The new strategic plan 2025-29, centered on the theme “”Encountering communities (multi-species) and scaling dialogues”, seeks to broaden the concept of “communities” beyond humans and establish scientific society-nature dialogues. It is aligned with the UN’s 2030 Agenda and the European Commission’s priorities, namely the Green Deal and resilience in the face of the green and digital transitions, as well as the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-30). 

A panoply of subtopics guide the groups’ objectives and projects, namely communities and the deconstruction of national essences; inequality and vulnerability of communities (economic, social, cultural, health, gender); life cycle, human beings and invisible groups (families, older, younger, discontinuity with ancestors, loneliness); communities as places of knowledge (a comprehensive evolution of biodiversity in natural museum collections); online communities and (in)visibility; mobilizing communities of activism (e.g. visual arts, literary arts, performing arts, architecture) and creative sectors, operating in the cultural, artistic and educational fields.

To achieve their objectives, seven research groups work in a transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary and collaborative way.