A survey is launched to gather accounts from a large panel of Besançon's inhabitants. This survey is part of the research project CAPBIOMET carried out by Manon Kohler and supported by the regional council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and the local agency Grand Besançon Métropole. Accounts gathered via the survey will enable a better understanding of local practices to adapt to summer heat. Access to the survey registration form: https://thema.univ-fcomte.fr/enquete2/index.php/785683?lang=fr Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript...

  Bahija Hani has begun a doctoral research under the co-supervision of Prof. Thomas Buhler. The title of her research is: Discursive strategies and spatial development in Fès (Morocco): critical and textual data analysis of planning documents related to the emerging local centres of Ouled Tayeb and Ain Bida.   Bahija Hani is architect and urban designer. Her PhD thesis at ThéMA laboratory is under the joint administrative supervision of the University Ibn Tofail (Kénitra, Morocco) and the University Marie et Louis Pasteur (Besançon, France). The aim of her research is to...

  The 17th Théo Quant Meetings will take place in Besançon, from the 4th to the 6th of February 2026   The spirit of the Meetings "Theo Quant" Meetings take place in France every two years. They are intended to be an intermediary between big symposia, where only completed work is presented, and conferences dedicated to specific themes. The "Theo Quant" Meetings aim to further methodological and theoretical investigation in the field of theoretical and quatitative geography. One of their main interests is to allow the exchange of points of view and ideas between researchers...

  A Café Géo, organized by the Association of Geographers of Franche-Comté, will take place on Wednesday the 2nd of April from 18:00 to 20:00 at the bar La Fontaine (Place de la Révolution, Besançon). This talk about biodiversity will be held by Paul Savary, Assistant Professor at Université Marie et Louis Pasteur (ThéMA laboratory). Better understanding biodiversity for sustaining all life forms Life takes all kinds of forms and we use the term biodiversity to characterize this complexity. Humans impact biodiversity to such an extent that limiting this impact has become central to...

  The second-year students of the CMI SIGIT undergraduate program (Cursus Master en Ingénierie Science de l’Information Géographique pour l’Innovation Territoriale) organise an afternoon of conferences and participative workshops on the following topic: “The mountain: specific territories with uncertain future”. The discussions will be about the current issues associated with the development of mountainous areas. Four guest experts will participate in this afternoon of exchange: Christophe Gauchon, Full Professor at the EDYTEM laboratory (Université Savoie Mont Blanc –...

  Landsklim allows you to make spatial interpolations from quantitative data, from the reading of the initial data to the statistical analyses and the spatial interpolation. The program has been developed at ThéMA Laboratory in Besançon and integrates the features of the LISDQS interpolation software written by Daniel Joly. The Lansklim plugin is available for download as a QGIS plugin. For further details: https://thema.univ-fcomte.fr/productions/software/landsklim    

  This one-day workshop is dedicated to the analysis of documents of territorial planning. It will give the opportunity to analyse planning politics at several scales. Participants will explore several interpretative frameworks that were previously applied to different types of planning documents. Participants will also think about benefits and limits of qualitative and quantitative approaches. In the morning, a round-table discussion will enable researchers to share their methodologies to analyse planning documents: local urban design plans, local mobility plans, regional schemes...

  Yohan Sahraoui will defend his accreditation to supervise research entitled: Hybrid landscapes. A critical and participatory modelling. The defence will take place on the 9th of January 2025 at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon, 12 Place du Panthéon, 75231 Paris.   The jury comprises: Xavier Arnauld de Sartre, Research director CNRS – Recorder Thierry Joliveau, Emeritus professor, University Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne – Examiner Yves-François Le Lay, Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon – Recorder Nathalie Long, Research director CNRS –...

  The award has been attributed by the International Simulation and Gaming Association in October 12-13 2024. For the award president Paola Rizzi (DICEEA, Université of Aquila, and DADU University of Sassari, Italy) and her colleague Heide Lukosch (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Solutré is “the “more accomplished game for urban and regional planning”. All details about the award are available at: https://isaga.com/our-activities/isaga-simulation-and-gaming-competition-isgc/ The serious game Solutré is available on the web site of the Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté...

  After a Ph.D. in population biology and ecology in the ThéMA laboratory (2017-2021), Paul Savary has been a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biology of Concordia University in Montreal (Canada) from 2022 to 2024, under two different fellowships. He is starting a new position as an Assistant professor (Chaire de Professeur Junior) in ecology and spatial modelling at ThéMA. His research mainly focuses on species movements within spatial ecological networks. Lately, he has been using citizen science data to investigate biodiversity dynamics within urban ecosystems, a research...