This project aims to study on a diachronic way (through Middle and Modern ages), the different original forms of Christianity that were to be found in the « border territories », located on political, religious and linguistic borders, i.e. the lotharingians territories, later on called during the Middle Ages the « inbetween lands » (from the North Sea to Savoy). This territories, along with the Milanese, formed the « catholic Ridge » during the modern era (the border of the catholic influence, between the Protestants in the east and the Catholics in the West). These specificities were asserted often by the historians, but rarely demonstrated, if it is not by case studies. The objective thus is to rethink the explanatory causes and the processes of such a multiplicity and variety of religious experiments, as well as their spread, their successes or failures, while highlighting more efficiently what is due to the circumstances and what is to be credited to the structural phenomenons, linked to the political and religious specificities of these regions. To cover this space and assure a really comparative and transverse approach, an international consortium with 7 historian research teams was established : 4 French teams (the CRULH of Lorraine – coordinator –, the LARHRA of Lyon, the LSH of Besançon, the CREHS of Arras) and 3 foreigners (Transitions of Liège, Institute of history of the University of Luxembourg, History Department of Università degli Studi of Milan). All in all, 37 people are committed in the project, which concerns essentially the history but also assures openings towards the art history and the musicology, to deal with the evolution of the liturgical practices : 12 medievalists, 21 modernists, 2 art historians, 2 musicologists. Given the tremendous size of the region and of the period to be studied, the project will focus on a comparative study of three main topics, by using in particular the methods of the historic anthropology, the gender studies, the prosopography : • The commitment of religious women (specificity of the feminine vocations ; the relations with the male management of the churches ; the feminine writings) : organization of three rounds tables and a final colloquium, with publication of the acts in the form of common synthesis ; three volumes of editions of texts ; on-line publishing and digitalizations of texts ; constitution of a database on these communities. • The pastoral models (episcopal models, formation and skills of the bishops, the organization of the diocesan staff, the legal or liturgical norms’ production, « clericalization » of the Protestant ministers) : organization of three round tables and a final colloquium with publication of the acts ; constitution of a prosopographical database on the episcopal staff (14th-17th c.). • Devotions and politics (promotion and spread of the devotional practices : specific ways of the Marian worship, « political » saints, specific devotion to the angels) : organization of two round tables and a final colloquium with publication of the acts ; one exhibition with realization of a catalog (Museum of sacred art from Fourvière in Lyon) ; on-line edition of an inventory of the editions of a devotion book, "best-seller" during two centuries in the considered region. All the works will give rise to the production of a web site and a global synthesis in the form of a book-atlas, which will contain hundred maps accompanied with long recapitulative notes and with iconography.

The renewed interest in hemp cultivation is currently justified by its low environmental footprint and its moderate use of inputs (water, pesticides) compared to cotton and flax. The TAFFTA project aims to overcome technological and scientific barriers to understand the crucial stages of the transformation of hemp stems to textile yarns such as retting, fibre extraction, spinning, weaving and functionalisation in the southern France. The dew retting will be investigated by combining ultrastructural, biochemical and meta-omics approaches to fit/tailor hemp dew-retting process within originally non-favourable territories in southern France. Thanks to pilot (lab-scale) and industrial devices and novel experimental and numerical couplings, the extraction of the retted fibres and the spinning conditions will be optimised for the production of fine yarns for textile applications. Environmentally friendly finishing treatments and associated processes will be developed to implement additional functionalities to hemp textiles such as fire resistance, hydrophobicity and antimicrobial properties.

The project is aimed at the HORIZON-CL4-2024-TWIN-TRANSITION-01 call: Manufacturing as a Service: Technologies for customised, flexible, and decentralised production on demand. The aim of this call is to develop competitive and reliable technologies for a European industry that is a world leader in key areas. The TRL level expected at the end of the project is 6, with a maximum budget of €7m. The FLEX4REA project aims to : - Develop a tool-based method for creating, developing and maintaining over time the organisation (including the integrated logistics support system (ILS) but also the ability to describe and formalise the production system, i.e. the machines, available resources, storage locations, etc. that each member company wishes to put forward and share depending on the opportunity of the co-development project), the operation (the processes that then organise the activities required for reasoned and profitable co-development) and the governance of the company. - To develop a tool-based method of co-design and/or co-development of products and associated services or services only, coupled with the design of the ad hoc production system, which can then be seen as a configuration of the SSLI(s) of the network of companies; - To develop a tool-based method to assist in the reconfiguration of complex, distributed production systems - Develop a method for building and developing Digital Mock-ups or Digital Twins that is deemed "suitable, sufficient, simple, useful and maintainable independently by companies" to enable reconfiguration to be anticipated, forecast, parameterised, controlled, simulated, validated, evaluated, etc. on an ongoing basis; - Implementing resources, techniques and tools to help reconfigure the organisation of the extended enterprise itself according to its governance policy, the opportunity of the moment, etc.; Implementing resources, techniques and tools to help reconfigure the organisation of the extended enterprise itself according to its governance policy, the opportunity of the moment, etc; - Implementing technical resources, technologies and tools for the effective implementation of reconfiguration in the technical sense of the term, for example the reconfiguration of machines or the reconfiguration of intra- and extra-company logistics systems. All these elements will be demonstrated in three use cases aiming for TRL6 level in sectors chosen by REFLEX4REA in areas that are fundamental to European sovereignty and for which MaaS is a major element of competitiveness: the manufacture of medicines and medical devices, the aeronautics industry and the manufacture of batteries. More specifically, the project deliverable will be a flexible and agile network organisation model incorporating digital mock-ups and various models adapted to the value chain of the various use cases. These various elements, in addition to the provision of a methodology, in the form of a 'toolkit', will enable end-users to comply with the ISO/CEI 29110 standard, which is a major competitive advantage for an industrial company (particularly an SME).