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The articles written by the experts of the Université Grenoble Alpes for the online media The Conversation, a website combining academic expertise and journalistic know-how to offer the general public free, independent and quality information.
- The Conversation : "Teachers in France, on the front line of defending the values of the Republic" October 18, 2020The horrific death of Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher, highlights the importance of the work of educators who are, more than ever, on the front lines of the fight for freedom of expression.Find out more
- The Conversation : "The Schengen zone in the face of coronavirus" April 30, 2020What parallel can be drawn between the Schengen countries' management of the migrant crisis in 2015 and their response to the current health epidemic?Find out more
- The Conversation : "Cuba steps up in the fight against coronavirus, at home and around the world" April 30, 2020Cuban medicine is now called upon both to protect the island's population from Covid-19 and to help various foreign countries, including Italy and France.Find out more
- The Conversation : "We are programmed to be lazy" December 18, 2019Do you prefer to sit in front of your television rather than sweat at the gym? Your distant ancestors may well be (a little) responsible for your lack of motivation ...Find out more
- The Conversation : "Examining how primates make vowel sounds pushes timeline for speech evolution back by 27 million years" December 12, 2019Spoken language in humans is an intricately woven string of syllables with consonants appended to the syllables' core vowels, so mastering vowels was a key to speech emergence. We believe that our multidisciplinary findings push back the date for that crucial step in language evolution by as much as 27 million years.Find out more
- The Conversation : "Facebook’s ‘transparency’ efforts hide key reasons for showing ads" May 15, 2019Rather than revealing an advertiser targeted you by your phone number or email address, Facebook may tell you it showed you a particular ad because you like Facebook. That's not much help.Find out more
- Why artificial intelligence is likely to take more lives December 10, 2018Beware of the blind use of artificial intelligence: used as a "magic wand", for example in an autonomous car, it presents risks.Find out more
- The Conversation : "What will work look like in 2030?" December 5, 2018A new RGCS study identifies four possible scenarios about work and management that could be combined over the next decade.Find out more
- The Conversation : "Debate: Mobilizing collective intelligence for the ecological transition" October 11, 2018Rapid and massive degradation of our environment is a major threat for the future. Surprisingly, education is not mobilised worldwide to empower children. Fortunately, many initiatives explore how to make students actors of the ecological transition.Find out more
- The Conversation : "Are joint custody and shared parenting a child’s right ?" October 4, 2018Reflection on the best interests of the child, adapted to the living conditions of 21st century children, is needed to replace "traditional" practices.Find out more
- What should be the EU policy for Mediterranean ‘third places’? June 26, 2018More than 320 coworking spaces were identified in the regions studied during the COWORKMed project.Find out more
- Productive cities: toward a new biopolitics of cities November 22, 2017With the rise of the knowledge-based economy, fab labs, maker spaces and more, cities are being transformed into production centres. This dynamic movement is ripe with promise, but also has risks.Find out more
- Designing local well-being indicators: the case of the Grenoble metropolitan area November 16, 2017In France, research on local indicators’ inadequacies led a group of stakeholders and researchers in Grenoble to develop an alternative that focuses on social well-being and sustainability.Find out more
- Time for a global agreement on minerals to fuel the clean energy transition November 14, 2017In the decades ahead, our mineral supply will still need to double or triple to meet the demand for electric vehicles and other renewable energy technology.Find out more
- ‘Indicator frenzy’ : the ‘economicist’ tendency of public policy and alternative indicators September 5, 2017The craze for measurement has become a hallmark of local and national public policy. Exploring the limits of quantification allows us to understand the advantages of developing alternative indicators.Find out more
- How Madrid’s residents are using open-source urban planning to create shared spaces – and build democracy June 27, 2017Born seemingly spontaneously out of a desire to create and manage shared spaces, Madrid's "citizen laboratories" are using new tools to build a new vision of how cities should be planned and run.Find out more
- The things you remember best happened when you were between 15 and 25 – here’s why November 16, 2016Ask people about memorable things or events that happened during their lives and their recollections tend to be from between the ages of 15 and 25. It doesn’t matter if it’s current affairs, sporting or public events. It can be Oscar winners, hit records, books or personal memories.Find out more
- Rio 2016 (3): what future for Brazil’s sports policy ? September 2, 2016Today we are publishing the third and final section of the series of articles on the period following the Olympics in Brazil.Find out more
- Rio 2016 (2): how did Brazil fare in the sports arena? September 1, 2016Now that the Rio Olympics have finished and the Paralympics are due to start on 7 September, let’s have a look back at this landmark event for Brazil from three angles.Find out more
- Rio 2016 (1): an ambitious federal sports policy as the key to success August 31, 2016Now that the Rio Olympics have finished and the Paralympics are due to start on 7 September, let’s have a look back at this landmark event for Brazil from three angles.Find out more
- Can we get better at predicting earthquakes? August 25, 2016Given the devastation earthquakes cause, seismologists and public officials have long wanted to know when earthquakes will happen, and after the powerful 1964 Alaska earthquake, U.S. scientists proposed a worldwide research program on earthquake prediction.Find out more
Published on January 30, 2017
Updated onApril 30, 2020
Updated onApril 30, 2020
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