News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The RAW association offers a cross-section of the world’s major river deltas, based on their specific geographical features at the interface between land, sea and river. The “Delta Lab” initiative aims to improve territorial resilience and adaptation to climate change through culture, heritage and exchanges between deltas facing the same issues in different international contexts. […]

The aim of this project of Tchendukua – Ici et ailleurs is to draw inspiration from the ancestral knowledge and practices of the Kogi people (Colombia) to re-examine our current practices with regard to the environment and rivers. In 2023, a delegation of Kogis, supported by French and Swiss scientists, came along the Rhône to […]

The association Les films du Tilleuls is making a documentary film for cinema and television, which aims to observe the concrete impacts of global warming on the Valserine watershed (a tributary of the Rhône), as well as possible perspectives in the face of this upheaval. The film will be shot as close as possible to […]

Le fleuve à voix haute honors the poetics of rivers and weaves a correspondence between the Rhône and the Great Rivers of the world. Between 2024 and 2027, the company Troisième Rêve Théâtre will create a number of scenic forms: performances, participatory creations, musical readings, workshops… Intended to travel the length of the Rhône, they […]

A traveling opera project on the theme of water and global warming. Through artistic mobility, the aim is to break down the barriers that keep residents of rural and suburban communities away from urban cultural offerings. The Opéra de Lyon has entrusted the work “Le sang du glacier” to three women, on the theme of […]

Saône to Rhône is an interdisciplinary research project run by the student association Juste 2 Degrés, whose aim is to combine environmental research on waterways, education for schools and scientific mediation for residents of the Saône and Rhône rivers. In March 2024, four students from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Ecole Normale […]