The Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) 
is a government-funded research organization under the responsibility of the French Ministry of Research.
With 34,000 people and 1140 research units throughout the country, the CNRS conducts research in all scientific fields of knowledge. In addition, the CNRS conducts interdisciplinary programs, one of the main objectives of which is to promote interdisciplinarity in order to improve knowledge, ensure economic and technological development, or respond to complex societal needs. Its budget amounts to 3,415 billion euros.
PACTE is a "social science laboratory". Its members are invested in the construction of common languages and transversal knowledge on the transformations of our societies in their political, territorial, sociological, and ecological dimensions. Coming from laboratories specialized mainly in territorial planning, geography, and urbanism on the one hand, and political science and sociology on the other hand, the laboratory also gathers some economists, historians, lawyers and specialists in information and communication. It places interdisciplinarity at the heart of its practices, through the sharing and confrontation of methods, epistemologies, and common grounds.
The organization of the unit into 5 teams (Environments, Regulations, Governance, Social Justice and Cities and Territories) plays on the scales of relations between actors (from large international organizations to subalterns), but also on urban and rural territorial deployments, considering the environmental issues that these processes raise.
The collective life of PACTE is built around the production of excellent fundamental research, deployed through international thematic and disciplinary networks. The laboratory is also recognized as a dynamic actor in research-action collaborations, notably with public, associative, and private institutions, with a strong link to the territories in which it operates. It also intends to play a central role in the dynamics of innovation and experimentation in the social sciences, exploring both new forms of co-production of knowledge and research-creation and new formats of dissemination of research results in the city.
The UMR PACTE of the CNRS brings to the project its experience in the analysis of the internal and external environment of organizations, the design, deployment and monitoring of the implementation of strategic projects and their action plans, as well as their thematic and organizational variations.
The skills mobilized allow WP3 to be supported by the mastery and use of the tools necessary for the construction and monitoring of the implementation of strategic projects.
UMR PACTE will bring its methodological expertise in different fields, risk and vulnerability analysis, data law, survey, and analysis methodology. Its experts will provide advice, training, and methodological support to the project's beneficiary institutions to help them implement ambitious, realistic and feasible project approaches.
The expertise of its batch leader in risk management will provide the project with methodological support in identifying, monitoring, and controlling the risks inherent in this type of partnership. UMR Pacte will coordinate WP3 on the analysis of the external environment with USSH and will support WP8, led by UDE (P16), Quality, Risk Management and Evaluations.
