The Institute "Mediterranean Societies in Transition" (SoMuM) is administered by a Board of Directors which validates its political and strategic orientations.
The Institute's actions, its choices in terms of research, training, partnerships, as well as its budget are subject to the agreement of the Board of Directors. Headed by the Director of SoMuM, the Board of Directors brings together representatives of the laboratories, components and doctoral schools that make up the Institute. The Board of Directors also welcomes, as guests, the representatives of four research and training organizations associated with SoMuM.
Board of Directors Missions
- Validate the Institute's programming and strategic developments
- Guarantee a good fit with the strategy defined by Aix-Marseille University and the A*MIDEX Foundation
- Vote on the proposals of the Bureau in response to the recommendations of the Advisory Board and appoint the members of this body.
- To approve the annual scientific and financial balance sheet of SOMUM
- Vote for the membership of new research teams, internal or external to the University, for an expansion at the regional, national or even international level.
Board of Directors composition and voting rights
The Director of SoMuM invites the members of the Board of Directors to meet three times a year. The decisions of the Board of Directors are subject to a vote and are taken by an absolute majority of the members with voting rights.
Members in an advisory capacity
The Director of the Institute
The Project Manager
The Deputy Director of Research
The Deputy Director of Training
The Director of the Doctoral College of Aix-Marseille University
A student representative
College 1: members with voting rights
The director of the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'Homme
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Languages
The Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science
College 2: members with voting rights
The directors of the 11 laboratories making up SoMuM
Teams represented by the Board of Directors
Supported by the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'Homme, SoMuM brings together 281 personnel from the Aix-Marseille University area: researchers, teacher-researchers, engineers, technicians and administrative staff. Each team has a representative on the Board of Directors. The four associated research and training organizations are invited in an advisory capacity.
Eleven research laboratories
| Centre Gilles Gaston Granger (CGGG, UMR 7309) | Centre Norbert Elias (CNE, UMR 8562) |
| International, Comparative and European Law (DICE, UMR 7318) | Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC, UMR 7307) |
| Institute of African Worlds (IMAF, UMR 8171) | Institute for Research and Studies on Arab and Muslim Worlds (IRENAM, UMR 7310) |
| Mediterranean Laboratory of Sociology - Belief, History, Space, Political and Administrative Regulation (LAMES - CHERPA, UMR 7305) | Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST, UMR 7317) |
| Laboratoire Population Environnement Développement (LPED, UMR 151) | Time, Spaces, Languages, Southern Europe - Mediterranean (TELEMME, UMR 7303) |
| Centre Paul-Albert February (TDMAM, UMR 7297) |
Three components of Aix-Marseille University
| Faculty of Arts, Letters, Languages, Humanities | Faculty of Law and Political Science |
| Mediterranean House of Human Sciences |
Two doctoral schools in Aix-Marseille University
| Espaces Cultures Societies (ED 355) | Legal and Political Science (ED 67) |
Four associated partners
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institute of Human and Social Sciences | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales |
| Development Research Institute | Sciences Po Aix |