The action of LabEx ITEM's Editorial Hub consists in promoting the work of partner unit researchers, both among the scientific community and for a wider audience in touch with contemporary mountain territory issues. Several levels of publication and d...
LabEx ITEM promotes the implementation of processes intended to renew mountain territory development models by fostering collaboration with the stakeholders of these regions.
With respect to socio-economic stakeholders: events/places for exchange o...
Innovation is a key factor of competitiveness in international markets with high economic value. The sport tourism market in mountain, mainly based on outdoor sports practice (Bouhaouala and Biard, 2015; Bouhaouala and Bouchet 2009), is no exception t...
The Vivehab project aims at estimating mountainous regions’ social and economic vulnerability through the analysis of three main elements: population, services and employment. Properties usually found or impacting these areas are annual seasons, low d...
Since the 2000s, rural territories' preferred route is the quest for distinction. This is achieved via certification/labelling, which involves leveraging value from concepts such as heritage, environment and sustainability. This phenomenon is particul...
Set up in 2013, the ITEM Training Hub has two framework objectives: contributing to the development of an on-site "Innovation in the mountains" centre of excellence; and valorising research via training products at different levels.
The approach ad...
This project aims at analysing together the mountain transformations which we will tackle as liminal spaces, on the long term (the rallying and recomposition of Alpine identities), and the transformation related to the metropolisation process which af...
LabEx is structured into three hubs working in close synergy: a research hub, a training hub and a valorisation hub, each with dedicated operations and tools.
The Training Hub is characterised by its determination to take educationally innovativ...
TerritEx, Work Package 3, was characterised by collective work by researchers and actors in participatory research think tanks to examine its tools, contributions and method. Three collectives were formed:
the "Participatory research and refle...
New territorialities and socio-economic adaptations in a cross-border territory
General project objective
Understanding the situation, adapting to new constraints, working with the territory's actors to prepare the changes that place a significa...
One of the issues for the scientific community is to foster the emergence of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary approaches. This issue, sometimes presented as an injunction that runs counter to the traditional structuring of...
AlpSoils aims to develop an interdisciplinary approach to the shifting relationships between societies and soils in the Alps in a time of climate change. Instigated by Céline Granjou (environmental sociologis, Irstea Grenoble DTM) and Lauric Cécillon ...