Sino-French collaboration
The PIRVE programme contributes to the international collaboration initiative between the CNRS Ecology and Environment Institute (INEE) and the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). Several actions have been undertaken as part of this partnerhips: a first scientific mission in Shanghai in January 2008, a communication to the Sino-French Conference of Paris in September 2008, a second scientific mission in Beijing and a contribution to a Sino-French workshop on ‘City and Environment’ in March 2009. Finally, the PIRVE was responsible for the scientific organisation of the French side of the Sino-French research seminar that took place at the Institute of Urban Environment (CAS-IUE) of Xiamen. During this English-speaking event, communications have been presented in three thematic sessions:
- The urban environment as a living environment
- Urban metabolism
- Urban foresight and urban futures
The next Sino-French workshop will be held on March 14, 2011 in Paris (LADYSS laboratory) with CNRS and CAS representatives.
More information here on the CNRS-CAS programme.
Contacts
Catherine Bastien-Ventura, CNRS-INEE, China project manager
Nathalie Blanc, PIRVE Deputy Director
Other international activites
The PIRVE programme is part of the international urban environmental research landscape. A state of the art of different research programming approaches in several countries and at the European level has been conducted during the prefiguration phase (more information here)
Several PIRVE projects focus on foreign case studies, in Europe (Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden…) as well as in the rest of the world (United States, Canada, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Cameroun, South Africa, Kenya, Cambodia, Laos, India…)
The PIRVE programme has organised 3 international conferences with presentations of many foreign researchers (see the English resources page).
