IDEX CALL FOR PROPOSALS GUI+ IDEX 2 | SELECTION PHASE SUBMISSION FORM Acronym of the project GUI+ Titre du projet en Initiative d’excellence français Grenoble-Alpes Université de l’Innovation Project title in Excellence Initiative English Grenoble-Alps University of Innovation Name: Yannick Vallée Address: [email protected] Project manager PRES Université de Grenoble bât. les Taillées - 271 rue de la Houille Blanche 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères – France Institution leading the project (Project Name: GUI+ Committee leader) Capital grant 908 million Euros requested Structure of the Idex partnership Higher education institutions Research institutes Other Université Joseph Fourier CNRS CHUG (Grenoble University Hospital) Université Pierre Mendes-France CEA Université Stendhal INRIA Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble Cemagref IEP Grenoble INSERM Université de Savoie Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble Grenoble École de Management GUI+ | Grenoble-Alps University of Innovation 1/87 IDEX CALL FOR PROPOSALS GUI+ IDEX 2 | SELECTION PHASE SUBMISSION FORM 1 CONTENTS 2 ADDITIONAL FILE: OPERATIONAL MEASURES ............................................................................ 3 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 12 4 DELTA DOCUMENT ................................................................................................................ 18 4.1 The legal status of the structure carrying the Idex ..................................................................18 4.2 The management of the EPCS ...................................................................................................18 4.3 Resource allocation ....................................................................................................................19 4.4 Human resources policy ............................................................................................................20 4.5 Training ........................................................................................................................................21 4.6 The link between universities and schools “grandes écoles” ................................................22 4.7 International Relations ...............................................................................................................23 4.8 Our roadmap................................................................................................................................23 4.9 Our vision of the “finished model” of our university ...............................................................23 5 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT ............................................................................... 25 5.1 Ambition and strategy: The University of Grenoble-Alpes in the European top10 .....................25 5.2 Structure and characterization of the initiative of excellence .................................................30 5.2.1 Presentation of the project leader .............................................................................................30 5.2.2 Application to the actions of the program “Investissements d’avenir” ........................................30 5.2.3 Excellence perimeter, environment, prospects and added value ..............................................33 5.3 Project and prospects ................................................................................................................39 5.3.1 Training & education (bachelor’s, master’s levels) ....................................................................39 5.3.2 Doctoral studies ........................................................................................................................45 5.3.3 Research and innovation...........................................................................................................47 5.3.3.1 Innovation and society priority .............................................................................................................................47 5.3.3.2 Health priority.......................................................................................................................................................53 5.3.3.3 Sustainable planet priority ...................................................................................................................................57 5.3.3.4 Information priority ...............................................................................................................................................62 5.3.3.5 Scientific Instrumentation.....................................................................................................................................70 5.3.4 Support and campus life............................................................................................................74 5.3.5 International strategy .................................................................................................................75 5.4 Governance, organization and management ............................................................................76 5.5 A policy of excellence for human resources ............................................................................79 5.6 Means ...........................................................................................................................................81 6 KEY DATA AND FINANCIAL PLANNING ..................................................................................... 84 GUI+ | Grenoble-Alps University of Innovation 2/87 IDEX CALL FOR PROPOSALS GUI+ IDEX 2 | SELECTION PHASE SUBMISSION FORM 2 ADDITIONAL FILE: OPERATIONAL MEASURES Perimeter of excellence A recent study on the excellence of the top 30 French research sites, conducted on the basis of assessments from the AERES (national agency for the evaluation of research and higher education), ranks the Grenoble site as follows: - Physics: 2nd - Sciences and information technology: 2nd - Mathematics: 3rd - Earth and universe sciences: 4th - Social Sciences: 4th - Chemistry: 7th - Human Sciences and Humanities: 7th - Engineering Sciences: 8th - Biology: 9th - Agronomical and Ecological Sciences: 14th Our perimeter of excellence is built on our strongest disciplines (Physics, Computer Sciences, Mathematics), our specific expertise in Engineering and Earth Sciences, and our strong points in Biology, Social Sciences and the Humanities, all in the service of a cross-disciplinary approach that seeks to provide answers to major societal issues. It contains a large number of laboratories ranked A+ or A by the AERES. It is presented in terms of priorities (Innovation and Society; Health; Sustainable Planet; Information) and cross-disciplinary projects that seek to reinforce our effectiveness and attractiveness, both towards students and researchers. Nb of academics Priority in the perimeter INNOVATION Creation, Culture, Technologies 100 AND SOCIETY Human Sciences and Social Sciences Innovation, Territories and Governmental Sciences 200 HEALTH Health / Biology / Biotechnology 350 Health, well-being, nutrition, biotechnology SUSTAINABLE PLANET Environment 400 Environmental emergency and eco-friendly technologies Energy 700 INFORMATION Micronanotechnologies 800 Information, communication and nanotechnologies Intelligent Systems and Software 600 Scientific Instrumentation 350 Education 16 000 students Our perimeter of excellence incorporates 35% of the total number of academics in our territory and 25% of our students. GUI+ | Grenoble-Alps University of Innovation 3/87 IDEX CALL FOR PROPOSALS GUI+ IDEX 2 | SELECTION PHASE SUBMISSION FORM Current strengths and weaknesses The strong and the weak points of our perimeter can be studied from the rankings given above. Nonetheless, we consider that our insistence in basing this perimeter on pluridisciplinary themes, of major societal concern, constitutes the real point of strength. Grenoble’s reputation has been based on this emphasis placed on major projects of strong international visibility. Such an approach has brought together diverse disciplines to confront complex problems with a combined effort which means that the excellence of our strongest disciplines pulls the others upwards to a higher level and to increased visibility. In this way interdisciplinarity is the creator of excellence. This pursuit of excellence is also the consequence of what we call the perimeter of emergence, presenting thereby a dynamic vision of excellence, with the emergence of today becoming the excellence of tomorrow. We consider this dynamic vision as one of our strong points. Even if this entails the possible risk of a decline, at least relatively, of certain domains of excellence, it is up to us to be able to counter such a tendency. Previous success stories in our perimeter of excellence have shown that the combination of education, research and industry in the same site is a guarantee of an effective transformation of emergence into excellence. Scientific ambition (Criteria 2) Thanks to the quality of research being conducted over a number of years, Grenoble has a significant visibility resulting in particular in our presence in major international rankings. The scientific university of Grenoble (UJF) is ranked in the TOP200 Shanghai rankings (the sixth French higher education institution, the second outside Paris). It is abundantly clear however that Grenoble’s position in the world’s rankings