E4C - Summer School 2025
⚠️ Attention ⚠️ Due to a high number of applicants, the application deadline has been moved up to April 1, 2025. Please submit your applications before this date, as late submissions will not be considered.
About
Join us for the next E4C Summer School focused on "Environmental Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences."
Participants will explore methods and applications related to climate change, biodiversity, mobility, and societal impacts through discussions and hands-on sessions. This event offers an opportunity to learn, exchange ideas, and connect with researchers in the field.
The summer school will explore the quantitative methods for quantifying externalities such as carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, public health impacts, and inequalities, encouraging interdisciplinary thinking on these topics.
The objective is to equip participants with hands-on experience in environmental data collection methods, including surveys, remote sensing, experiments, and sensor-based monitoring, emphasizing their applications in applied research.
This implies a focus on teaching how to clean, visualize, and analyze large environmental datasets using statistics and econometrics, as well as computer science and machine learning tools, enabling participants to draw meaningful insights about the interactions between environmental factors and economic and social dynamics.
This weeklong program is designed for graduate students in economics, social sciences, environmental science, public policy, and related fields.
Highlights include:
- Lectures by leading researchers
- Small-group tutorials and practical sessions to apply the tools and methods of data science learned during the lectures
- Real-world applications in climate change, biodiversity, mobility and societal impacts
Apply now to be part of this enriching experience!
Practical information
- Profile: Research-oriented master’s degree and PhD students
- Language: English
- E4C covers all expenses (registration fee, accommodation at ECLA residence, and all meals from June 2 to 6). Participants must only cover their travel expenses
- Dates: 2nd to 6th June
- Location: Observatoire SIRTA 2020, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (45 minutes from Paris downtown by public transport)
- Number of participants: number of participants will be strictly limited (up to 30). Prospective participants must apply in order to attend and will be selected based on academic merit, motivation shown and potential benefit from the Summer School.
- Registration openning: 24th of February 2025
- Application limit: 25th of April 2025
Program
- Day 1: Climate change: Philippe Drobinski (École Polytechnique), Marion Leroutier (CREST)
- Day 2: Projections and Socio-Economic Climate Scenarios and Applications: Céline Guivarch (TBC), Julien Lefevre (TBC), Philippe Quirion (TBC)
- Day 3: Biodiversity: Anouch Missirian (TSE)
- Day 4: Surveys and Experiments: Ivaylo Petev (CREST)
- Day 5: Transport, ML: Sharon Xuan (Columbia), Emilien Schultz (CREST)
Full programme coming soon
Frequently asked questions
Please contact : summer.school.e4c@ip-paris.fr
Practical information
- Profile: Research-oriented master’s degree and PhD students
- Language: English
- E4C covers all expenses (registration fee, accommodation at ECLA residence, and all meals from June 2 to 6). Participants must only cover their travel expenses
- Dates: 2nd to 6th June
- Location: Observatoire SIRTA 2020, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (45 minutes from Paris downtown by public transport)
- Number of participants: number of participants will be strictly limited (up to 30). Prospective participants must apply in order to attend and will be selected based on academic merit, motivation shown and potential benefit from the Summer School.
- Registration openning: 24th of February 2025
- Application limit: 25th of April 2025
Program
- Day 1: Climate change: Philippe Drobinski (École Polytechnique), Marion Leroutier (CREST)
- Day 2: Projections and Socio-Economic Climate Scenarios and Applications: Céline Guivarch (TBC), Julien Lefevre (TBC), Philippe Quirion (TBC)
- Day 3: Biodiversity: Anouch Missirian (TSE)
- Day 4: Surveys and Experiments: Ivaylo Petev (CREST)
- Day 5: Transport, ML: Sharon Xuan (Columbia), Emilien Schultz (CREST)
Full programme coming soon
Frequently asked questions
Please contact : summer.school.e4c@ip-paris.fr
⚠️ Attention ⚠️ Due to a high number of applicants, the application deadline has been moved up to April 1, 2025. Please submit your applications before this date, as late submissions will not be considered.
Summer School sponsored by:
Summer School co-organized with:
Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*)
*CREST: a joint research unit CNRS, École Polytechnique, GENES, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
Meet our steering committee:
Patricia Crifo is Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique (l’X), researcher at CREST (CNRS) and research affiliate at CIRANO (Montreal Ca). At l’X she is deputy director of the Energy4Climate center and director of the Master Economics for smart cities and climate policy and of the Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investment IdR (TSE-Ecole Polytechnique). She is also vice chair of ACPR's Commission Climat et Finance Durable. Awarded the X-RSE 2024 prize, Qidi 2024 award, Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite 2014 title, she was nominated for the Best young Economist Award in 2010.
Florian Grosset-Touba is a development and environmental economist, with interests in labor and firms. He is an Assistant Professor in Economics at CREST, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, an Invited Researcher at the Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. A first strand of his research focuses on labor and networks in lower-income countries---exploring how individuals' labor supply decisions are influenced by their social network members, primarily with field experiments. The second strand of his research focuses on firms' responses to environmental changes and policy---combining insights from the natural sciences with applied micro-economic tools. Overall, his goal is to advance our understanding of the social and environmental drivers of poverty.
Florian GROSSET | CREST
Fanny Henriet is a research director at CNRS at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and a lecturer at École Polytechnique. Awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2023, she was nominated for the Best Young Economist Award in 2024.
https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/membres/henrietf
Marion Leroutier is an applied environmental economist focusing on two major environmental issues, ambient air pollution and climate change. She is Assistant Professor at CREST and ENSAE and Research affiliate at the IFS, Misum and IP Paris.
Guy Meunier is a research director at INRAE, deputy director of the Paris-Saclay Applied Economics research unit, and a professor at École Polytechnique. His PhD dissertation, conducted at CIRED, focused on investment incentives in electricity markets.
https://eng-psae.versailles-saclay.hub.inrae.fr/personalpages/meunier
Ivaylo D. Petev is a sociologist working on consumer, lifestyle and environmental practices. He is research fellow at CNRS, and director of the Quantitative Sociology Division at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST, UMR 9194). He teaches at the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE), Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
Samuel Rufat is Professor of Geography at École polytechnique (IPP) and senior scientist at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST, CNRS UMR 9194). His research interests include urban geography, environmental inequalities, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and computational social science. He is the PI of the ERC Consolidator FiBeGa - Filling the Behavioral Gap in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. He is an expert with the Community of European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS) Disaster Resilient Societies group for the European Commission. Previously, he was a Professor of Geography at CY Clergy Paris University and a fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France.
Benoît Schmutz is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at École Polytechnique. He is also a member of the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and the Institute for Public Policy (IP Paris).
Vincent Viguié is a researcher in climate change adaptation economics at CIRED. He is also a climate economics researcher at the International Research Center on Environment and Development (CIRED – École des Ponts ParisTech) and teaches at École des Ponts ParisTech and Sciences Po Paris.
https://www.vincentviguie.com/
