Présentation de la MSH Paris Nord

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Founded in Saint-Denis in 2002, the Maison des Sciences Humaines et sociales Paris Nord (“House of Human and Social Sciences”), an academic unit of humanities and social sciences supported by the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) and the universities Paris 8 and Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN), is a structure that hosts, incites, promotes and disseminates research in the humanities and social sciences, based on project-oriented approaches. The MSH Paris Nord is a member of the Réseau national des Maisons des Sciences sociales et des Humanités – RnMSH (National Network of social science and humanities center).

The MSH Paris Nord promotes the five I’s of the RnMSH: interdisciplinarity, internationality, interinstitutionality, scientific identity, territorial implantation for the North Parisian academic territory described as a territory of creation and a de facto territory of social inequalities. On this territory, the CNRS, University of Paris 8 and the USPN have identified four research axes.

1. Arts, Industries of Culture, Creation
2. Body, Health & Society
3. Transitions, Regulations, Innovations
4. Thinking about the Contemporary City

The MSH Paris Nord finances research projects through an annual call for projects based on its four research axes, in collaboration with Plaine Commune and Campus Condorcet. The MSH Paris Nord disseminates and promotes the research results, organizing scientific and/or artistic events for researchers, students and for the general public.

The MSH Paris Nord hosts and regularly carries out projects that are financed by external calls for projects, from ministries, local authorities, Europe or the ANR (National Research Agency).
The scientific activities of the MSH Paris Nord take the form of hosting scientific journals and structures linked to its research axes: GIS (Scientific Interest Group), Labex, EUR.

The MSH Paris Nord has the ambition to be part of its territory and collaborate with its multiple actors. The MSH Paris Nord maintains long-term partnerships with the cities of Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers, with the Public Territorial Establishment of Plaine Commune, and with Campus Condorcet.

The MSH Paris Nord hosts several federative structures

• The Gis « Gender Institute »
• The Gis « Democracy and Participation »
• The Gis « Work and Health »
• The Labex « Cultural Industries and Artistic Creation » (ICCA)
• The EUR ArTec
• The Association Appuii
• The “End-of-Life Care” Research Platform
• The Network of Young Researchers in Health and Society
• The “House of Translation Wisdom” Network
• ANR: BDMI projects, HyperOtlet

Backed by a Scientific Council in its responses to its call for projects each year in June, the projects supported by the MSH Paris Nord have a maximum duration of two years. The Scientific Council is composed of French and foreign scientific actors, and is chaired by Manola Antonioli and Alain Bertho.

The MSH Paris Nord contributes to the development of research through its axes within the territory of Plaine Commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis region, in the rest of Île-de-France and at a national and international scale.
Dissemination of research results in the humanities and social sciences.
According to its missions, the MSH Paris Nord also contributes to the dissemination of knowledge. It organizes and hosts seminars and conferences on a regular basis which are open to the general public

The new building of the MSH Paris Nord was opened in March 2015, and can be found near the metro line 12 (Front Populaire) and Campus Condorcet.