The LOTERR 7304 Research Unit implements scientific research in geography and planning on the Messin and Nancy sites of the University of Lorraine. LOTERR has 31 permanent staff (5 engineers and technicians and 26 teacher-researchers), 20 doctoral students and 14 associate researchers.
LOTERR research is organized along three thematic axes.
The Waters and Environments axis mainly deals with water resources, from the angle of physical geography, hydrology and climatology.
LThe Landscape and Territorial Transitions axis focuses on landscape transitions and territorial changes concerning natural and anthropogenic landscapes.
The Transitions, Actors and Development axis questions the transition, reconversion, cooperation through the practices of the actors of the territories
The LOTERR belongs to the scientific center LLECT – Letters, Languages, Spaces, Cultures and Time of the University of Lorraine, and actively participates in the work of the MSH Lorraine. LOTERR researchers participate in the research strategy implemented in LUE-Lorraine University of Excellence, through work on energy transition, aging and the labor market.
The LOTERR is part of many thematic research networks:
International in scope
- LOTERR is a driving force behind the UniGR-Center for Border Studies, an interdisciplinary center bringing together 80 researchers from the Greater Region carrying out work on borders and cross-border spaces. Relations are particularly strong between the LOTERR and the University of Saarland, the University of Luxembourg, the University of Liège and the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (international working groups, seminars, co-publications, theses under joint supervision).
- LOTERR researchers participate in the Saar-Lor-Lux-Rhineland-Palatinate-Wallonia charter, for research cooperation on the risks associated with flooding in the cross-border basins of the Meuse and the Moselle
- LOTERR researchers have developed cooperation with the Sultan Moulay Slimane University of Beni Mellal in Morocco (joint research projects and theses on remote sensing).
National in scope
Loterr researchers represent the University of Lorraine in national research groups:
- GIS IFD, Institute of Borders and Discontinuities
- Defense and Security GIS (under implementation)
GIS ILLV Institute of Longevity, Old Age and Aging
Regional in scope
LOTERR researchers are also involved in the following research structures, which are regional in scope:
- GISFI Brownfields
- OHM, Operation Men Milieus du Pays de Bitche
- ZAM, Zone Workshop Moselle
- ZA Argonne, CNRS Argonne workshop area