Totem sites
In conjunction with its academic and socio-economic partners, the PEPR Recycling program wishes to set up a number of spaces to host local activities around its research themes. They will not be built around the PEPR’s target projects, but rather around cross-cutting themes, thus fostering interactions between the program’s 11 research axes, as well as interdisciplinary relations.
These “lieux-totem” may be hosted by higher education and research establishments (ONR, universities, schools), where PEPR can provide its expertise for scientific events (research days, schools), interaction with companies, local authorities and associations (technical days, presentations of activities, popularization), and training (initial or lifelong) in collaboration with the host establishments and their teaching teams (doctoral schools, for example). The “lieu-totem” may be hosted in existing structures on a site, if this provides greater visibility and/or relevance for the site’s stakeholders. The aim is to create a “PEPR Recycling place-totem” label.
In PEPR-approved totem sites, recycling-related activities may be co-financed by PEPR. Each year, the PEPR Steering Committee will select the actions to be supported at the various sites, but each “lieu-totem” will organize its own governance and operations. The structure may therefore differ from one site to another.
Some partners have already taken up the project, such as the University of Le Mans, which has created a rudology totem (the study of waste and its disposal). A total of 12 such sites are scheduled to open in 2026.
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