MAKERS is a collaborative research project (PRC), involving multidisciplinarity in SHS (ergonomics, sociology, management, urbanism and territory) in partnership with SPI (industrial engineering, ecodesign). The research team has already worked together, this project being in continuity with the ORCILAB project, which had shown a difficulty of collaboration between fablabs and industrials on innovation projects. The MAKERS project aims to understand the makers activity, considering them as "designers" in alternative production organizations. These communities respond to societal needs on a territory with citizen solutions, for which it is important to measure the consideration of ecodesign, ergonomics, safety and sustainability of projects. Our research questions concern their capacity to work together, in a network, to create original solutions and to be part of design process and sometimes to change scale (circular economy using the territory resources). The methodologies are mainly qualitative on twenty projects with interviews and observations of activities. We will also propose participatory approaches of simulation and experimentation to accompany some makers projects identified as holding sustainability objectives. The deliverables are well integrated in the industry of the future with the production of knowledge on sustainable and citizen innovations in the territory logic, carried by these communities. The production of design guidelines (eco-design, ergonomics, etc.) is also expected to support the makers in their activity and to changes of scale for some project.

There is an urgent and renewed need for research into older workers’ employability. To address this societal challenge, we adopt a theoretical conception of employability which consists in linking individual, organizational, and governmental levels. We are therefore putting forward an ambitious project proposal, which links psychological and managerial perspectives. We intend to contribute to both literatures by studying common shortcomings (over-45 employability factors and dynamics from a multi-level perspective, sustainable career paths for elder workers) and specific shortcomings (as regards psychology, links between employability and different areas of life, from a time perspective; as regards management, organizations, climates and managers which are inclusive on age-related issues). The overall objective of this project is to identify the individual (micro), organizational (meso), and social (macro) conditions that would promote positive employability development for the unemployed and employed workers over 45. This project has four main aims: (a) To understand the development of employability over the age of 45; (b) To study the antecedents of employability ; (c) To examine the links between employability and different areas of life with a temporal perspective; (d) To study inclusive organizational climates and practices for older workers, with a special focus on managers’ role. To study this complex topic, we will adopt a quantitative longitudinal, a qualitative retrospective, and a case-studies approach in a set of 5 Work programs with an interdisciplinary perspective. The aim is to help promote sustained and productive employment for older workers by understanding the impact of the three levels under consideration on their employability development. This project should also help us to better understand which type of micro-, meso-, or macro-interventions might sustain this development and help older workers manage their career transitions. We claim that this research project proposes an original and relevant approach to the employability of workers and job seekers over 45 that will add to the current scientific knowledge in the field. The findings of our studies will be disseminated through several academic conferences and publications on vocational psychology, work ; organizational psychology amongst others and on diversity management and age management. This project also aims to improve conditions so that careers can become sustainable by providing important insight for policy makers, helping them to design their public policies in terms of employment for workers over 45. In this respect, in addition to research partners, we will also disseminate our findings to practitioners and policy makers through mid-term and final workshops. Finally, this project will also lead to a booklet with practical recommendations against ageism in companies.

This International Collaborative Research Project (ergonomics and public health) is positioned under Axis 4.1 - "Innovation, work". It aims to produce knowledge to support social innovations in terms of prevention of occupational accidents and diseases, both at the level of regulations and dynamics of productive organizations (micro and meso level), and at the level of public surveillance (macro level). This proposal is rooted in the context of the importance of work accidents in Brazil and their stagnation in France (which hides an increase in accident rates among women). We apprehend prevention as a collective activity distributed over time, space and multiple partners. The activity of prevention can be conceptualized as a partially improvised orchestration of collaborative performance (Engeström, 2008). This research aims to: 1) understand this distributed collective activity of prevention at three levels (macro, meso, micro); 2) identify systemic contradictions and potential areas for development of this collective activity; 3) support innovation in this collective activity of prevention by mobilizing participatory methodologies: Change Labs (Virkkunen & Schaupp 2008), simulation methods from the critical pedagogy (Freire, 1970), MAPA (Almeida e Vilela, 2010; Almeida et al. 2014); (4) Develop a safety culture by articulating three levels of prevention activity; (5) To extend this knowledge and methods, not very common in France and Brazil, to other sectors. The expected impacts are: more effective and systemic prevention; the development of the actors involved in the process; and a transfer to civil society. This work will be done in France and Brazil on fields of research enabling comparison and mutual support. This project will remove the scientific and technical obstacles concerning: - Clarification of human, work and prevention at work models supported by national occupational risk prevention programmes in the two countries; - Understanding the issues (socio-organizational, financial and technical) related to the genesis and conduct of prevention projects in productive organizations; - The proposal of a model for a participatory support approach for prevention actors in these projects - The development of integrated models (ergonomics, public health/intercultural researches) around key concepts related to the design of sustainable work situations, such as "decent work" (one of the objectives for the development of the International Labour Organisation-ILO) The driving force behind the collaboration project is the combination of expertise in occupational risk prevention. French-speaking ergonomics, born in Cnam-Paris, has developed work analysis methods that have proved their worth. The transformation of work situations has been increasingly developed since the 1990s. However, to date, some locks have often been lifted. The change laboratory's methodology developed in Finland and successfully implemented in Brazil seems to be an approach that will bring up the intervention-research on the issue of prevention. Moreover, the multidisciplinary nature of the SHS and Public Health associated with an international collaboration project represents a challenge, that of not simply juxtaposing approaches and cultures, but truly bringing them into dialogue, particularly in the field. Four French laboratories are involved: CRTD-Cnam, Paragraphe-Paris8, Epicène-Bordeaux University, CEREP-Reims University. Seven Brazilian public institutions are represented in this project, under the coordination of Prof. Vilela (University of Sao Paulo). These are a Foundation for Research on Occupational Health (FUNDACENTRO), the Universities of Sao Carlos (USFCAR), Campinas (UNICAMP), East Sao Paulo (UNESP), Itajuba (UNIFEI), Sergipe (UFS).