2025: First Steering Committee

10 months, 7 projects, 1 Steering Committee, and 63 participants:
Here are the key figures of the ISCI-MENA Chair for the 2025–2026 academic year!

 

 

On Wednesday, September 3, the members of the Chair gathered for the very first Steering Committee, hosted at the École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris and online.

On the agenda:

  • Presentation of ongoing projects around the three thematic axes of the Chair:
    • Nature-based solutions;
    • Inclusive territorial development through circular economy;
    • Protection of endangered heritage and resilience.
    • Priorities of Université Gustave Eiffel and UN-Habitat in the MENA region
  • Discussion on the 2026 programming, involving numerous research laboratories and partners.

A warm thanks to our colleagues, without whom the momentum of the ongoing projects would not be as strong:
Lab’URBA; IRG; Erudite; GERS; École d’Urbanisme de Paris; ENSA Paris-Est; Higher Institute of Environmental Technologies, Urbanism and Building (ISTEUB); National School of Architecture and Urbanism (ENAU); ISG Tunis; ESSECT Tunis; Université Française d’Égypte (UFE); École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris.

Special thanks to all participants and speakers, both onsite and online, whose contributions made it possible to design the next steps of the program, which we look forward to implementing!

The Chair’s projects are growing thanks to the active support of our institutions:

UN-Habitat Regional Office for Arab States: Ms. Rania Hedeya; Tunisia office: Ms. Aida Robbana (PhD), Ms. Chiraz Gafsia, Ms. Mariem Rekik, and Mr. Majdi Frihi; Egypt office: Mr. Ahmed M. Rezk, ACIT, MSc.

Université Gustave Eiffel: Vice-President for International Affairs Ms. Agnès Jullien (linked to the InCITIES project), Head of Strategic Projects Ms. Kristin Speck (City Fab project), Director of the Université Gustave Eiffel Foundation Mr. Nicolas Hautière, and Chair coordinator Ms. Amina Béji-Bécheur.

École des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris and Ville de Paris: Mr. Jérôme Gleizes and Mr. Franck Jung.

Special thanks also to Ms. Aida Nayer (Université Française d’Égypte, UFE), Ms. Hend Ben Othman (President of the Tunisian Association of Urban Planners), and Ms. Leïla Damak (Associate Professor, Université Bretagne Sud) for traveling long distances to attend.

 

From left to right: Ms. Rania Hedeya, Head of UN-Habitat ROAS; Ms. Agnès Jullien, Vice-President, Université Gustave Eiffel; Ms. Aida Robbana, Head of UN-Habitat Tunisia Office, Chair Coordinator; Ms. Amina Béji-Bécheur, VP MENA, Université Gustave Eiffel, Chair Coordinator