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SCIENTISTS FROM ALL DISCIPLINES TO BUILD THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL COLLABORATION

The Digital collaboration research program (also known as PEPR eNSEMBLE) is a national research program, funded by France 2030, which brings together scientists from all disciplines to address current issues in digital collaboration.
Its aim is to propose sociotechnical models for long-term collaboration and platforms for multi-organizational, sovereign, secure and interoperable collaboration that promote trust, efficiency and digital well-being.

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A STATE-FUNDED AND SUPPORTED RESEARCH PROGRAM

In 2023, the French government launched the France 2030 investment plan, with the aim of “producing better, living better and understanding the world better”. Within this plan, one action is dedicated to funding the most fundamental research: priority research programs and equipment (PEPR).
The aim of these research programs is to build or consolidate French leadership in scientific fields linked or likely to be linked to technological, economic, societal, health or environmental transformation, and which are considered priorities at national or European level.

The digital collaboration research program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) is one of them, and is therefore supported by the French government. Its aim is to redefine digital collaboration. It is operated by the Agence nationale de la recherche – ANR (French national research agency), financed by France 2030 and managed by two research organizations and two universities: CNRS, Inria, Université Grenoble Alpes and Université Paris-Saclay.

RESPOND TO CONCRETE PROBLEMS IN PEOPLE’S LIVES

This national research program aims to address the issues of digital collaboration that everyone may encounter in their professional or personal lives.
Current tools are focused on the individual, and seek to replicate the physical world. The research program aims to change the paradigm in the design of collaborative systems and propose shared digital spaces that will make exchanges more fluid.
Today’s tools have difficulty exchanging information and compartmentalize tasks. The research program is working to establish conditions of interoperability between communication and sharing services, which would enable people to choose the services they use, and to choose tools that guarantee sovereignty and respect the privacy of their users.

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BRINGING TOGETHER SCIENTISTS FROM ALL DISCIPLINES

To address these issues, the digital collaboration research program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) brings together scientists from all disciplines. Indeed, the aim of PEPR is to propose sociotechnical models of collaboration with a wide range of applications. Therefore, it draws on all scientific disciplines, without any limits.
The research program’s ambition is to create and consolidate a new interdisciplinary community around digital collaboration.

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SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES

The Digital collaboration research program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) aims to fundamentally redefine digital tools for collaboration. Whether it’s to reduce the number of journeys we make, improve territorial networking, or tackle the problems and transformations of the coming decades, the challenges of the 21st century will require us to collaborate at unprecedented speed and scale.

More specifically, the Digital collaboration research program aims to address the following scientific challenges:

Develop collaborative environments and innovative conceptual models

Combining human and artificial intelligence in collaborative configurations

Enable seamless collaborative experiences that promote interoperability

Supporting the creation of healthy and sustainable communities

Specifying socio-technical standards with legal/regulatory frameworks

FIVE TARGETED PROJECTS

To meet these challenges, the Digital collaboration research program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) is organized around five targeted projects:

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CATS
TARGETED PROJECT 1
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COLLABORATIVE SPACES

The objective of the CATS project is to design heterogeneous collaboration spaces that allow for continuous and seamless collaboration, unifying remote and face-to-face, tightly coupled and loose collaborations.
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PILOT
TARGETED PROJECT 2
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PRACTICES AND INFRASTRUCTURES FOR LONG-TERM COLLABORATION

The PILOT project draws on new work practices and technological opportunities to design socio-technical systems for long-term collaboration, taking into account regulatory changes and organizational contexts.
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MATCHING
TARGETED PROJECT 3
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COLLABORATION WITH INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

The PC3 MATCHING examines and evaluates how one or more intelligent and interactive systems, explicitly present either physically or virtually, induce and promote novel forms of collaboration among humans.
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CONGRATS
TARGETED PROJECT 4
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LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATION

The CONGRATS project focuses on open, knowledge-producing online collaboration. It studies the coevolution between platform design and the collectives that use them. It will propose tools for understanding and administering these platforms.
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TRANSVERSE
TARGETED PROJECT 5
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CROSS-FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS OF COLLABORATION

The TRANSVERSE project addresses the challenges of digital collaboration on science and society, from a meta and comparative perspective, focusing mainly on methodology, ethics, sustainability and impacts beyond technology at individual, societal and cultural levels.
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ProjeCts

In addition to the targeted projects, four other projects have been selected to taking part of the research program:

COMCOMBBr

Computational modeling of collaboration and mentalization for benevolent bots

Project leader:
Jean-Claude DREHER, CNRS research director at ISC-MJ

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Data2Laws

Investigating mechanisms for scaling online collectives

Project leader:
Cécile BOTHOREL, lecturer at ENS Mines-Telecom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire, Lab-STICC member

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DECO

Physical deformation and collaboration

Project leader:
Céline Coutrix, CNRS research director at LIG

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PRECOG

Prediction for shared cognition in collaboration with human or artificial agents

Project leader:
Ouriel GRYNSZPAN, lecturer at Université Paris-Saclay, LISN member

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ORGANIZATION OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAM

The digital collaboration research program (PEPR eNSEMBLE) is part of the France 2030 funding plan. It is operated by the Agence nationale de la recherche – ANR (French national research agency), financed by France 2030 and managed by two research organizations and two universities: CNRS, Inria, Université Grenoble Alpes and Université Paris-Saclay.