About CIST

A French scientific interest group (groupement d'intérêt scientifique GIS) set up in 2010Collège international des sciences du territoire - logo

Under the triple supervision of French CNRS, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris Diderot - Paris 7 universities, and in partnership with ADEME, CGET (ex-DATAR), IAU île-de-France, INED and IRD, the International College of Territorial Sciences (Collège international des sciences du territoires CIST) gathers 23 research units.

Contributing to the formalisation of a transdisciplinary research area

Its scientific ambition is to contribute to formalising a transdisciplinary research area, the "territorial sciences". In order to achieve this, it approaches as much the humanities and social sciences (geography, demography, economics, law, political sciences, sociology, history, archeology...), as earth sciences (climatology, geology, biology...), health sciences or engineering sciences (modelisation, geomatics...).

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