This article reports the works of the research’s group on project based learning (PBL) methodologies at the technological institute of Tarbes: assessing the specific contribution of PBL compared to traditional instructions and building an enriched measure of learning during the project). It also presents the future developments of these works (evaluation the impact of PBL on student success).

This study tries hard to bring to light the model of production of specific sense (direction) in the dimension "usage" of the multimedia sign, by basing itself on narratives scénistiques visiteurs\utilisateurs of the Web site of France Info. For that purpose the analysis is organized around four moments-keys in the production of the sense of the services of the site France Info: the effectuation, the appropriation, the registration (inscription) in relations and the organization of a temporality.

This chapter introduces the technical ceramic sector in the Hautes Pyrenees county. It aims at presenting the dynamics of recomposition of an industry historically linked to the presence of a local resource: electricity, hydroelectricity which was reconstructed around innovative small and average size industries. We first dwell on the process of decomposition, recomposition of the sector thanks to the perennial reconstitution of the sector we show, starting from the characteristics of the companies which appeared during the decomposition phase of the central actor CERAVER, the intensity of the transformation of the local productive system. The setting inherited from a century long presence of the technical ceramic in the Tarbes region – heritage area – is now linked to a transactional space built through the exchanges taking place within the framework of the pole of competitiveness of ceramic of Limoges, where new actors take part, the Ecole Superieure of the Art of Ceramics and Research Centre on the arts of Fire and Earth.

A regional approved environmental association asked us to participate in a reflection about how to make more conscious the populations of the protection of the water, and how to have an effect on this public policy in interest of environment and health of the involved populations. This text takes up again an assessment of different public actions (technical choices, legal regulation, economicalincentives, improvements in social governance). And it attempts to make explicit the conditions of a social expertise for a politically involved actor may meet standards of scientific research.

There has been a plethora of research related to attribution in the last few decades. However, very few studies focused on the relationship between understanding the causes of others’ behavior and social representation. The overall objective of this study was to fill the gap by showing that the understanding of the causes behind others’ behavior is influenced by our social believes. We studied the scholar failure social representation of school-teacher.

Research policy in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) is difficult to implement because of the very characteristics of these disciplines (no image, no technology, no patent) and because of requisite public intervention. It is demonstrated that, in each discipline, a market for academic research exists. The necessity to set up “hybrid forums” including both scientists and profanes is underlined. This kind ofresearch policy generates information asymmetries which call for a relevant evaluation. The case of scientific journals as viewed by French scientists is analysed. Solid grounds to carry out research evaluation on a national level are obtained, a required step before reaching a European level.

Micro-finance appears today as the most promising tool in the struggle against poverty and banking exclusion. By providing micro-credit, collecting saving and supplying microinsurance, microfinance institutions (MFIs) are renewing the banking activity by practices as innovative as the group lending method. However, the real impacts of the microfinance on target populations are to be confirmed, theirevaluation colliding with numerous difficulties. Nevertheless, the future development of micro-finance depends on its superiority over other tools in achieving its objectives. Hence, the need to develop more rigorous studies on the impacts, and mature reflection on sources of funding for MFIs in a context of growing of ethical finance and socially responsible investment.

The comments of this article join a step which consists in restoring in its second function in human and social sciences the said approach Cartesian as being the cartographic consequence of a preliminary approach trifonctionnelle (trikalienne) such as brought to light it the philologist Georges Dumézil. The whole allowing to admit the sciences of the information and the communications to a constructale dimension whatever the issues raised.

This article presents the profile of the most famous private TV channel in Romania, PROTV, in a comparative analysis with the public national television, TVR. The analysis (a corpus of 7 p.m. “PROTV News”, from 6 to 16 October 2007) will be focused on the sensational aspect of the news presented in the main News Bulletin, as preferred theme of the news presented on this private TV station, theme which defines in a way its profile, an obvious preference for the tabloidlike subjects, sensational ones, compared mainly with those of the public station which has a preference for news from political life. The comparative analysis concerns two main aspects, the theme of the news and their length, while the profile of the private station will be completed by a semantic analysis of the titles of the news, of the way of the presenters’ way of speaking etc. All these aspects will lead to general questions about the nature of information presented on the news nowadays, the way “reality” is constructed by the television etc.

The knowledge sharing is a central managerial issue nowadays. Our research stands in this context. Our approach relies, especially on one theoretical structure. Hobfoll’s resource preservation (1989) which conciliates transactional and interactional approaches of stress, and which is an important motivational theory. Each person possesses resources, which are the basis to fight stress. Each individual is motivated to acquire some or preserve some. Our researchaims at having a better understanding of how individual mechanisms may influence the knowledge sharing. The general problem lies in the following question: why do people share or do not share their knowledge? The banking environment has been selected as a professional structure. The quantitative approach has been favoured.

A regional approved environmental association asked us to participate in a reflection about how to make more conscious the populations of the protection of the water, and how to have an effect on this public policy in interest of environment and health of the involved populations. This text takes up again an assessment of different public actions (technical choices, legal regulation, economicalincentives, improvements in social governance). And it attempts to make explicit the conditions of a social expertise for a politically involved actor may meet standards of scientific research.

From local investigation about building‘s different actors, the object of present study which is coming on want to characterize constrains on building energy performing devices in building activities. We have to identify the waits and the learning process of different actors in building cluster which promote them in order to analyse stakes and actions process. This project want to speed up the conditions of technical systems and organisation process to maximize energy efficiency in building activities.

The study highlights the political stakes in the exposition organized to the Museum of the « Down Danube » in Calarasi (Romania) and to the Museum of History in Silistra (Bulgaria) within the framework of the European project « Cultural – Historical Inheritance Without Boundaries ». It puts in evidence the role of the museum as cultural organization in the process of transborder cooperation by examining three essential questions : a) the political sense of the cultural objectives of the project, b) the local, national and European dimensions of the political stakes and c) the incidences of the instrumentation of the local museum of culture and history.

In developed countries, between 70% and 90% of the life time are spent in confined spaces (housing, transport, etc.). Air quality in these closed spaces is generally inferior than outside. Our lifestylesand the growing use of new products and materials create cocktails of chemicals compounds (COV, CIV...) that can cause an increase of worrying diseases such as asthma, allergies or even cancer. These pollutants are particularly present in indoor air. These increasing public health problems gives rise to the development of devices for the treatment of indoor air. However, indoor air contains a lot of chemical substances showing very different physicochemical properties. The “Laboratoire de Thermique, Energétique et Procédés” (LaTEP) studies the coupling of treatment processes, such as biofiltration coupled to adsorption.