Partners
ANDRA
National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management
The themes of the Geolearning chair are fully in line with the R&D work needs of Andra (National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management), in support of the design, operation and monitoring of storage centers for Radioactive waste. In this context, the development of innovative methods for the identification and detailed quantification of extreme climatic events represents a major challenge in order to contribute to increasing the control of the associated risks. The work that will be carried out in the chair, relating to machine learning techniques for processing large masses of heterogeneous environmental data (on the surface and in the geological environment of the repositories), also represents a major development interest for Andra, in order to help guarantee qualified and reliable information on a large spatial and temporal scale.
GROUP
BNP PARIBAS
Using digital innovation as a lever for understanding and action in the face of climate change: this is the mission of the Geolearning Chair. Fully committed to the ecological transition and convinced that it must be informed by scientific knowledge, the BNP Paribas Group positions itself in support of environmental research and impactful innovation. The existence of robust data in the field is the basis for any serious action for all actors, whether research, government, companies or individuals. This new Geolearning Chair offers innovative perspectives. It will enable an extended scientific community to develop and access new technologies in order to better anticipate the risks associated with global warming. In addition, transmission through education will encourage a new generation of researchers to continue this work and thus sustainably accelerate the ecological transition.
CCR
Public Group and International Reinsurer
A public reinsurer, particularly within the framework of the natural disaster regime in France, CCR has been developing expertise in the field of risk modeling for more than 15 years. As patron of the new Geolearning Chair (Mines Paris Tech, INRAE), CCR supports research projects on the theme of geostatistics that will emerge over the next five years.
SCOR
Foundation for Science
According to the latest IPCC report, extreme weather events will most likely increase in frequency and severity in the coming years. From this point of view, the Geo-Learning Chair is of considerable interest and value for the insurance and reinsurance industry. The ability to forecast extreme weather events, together with estimates of the ability to specify the intrinsic uncertainty of these forecasts and therefore of the likely level of damage resulting from them, will provide insurers and policyholders with an all the more valuable basis for optimization of underwriting and claims that extreme weather conditions will be more common.
The two doctoral projects that the chair will fund focus on the risks that lie at the heart of the insurance and reinsurance businesses. In the first doctoral project, the modeling of flood risks in the context of climate change will make it possible to refine the potential future deformations of the risk distribution laws. As for the second doctoral project, it will focus on the development of bias correction methods linked to combined events which will themselves be subject to rigorous selection, in particular in the light of the loss experience observed by insurers. The two doctoral projects will indeed involve insurers and reinsurers, in particular for their knowledge of extreme risks.