The Institut SoMuM is pleased to support three thematic schools: The Balkans. Espaces, sociétés, histoire - IIIe édition ; Sciences sociales et terrains à haut risque en Syrie et au Moyen-Orient ; l'Université d'été du Rédoc (Réseau international d'écoles doctorales en sociologie / sciences sociales).

The Institut Sociétés en Mutation en Méditerranée (SoMuM) and the Service Commun de la Documentation (SCD) of Aix-Marseille Université, invite you to their training session "Valuing my publications while respecting copyright", on Wednesday May 29, 2024, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. This course is organized in partnership with the Pôle Édition of the Maison méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH).

As part of the Call for projects 2024 - Support for scientific events, aimed at PhD students, teacher-researchers and researchers from the 12 laboratories within the SoMuM perimeter, the Institute has contributed financially to upcoming national and international colloquia, workshops and cultural events:

Ampiric is pleased to present its new website: https://ampiric.fr/

This symposium is supported by the Institut Sociétés en Mutation en Méditerranée (SoMuM), as part of SoMuM's Call for Projects 2024 - Support for scientific events.

It invites us to consider the development of knowledge about the revolts against which the governing authorities deployed armed troops throughout the 19th century. It focuses on the use and influence of the knowledge produced on the revolt in the political and social re-ordering of the movement, and on the place of these events in the disciplinary corpus concerned. It also looks at the knowledge developed within the revolting populations.

For the first time, a study by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Aix-Marseille Université and Sorbonne Paris Nord University, including specialists in the fields of communication, nutrition, epidemiology and public health, has shown that displaying the Nutri-Score on food products in advertisements would lead consumers to choose healthier foods. This work was published on April 16 in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Members of U7+, the international alliance of universities of which Aix-Marseille Université is a member, gathered at Bocconi University for their annual summit. On this occasion, representatives of member universities drafted a declaration urging G7 leaders to work together to remove barriers and improve access to education worldwide.

The second edition of "GIG Days" took place on March 25-26-27, still led by the GIG (Geometry and Computer Graphics) course of the "Computer Science" master's degree (UFR Sciences). Following the success of the first edition, which took place in June 2023, these days were once again funded by the TIGER project (Transform and Innovate in Graduate Education with Research), winner of the France 2030 investment program.

With its ambition to support innovative projects from the ideation phase through to solution prototyping, the CISAM+ project is at the heart of teaching and research at Aix-Marseille University. Find out more about the four tutored projects already on offer to Aix-Marseille Université students: DronAMU, ExosqAMU, e-ChargeAMU and OrthAMU.

The Sustainable Development Cafés were set up at the initiative of the Sustainable Development Department to provide a two-way forum for the exchange of ideas and information, both in terms of needs and issues specific to each site (mobility, waste, biodiversity, etc.), and in terms of informing local communities about SD/RS projects/actions.