In the field of cultural heritage, MIL-PAT seeks to reveal the political, legal, and ethical stakes, behaviors, and decisions involved in actions as material and technical as the digitization, indexing, editorialization, and virtual circulation of objects from ethnographic collections. Drawing on the knowledge acquired on the direct (geo)political and ethical aspects of these issues, MIL-PAT proposes to examine, using the case of the Natural History Museum of Toulouse as a starting point, and according to a principle of co-construction of knowledge, the technical and material roots of these problems upstream of restitution procedures, which reveal only one aspect of them. The phenomena of restitution cover more general questions of accessibility, sharing, legibility, and maintenance. It is these issues that the project intends to address. It will be based on the treatment of three ethnographic collections of the Natural History Museum of Toulouse - Madagascar, New Caledonia, Brazil - to reconstruct their ecosystem by gathering archives and documents, but also by investigating with collectives of rightful owners in the field. Fundamental research based on a strong hypothesis (the ethical-political also interferes at the technical-material level, not as a guide but as a cog), MIL-PAT also aims to act by helping cultural reappropriation through the fairest accessibility. The approach is designed to be exportable and reproducible, to build better and more effective bridges between the societies of origin and today's conservation establishments, for the benefit of all audiences. To achieve this, the project brings together researchers in anthropology, information science, history, and law, as well as professionals in the conservation of sensitive heritage, in charge of ethnographic collections and databases.

AD-ASTRA (Aerospace Districts: Acceleration of the Strategic Transfer of Regional Advancements) is a project about the positive interconnection among innovation ecosystems, with a focus on aerospace sectors. The proposal aims at the development of a connected, competitive, interregional innovation ecosystem between 5 EU regions (Toulouse, South Holland, Madrid, Apulia, Emilia-Romagna) with: a shared interest in fostering aerospace sectors, enhancing the cross-contamination to and from other innovative sectors (e.g., automotive, biomedical, agri-food, big data); different innovation readiness levels; aerospace districts with different levels of maturity and consolidation. “Diversity generates wealth”: the collaboration of these markedly diverse regions, furthermore represented by partners from different spheres of the quadruple-helix, will be a growth opportunity. The establishment of a solid and long-lasting collaborative EU network, able to exploit complementary skills, experiences, territorial and industrial vocations, will contribute to create a “critical mass” in EU strategic sectors such as innovation and aerospace, where global competition leads to a confrontation with actors of increasing size and requires innovative models and approaches. This ambitious goal will be achieved through an iterative process: starting from the collection, analysis and systematization of the experiences (competencies, technologies, networks) of the partner regions with reference to their aerospace districts; analyzing the future evolutions of the ecosystems, in response to technological, economic, political, and social megatrends; correcting or validating hypotheses and evolution models with the support of stakeholder groups; defining an action plan for the development of each of the regional aerospace ecosystems, valuing experiences and good practices stemming from other regions and strengthening spin-in and spin-out processes to and from other industrial sector and territories.

The 3 years long I-HEROS projects aims at developing a fully integrated home renovation service in Toulouse Métropole, the 4th French city with an urban area of 1.3 M inhabitants. The project aims at enhancing cooperation and coordination between existing programs and initiatives while adding innovative elements such as a technical diagnostic tool developed specifically for the Toulouse Métropole housing stock. This will be achieved through a strong consortium relying on partners with in-field experience in the technical, digital, social, legal and administrative aspects of renovation, as well as through a strong support and implication of the local actors. The consortium will capitalize on a widespread regional and national coverage to ensure efficient dissemination of the results and upscaling. The partnership with a German partner ZEBAU, with extensive experience in EU dissemination, will initiate cooperation and replication on an intricate level with the city of Hamburg and Germany. Long term sustainability of the service will be ensured through the development of an attractive financial offer and a robust business plan developed by the consortium under the lead of the Caisse des dépôts et Consignations. To reach the ambitious objective of renovating 2000 homes per year after the project, a 2-year trial period will initiate 500 renovations per year. During this trial, KPIs tracking and an external evaluation will enable the monitoring of the service performances and its optimization to ensure both the quality and sustainability of the service, ultimately improving homeowners trust. It is expected that, 3 years after the end of the project, 70 M€ of investments in renovation will have been triggered with more than 500 homes saved from energy poverty situations while the whole service will support in excess of 1300 jobs. Three years after, 56 GWh/yr of primary energy will be saved and the reduction of GES emissions is estimated at 14 700 tCO2-eq/yr.

DACUS aims at the development of a service-oriented Demand and Capacity Balancing (DCB) process for drone traffic management. This overall objective responds to an operational and technical need in European drone operations for a tangible solution integrating the functionalities of the SESAR U-space services for Drone Traffic Management (DTM) to produce timely, efficient and safe decisions. The project intends to integrate in a consistent DCB solution the relevant demand and capacity influence factors (such as CNS performances availability), definitions (such as airspace structure), processes (such as separation management), and services (such as Strategic and Tactical Conflict Resolution). Therefore, to achieve the overall DACUS objective, five specific objectives are set: 1. Develop a drone DCB process, from strategic to tactical phase, integrating uncertainty of planned operations and guided by the definition of a U-space performance scheme that include the development of metrics for airspace capacity appropriate for an environment with no human controller. 2. Develop innovative services algorithms and enabling models and technologies as functional blocks of DCB process, able to support large number of simultaneous operations and to design and manage efficient and safe drone trajectories. 3. Define a structure for Very Low Level (VLL) airspace and a set of airspace rules that optimises the trade-off between capacity and safety, including the definition of separation management process. 4. Find the optimal balance between on-board separation intelligence and U-space separation service intelligence in tactical separation depending. 5. Refine Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) requirements in support of tactical and procedural separation, with a focus on urban environment.

Moving from a linear urban metabolism to a circular resource economy is a major challenge for urban systems. The food-excretion system is no exception to this reality. The organic matter and nutrients from our food is found in biowaste and excreta and is little recovered, even though it is needed for agriculture. Sorting these materials at source increases the recovery rate compared to action at the end of the process chain. Source separation, on site treatment and recovery of organic waste is thus a relevant management solution, but it is only economically justified if these operations are properly organised, financially supported, socially accepted, recognised for their environmental benefits and do not generate nuisances. The TANGO project aims to remove the following socio-technical barriers with the following actions: • A lack of global simulations of material and energy flows on the scale of an urban territory to evaluate the relevance of management scenarios. Tools for modelling prospective management scenarios will be developed and tested in the Toulouse area. • Collection methods that generate nuisances and impose high and expensive collection frequencies. Two pre-treatments for the local management of organic matter will be compared after developing a qualification method. • A lack of analysis of the brakes and levers to increase the diffusion of new practices by users and professionals. Through an analysis of current projects, TANGO will therefore focus on the dynamics of dissemination in the territories of the practice and the construction of channels and policies. • Multiple actors will be brought together and made to work together to bring out concrete cases. Animation tools will be developed and used in the framework of the TANGO project.