Congratulations to Tara L’Horty, Oliver Frings and Noame Khaldi, PhD students at BETA Nancy, on receiving DrEAM mobility grants.
DrEAM (Doctor, Explore and Achieve More) is a scheme set up by the University of Lorraine as part of the Lorraine University of Excellence (LUE) Initiative to support the outgoing international mobility of its doctoral students. Episode 16 – the 16th call for applications – was open from 16 September to 18 November 2024. Thirty grants were awarded to all doctoral students at the Université de Lorraine during this campaign. Among them, three doctoral students from BETA will benefit from this opportunity to collaborate with foreign researchers as part of their doctorate.
Tara L’Horty is writing a thesis entitled ‘Essays on the economics of voluntary carbon offsetting’ under the supervision of Philippe Delacote (INRAE research director) and Anna Creti (Professor, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL). A stay at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) should enable her to deepen her research into the dynamics of the voluntary carbon offset market. Working for three months alongside two renowned experts in carbon markets and environmental economics, Professors Ben Groom and Franck Venmans, she hopes to develop a theoretical model of the uncertainty surrounding the quality of carbon credits and its impact on demand and the functioning of the market. She left for London on 20 January 2025 and will return to Nancy on 18 April 2025.
Oliver Frings is writing a thesis entitled ‘Reconciling forest policies for carbon neutrality and public preferences towards ecosystem services provision : An integrated bio-economic modelling approach’ under the supervision of Jens Abildtrup (INRAE researcher) et Antonello Lobianco (AgroParisTech researcher). They are collaborating on the project ‘Governments or Private Initiatives: Where Does Public Trust Fall in Forest Ecosystem Services Policy?’, which examines how the general public in France and the UK supports and trusts a range of policy instruments aimed at improving carbon sequestration and biodiversity perseveration in private forests. By systematically comparing regulations, fiscal incentives, voluntary markets, and eco-labels—each with varying degrees of coercion, market orientation, and moral responsibility— they seek to identify which approaches inspire the highest levels of public support, trust and willingness to financially contribute. Drawing on the expertise of C-EENRG and Professor Andreas Kontoleon in environmental policy and economics, the goal is to identify the most effective policy measures and their specific features for guiding sustainable forest policy across both countries and beyond. Oliver Frings will be hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) from 1 March to 14 August 2025.
Noame Khaldi is writing a thesis entitled ‘Capitalismes et Migrations transfrontalières: une analyse socio-économique de la migration des travailleurs français vers le Luxembourg dans le temps long’ under the supervision of Yamina Tadjeddine (professor, University of Lorraine) and Vincent Fromentin (maître de conférences HDR, CEREFIGE, University of Lorraine). From 15 February to 15 May 2025, she will be joining the Institute of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). This scientific structure brings together renowned researchers and experts in economics, sociology, geography and other human and social sciences, who will provide her with a unique and stimulating environment in which to pursue her thesis work and develop cross-cutting approaches and ideas. The stay will give her the opportunity to compare her own results with those of current research, so as to enhance their relevance and refine her future investigations; to open up interdisciplinary perspectives through participation in the multidisciplinary projects proposed by the Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux; and to develop new analytical and critical skills to better understand and analyse contemporary economic and social transformations.
We wish all three of them a wonderful stay!
