Since its inception in 1983, the JITH conference has served as a biannual platform fostering cooperation among research teams across the Euro-Mediterranean region. Initially focused on France and the Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia), JITH has gradually expanded to include a wide array of international participants. The conference’s mission is to promote research collaboration and exchange on thermal and renewable energy topics, while providing young researchers a valuable opportunity to present their work, connect with peers, and advance research that addresses pressing issues in energy, environment, and climate resilience.

The CLEAR-Doc team congratulates Badr Eddine Hamaidi on his remarkable achievement and is proud to see his contributions representing Université Gustave Eiffel at such a prestigious event. We look forward to the future impact of his work, along with that of his peers, as they drive innovation and progress in sustainable energy solutions.

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The Mission "Restore our Ocean & Waters" focuses on the preservation and restoration of marine and aquatic ecosystems. Its goal is to clean, protect, and restore our oceans, seas, and freshwater bodies by 2030. The project presented by Akshay Kowlesser and his team, WhaleTrail, embodies this vision with an innovative and sustainable approach to one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.

Horizon Europe is the EU’s framework program for research and innovation, promoting the development of solutions to major contemporary issues. It is highly encouraging to see one of our PhD students from the  CLEAR-Doc program already well-versed in these critical European missions. This reflects their commitment to contributing to impactful, international projects with a real-world application.

Congratulations to Akshay Kowlesser for this remarkable achievement. We are confident this is just the beginning of many contributions to European projects!

Discover the competition photo album!

The evaluation process was in two stages: first, other applicants reviewed your applications, and then the applications with the best grades were subjected to expert evaluation.

Congratulations to Rajat SHARMA and Akshay KOWLESSER for their selection ! 

Congratulations also to Paula AGUILAR-GUIMARAES, who was also selected but will not be able to take part due to her secondment to Canada.

Rajat and Akshay will be travelling to Katowice, Poland from 9 to 14 September to take part in the competition !

For more information about the competition and EU TalentOn participants by individual Mission Arena, find the details here on LinkedIn and on the official website.

• Be able to put into words situations of gender-based and sexual violence and identify problematic behaviors or problematic behaviors or situations;
• Know what to do and what recourse to take in the event of gender-based and sexual violence, particularly at the UGE: reporting mechanism and presentation of the Mission Egalité of the Université Gustave Eiffel.

This training course is supervised by Adoc Métis and the Mission Egalité of the Université Gustave Eiffel. The CLEAR-Doc PhD Students' attendance is mandatory.

34 participants took part to the course, with 44% female and 56% male students enrolled, and such a diverse team of students, coming from 14 different countries and 11 universities ! We are very proud that 3 CLEAR-Doc students took part : Linda BELKESSA, Irène SITOHANG and Rajat SHARMA ! 

Upon completion of this course, participants to the course walked away with:

• Practical skills and strategies applicable to real-life urban mobility challenges
• Analytical frameworks for critically thinking about mobility, inclusion, sustainability and resilience
• Tools and methods for planning and assessing urban mobility innovations
• Effective communication and teamwork skills among experts, stakeholders, and peers
• An invaluable experience and professional connections
• Working life skills with the Learning by Developing pedagogical model
• A certificate of competence from the University of Žilina, a world-leading transportation science university, equivalent to 3 ECTS.

InCITIES is a three years (October 2022 – September 2025) project that aims to achieve the transformations of HEIs and their surrounding ecosystem centred around cities’ inclusion, sustainability, and resilience needs. It addresses the European-global challenges of cities with a specific focus on widening countries (Portugal and Slovakia), allowing them to overcome structural, sociocultural, economic, political, and institutional barriers.

In order to reach the expected outcomes, InCITIES is based on the application of strongly collaborative/co-creative, iterative, and incremental approaches, methods, and tools. That is, the implementation of the WPs is designed with the effective participation and commitment of student and staff in this process. Most importantly, 2 main innovative methodologies – the Research Roadmap Co-creation method and the LbD Pedagogical model – are implemented. Both methods complement each other and support the objectives of InCITIES model beyond their descriptive role.

The InCITIES project will be developed by a consortium of 5 partners participating in different interrelated activities, including the Coordinator, University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal), Université Gustave Eiffel (France), TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences (Germany), LAUREA University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and University of Žilina (Slovakia).

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Co-representative : Ana Rita LOURENCO DE ALMEIDA

What are the representatives' commitments?

Their goal is to create an open and supportive environment where each Phd student feel comfortable bringing forth any issues they may encounter, inside or outside of the PhD studies, as well as any questions or feedback related to the Programme.
They commit to proactively seeking out PhD students' individual opinions and concerns to properly represent their united voice as the 2nd cohort of the CLEAR-Doc during the supervisory board meetings. Following these meetings, they will provide comprehensive updates on the discussions and decisions made, ensuring full transparency and open communication.

Portraits - 1st cohort (2022)
Portraits - 2nd cohort (2023)

1. MODULE 1: MANAGING YOUR DOCTORAL PROJECT USING A PROJECT MANAGEMENT MODE
2. MODULE 2 : MANAGING THE RESOURCES 
3. MODULE 3 : MANAGING RISK
4. MODULE 4: FACILITATING A MEETING 
5. MODULE 5: WORKSHOP 
6. MODULE 6: ANTICIPATING YOUR CAREER PATH

This training will be provided by Adoc Talent Management.

Stepan Bobrovnikov
"Analysis of the mechanisms relating to tire road wear in relation to the emissions of fine particles."

Maria Camila Santos Quiñones
"Definition of experimental plan to assess the ageing resistance of model biobinders - Innovative pavement biobinder development and ageing resistance."

For more than a quarter of a century, the JTR has been the essential meeting place for French public and private players in the field of land transport infrastructure: local authorities, contracting authorities and prime contractors, construction companies, product and service suppliers, design offices, research centres, schools, etc. Every year, they take advantage of this unique opportunity to pool their experience, research and innovations in the fields of construction, maintenance, safety and operation.

Under the "JTR" brand, which they have retained, their scope has also become multimodal: they now cover road and rail infrastructures, urban and interurban, aeronautical runways and industrial tracks.

The programme is structured around a cross-cutting session and technical sessions dealing in particular with the decarbonisation of transport, heat islands, road safety and auscultation. Two short sessions will also be on the programme.

The JTR2024 was also the occasion for another edition of the "best doctoral posters" competition, sponsored by Routes de France. The competition was open to doctoral students in the public or private sector who are currently working on their thesis, or who have completed their thesis in the 12 months preceding the Journées Techniques Route. It was an opportunity for "future young professionals" to showcase their work and engage in dialogue with members of the scientific and technical community in the field of land transport infrastructure.

Université Gustave Eiffel is in charge of organising the JTRs, in association with IDRRIM and CEREMA. Other cooperative structures (professional associations and unions, clusters, etc.) are also helping to prepare the event.

Find out more about the JTR

• The starting point: Where you are now in your career
• The destination: Where you want to go in your career
• The gap: The obstacles you must overcome to reach the destination
• The route: How to close the gap to reach your intended destination

ESRs and their supervisors have now returned to their campuses and will meet up again at future CLEAR-Doc events!

• Training and support for the development of the Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP)
• Communication and dissemination

The afternoon was devoted to two parallel training courses and workshops: 

• For doctoral students : Digital Fresk (by La Fresque du Numérique)
• For supervisors : Promoting a healthy working environment for doctoral students (by Groupe Egae)

The rest of the programme tomorrow!

At a later date, new PhD students will also receive training on how to spot harassment in the workplace, and how to react if they believe they are a victim and/or witness of such behavior.

There is a need to understand doctoral student's development of skills and help them become aware of these skills by : 
✓ Help doctoral students reflect on their professional professional project
✓ Conveying the values of academic research
✓ Motivating and re-motivating doctoral students
✓ Plan the evolution of collaboration modalities between supervisor and doctoral student

Thanks to theoretical input; role-playing; reflective practice reflective practice; study of participants' personal cases ; synthetic tool cards, thesis supervisors will explore 3 modules over two days:

MODULE 1

• Managing a doctoral project
• Defining a research project
• Encouraging doctoral students to become autonomous
• Setting objectives
• Using appropriate planning techniques
• 0to a doctoral project
• Define information flows within the project team
• Preventing research project risks

MODULE 2

• Doctoral careers
• Discover and consider career paths
• careers (local and national)
• Defining the cross-disciplinary skills of PhDs
• Discover job search tools and their roles
• Learn how to build a professional project
• for a doctorate

MODULE 3

• Managing human relations
• Position yourself as a supervisor and clearly define
• the manager's role
• Motivating and re-motivating
• Communicating in such a way as to help the
• through constructive feedback
• Learn about benevolent communication
• Understand the phases of the mentoring relationship
• Equip yourself with the tools you need to manage doctorate

More information about the training

This meeting will give them an opportunity to talk with their supervisors, the CLEAR-Doc management team, and the delegates from Cohort #1, Santiago and Lauren. The new doctoral students will be informed about what the programme will offer them and what is expected of them during their three-year PhD.

They will take part in networking activities and introduce themselves to their new promotion.

A special highlight will be held on the evening of 5 December.

Objectives :

• Having an understanding of the terms "transdisciplinary" and "interdisciplinary" research,
• Knowing methods that strengthen inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation,
• Seeking and discussing interdisciplinary perspectives on one's research,
• Developing perspectives on how interdisciplinarity can be integrated into one's doctoral studies,
• Bringing one's expertise to the discussion of research from an outside field and developing a sense of how I myself can contribute in an interdisciplinary way.

The training is composed of 3 steps :

1. A zoom meeting on May 23 2023
2. A 2 days training at Univ Eiffel, Champs sur Marne campus on June 26-27 2023
3. A follow up zoom meeting on October 19 2023 

Eligible applications were assessed and 60 applications were selected for auditions  following assessment by the specially 23 CLEAR-Doc recruited experts. The selected candidates will undergo a remote audition on 9 and 10 May.

What is an audition?

Each candidate is auditioned by a panel of independent experts. The manager is invited to the audition of his/her candidate(s), but is not allowed to intervene.

Each candidate is invited to introduce him/herself and his/her thesis project.

In a second step, questions are asked by the experts.

1. Present and explain the evaluation criteria of step 1
2. Raise awarness on the risks of gender and racial discrimination during the evaluation
3. Discover the non-discrimination mesures undertake by the Management team during the evaluation 
4. The Experts-Evaluators will be invited to a 2nd online briefing in order to receive new guidelines for step 2 (the auditions).

Experts-Evaluators, what do they do ?

CLEAR-Doc's experts evaluators are in charge of:

1. Evaluating the applications which has been declared eligible (step 1 - Applicant's files selection)
2. Evaluating the candidates whom passed the step 1, through an online audition (step 2 - Auditions)
3. Participates to a consensus meeting to pre-approve the ranking scenario of the applications based on Stage 1 and Stage 2 scores of the applicants while taking into consideration the rating differences between the 5 panels.
4. Experts-Evalutors, who are they ?
5. The Experts-Evalutors of CLEAR-Doc applied to a call for experts. They come from different backgrounds (academic and non-academic) knowing the local context and targeted job market.

They are divided in 5 evaluation panels according to their expertise:

• Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)
• Environmental Sciences (ES)
• Mathematics, Computer Sciences & Communication Technologies (MCSCT)
• Engineering (ENG)
• Sciences and Technologie (ST)
• Need some more information regarding the Experts-Evaluators ? Take a look at the "Guide for Experts".

Thanks to all the PhD students for their rich contributions. 

These profiles will evolve at their request.

CLEAR-Doc's Management Team received more than 89 applications !

The first administrative step ensured that the applications were complete and that the applicants provided all the needed documents as stated in the Guide for Applicants.

The eligibility check is now closed and every applicants have received a notification from the CLEAR-Doc's management team informing them about the eligibility of their application. 

Next steps
STEP 1 (FILES EVALUATIONS):
Mars 7th - Avril 6th
The applications will be submitted (after a process of anonymisation) to 23 external international reviewers who will asses applications.

All information about the panels and the evaluation criteria are available on CLEAR-Doc website.

The 60 best applications will be selected to participate to STEP 2 (Auditions). You will be informed on your selection to the auditions on April 28th 2023.

SELECTION PROCESS STEP 2 (AUDITIONS):
May 9th - May 12th
If the applicant pass STEP 1 (above), he/she will be invited to participate to a 30 minutes online audition (15 minutes of presentations + 15 minutes of question by the panel of evaluators).

The applicant will receive a convocation email 2 weeks before the auditions.

All information about the panels and the audition criteria are available on CLEAR-Doc website. 

The top 16 successful candidates will be contacted between Mai 23rd and June 14th and required to communicate their acceptance within 2 weeks after receiving the confirmation of the success of their application. Failure to do so will result in the position being offered to the candidates best ranked on the reserve list. 

On November 29, the doctoral students and their supervisors attended a morning plenary session. The morning opened with a presentation of the CLEAR-Doc team and the Gustave Eiffel University, then the PhD students presented themselves in turn. The second part of the morning was dedicated to

• the presentation of the future communication and dissemination activities of the doctoral students,
• the doctoral strategy of the Gustave Eiffel University,
• the training and career development plan,
• the Board of supervisors,
• the ethical and quality aspects of the program.

Before having lunch together, a photo session allowed to immortalize the day!

In the afternoon, the doctoral students were again gathered to participate in a team building workshop: the Climate Fresk. At the same time, the supervisors were trained on how to promote a healthy work environment for PhD students.

The morning of November 30 was dedicated to a presentation of the three years to come for the doctoral students, followed by a workshop on the Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP). At the end of the morning, the dissemination and communication tools briefly mentioned the day before were proposed to them.

In the afternoon, before saying goodbye, the doctoral students took up a challenge: summarize their thesis project in 60 seconds ! A success ! 

Take a look at the programme here.

These are organized by different actors:

• Internal trainings: CLEAR-Doc programme, doctoral schools, Université Gustave Eiffel
• External trainings: associations, foundations, other organisms

This guide has been made available to the fellows.

51 auditions were conducted by the experts evaluators alongside with a member of the CLEAR-Doc management team and a member of the Ethics & Quality Board.

CLEAR-Doc management team is very glad to announce that 14 applicants were selected !

CLEAR-Doc's PhD students will conduct their researches on the following PhD topics :

• Analysis of the mechanisms relating to tire / road wear in relation to the emissions of fine particles
• Multi-functional urban pavement  to reduce climate change and contribute to a circular economy
• Optimised vegetal wools for indoor comfort: coupling fire treatment with acoustic and hygrothermal performances
• Semi-probabilistic assessment of existing urban structures to climate change
• Refreshing urban transit environments in the Euro-Mediterranean region: thermographic modelling and low-tech renovation of hubs
• Food Water Soil: Enhancing urban resilience capacity by multifunctional urban edible areas - Focus on the nexus Food Water Soil
• Recycled materials for urban gardens
• Study of the impact of biomass on sewage cementitiouos materials by micro- Raman analysis
• Consideration of the characteristics of the infrastructure for the development of a driver assistance system for bicycles
• Surveillance of pavement structural health using RFID traffic/load sensor data
• Prospective mobility to horizon 2060
• Si-based architectures for High data rate A-RoF applications
• Development of a tool for predicting the risk of shoulder injuries for wheelchair users during propulsion while moving in cities
• Optimisation of particle transport in polydisperse dense granular flows  : towards sustainable processes

79 applications has been evaluated by 38 experts-evaluators.

All applications were anonymised before being sent to the experts evaluators and all applications were evaluated according a single evaluation grid composed by the CLEAR-doc management team.

At the end, 58 applicants are invited to pursue the selection process (see table below).

Next step: the audition.

The auditions of the applicants will be organized remotely, from 13th June to 17th June.

• Present CLEAR-Doc's project and its objectives
• Present and explain the evaluation criteria of step 1
• Raise awarness on the risks of gender and racial discrimination during the evaluation
• Discover the non-discrimination mesures undertake by the Management team during the evaluation 

The Experts-Evaluators will be invited to a 2nd online briefing in order to receive new guidelines for step 2 (the auditions).

Experts-Evaluators, what do they do ?

CLEAR-Doc's experts evaluators are in charge of:

• Evaluating the applications which has been declared eligible (step 1 - Applicant's files selection)
• Evaluating the candidates whom passed the step 1, through an online audition (step 2 - Auditions)
• Participates to a consensus meeting to pre-approve the ranking scenario of the applications based on Stage 1 and Stage 2 scores of the applicants while taking into consideration the rating differences between the 5 panels.

Experts-Evalutors, who are they ?

The Experts-Evalutors of CLEAR-Doc applied to a call for experts. They come from different backgrounds (academic and non-academic) knowing the local context and targeted job market.

They are divided in 5 evaluation panels according to their expertise:

• Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)
• Environmental Sciences (ES)
• Mathematics, Computer Sciences & Communication Technologies (MCSCT)
• Engineering (ENG)
• Sciences and Technologie (ST)

Need some more information regarding the Experts-Evaluators ? Take a look at the "Guide for Expert".

The first administrative step ensured that the applications were complete and that the applicants provided all the needed documents as stated in the Guide for Applicants.

The eligibility check is now closed and every applicants have received a notification from the CLEAR-Doc's management team informing them about the eligibility of their application. 

Next steps

STEP 1 (FILES EVALUATIONS):

April 1st - May 30th

The applications will be submitted (after a process of anonymisation) to 2 external international reviewers who will asses applications.

All information about the panels and the evaluation criteria are available on CLEAR-Doc website.

The 60 best applications will be selected to participate to STEP 2 (Auditions). You will be informed on your selection to the auditions on May 30th 2022.

SELECTION PROCESS STEP 2 (AUDITIONS):

June 13th - June 24th

If the applicant pass STEP 1 (above), he/she will be invited to participate to a 30 minutes online audition (15 minutes of presentations + 15 minutes of question by the panel of evaluators).

The applicant will receive an convocation email 2 weeks before the auditions,  to participate, between June 13th and June 24th, (Monday-Friday, from 8 am to 6 pm) to the auditions.

All information about the panels and the audition criteria are available on CLEAR-Doc website. 

The top 15 successful candidates will be contacted between June 27th and July 1st and required to communicate their acceptance within 2 weeks after receiving the confirmation of the success of their application. Failure to do so will result in the position being offered to the candidates best ranked on the reserve list. 

You can find all PhD topics here.

This event will be held virtually on Sept 1st 2021.

It will be divided into 2 sessions (morning / afternoon) to enable our partners from all around the world to participate.

You can register to the event by following this link → here ←.

You can attend without pitching and if you cannot attend the event, you still have the opportunity to send us a topic and we will forward you propositions to the relevant researchers / teams.

If you have any questions : clear-doc@listes.univ-eiffel.fr

The online form (in French) is available here.

If you are interested in proposing a thesis subject, please contact us : clear-doc@listes.univ-eiffel.fr.