TIERED

TIERED focuses on digital and environmental themes at Sciences Po, with the intention of reinforcing our expertise within the humanities and social sciences on these topics and working closely with other scientific disciplines.

This transformative approach to education, research, and impact is implemented in collaboration with the following partners:

The following priority themes have been identified in collaboration with project partners: 

• Health and the environment
  Understanding the challenges of decarbonization for the healthcare system from a public policy perspective, or taking into account the environmental and digital challenges of emerging infectious diseases from an interdisciplinary perspective.
   
• Political economy of the oceans
  Exploring the relationships between human activities and marine ecosystems through research, education and public policy support.
   
• Environmental and digital inequalities
  Documenting environmental and digital inequalities, exploring the challenges raised in measuring them, and deepening the understanding of their underlying mechanisms to better integrate these factors into research infrastructures, education, and public policies for equal opportunities and social justice.
   
• Politicization of science
  Understanding the new interactions that are emerging between science and society in a wide range of fields, at a time when scientific expertise is increasingly contested and embedded in social and political issues.
   
• Digital participation
  Describing new forms of digital participation, whether they result from deliberative mechanisms directly mediated by technology, or emerge from forms of mobilization and spontaneous public expression online, in a context of growing distrust in representative democracy.
   
• Digital traces for the social sciences
  Working with social data in the digital age, including the theoretical social questions and legal issues of access to these data, particularly in the context of the prospects opened up by AI.
   
• Culture as data
  Proposing an approach and method for the creation (technical and legal issues) and use of cultural databases in order to trace the history of social representations and power relations over the centuries.

The Partners' Committee is TIERED's supervisory body: it validates the project's strategic orientations and developments. The Committee  is made up of the following members:

• The Project Leader: the Director of Sciences Po, who chairs the Committee
• The Deputy Project Leader: the Director of Studies and Partnerships at Sciences Po.
• For each partner institution, the Director/President or his/her representative designated by the latter
• The Sciences Po Provost
• Institute Directors and Secretaries General
• The project's Executive Director

The Steering Committee presents the strategic orientations any proposed changes to the Partners' Committee, based in particular on the opinions of the Institutes' governing bodies. It ensures that the project is properly implemented and monitored, in dialogue with all Sciences Po departments and directions, partners, and the ANR.

It is made up of the following Sciences Po members:

• The Deputy Project Leader, who chairs the Committee
• The Project Executive Director
• The Director of the Institute for Environmental Transformations
• The Secretary General of the Institute for Environmental Transformations
• The Director of the Open Institute for Digital Transformations
• The Secretary General of the Open Institute for Digital Transformations.
   

Finally, as TIERED is an institutional project, its work is carried out in close collaboration with all Sciences Po departments.