Social impactat the heart of innovation through the Human and Social Sciences

Our ambition and strategy

Les SHS au coeur del’innovation

HSS at the heart of innovation

The Human and Social Sciences (SHS) play a key role in understanding the major societal transformations, whether economic, cultural or technological.

Through CY Transfer, CY Cergy Paris University affirms its will to promote theValuationHSS indevelopingspecific initiatives to create projects with high socio-economic impact.

The importance of SHS

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Development

In its strategy, the PUI CY Transfer has a special interest in the Human and Social Sciences: it is on its territory the operator of their socio-economic development.

CY Transfer pursues a proactive valuation policy and its strategy is based on the development of strong partnerships, building on the potential of laboratories and anchoring the innovations they offer in areas of high visibility with key external actors.

At CY Cergy Paris University (CYU), CY Transfer's mission is to support valorisation andtransferknowledge, expertise and research results from socio-economic partners. It is the cross-cutting tool to strengthen the third mission of the university, which, with the help of academic and institutional actors, participates in innovation.

Territorial anchoring

CY Transfer links SHS researchers to the concrete needs of local actors.

Work on societal issues – whether social innovation, education, urban dynamics or digital transformation – is echoed in partnerships with communities, businesses and associations. The mission of the SHS is to ensure that the knowledge and expertise produced within the university is fully exploited to meet contemporary challenges.

Our objective

Towards socio-economic enhancement of HSS

CY Transfer is committed to strengthening the role of SHS in the innovation ecosystem through its labelling as an Innovation University Centre (PUI).

The aim is to position the Human and Social Sciences as a transformative lever for businesses and institutions, offering analytical tools and solutions tailored to their needs.Whether to rethink modelsThe SHS provides valuable expertise to anticipate future trends.

CY Transfer therefore has a dual mission: to enhance academic research and to bring about the emergence of a new generation of social and cultural entrepreneurs who, thanks to the social and human sciences, will help shape the policies and practices of the future.

Impacts &Wins SHS

Accelerating societal impact

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Our tools and actions for SHS

Innovations & Companies Programme
AKT incubator
AKT Programme Acceleration
Declaration of Invention
Memorandum and Glossary SHS
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Glossary

Incubation / Incubator

Incubator of young companies from the SHS of the Research House Annie Ernaux accompanies entrepreneurs in the first years of their business. In addition to hosting the activity, support programmes such as the CY EdTech Labs and access to CY Transfer's resource persons for ad hoc assistance on legal, funding research or network construction issues are proposed.

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File submissionsimplified !

On C4T, it is possible to apply for different types of projects, including:

  • Economic project
  • Service Delivery
  • Confidentiality Agreement (NDA)
  • Training and awareness raising
  • Protecting my search results

 

Target: A simplified platform for filing files in three clicks.

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Glossary

Declaration of innovation

The innovation declaration is the first step in a development project and the communication medium for your research results or innovation to CY Transfer. It allows your interlocutors to understand and grasp the interest of your innovation, to understand the path that has taken you there.e, to identify the people involved in obtaining it, to understand the objectives you associate with it, to report your proposed publication concerning it. It's mostly a basis for dialogue between CY Transfer and you.

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Awareness raising

A set of actions that are implemented at universities and research institutions to familiarize research personnel with the value-added and transfer of their work to the socio-economic world.

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Transfer

This is the mechanism for actors such as associations, communities, businesses, ... to take advantage of innovative work and results from public research in order to facilitate their activity or to offer new products and/or services. The innovation conceptualised by the research team is thus put into practice or proposed by these actors to their ecosystem (users, users, clients...).

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Development

Exploitation is the activity which leads to the further development of research results in the form of a project in order to transfer these results to socio-economic actors. In particular, it operates in the following dimensions:
– Scientists and application, consolidating the results,
– economic, by considering how to use the results, and
– Legal, by organising through contracts and intellectual property the protection of fruits and the conditions and modalities of their use and exploitation.

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Societal impact / SROI

The return on social or societal investment (ROI – English term, social return on investment) is an analytical tool that allows the value of a project to be considered more broadly than by the financial prism, as the ROI does, considering in particular its social or societal, environmental and economic costs and benefits. It requires mapping the expected impacts of the project and their value and involving the stakeholders involved in the project.

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Organization chart of the operational team

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Olivier Romain
Vice-President Innovation and Transfer for CYU

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Christelle Ventura
Deputy Director in charge of Human and Social Sciences Development

Isabelle Hoefkens
Deputy Director, Project Management and Development Support

Odile Dubois
Deputy Director of Economic Development

Céline Bertin-Guillot
Marketing Manager

Quentin Bonnefond
Head of Partnerships

Jérémy Demange
Tools development

Anna Vieira
Responsible for administrative and financial management

Ange Anclin
Legal Assistant

Maïlys Dejean
Communications Officer

Célio Zanotti
Graphic designer

Kadija Siby
Responsible for the development and support of startups

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The enhancement of the Human and Social Sciences,a unique characteristic, unique to the PUI CY Transfer.

In its strategy, the PUI CY Transfer has a special interest in the Human and Social Sciences: it is on its territory the operator of their socio-economic development. The PUI CY Transfer links SHS researchers to the concrete needs of local actors. Work on societal issues – whether social innovation, education, urban dynamics or digital transformation – is echoed in partnerships with communities, businesses and associations.


The mission of SHS is to ensure that the knowledge and expertise produced within the university is fully exploited to meet contemporary challenges.

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The meeting appbetween researchers and innovators !

With Konekti, you have an application (web and mobile) for matching, which allows you to connect the laboratory staff of PII establishments (researchers, engineers, etc.) with the industrialists.

The objective: a simpler and faster contact between the academic world and companies.

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