Tuesday, February 28, 2024, 11am, CEMES (coffee served at 10.30am)

Conference room + Zoom 

by Laure Vieu, Director of Research at IRIT

Since 2021, Labos1point5 has been conducting an experiment to test different ways of reducing the footprint of research at laboratory level. The Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT, UMR 5505), which at the same time set up an “Ecological Transition” mission led by Laure Vieu, has joined the twenty or so “pilot labs” involved in this experiment.

After setting the scene for the ecological transition in French laboratories, which is being driven by the Labos1point5 collective and GDR, Laure Vieu will present the process of collective construction of the transition plan currently in place at IRIT.

Each laboratory has its own specific characteristics, which are reflected in its GHG balance. At IRIT, the missions item accounted for almost half of the footprint in 2019, which means that a significant reduction can be envisaged without jeopardising the core business.

After two years of participative assemblies, workshops and various forms of discussion, the Working Group of IRIT’s Ecological Transition mission has summarised all the contributions and proposed a set of 5 reduction scenarios (a sixth, “zero” scenario corresponds to the trend scenario). In July 2023, IRIT staff voted by preference ranking on these scenarios and selected an ambitious transition scenario.