Societies and Culture
In the context of constant change and multiple crises of our societies SCHADOC aims to promote critical reflection on the historical and theoretical basis of different forms of living together. That concerns migration, cultural diversity and identity, community building, cultural participation, and forms of heritage, as well as responsibility in and to the world. AMU has a strong research activity related to the Mediterranean area and some projects are excepted on these topics.
Climate change and environmental challenges
Understanding climate and environmental changes and their global impact is the major 21st century challenge facing humanity. This topic is related to 4 of the 5 missions defined in the HEur program (Adaptation to Climate Change, Restore our Ocean and Waters, 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, A Soil Deal for Europe). AMU has developed a great expertise in environmental transitions and biodiversity, both in land and in water. We have long term collaboration with “national park of Calanques”, and other national and regional parks. That will offer the opportunities to the Fellows to have privileged access to these protected areas and unique set of data collected by long-term observations of plants or gas compounds in atmosphere.
Health and well-being
AMU has a strong expertise in health-related research. The main research centers are focused on cancer, immunology, rare diseases, virology, neurosciences and imaging. They worked in close collaborations with clinicians from APHM (Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille) and IPC (Institut Paoli Calmettes) a large cancer treatment center. This facilitates the translational research for the benefit of patients. This ecosystem has favored the emergence of start-ups and some of them became high-tech companies. The Fellows will benefit from this dynamic ecosystem with state-of-the-art research, clinicians and top-level companies.
Artificial intelligence and its applications
The research programs addressed at AMU in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are very broad. They include both theory and fundamental research in AI, and their applications in a wide range of disciplines and scientific fields. One of the originalities is to combine a research activity in AI historically rooted on symbolic aspects and algorithmic aspects with more recent activity around numerical aspects and machine learning, most notably deep learning technics. Both fundamental and interface research in Artificial Intelligence have a long and fruitful interaction with applied fields, for instance in economics, archeology, particle physics, astrophysics, imaging, health, computational biology and human behaviour studies.
