Géo-Architecture (EA 2219)
At the crossroads of environmental sciences and social sciences, the research of the host team cover most aspects of the living environment, whether urban, business support, or only occasionally frequented by tourism or leisure activities. The team (located at the sites of Brest and Lorient) including working on forms of urban sprawl, the movement of patrimonialisation exerted on natural areas as much as on the legacy of urban history, the dynamics of vegetation and biodiversity
Public scientific, cultural and professional, UBO first missions is to contribute to the development of research and raising the scientific, cultural and professional level of the nation and the individuals who compose it, to regional growth and national, to the economic development and the achievement of an employment policy. Finally, it contributes to the reduction of social and cultural inequalities. The university provides initial and continuing training, scientific research and technology as well as the value of its results, the dissemination of culture and scientific and technical information, international cooperation.
At the crossroads of Earth Sciences, Life and Man, the Museum is dedicated daily - and has been for almost 400 years - to nature and its relationship with the human species. Rich in history, at the heart of current events, the Museum is also working for the future. His five missions to find and preserve nature are fundamental and applied research, conservation and enrichment of collections, education, expertise, and knowledge dissemination. The Museum occupies a reference position in the heart of contemporary debates around environmental awareness and saving the planet.
The ANR funds research projects. On a competitive selection mode that meets international standards, it aims to foster creativity, the deregulation, the emergence and partnerships. Since 2010, she is also the main operator of Future Investments in the field of higher education and research. In this context, it ensures the selection, financing and monitoring of projects
The agglomeration of Brest entered the top 14 of major cities of France on 1 January 2015. A public intermunicipal cooperation since 1974 has therefore Brest metropolitan status of the new established by the modernization of territorial public action law . For example, to ability economic, cultural and social development now joins that of actions to support research, higher education, vocational training and student life. This new status is recognition of the role played by a limited number of large French cities performing functions métropolitaines au service d’un territoire dépassant les frontières institutionnelles.
Ocean Discovery Park has 68 aquariums and ponds 4 million liters of sea water, Oceanapolis, instead of sharing and exchange of knowledge, situated near the harbor of Brest, offers the public a dive in the heart the marine environment and its ecosystems. Its mission Scientific and Technical Culture Center leads him to offer monthly lectures and special events in connection with oceanographic research. The team participates in international scientific congresses and has a marine mammal study center and a clinic. The ethic that made the reputation of Océanopolis is based on a scientific approach to information and an extreme attention to animal and plant populations.
The Conseil Départemental is the deliberative assembly of the department. Bringing together 54 councilors, elected by popular vote at the local elections, the Departmental Assembly defines departmental policies and budgets. It delegates to the Standing Committee, a true executive body of the department, the management of current business. If the principal mission of the General Council concerning the social action for families, disabled, elderly or professional insertion, the General Council is also involved in areas as diverse as public colleges, roads, public transport, culture, the environment.
Le Pôle Mer Bretagne-Atlantique
Created in 2005 to provide answers facing new global competition becoming more pressing competitiveness clusters were primarily intended to offer a new industrial policy: they aim to boost companies' innovation capacity, develop growth and employment in growth markets. The Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique gathers around an emblematic territory - the great maritime region "Bretagne - Pays de la Loire" - companies, laboratories and research centers and training institutions around a common theme: the sea.
Technopole Brest-Iroise, Association Law 1901, brings together 200 members who belong to the world of business, research, higher education, as well as communities. They all share the same ambition: "Develop and promote innovation within their territory." The people who make up the Board of Directors and the Board of the association, are representative of the local economy: the Public Authorities, the University and Grandes Ecoles, research centers, companies and the public and professional organizations.
Established in 1984, Ifremer is a public industrial and commercial (EPIC), placed under the joint supervision of the Ministries of Higher Education and Research and Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy . Ifremer works in a network with the French scientific community, but also partner organizations in many countries. Ifremer contributes, through studies and expert assessments, to the knowledge of the oceans and their resources, monitoring the marine environment and the littoral and the sustainable development of maritime activities. To these ends, it designs and implements observation tools, testing and monitoring, and manages oceanographic databases.
Constituted as an association law 1901, The Club's mission is to ensure the promotion of the sustainable development approach within its member organizations Finistère. It collectively assists members in their thoughts and actions on the subject, allowing them to exchange with other actors in civil society. It allows companies to mix with the other actors in the territory (industries, banks, shops, cooperatives) to find all the actions to be implemented to build a community of informed, responsible, who shall ensure the application of fundamental guidelines for the future.
Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (CRBC, EA 4451 / UMS 3554)
The CBRC is a multidisciplinary research laboratory composed of 46 members (historians, from antiquity to the present day linguists, Celtic scholars and English specialists, anthropologists, sociologists, literary mainly) investing themes and research fields which are mainly cultural areas Breton and Celtic. They also conduct individual and group research in other fields, across Europe, particularly Atlantic and beyond.
The Laboratory for the Study of the Marine Environment (LEMAR - UMR 6539)
The LEMAR brings together biologists, chemists and physicists in order to understand and model marine systems within the biosphere, to define the characteristics of the environment and the organisms and identify their interactions. A strong multidisciplinary approach, essential to address a complex area such as the interactions between the various components of the marine area, is implemented daily in the scientific life of the unit and within its research team
Centre Recherche en Psychologie, Cognition et Communication (EA 1285)
The CRPCC is a multi-site reception team (Université Rennes 2, Bretagne-Sud University and University of Western Brittany), which groups in a federal cooperative spirit and discipline four sub-components: the University Armoricain Research Laboratory in Social Psychology, the laboratory Ergonomics and Behavior Science, the Developmental Psychology laboratory and Education and the Experimental Psychology laboratory. Research members of the EA are within the fields of social psychology, cognitive psychology, Ergonomic psychology, developmental psychology and psychometric modeling
Plurilinguismes, Représentations, Expressions Francophones – Information, Communication, sociolinguistique ( PREFics - EA 3207)
The PREFics is a multi-site team located in the Universities of Rennes 2, Lorient-Vannes and Tours. His research focuses on the dynamics of language and communicative diversity, particularly in Francophone contexts, in relevant disciplines (7th and 71th sections of the CNU). Its members develop their activities in an interdisciplinary perspective, around cross-cutting research programs such as "Epistemology and sociogenesis standards and literary forms, socio-linguistic, communicative and organizational"; "Communication, risks, health; Communication, crises speech, mediation and organizational processes in critical situations. ".
The Center for Epistemology and History of Science and Technology François Viète consists of two research sites in Nantes and Brest. Multidisciplinary research work conducted at the UBO (Brest) since 2012 focused on three main themes: "Sea, rivers and coastal", "ancient" and "Digital Humanities". The research methodologies developed are within the field of history of material culture (artifacts simple to macrosystems), in a systems approach including the networks of actors and production plans of new knowledge and new practices.
Component of UBO, the IBSHS has 250 teacher-researchers in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences, important industry away. The disciplines of science will IBSHS education, geography, urban planning, history, ethnology, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, letters and language law, management and economics, with a strong multidisciplinary approach. Research fields are diversified (social practices of education and training, power relations, vulnerable, transforming territories, heritage protection, work, health, governance institutions, maritime worlds ...).
