R&D Transition | Environmental Research

Our research areas and projects

Strategic management

Support the integration and evaluation of environmental and social performance in businesses

What are the challenges?

- Steer the sustainability of economic and organizational models in the face of planetary boundaries and multi-risks.
- Steer transition within organizations by adapting frameworks and integrating teams' perception of challenges and risks.

Why invest, and for what prospects?

- Propose new analytical frameworks for adapting to regulatory constraints and integrating them into an ecological transition strategy.
- Develop management tools and support processes for businesses and organizations.

Impact analysis and design

Support the integration and evaluation of environmental and social performance in businesses

What are the challenges?

- Adapt existing tools and methods to the requirements of ecological, economic, and social transition, particularly regulatory requirements.
- Objectify the impacts of activities.
- Steer transition within organizations by adapting frameworks.

Why invest, and for what prospects?

- Propose new analytical frameworks for adapting to regulatory constraints and integrating them into an ecological transition strategy.
- Develop impact analysis and management tools, and organizational support processes.
- Adapt organizational support to ADEME's new orientations.

Territorial and citizen deployment

Support the territorial and citizen deployment of transition

What are the challenges?

- Characterize innovation promises: understand the governance, territorialization, and controversies linked to technological promises.
- Adapt to risks: understand the factors driving practice change and develop new risk management approaches, organizations, and insurance.
- Compare transition scenarios to create synergies among differentiated territorial actors and develop territorialized networks.

Why invest, and for what prospects?

- Develop environmental justice methodologies in projects.
- Adapt organizations and tools to multi-risks.
- Clarify different strategies and facilitate the establishment of new activities and new forms of territorial cooperation.

Our research intervention methods

Lead or partner in research projects

Design, management, and justification of national (ADEME, ANR, etc.) and European (H2020, Interreg, etc.) projects, independently or in collaboration.

Research service provider

Bibliographic monitoring, custom methodologies, modeling, report writing.

CIR application support

And transfer of methodological skills in environmental and social innovation.

R&D network facilitation

Agreements, federation of actors around third-party projects, partnership development.

Scientific dissemination

Articles and presentations at national and international conferences.

Did you know?

All our services are eligible for the CIR.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, R&D activities carried out by APESA can be eligible for the Research Tax Credit (CIR).

The work focuses on strategic management of transition, impact analysis, sustainable design, and territorial and citizen deployment of transitions.

It develops new frameworks, management tools, and support processes adapted to environmental and social challenges.

It aims to equip transition planning, analyze societal dynamics, and support territorial and citizen deployment.

Investing enables anticipation of changes, secure decision-making, and construction of robust transition strategies adapted to the realities of organizations and territories.