The missions of MSH Bordeaux

Photo illustrating the research: calls for projects - MSH Bordeaux

The operation of the Bordeaux MSH is guided by a set of framework principles .

Its missions are:

Relay deployment : deploy and territorially anchor national systems such as very large SHS Research infrastructures, coordinated Valorization actions, national actions in favor of IST.

Pooling : offering shared research support services to all the URs they cover, CNRS and universities .

Incubation : be organized around a logic of transversality in relation to the units, capable of crystallizing research initiatives which feed the scientific heart of the units .

The federation : (1) bring together the units of a site for a particular project; (2) play an important role in leading and structuring the site's SHS scientific community.

Openness to the international : an actor in internationalization, the Bordeaux MSH contributes to a better presence and better coordination of French SHS at the international level.

Research designed by and for the territory:
Scientific identity is based on the strengths of the site, sensitive to the specificity of the neo-Aquitaine territory.
The neo-Aquitaine scientific and territorial context is characterized by certain specificities which constitute the background to the proposed scientific choices.

A linguistically and culturally plural terrain.
New Aquitaine is today the space of three heritage languages: French, Basque and Occitan…

A highly structured university space.
The Bordeaux MSH is backed by the Bordeaux Montaigne University , the University of Bordeaux and the INP of Bordeaux offering remarkable complementarity, and the CNRS .

A cross-border space.
The neo-Aquitaine territory neighbors three territories in northern Spain…

An opportunity to question humans and the humanities.
The neo-Aquitaine territory is the privileged theater of a long history whose extent encompasses the very category of humanity.
The region is a unique archaeological space and the location of an archaeological record which keeps traces of all the great transitions of humanity.