The missions of 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.