Totem sites
In conjunction with its academic and socio-economic partners, the PEPR Recycling program wishes to establish a number of spaces to host local activities around its research themes. They will not be built around PEPR’s target projects, but rather around cross-disciplinary themes, thus fostering interactions between the program’s 11 research axes, as well as interdisciplinary relations.
These “lieux-totem” may be hosted by industrial partners or higher education and research establishments (ONR, universities, schools), where PEPR can provide its expertise for scientific events (research days, schools), interaction with companies, local authorities and associations (technical days, presentations of activities, outreach), and training (initial or lifelong) in collaboration with the host establishments and their teaching teams (doctoral schools, for example). Science outreach initiatives for the general public can also be organized on these sites.
The place-totem can be hosted in existing structures on a site, if this provides greater visibility and/or relevance for the site’s players. The ultimate aim is to create a “PEPR Recycling” label.
In PEPR-labeled sites, recycling-related activities could be co-financed by PEPR. Each year, the PEPR Steering Committee will select the actions to be supported at the various sites, but each “lieu-totem” will organize its own governance and operations. The structure may therefore differ from one site to another.
Some partners have already taken up the project, such as the University of Le Mans, which has created a rudology totem (the study of waste and its disposal). A total of 20 totem sites are scheduled to open in 2026.
Certains partenaires se sont déjà emparés du projet, à l’image de l’Université du Mans, au sein de laquelle a émergé le lieu-totem de rudologie (étude des déchets et de leur élimination). Au total, ce sont 20 lieux-totems qui devraient voir le jour courant 2026.
“Lieux-totem” booklet (june 2025)
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