Night Science 2012 booklet

Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires
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"Learning through
research"
Workshop
13th-15th July 2012

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Presentation of the project « Institut Innovant de Formation par la Recherche »
(IIFR)
Open research training to as many: creating training for innovative research and
education and support them to facilitate the emergence of open innovation
ecosystems.
Competitiveness between world's most attractive universities is due in large part to their
ability to develop a culture of innovation at all levels and to provide research training to
students since the undergraduate level. Learning by research provides a more complete
experience, where not only the traditional scientific knowledge that Francois Jacob
describes as “Day Science”, but also stimulation, emotion, involvement, that only
exploration the unknown gives when dealing with “Night Science”.
Unfortunately, far too few people may have lived this research being done, as it is
traditionally done in well equipped laboratories with experienced research teams. These
labs can accommodate students and trainees, but their capacity cannot meet a growing
need for research training. Various initiatives have shown that it is now possible to
promote alternative approaches to research through scientific experiments, low-cost
research approaches of “crowdsourcing”, open innovations, “citizen science” or via
“scientific discoveries games”.
As shown in the results published in Nature, a game like Fold-it has allowed tens of
thousands of players to help to solve scientific challenges. These changes in practice can
make the "Night Science" accessible to all. This may apply equally to university students,
school children or general public without any training environment. Practices that pass
through the web, particularly via a mobile phone, can enable all, especially the younger
ones, learn while contributing to the progress of scientific research.
To allow the research training of new generations, we will establish an innovative and
interdisciplinary support and courses for teachers and researchers to use and create
tools and devices that will implement these changes to large scale.

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Presentation of the event “Learning Through Research”
The official launch of the Institute for Innovating Teaching through Research ('IIFR')
project will be marked by a workshop, 13-15th
of July 2012 in the presence of multiple
stakeholders, internationally recognized not only in their respective disciplines (science,
social entrepreneurship...) but also for their innovation in education. We particularly
welcome Lee Hartwell, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine and
now instigating an innovative teachers' training program in the United States.
This gathering of exceptional individuals has two main objectives. First, it will allow the
dissemination of best practices in terms of pedagogy and innovation in education. After
an official opening on July 13th, the day of July14th will present examples of the state
of the art of these areas.
The second objective is to develop future initiatives to emerge within the IIFR project,
co-constructed between the IIFR team and the expert invitees. Thus, July 15th will be
devoted to brainstorm in small groups, centered on the main themes of the IIFR project
We expect that this intensive three-days workshop will serve as strong basis for the
implementation of best practices and newly-born projects as a robust basis to achieve
the main goal of the IIFR project: research-based training for students and teachers who
will integrate science, new technologies and new pedagogies.

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Communication during the workshop
We will use live streaming, blog and twitter to communicate during the workshop to
open the discussion with many more than those that will be there to attend live the
event.
Summary
Program................................................................................................ 5
Speakers ............................................................................................... 6
Partners support.....................................................................................23
Partners...............................................................................................28

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Program "Learning through research" Workshop 13-15 July 2012
Friday 13 July (Afternoon)
16:00 - Official Opening
17.00 - New perspectives on knowledge co-construction
Lee Hartwell, Vicky Colbert, Stephen Friend, François Taddei
Saturday 14 July
Morning
8.30 - Gathering and Coffee
09.00 - Innovative science teaching
Melissa McCartney, Nathalie Kuldell, Michael
Springer, James Carey
10.10 - Promoting innovation
Paulo Blikstein, Aviv Bergman, Quanshui Zheng
11:10 – Coffee break
11.30 - Citizen Science
François Grey, Pedro Russo,
Muki Haklay, Vittorio Loreto
12.40 - Quick talks for emerging innovations
13:00 - Open Buffet
(Ground floor in front of the Amphithéâtre
Luton)
Afternoon
14:00 - Scientific games
Hilmi Quraishi,
Jérôme Waldispuhl, Stefan Thurner
15.00 - Building Innovative tools
for science & education
Manu Prakash, James Carlson,
Lisha Sterling, Peng Yin
16.20 - Coffee break
16.45 - Empowering Communities
Carol Ann O'Hare, Linda Kamau,
Henry Roman
17.45 - Creative learning
Dale Stephens, Yogesh Kulkarni,
Ariel Lindner
20.00 - Dinner at the CRI, room 2006
Sunday 15 July
9.30 Coffee & Gathering
10.00 - Presentation of the programs that will be developed in Paris @CRI
12.00 Open Buffet
14.00 - Group session to design innovative projects
17.00 - Coffee break
17.30 - Feedback session and future perspectives

"Learning through research" Workshop 13th-15th July 2012
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Speakers
BERGMAN Aviv
Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Email: aviv@aecom.yu.edu
Website: http://www.bergmanlab.org
Bio
Aviv Bergman is professor and founding chairman in the Department of Systems and Computational
Biology, as well as professor of neuroscience and pathology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
He is also external professor at Santa Fe Institute.
His research agenda addresses quantitative problems in evolutionary and developmental biology by
using a combination of computational, mathematical and experimental tools. Starting with
biologically relevant models, they comb for data from existing studies, and in close collaboration
with experimentalists, they generate new data. In turn, this data allows them to refine the models,
thus guiding both experimental and modeling processes. The ability to test models in this way is
facilitated by data generated from systematic genomics efforts undertaken in recent years. Central
to his approach is an evolutionary perspective in examining the hypotheses arising from the
combination of theoretical model and biological data.
BLIKSTEIN Paulo
Institution: Stanford
Email: paulob@stanford.edu
Website: http://www.blikstein.com/paulo/
Bio
Paulo Blikstein is an assistant professor at Stanford University’s School of Education and (by courtesy)
Computer Science Department. Blikstein’s research focus on the confluence of expressive
technologies for learning and critical pedagogy. He adapts cutting-edge technologies for use in inner-
city schools, such as computer modeling, robotics, and rapid prototyping, creating constructionist
learning environments in which children learn science and mathematics by building sophisticated
projects and devices. His research interests also include the applications of complexity sciences in
education and computational literacy, particularly the new knowledge representation infrastructures
emerging from the use of computational representations.
Blikstein has worked extensively with inner city students in developing countries, such as Brazil,
Mexico, Senegal, and Costa Rica, and also in the US. He completed his PhD. at the Center for
Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling at Northwestern University, and holds a B.S. in
Metallurgical Engineering and a MEng. in Digital Systems Engineering from the University of São
Paulo, Brazil (1998, 2001), as well as a MSc. degree from the MIT Media Lab (2002), where he was
also a visiting scholar (2003). Outside of academia, Paulo studied Film and directed scientific
documentaries. Paulo has published several book chapters and papers about his work in education.

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CARLSON James
Institution: School Factory
Email: james@schoolfactory.org
Website: http://schoolfactory.org/james
Bio
James lives and works at the crossroads of the co-working and maker movement. After leaving high
school at 16, James launched a successful career as an entrepreneur and technologist but never
stopped looking over his shoulder at school. He founded The School Factory, a non-profit organization
dedicated to bringing the business, education, and creative communities together to transform public
learning. In 2002, James engaged Milwaukee in creating Bucketworks, a health club for the brain.
Bucketworks offers people and communities both a physical space and the tools to test-drive their
ideas and their passions. Since Bucketworks opened its members have created more than 70 new
programs and companies, ranging from high-tech startups to high schools, hundreds of pieces of art
and technology, and thousands of events and experiences. As the economy compressed in 2008 and
2009 and hundreds of similar spaces sprung up across America to support displaced workers and new
entrepreneurs, James partnered with these spaces to form the Space Federation, a national network
of creative maker environments that share resources, tools, and expertise. To engage the business
community in this conversation, James and his team created the Bucket Brigade, a for-profit company
that brings the values of open source, open communication, and transparency into the workplace
through social technology and social experiences. At the heart of these efforts is James’ fundamental
passion and belief that all people are creative; each person has a “genius” which, given a place and
the tools, will flourish. Through his work he strives to spark the creative potential in everyone, and
change the game of economy, education, and community development.
CAREY James R.
Institution: UC Davis, Department of Entomology
Email: jrcarey@ucdavis.edu
Website: http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=carey
Bio
His interest started in 2008 when he was chair of the University of California systemwide Academic
Senate Committee on Research Policy. As chair, he charged the committee with the task of finding
ideas to increase synergy across our 10-campus system. He took lead in research seminar network
that, as you will see in reading the PLoS paper, that he has hopes to become international. The
technical details of the paper are already outdated as he evolves his thinking. But the UC TV Station,
UCTV, used his paper as a roadmap to create a new platform UCTV Seminars. Also he helped them
develop a virtually zero cost-high quality system for video seminar capture.
He is also now getting involved in the MOOC (massive online open access courses) at Stanford and is in
direct contact with computer scientist Daphne Koller, one of the founders of Coursera. You may have
read where they had 150,000 enroll in the machine language course.
He would very much like to get together on science outreach mechanisms. We perhaps can build on
the UCTV Seminars model to create an international virtual hub for science outreach.

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COLBERT Vicky
Institution: Escuela Nueva
Email: vcolbert@escuelanueva.org
Website: http://www.escuelanueva.org/portal/
Bio
Ms. Colbert founded the nonprofit organization Escuela Nueva Foundation, which aims to improve the
quality of education in low-income schools across the globe. Since its inception, the organization’s
innovative educational model has reached more than five million children in Latin America and has
influenced education models in Africa and Asia.
Founded in 1987, the internationally recognized Escuela Nueva Foundation works to alleviate
inequality and poverty through a collaborative learning educational program in Ms. Colbert’s native
Colombia. The program provides effective teacher training, improves curriculum and fosters
classroom environments that are engaging and compelling to students. The Escuela Nueva model
moves away from traditional “teacher-centered” environments, which often emphasize rote
memorization directed by the teacher, and instead encourages “child-centered” environments that
fully engage students and allow them to learn at their own pace.
DULONG DE ROSNAY Mélanie
Institution: ISCC CNRS & Creative Commons France
Email: melanie.ddr@gmail.com
Website: http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1558
Bio
Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay is a researcher at the CNRS Institute for Communication Sciences and
Creative Commons France legal lead at CERSA CNRS University Paris 2 where she is associated
researcher. She co-founded Communia international association on the digital public domain. After
receiving a PhD in law, she was a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of
Harvard Law School and at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam.
Her research currently focuses on comparative public policy for open access to scientific data and
public domain works, and on transformation of legal regulation introduced by distributed
architectures.

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ENDRAYANTO Irwan
Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Email: endrayanto@gadjahmada.edu
Website: http://endrayanto.staff.ugm.ac.id/
Bio
Irwan Endrayanto is a staff member of Department Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural
Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He did his master and his PhD at the Universiteit
Twente, the Netherlands. His main research topic is Stochastics Operations Research. Most of his
current research is closely connected to the work for his PhD thesis, and therefore concerns the
modeling the third generation of wireless network, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
(UMTS), that employing Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). His interest includes some general
knowledge that are required in the modeling of CDMA system, i.e., stochastics processes, multi-
server loss network, queueing theory (e.g., M/G/1 Processor Sharing), mathematical programming,
stochastics linear programming, game theory and simulation.
Currently, as a minor research interest, in the past 4 years, he does some research in Application of
Queueing Theory in Traffic Modeling of Network of Traffic Light.
FRIEND Stephen
Institution: Sage Bionetworks
Email: friend@sagebase.org
Website: http://sagebase.org/info/directors.php
Bio
Dr. Friend is the President of Sage Bionetworks. He is an authority in the field of cancer biology and
a leader in efforts to make large scale, data-intensive biology broadly accessible to the entire
research community. Dr. Friend has been a senior advisor to the NCI, several biotech companies, a
Trustee of the AACR and is a AAAS and Ashoka Fellow as well as an editorial board member of Open
Network Biology. Dr. Friend was previously Senior Vice President and Franchise Head for Oncology
Research at Merck & Co., Inc. where he led Merck’s Basic Cancer Research efforts. Prior to joining
Merck, Dr. Friend was recruited by Dr. Leland Hartwell to join the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center’s Seattle Project, an advanced institute for drug discovery. While there Drs. Friend and
Hartwell developed a method for examining large patterns of genes that led them to co-found
Rosetta Inpharmatics in 2001. Dr. Friend has also held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School
from 1987 to 1995 and at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1990 to 1995. He received his B.A. in
philosophy, his Ph.D. in biochemistry and his M.D. from Indiana University.

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GREY François
Institution: Citizen Cyberscience Center
Email: francois.grey@shuttleworthfoundation.org
Website: www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/francois-grey/
Bio
Francois Grey is passionate about advancing Open Science, specifically Citizen Cyberscience, as the
focus for his Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship. Citizen cyberscience is a collective term for a
diverse, grass-roots movement that is enabling ordinary citizens to participate in real scientific
research thanks to the Web.
Francois is a physicist by training, with a background in nanotechnology and a strong interest in
science communication. He spent six years at CERN, managing IT communications. In 2004, he
initiated and managed the launch of a volunteer computing project called LHC@home. This led to
another project called Africa@home, launched in 2005 in collaboration with several academic
institutions, NGOs and United Nations agencies.
He is currently based in Beijing, where he has spent the last two years as a visiting professor at
Tsinghua University, part of that time supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to develop
citizen cyberscience in China and more widely in South-East Asia, through an initiative called
Asia@home and a project called CAS@home. In 2009, he helped establish a Citizen Cyberscience
Centre in Geneva, which is a partnership between CERN, the United Nations Institute for Training
and Research and the University of Geneva.
HAKLAY Muki
Institution: University College, London
Email: m.haklay@ucl.ac.uk
Website: http://povesham.wordpress.com/
Bio
Muki Haklay is a professor of Geographic Information Science in the Department of Civil,
Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College in London. He is also the director of
the UCL Extreme Citizen Science group, which is dedicate to allow any community, regardless of
their literacy, to use scientific methods and tools to collect, analyze, interpret and use information
about their area and activities.
His research interests include Public access and use of Environmental Information, following work
started in his PhD thesis (completed 2002); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Usability
Engineering aspects of GIS; and Societal aspects of GIS use – in particular, participatory mapping and
Citizen Science.

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HANAPPE Peter
Institution: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
Email: hanappe@csl.sony.fr
Website: http://www.csl.sony.fr/~hanappe/
Bio
Peter Hanappe studied electronic engineering at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He wrote his
Ph.D. thesis on real-time music and sound environments at Ircam (Centre George Pompidou, Paris).
When a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris he has worked on new modes of
content creation and distribution before focusing on projects in the domain of sustainability. He was
involved in setting up a collective system for monitoring noise in urban environments (NoiseTube)
and in building critical components for large-scale climate simulations in collaboration with the U.K.
Met Office. He has also developed technologies for minimizing energy usage in volunteer
computation projects such as ClimatePrediction.net.
HARTWELL Lee (Leland Harrison)
Institution: Arizona State University
Email: lee.hartwell@asu.edu
Website: http://sustainability.asu.edu/research/profiles/hartwell.php
Bio
Lee Hartwell is the recipient of many national and international scientific awards, including the 1998
Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the 1992 Gairdner Foundation International Award and
the Alfred P. Sloan Award in cancer research. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or
medicine in 2001 for his discoveries of a specific class of genes that control the cell cycle – research
that provided important clues to cancer. He is a professor of genome sciences and an adjunct
professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and an American Cancer
Society Research Professor of Genetics. Hartwell has a B.S. from the California Institute of
Technology and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he engaged in
postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1996, he joined the faculty of the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and a year later he became its president and director. In
addition to founding and co-directing Arizona State University’s new Center for Sustainable Health,
Hartwell is the university’s second Virginia G. Piper Chair of Personalized Medicine.

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KAMAU Linda
Association: Ushahidi
Email: linda@ushahidi.com
Website: http://ushahidi.com/
Bio
Linda Kamau is a software developer based in Kenya with a degree in Business Information
Technology. She develops both web and mobile applications. Before joining Ushahidi, Linda worked
as a software developer with IT firms such as Ibidlabs, Ltd. and Mobile Pay, Ltd.
When not doing what she loves most (coding), she enjoys outdoor activities like camping. She is also
a die hard Man U fan and can often be found watching the latest football match.
KULDELL Nathalie
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Email: nkuldell@mit.edu
Website: http://biobuildereducationalfoundation.org/
Bio
As a faculty member in the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Nathalie Kuldell develops discovery-based curricula drawn from the current literature
and ongoing research projects to engage undergraduate students in structured, reasonably authentic
laboratory and project-based experiences. This approach to teaching and learning is something she
has recently extended to pre-college aged students and their teachers and is a model for education
that she believes applies equally well to other fields such as physics, chemistry, math.

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KULKARNI Yogesh
Institution: Ashram Vigyan
Email: vapabal@gmail.com
Website: www.vigyanashram.com
Bio
Since college days, Yogesh Kulkarani is involved in various educational activities such as literacy
movement and educating slum children. After Engineering and management education, he worked
for a multinational company for 3 years and then decided to join ‘Vigyan Ashram’ to pursue his
passion for education. Vigyan Ashram is a center of ‘Indian Institute Of Education, Pune’. It has
developed a unique program - Rural Development through Education System (RDES), which integrates
education and rural developmen’. The program is implemented in formal schools as well as in non-
formal centers. Since 2003, he is heading this unique initiative, which turned many dropouts’
students into entrepreneurs and inventors. He has conceptualized and headed replication of ‘RDES’
program in 72 schools in 17 districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka states of India involving more than
6000 students. He is actively involved in movement to use of technology in education. He also
worked as a project leader to use of ICT for educating nomadic tribes. This project won UNESCO
award in the ‘non formal education’ category in 2008. He also worked on the concept of rural
internet kiosk and internet based services for villagers. He is founder director of a company M/S
Agrocom Pvt Ltd. which provides agricultural solution to the farmers. Vigyan ashram hosts the first
Fab lab in collaboration with MIT (USA). He is heading the Fab lab at Pabal since beginning.
LINDNER Ariel
Institution: CRI, INSERM, University Paris Descartes
Email: ariel.lindner@inserm.fr
Website: http://www.cri-paris.org
Bio
Ariel Lindner is an INSERM tenured senior researcher and director of the Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Life Sciences master program (AIV) in Paris' Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI).
He graduated from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) "Amirim" interdisciplinary program with
major in Chemistry and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science
(Rehovot, Israel) in Chemical Immunology for work on catalytic antibodies as enzyme models,
antibody conformational changes and directed evolution. After a research period at the Scripps
Institute (California, USA), he received EMBO and Marie Curie fellowships to pursue postdoctoral
work in Paris with Prof. Miro Radman. His research interests evolve around applying Physical,
Chemical and Biological approaches to study variability between clonal individuals, aging and
synthetic biology.
Together with Francois Taddei, they created the CRI, a convivial meeting point between their lab
and interdisciplinary teaching at the undergraduate, master and PhD levels. In this framework he
serves as the director of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences master program and leads
the Paris team for the synthetic biology iGEM competition at MIT for the past 5 years.
Interested in propagating our experience towards a global community of research learning hubs
across the world and to experimentation of new pedagogical approaches, he took part in launching
the WISER-U community. Activities include empowering local actors in research and education to
create their own EduLabs (eg, China, Indonesia).

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LORETO Vittorio
Institution: Sapienza University
Email: vittorio.loreto@roma1.infn.it
Website: http://samarcanda.phys.uniroma1.it/vittorioloreto/
Bio
Vittorio Loreto, PhD (Sapienza University, Rome and ISI, Turin) is Associate Professor at the Physics
Dept. of Sapienza University. His scientific activity is mainly focused on the statistical physics of
complex systems. In the last few years he has been active in the fields of granular media, complexity
and information theory, complex networks theory, communication and language evolution. He has
coordinated the European project TAGora, focused to the study of online social communities as well
as several Italian national projects and the Rome team of the IST ECAgents project. He published
over 100 papers in internationally refereed journals and chaired several workshops and conferences.
He was the vice-chairman of STATPHYS 23, the 23rd International Conference on Statistical Physics.
MCCARTNEY Mélissa
Company: Science Magazine / AAAS
Email: mmccartn@aaas.org
Bio
Dr. Melissa McCartney is a member of the editorial staff at Science where she works on several
education initiatives, including the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) and the
Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI). She is also the project director for “Science in the
Classroom,” an National Science Foundation sponsored project aimed at annotating Science articles
so they can be used as teaching and learning materials. Additionally, she is involved in selecting and
writing education based Editor’s Choice selections, selecting and editing Research Reports on
educational topics, and soliciting and producing Special Issues in Education. Prior to joining Science,
Dr. McCartney was a policy fellow at the National Academies where she worked with the Committee
on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. McCartney completed her PhD in neuroscience
from The George Washington University, where her research consisted of a pharmacological
characterization of the GABAA receptor epsilon subunit, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she examined network dynamics in the hippocampus;
specifically with regards to seizure generation in epilepsy.

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O'HARE Carol Ann
Association: Wikimedia
Email: carolann.ohare@wikimedia.fr
Bio
After a Masters in neuroscience and a training in corrections, Carol Ann O'Hare starts journalism with
curiosity and passion. Director of an association of popular science, named Plume!, for two years,
she joined the ranks of the association Wikimedia. She is now a “chargée de mission” in "research
and teaching." She is responsible for coordinating, supporting, proposing and propeling projects
related to the world of research and education.
PRAKASH Manu
Institution: Stanford University
Email: manup@stanford.edu
Website:
http://www.stanford.edu/~manup/Manu_Prakash_Lab_website/
Welcome_to.html
Bio
Manu Prakash is assistant professor, in the department of bioengineering, at Stanford University.
After a B.Tech, in Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, he graduated from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 2008 and became a junior fellow in Physics, from Harvard Society of
Fellows. His lab is a curiosity driven research group working in the field of physical biology. Their
approach brings together experimental and theoretical techniques from soft-condensed matter
physics, fluid dynamics, theory of computation and unconventional nano-fabrication to open
problems in biology: from organismal to cellular and molecular scale. They design and build precision
instrumentation to probe and perturb biological machines and their synthetic analogues. Along the
way, they invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource poor
settings.

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QURAISHI Hilmi
Company: ZMQ
Email: hilmi@zmq.in
Website: http://www.zmqsoft.com
Bio
Hilmi Quraishi, from India, is the co-founder of ZMQ - a "Technology for Development" social
enterprise based in India. He is a pioneer in using mobile phones to reach out to grass-root
communities. As a technovator and social entrepreneur, he develops practical technological solutions
in low-resource settings which effectively reach out to the bottom-of-the-pyramid markets. He also
uses games specially the mobile games as a medium to create awareness on critical health issues like
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis etc. He also uses games for scientific learning.
ROMAN Henry
Association: World Association of Young Scientists (WAYS)
Email: hjroman5@gmail.com
Bio
Henry Roman is a former student of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (MSc Biochemistry)
and Rhodes University (PhD Biotechnology), both in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. In 2005 he
started a post-doc in the division Biosciences, CSIR, South Africa. He left the CSIR as a projects
manager in 2008 to join Metago Engineering Services, an environmental consultancy as a scientist.
Henry has an active interest in the bioremediation of acid mine drainage, and the environmental
health of South Africa's water resources. He currently works as the director in environmental services
and technologies at the Department of Science and Technology in South Africa. Also he is also
currently the chairperson of WAYS Africa and president of WAYS. He was part of the organizing
committee to launch the Southern African Young Water Professionals (SA YWP) and the Akili Young
Scholars (AYS) and is currently the treasurer of SA YWP. The YWP is affiliated to the International
Water Association (IWA) and the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA). The AYS are affiliated to
the Akili Network of the National Research Foundation (NRF).

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RUSSO Pedro
Institution: International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009)
Email: russo@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Bio
Pedro Russo is the global coordinator for the largest network ever in Astronomy, the International
Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). With 148 countries involved, the IYA2009 fosters a global
appreciation of the role and value of science, technology and astronomy as a unifying activity for
humanity. Pedro coordinates the planning, implementation, execution and evaluation of the global
IYA2009 activities, projects and events. He is also responsible for the communication between the
thousands of stakeholders of the project, including projects and national chairs, astronomy
community, media and society with respect to all global IYA2009 issues. Pedro obtained his
University degree in applied mathematics/physics/astronomy and his Master’s Degree in geophysics
from the University of Porto, Portugal. Before assuming his current position, he spent one year and
half working with data from the Venus Monitoring Camera onboard ESA’s Venus Express. In the
meanwhile he has been working with different international organisations, like Europlanet (European
Planetology Network), International Astronomical Union Commission 55: Communicating Astronomy
with the Public, European Geophysical Union - Earth and Space Science Informatics Division and
International Astronautical Federation -Space and Society Committee. At the European Southern
Observatory in Munich Pedro is member of the educational and public outreach department. Pedro is
also the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal.
SAHLBERG Pasi
Institution: CIMO
Email: pasi.sahlberg@cimo.fi
Website: http://www.pasisahlberg.com/
Bio
Pasi Sahlberg is Director General of CIMO (in the Ministry of Education) in Helsinki, Finland. He has
experience in classroom teaching, training teachers and leaders, coaching schools to change and
advising education policy-makers around the world. Dr. Sahlberg has lived and worked in the United
States (World Bank in Washington DC) and Italy (European Commission). He is an international
keynote speaker and has published over 100 articles, chapters and books, among them "The Fourth
Way of Finland" (2011), “Rethinking accountability in a knowledge society” (2010), “Creativity and
innovation through lifelong learning” (2009), and "Education Reform for Raising Economic
Competitiveness" (2006). He earned PhD from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) in 1996. Dr.
Sahlberg is a member of the Board of Directors of ASCD and Adjunct Professor at the University of
Helsinki and the University of Oulu. His latest book is "Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn
from educational change in Finland?".

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SPRINGER Michael
Institution: Harvard University
Email: michael_springer@hms.harvard.edu
Website: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Springer_Lab
Bio
Michael Springer is an assistant professor of systems biology at Harvard University. His research
focuses on understanding the relationship between genotype and phenotype, with a special interest
in how biochemistry, molecular design, and wiring can allow cells to process information from their
environment and respond appropriately. By comparing similar pathways in related species and
duplicated genes in the same species we can study the importance of quantitative features of
pathways.
Why have 10% of yeast genes been preserved in duplicate? By swapping the promoters and coding
regions of a number of duplicate genes and monitoring both transcription and fitness we will
determine which quantitative features of duplicate genes are required.
Does over-expressing a protein increase the total protein abundance in a cell or decrease the
expression of every other protein? How much can a protein level be varied before we observe
phenotypic/fitness costs? How similar are environmental responses in related yeast species? How
easy is it to evolve quantitative features of signaling pathways? Where does most of the functionally
relevant evolution happen: mRNA abundance, protein level, post-translation modification, etc.? To
address these and other related questions, we are focusing on cellular homeostasis, beginning with
pH homeostasis. We mainly use fluorescence read-outs in response to the environment in different
wild-type and mutant backgrounds to build quantitative data sets appropriate for numerical and
analytical approaches.
STEELS Luc
Institution: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
Email: steels@arti.vub.ac.be
Website: http://ai.vub.ac.be/members/steels
Bio
Luc Steels studied linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and computer science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His main research field is Artificial Intelligence covering
a wide range of intelligent abilities, including vision, robotic behavior, conceptual representations
and language. In 1983 he became a professor of computer science at the University of Brussels
(VUB). He has been co-founder and chairman (from 1990 until 1995) of the VUB Computer Science
Department (Faculty of Sciences).
He founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris in 1996 and became its first director.
Currently he is ICREA research professor at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC, UPF). Steels
has participated in dozens of large-scale European projects and more than 30 PhD theses have been
granted under his direction. He has produced over 200 articles and edited 15 books directly related
to his research. During the past decade he has focused on theories for the origins and evolution of
language using computer simulations and robotic experiments to discover and test them.

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STEPHENS Dale
Affiliation: Thiel fellow
Email: lishevita@gmail.com
Website: dalejstephens.com
Bio
Dale Stephens brings a unique perspective on the future of education, talent, and innovation. He is a
sought-after education expert appearing on major news networks including CNN, ABC, NPR, CBS,
Fox, TechCrunch, New York Magazine, and Forbes. His writing has been published in the New York
Times, Washington Post, and Fast Company.
Dale's first book “Hacking Your Education” will be published by Penguin in early 2013. The book
focuses on his story of unschooling, the self-directed form of homeschooling he engaged in when he
left school at age 12. At 20, Dale leads UnCollege, the social movement empowering students to
create their own education. In May 2011, Dale was selected out of hundreds of individuals around the
world as a Thiel Fellow. The Thiel Fellowship, created by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and
first investor in Facebook, recognizes the top entrepreneurs around the world under the age of
twenty.
STERLING Lisha
Organisation: HackerMoms
Email: lishevita@gmail.com
Website: http://www.alwayssababa.com/
Bio
Lisha Sterling is a programmer, a journalist, a poet and a figure skating unschooling mom in Israel.
She is an Internet expert with more than 13 years experience in developing cutting edge technology
to create both business and educational solutions on the Web. Currently focusing on supporting
startup companies with Research and Development needs, helping business people take their ideas
and turn them into practical technology. Brings boundless creativity mixed with real-world
experience to bear in shaping combined technology and business strategies.

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TADDEI Francois
Institution: CRI, INSERM
Email: francois.taddei@inserm.fr
Website: http://www.cri-paris.org;
http://www.necker.fr/tamara/pages/francois.html
Bio
Engineer turned geneticist, François Taddei, Inserm leads a team working on systems biology. He is
an acknowledged expert of evolution and argues for interdisciplinary approaches in both research
and education.
Polytechnic graduate, he is an engineer of the school Ponts, Eaux et Forêts, PhD of genetics and
director of research at Inserm. He is the author of numerous publications in international scientific
journals. Participating in various working groups on the future of research and higher education,
François Taddei has contributed to "France 2025" (Strategic Diagnostics: ten challenges for France)
and the reflections of the European Commission. In a report on the education provided to the OECD,
François Taddei indicates that in the 21st century everyone should have learned how to learn,
cooperate, and use all available knowledge, including those made available by new technologies. He
suggested that education systems are based on the "culture of inquiry", a new maieutic, international
best practices, and supports the development of sites and tools dedicated to the sharing of
experience among innovators. It proposes to use new approaches to participatory science and
scientific discovery games to open as many training through research.
THURNER Stefan
Institution: Medical University of Vienna
Email: thurner@univie.ac.at
Website: http://simshelf.dans.knaw.nl/content/thurner-stefan
Bio
Stefan Thurner is full professor for Science of Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna,
where he founded the Complex Systems Research Group (now Section for Science of Complex
Systems) in 2003. Since 2007 he is external professor at the Santa Fe institute.
After his PhD in theoretical physics at the Technical University of Vienna in 1995 he held postdoc
research positions at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Boston University before he joined the
University of Vienna in 1999 and later Medical University. In 2001 he got a second PhD in economics
at the University of Vienna and his Habilitation in theoretical physics. About this time - strongly
influenced by visits to the Santa Fe Institute - he began to shift his focus from theoretical physics to
biological and complex systems, which are now his main areas of scientific work. Thurner has (co-)
organized several international workshops, conferences and summerschools, and has himself
presented more than 150 talks. His work has received broad interest from the media. Thurner serves
as a member of several scientific boards.
Apart from science Thurner has been active in quantitative financial consulting for financial
institutions since 2003 in particular for automated trading strategies.

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WALDISPUHL Jérôme
Institution: McGill University
Email: jeromew@cs.mcgill.ca
Website: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jeromew/
Bio
Jérôme Waldispuhl did his PHD in the computer science laboratory (LIX) of École Polytechnique in
France, where he worked on transmembrane protein structure prediction algorithms under the
mentorship of Jean-Marc Steyaert. In January 2005, he moved to Boston to work with Peter Clote on
RNA secondary structure prediction algorithms and he resumed a work he started during his PhD on
the development of algorithms for exploring the RNA mutation landscape. Six month later, he
became affiliated to the Bonnie Berger and Srinivas Devadas groups in the Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. In July 2006, he joined the Applied Mathematics
Department at MIT as an Instructor and he worked there until June 30th 2009. He joined McGill on
September 1st 2009.
Now, he is assistant professor in the School of Computer Science of the McGill University and a
member of the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics. He remains affiliated to the CSAIL as a research
affiliate.
YIN Peng
Institution: Harvard University
Email: peng_yin@hms.harvard.edu
Website: http://yin.hms.harvard.edu/people/yin.peng/index.html
Bio
Peng Yin has just joined the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School as an Assistant
Professor in January 2010. He is also serving as a Core Faculty member of the Wyss Institute for
Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
He was a senior postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering and computer science at Caltech's Center for
Biological Circuit Design, which is part of Caltech's Information Science and Technology initiative. At
Caltech, he primarily worked with Prof. Niles A. Pierce and Prof. Erik Winfree.
Before joining Caltech, he obtained a Ph.D. in computer science under Prof. John H. Reif and a M.Sc.
in molecular cancer biology, both from Duke University. Before coming to Duke, he graduated from
Peking University with a B.Sc. in biochemistry and molecular biology and a Bachelor in Economics.
His research interests lie at the interface of information science, molecular engineering, and biology.
The current focus is to engineer information directed self-assembly of nucleic acid (DNA/RNA)
structures and devices, and to exploit such systems to do useful molecular work, e.g. probing and
programming biological processes for imaging and therapeutic applications.

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ZHENG Quanshui
Institution: Tshinghua University
Email: zhengqs@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Website:
http://ias.ncu.edu.cn/EIAS/admin_gaoyan/News_View.asp?NewsID=95
Bio
Quanshui Zheng is chair professor at the Department in Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua
University, China. After his PhD in Solid Mechsnics at Tsinghua University, he was associate professor
at the Department of Civil Engineering at Jiangxi Polytechnic University, China. His researchs focus
on (1) nanomechanics, nano-devices, micro/nano-bionics; (2) mechanics of heterogeneous materials,
damage mechanics, constitutive equations (composites, polymers, biomaterials, teeth, polycrystals,
ceramics); (3) theory of representations for tensors and tensor functions, mechanics of anisotropic
behavior, rational mechanics.

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Partners support
Helga NOWOTNY, PhD
President of the European Research Council
[…]
Since many years, François Taddei has aimed to develop innovative education methods
and training through research with an in-built capacity to reach out and to self-organize.
The aim is to do so both within the frame of university teaching at masters and doctoral
level, but also beyond. I dare say that this is pioneering work of the highest standards
which, given adequate and sustained support, will have a huge impact far beyond his
immediate environment, beyond Paris and France. He is well acquainted with the latest
developments, most often US-based, of crowd-sourcing of research, citizen science,
scientific discovery games, and other new ways of involving the younger generation. The
project presented in his application aims specifically to enable students at master and
doctoral level to develop their own research tools which opens up entirely new
perspectives on how scientific discoveries – and the joy of doing so – can be made more
widely accessible in radically novel ways while considerable speeding up scientific
activities. It has the potential to reach out far beyond the walls of laboratory and
academia. Above all, making François Jacob’s notion of “night science” and integral part
of how to teach, a more holistic approach towards teaching science and scientific
methods is opened up, one that is hugely appealing to a younger generation brought up
with skills to use the latest technological gadgets, yet often left completely alone on what
they could use their skills on.
In summary, the approach and ideas presented in François Taddei’s application are at the
forefront of international developments and would make it possible to set up yet another
‘lieu de créativité scientifique’, devoted to put the scientific education of future
generation on an innovative new level.
[…]
Claudie HAIGNERE
Président d’Universcience
[…]
Cette démarche (qui) s’inscrit pleinement dans notre réflexion pour développer des
formations innovantes, en lien avec l’Enseignement supérieur et l’Education nationale,
associant le monde de la recherche et tournée vers l’employabilité des étudiants.
Bénéficiant du label « Living Lab », Universcience pourra être une plateforme d’accueil et
d’expérimentation de vos formations innovantes, destinées aux étudiants, enseignants et
plus largement à tout acteur de l’éducation formelle ou informelle.
[…]

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Jean-Michel BLANQUER
Directeur Général de l’Enseignement Scolaire
[…]
Je souhaite vous apporter […] mon soutien à cette démarche qui me semble répondre
pleinement à la demande de préfigurer les formations universitaires du futur et de
promouvoir de nouvelles démarches de formations, en lien avec la recherche et avec le
souci de l’employabilité des étudiants.
Notamment, la logiqu de formation par le recherche et l’innovation, en intégrant des
logiques interdisciplinaires, une articulation avec Universcience et en associant un
dimension professionnalisante, me semblent des éléments très structurants répondant tant
aux enjeux de l’enseignement supérieur qu’aux préoccupations du ministère de
l’éducation nationale, pour lequel l’innovation, la formation des futurs enseignants et
l’enseignemnt des sciences et technologies sont des priorités.
[…]
Christian FORESTIER
Recteur au Centre National des Arts et Métiers
(Cnam)
[…]
Le Cnam s’est doté ces dernières années de dispositifs e-formation de pointe : une
plateforme d’e-formation qui propose un environnement numérique de travail, la
possibilité de « chater » et de suivre des forums en ligne ; des studios de cours qui
permettent à l’enseignant de filmer et diffuser ses cours sur Internet. […]
Le Cnam est l’établissement européen le mieux doté dans le domaine de la formation à
distance.
Pour ces raisons, le Cnam s’engage dans le projet Idéfi « Formation par la recherche » en
proposant sa technicité en termes d’ingénierie de formation, de développement de
pratiques pédagogiques et de déploiement de son savoir-faire en réseau (28 centres en
régions et 12 implantations à l’étranger).
Ces savoir-faire contribueront activement à la diffusion des ressources et productions
créées dans le cadre de ce projet et à l’accompagnement des acteurs de la formation
initiale et continue dans leur processus d’innovation.
[…]

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Manuel MAJADA
Secrétaire Général d’Université des Sciences en
Ligne (Unisciel)
[…]
Cette initiative rentre tout à fait dans la volonté d’Unisciel d’accompagner les équipes
pédagogiques en favorisant les usages de ressources et en soutenant les projets et
démarches innovantes.
Unisciel, depuis maintenant presque cinq and, propose de nombreuses ressources
pédagogiques labellisées en Sciences, consultables en accès libre. Elle favorise également
la création de nouvelles ressources et le développement de nouveaux projets à travers les
appels à projet annuels.
Unisciel peut donc contribuer à ce projet Idefi en aidant les équipes pédagogiques en
termes d’ingénierie de projet mais aussi en favorisant la diffusion des ressources et
productions créées. En particulier, Unisciel peut favoriser la mise en place de ressources
intéressantes en regard des jeux de découvertes scientifiques proposés, et cela de façon à
approfondir les notions dégagées lors de l’apprentissage ludique. D’un autre côté, Unisciel
peut même proposer ces jeux en complément des ressources pédagogiques.
[…]
Prasad RAM
Founder and CEO of Ednovo
[…]
Ednovo gives its full support to the Institut Innovant de Formation par la Recherche (IIFR)
lead by François Taddei as the vision of this project corresponds to Gooru’s philosophy of
open access to education, science and education. […]
Based on our previous experience, Ednovo will collaborate in the project development by
using all of our training and open access expertise in order to help IIFR determine action
line for its innovative learning ecosystem proposal.
Goory, a learning search engine developed by Ednovo, is a free education search tool that
curates, auto-tags and contextualizes collections of web resources to accommodate
personalized learning pathways. Goory helps facilitate training and international
competitions, and disseminate information, project learning, and teaching resources with
rich open education resources and social networking features. Developed by a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization, Gooru will be free for use by researches, other non-profit
organizations, schools, and users forever.
[…]

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David SOURDIVE
Président du Pôle MEDICEN
[…]
Nous sommes heureux d’apporter notre soutien à votre projet de formation IDEFI “Institut
de formation Innovant de Formation par la Recherche” au plus grand nombre qui s’inscrit
dans notre plan d’action ayant pour objectifs de répondre aux besoins/compétences des
entreprises en santé d’Ile de France. […]
Le pôle (MEDICEN) examine […] les formations d’excellence existantes et propose de les
rendre encore plus attractive en modulant les aspects théoriques de la formation et en
rendant accessible des stages dans les laboratoires académiques ou les centres de
recherche industrielle les plus performants.
Enfin, dans des domaines où n’existent pas actuellement d’offres de formation adaptées
[…], le pôle travaille à la définition des programmes les plus adaptés de façon à construire
ces enseignements avec les enseignants académiques et industriels.
[…]
Jean-Pierre FINANCE
Administrateur provisoire de l’Université de
Lorraine
[…]
Permettre la formation par la recherché des nouvelles générations nécessite en premier
lieu de former les enseignants et chercheurs de demain. Cela nécessite donc la mise en
place de formations interdisciplinaires et innovantes, qui doit permettre aux futurs
acteurs de l’université d’être en mesure de construire les outils et les dispositifs qui
permettront à ce changement de s’implémenter à plus grande échelle.
L’université de Lorraine est prête à s’engager dans la formation de doctorants sur cet
aspect. Elle s’engage pour ce faire à : 1- s’impliquer dans le réseau des acteurs mobilisés
sur ce projet et désireux d’innover dans la formation universitaire ; 2- proposer aux
doctorants et les inciter à participer, dans le cadre de leur formation, à des ateliers pour
explorer les implications de ces innovations dans leurs domaines respectifs ; 3- motiver
également les doctorants pour participer à des écoles d’été regroupant des experts
désireux d’échanger sur leur pratique et de les rendre accessible à tous ceux qui
souhaitent innover dans leurs pratiques pédagogiques.
Ce projet IDEFI permettrait de faciliter la création de telles formations en s’appuyant
d’une part sur les expériences menées par les porteurs et les partenaires du projet et
d’autre part une mutualisation et une rationalisation de moyens et l’accès à de
nombreuses ressources innovantes.
[…]

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Jacques BERGER
Institut de Recherche Technologique
de Lyon Biotech
[…]
L’IRT Lyon Biotech s’est engage (…) à développer des activités liées à la formation;
formation des étudiants par et à la recherché, accueil de stagiaires (…) et également
formation continue destinées à réorienter mais aussi à ouvrir de nouveaux champs de
création et d’innovation à des professionnels matures.
Conscient du caractère spécifiant, attractif et de mise en visibilité potentielle que sont
les activités éducatives, l’IRT souhaite également être un exemple d’innovation, voire
servir de creuset et de plateforme d’expérimentation, en science pédagogique. […]
Il est aujourd’hui possible de promouvoir et d’aborder la recherche de manière différente
via des expériences scientifiques à faible coût, des approches de « crowdsourcing » de la
recherche, de science citoyenne ou des jeux de découvertes scientifiques. L’IRT
souhaiterait également s’en approprier la méthodologie et à son tour faire émerger des
concours, à visée nationale ou internationale, tout en servant ses besoins de nouvelles
idées et concepts, sa responsabilité sociétale et la formation de ses étudiants aux enjeux
de demain.
[…]

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Partners
This project is supported by the PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité for which “The project
will play a strategic role in the ability to innovate in its PRES education”.
The PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité includes:
Sorbonne Paris Cité
Sorbonne Paris City is the first Centre for Research and Higher Education (PRES) to emerge in Paris. It
aims to strengthen the capacity of member institutions in research and training. Sorbonne Paris Cité
combines four universities (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot Paris 13) and four
high schools or institutes (Sciences Po, the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health, National
Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations and the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris).
University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3)
The University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, offers in the field of Languages, Literature, Arts & Media,
Humanities and Social Sciences a set of training Bachelor, Master and Doctorate. These courses offer
career opportunities varied careers in teaching and research, publishing trade, literature, performing
arts (theater, cinema and audiovisual), communication and journalism, mediation cultural translation
and interpretation, Europe and International. The formations of the Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
University are associated with internationally recognized research in the field of modern humanities.
Université Paris Descartes (Paris 5)
Paris Descartes University, located in the historic heart of the Latin Quarter, is the second largest
university in Paris. University of Human Sciences and Health, it offers a wide variety of learning: the
humanities, law, economics, management, physical education, mathematics and computing,
technology, psychology, biomedical sciences in the European LMD and all medical courses - medicine,
pharmacy and dentistry. The University participates in major international training programs and
research. It hosts 85 research teams most often linked to major research organizations (INSERM,
CNRS, IRD).
Université Paris Denis Diderot (Paris 7)
At the heart of the global economy of knowledge and innovation, the University Paris Diderot is the
first comprehensive university with an international dimension, it offers to its 26,000 students,
training and renovated in diverse areas: Arts, humanities, languages - social sciences - economics and
social sciences - science, technology - medicine, dentistry. The excellence of its 92 laboratories,
associated with large organizations gives to Paris Diderot University a status of major player in
international research. The university is located in a growing business district, the 13th district of
Paris, near the National Library of France, and participates actively in the Paris Left Bank
neighborhood.

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Université Paris Nord (Paris 13)
Major center of teaching and research in the North of Paris, University Paris 13 is one of the thirteen
universities that have succeeded to the Sorbonne after 1968. It now has nearly 22,000 students, or
trainees, spread over four campuses: Villetaneuse, Bobigny, St. Denis and La Plaine Saint-Denis.
Multidisciplinary, Paris 13 University offers its 22,000 students a very broad-based training and also
includes three IUT and an engineering school: Sup Galilee.
SciencesPo Paris
Founded in 1872, Sciences Po form for 140 years the leaders of tomorrow, as in the private sector in
senior management, policy and research. The lessons are organized to provide students a European
education in a globalized world. Intellectual formation, rooted in the fundamental study of law,
economics, history, political science and sociology. It is fed by a cutting-edge research developed by
the scientific teams at Sciences Po His educational project based on the acquisition of knowledge and
skills as professional disciplinary and aims to develop in students the skills of discernment and
judgment, the intellectual curiosity, the height of view and sense of responsibility.
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique
The EHESP educate senior to public health nationally and internationally and offers master,
engineering, and doctoral 's degrees,. The School also gives high level training that enable its students
to access management positions in the health sector, the health, social and medico-social. EHESP is
also a platform for education and public health research with six academic departments and research,
a research laboratory environment and health, six interdisciplinary research centers.
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
The Institute of Earth Physics of Paris is a great institution of higher education and research
associated with the CNRS. In its mission of creating and transmitting knowledge in the fields of
geosciences, adds a mission of observation of natural phenomena. The IPGP has a policy of basic
research and training actively open to society and businesses, through activities and services of
research development and technology transfer.
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations
Orientales
The National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) is a large public institution
that teaches 93 languages and civilizations of the world. It trains specialists (9,702 registrations in
2009) in geography, history, life and political institutions, trade and international relations as well as
experts in risk countries. In 2011, INALCO instituted its Languages & Civilizations Pole, an ultramodern
building in the 13th arrondissement.

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Science Créativité Interdisciplinarité
Recherche & Education
The SCIRE Association was founded at the initiative of two researchers from INSERM, Francois Taddei
and Ariel Lindner, with the active support of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, to develop
research projects, teaching and interdisciplinary scientific interaction, focusing on the interfaces with
life sciences. Since its conception, the activity of SCIRE is dedicated to funding activities within the
Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity (CRI). The association has the Bettencourt Schueller as
principal sponsor, and has received several grants from other partners. The SCIRE is the partner of
Sorbonne Paris Cite in the Institut Innovant de Formation par la Recherche (IIFR) project.
Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire
The CRI, located at the Medical Faculty of Paris descartes University, hosts the Frontiers in Life
Sciences FdV Bachelor Program, the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Sciences master program (M1
and M2 AIV) and the European Interdisciplinary Liliane Bettencourt “Frontiers in Life Sciences” PhD
program (FdV). The CRI blends teaching with research and hosts as well the Evolutionary Systems
Biology INSERM team, lead by Francois Taddei and the AXA-Paris Descartes chair on “Systems
approach to individual differences in longevity”. Through the CRI student clubs, students-initiated
projects emerged to promote informal and intensive interactions between students and experts such
as the award-winning Paris iGEM team and the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Web Sciences Program.
As direct continuation of these multiple and successful experiences, the CRI will host the nascent
Institute for Innovating Learning through Research Institute (Institut Innovant de Formation par la
Recherche) project.

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