- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
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Montpellier, France
secretariat@cefe.cnrs.fr
Presentation
Les recherches du CEFE (Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive) visent à comprendre la dynamique, le fonctionnement et l’évolution du vivant, de « la bactérie à l’éléphant », et « du génome à la planète ».
Ses travaux ont trois ambitions : [1] comprendre le monde vivant pour anticiper ce que sera demain, [2] conduire à des innovations et répondre aux attentes de la société ; [3] pratiquer une science « rassembleuse » et diverse dans ses approches disciplinaires.
Ils s’inscrivent dans un contexte de changements planétaires rapides, participent au développement de nouvelles technologies de manipulation du vivant, et prennent en compte les exigences sociétales vis-à-vis de la recherche.
Le CEFE met en œuvre une science « faite autrement » pour continuer d’accomplir sa mission de recherche de service public de façon écoresponsable. Il a adopté deux chartes (chartes de responsabilité environnementale collective et individuelle) qui l'engagent dans la voie de la régulation de son empreinte environnementale, pour rester maitre de son évolution future.
Créé en 1961, le CEFE est situé sur le campus CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34090 Montpellier.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Implementing data governance of your organisation and GDPR compliance or by following the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules locally applicable data protection rules for other countries
- Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
- Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
- Measure the impact of its digital services (e.g. frequency of use or energy consumption) using a multi-criteria and global approach to the entire service (equipment, servers, networks, etc.)
- Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
- Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
- Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
- Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
- Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures
- Making anonymised data available to enable the development of innovative services that can benefit users and citizens
- Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data
- Develop in open source to enable virtuous emulation of its ecosystem
Actions started
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
- Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Engage with actors in the reuse sector and/or the social and solidarity economy in the management of the end-of-life of my equipment
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
- Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
- Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
- Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
- Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures
- Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data
- Develop in open source to enable virtuous emulation of its ecosystem