Our proposal to the ANR MRSEI call concerns the improvement of the structuration and coordination of the international network (consortium) to develop a European project called “Social appropriation of knowledge, science and technology in sustainability projects “ (ASEPPS). The ASEPPS project will be presented in the Horizon Europe call, MSCA RISE 2021. According to the rules of the previous calls, the ASEPPS project is structured around international exchanges between partners from both groups of countries: the European Union’s participants (France, Ireland and Romania) and Latin America’s participants (Colombia, Argentina and Costa Rica), with the objectives of training and mutual transfer of knowledge, know-how and good practices in the field of research and innovation. ASEPPS aims to contribute to the sustainable development of climate-neutral local social practices through the implementation of green or low-carbon technologies. This objective will be achieved through joint actions in training-education, research and development of technology and innovation, carried out in the framework of the reciprocal international mobility of the partners. The main topics addressed will be energy, water and housing. The studies will focus on: - Using renewable energies (solar, biomass, waste) - Improving the local environment/neighbourhood: energy supply, quality of water, housing with local materials,... - Scientific education and multidisciplinary life-long learning education Taking into account local traditions, socio-economic characteristics as well as environmental conditions, the EU project will assess the social appropriation of the solutions (equipment, procedures, etc.) proposed through a collaborative study taking into account their participation in the structuring, sustainability and results of implementation on site. The technological solutions, with low carbon emissions, will be applied on several pilot sites where the partners are already developing research activities. The work of building the future EU projects ASEPPS with a consortium of partners started at the beginning of the year 2020. It accelerated with the creation of the logistics group COLIFRI– IMT Mines Albi. However, as it is a new consortium, the ANR funding can help significantly to mature this research and training network as it requests an important coordination task to make sure the European project proposal is made in good conditions to succeed. The initiator of the project, COLIFRI, is a Franco-Colombian association for research since 2018, supported by the French Embassy in Colombia and Colombia’s government (https://www.colifri.com/fr/qui-sommes-nous/). It brings together nearly 400 researchers and about forty-partner universities. IMT Mines Albi, an historic partner of several Colombian universities and the French Embassy in Colombia, was chosen as coordinator of the future project of ASEPPS, in charge of developing and submitting the European ASEPPS project. IMT Mines Albi is part of Institute Mines-Te´le´com (IMT), a French Higher Education and Research institute, comprised of 8 core-engineering schools, plus 5 affiliates. IMT is France’s largest engineering higher education and research institute. With over 13,000 students, including ~1,500 PhDs, over 1,300 professors/researchers and 500 international partnerships, IMT represents excellence in its endeavour to innovate for impact. IMT has been participating in more than 130 Horizon 2020 projects and plays a major role in Horizon 2020 by acting as National Contact Point (NCP) for the ICT programme as well as for a National Contact Point for Horizon 2020 programmes for SMEs.