FUTURE - Inventing the city of tomorrow

The FUTURE initiative includes strategic lines and concrete actions. These will be deployed in liaison with I-SITE’s academic and socio-economic partners, underpinned by an ambitious Human Resources policy and flexible, pro-active governance to give the initiative fresh structural impetus. Research • Producing new knowledges, especially via the Interdisciplinary Research programme . • Attracting the best and retaining the talent trained on the campus through an ambitious HR policy underpinned by a top-level recruitment drive and talent-support initiatives. Training • Building an excellent course offer on the “City of tomorrow”thanks to the School of Excellence programme and an Institute of higher education on urban studies . • Facilitating the professional integration of graduates and PhD students and accelerating a strategy to forge partnerships with the economic and social sectors based on initial training and apprenticeship learning. • Supporting innovative learningby leveragingon-site experiments, a Learning InnovationCenter andpedagogical investment incentives. Valorization • Developing a unique experimental platform and demonstrator offering. • Facilitating research-action, experimentation and an entrepreneurship culture. •Developing innovative collaborative research projects; co-programming staff mobility programmes. International • Setting up an International League on sustainable cities with the top 10 international urban studies universities (TU Delft, Singapore, etc.). • Creating and heading up a European urban studies network. • Creating an international masters programme. Campus life • Forging a site identity, providing high-value services to communities and deploying initiatives to facilitate the integration of new students ( Welcome Office ). Governance • Proactive, representative governance that embraces all members of the community, especially students ( Student Parliament ). •Developingpooled support functions for academic staff and researchers: pedagogical design, project business development, via the Learning Innovation Center and an Economic PartnershipOffice . FOCUS ON THE I-SITE The I-SITE call for proposals launched by the President of France as part of the second Investment programme for the Future ( Investissements d’Avenir ) in 2014, seeks to boost attractiveness and showcase sites recognised internationally for scientific excellence in their specialised areas. The I-SITE comprises: • a label of excellence: the international jury-based selection process is above all a sign for the quality of the research and courses produced by the institutions selected; • financial resources: this call for proposals provides successful candidates with funds of several million euros a year; • stronger momentum and closer synergies buoyed by academic partners in the same territory (universities, schools, research bodies) as the I-SITE’s goal is to forge closer ties with socio- economic stakeholders in order to drive collectivemomentum. BUDGET Université Paris-Est and the involved institutionswill receive a (non- consumable) capital of €280million, representing annual interests of €9 million. A strategic action plan www.future-isite.fr