local authorities, government services, etc.). (ii) a COPIL comprising the CODIR, all of the cluster referents and local partners directly involved, (iii) a committee of partners (clusters, labex, national or international risk organizations and institutions, companies, local authorities, government departments), (iv) a scientific committee (scientific experts, research institutes).