- In the realm of formalizing and disseminating knowledge generated by the ELSE project, some of the members of our ELSE team published an open-access article in Safety Science entitled "Building a Conceptual Framework of Organizationally Embedded Tensions to Enhance Leadership for Safety in High-Risk and Highly Regulated Organizations: A Complexity Leadership Perspective". This research, co-authored by Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva, Yoann Guntzburger, Renata Kaminska, and Catherine Thomas, delves into leadership for safety as a complex, organizationally embedded process and offers a theoretical framework for the dynamic tensions involved. The article reviews and analyzes the outcomes of the international ELSE workshop held in January 2020. This workshop, which gathered 35 international academics and nuclear experts, enabled us to develop the ELSE training syllabus, form an international pedagogical team, and write this scientific paper, which introduces an innovative framework for understanding leadership for safety within high-risk and highly regulated environments. To read the article, please follow this link .
- From June 12th to 23rd, 2023, the ELSE project had the pleasure to welcome in Nice the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) School on Nuclear and Radiological Leadership for Safety. During this two-week training, 22 participants from 18 countries exchanged on various aspects of nuclear safety and leadership for safety. They also visited the ITER Fusion Project in Cadarache on June 20th. The School was carried out in collaboration with University Côte d’Azur, acting as the host organization. The purpose of this collaboration is to reinforce the complementarity between the two leadership for safety events, the ELSE training and the IAEA School You can find out more about this event, here: IAEA - Building the New Generation of Leaders for Nuclear Safety .
- In an effort to formalize and disseminate the knowledge generated by the ELSE project, some of the members of our ELSE team authored the article: “La sûreté à l’épreuve de la complexité :les limites de l’action managériale”. The article, which is co-authored by Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva, Catherine Thomas and Renata Kaminska, was published in the Revue Générale Nucléaire #6, in the winter of 2022. Please find the article here .
- Thesis "Challenges of Developing Leadership for Safety in High-Risk Industries: An Organizational Approach. The case of the nuclear sector." (N. Jubault Krasnopevtseva, 2022) is available to download following this link.
- The European Union and Université Côte d’Azur talk about the ELSE Project: ELSE project news release
- The ELSE Project was also presented in 15 academic and 31 professional conferences specialized in Management, Nuclear and Safety:
- Academic Conferences
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Subject / Place
Date
Status
Precisions
AIMS XXIXème Conférence Internationale de Management Stratégique ; ST-AIMS 9: Étudier la fiabilité et la résilience organisationnelles : enjeux et développements sur la performance. Toulouse, France.
3-5 June, 2020
Online due to COVID-19
Paper accepted “Leadership for Resilient Organizing: a Critical Realist Approach to Revisit the Role of Leadership in High-Risk Organizations”. The paper was a finalist for the AIMS Best Paper Award.
ESREL Conference. The conference combines the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and the 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference. Venice, Italy.
21-26 June, postponed to 2-5 November, 2020
Online due to COVID-19
Paper accepted: “The dynamics of safety risk perception in high reliability organizations”.
AGeCSO Conference, Connaissances communes et innovations : Reconnaître les convergences, valoriser les différences, conjointement avec le 10e forum de l’innovation. Strasbourg, France GeCSO Conference, Connaissances communes et innovations : Reconnaître les convergences, valoriser les différences, conjointement avec le 10e forum de l’innovation. Strasbourg, France.
24-26 June, 2020
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Paper sent: “A double-edged sword effect of rules in extreme contexts: the case of the day-to-day practices in a nuclear power plant”.
36th EGOS Colloquium 2020. Sub-theme 19: Collective Action in Crisis?. Hambourg, Germany.
2-4 July, 2020
Online due to COVID-19
Paper accepted: “Simple rules, heuristics and the attentional frontier reliability versus performance in French fighter pilot squadrons”.
XIV Colloquium AGeCSO “La resilience entre objet de recherche et pratique” (Sub-theme : KM et Résilience Organisationnelle). Chambon-sur-Lac, France.
18-20 May, 2021 Hybrid due to COVID-19
Paper accepted and presented: “Leadership for Resilience and Safety Management: Crossing Perspectives on Individual and Collective Tensions in the Nuclear Industry".
XXX Conference AIMS « Le management stratégique à l’épreuve des grands défis mondiaux » (Sub-theme: Nouvelles approches de l’incertitude: construction, Outils et dynamiques collectives).
1-4 June 2021
Online due to COVID-19
Paper accepted: “Unintended cascading effects of expanding organizational limits for resilience: lessons from the nuclear industry".
9th SKEMA KTO Paper Development Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France.
9-10 June 2021
Hybrid due to COVID-19
Paper accepted “The role of leadership for resilience: challenges of sensegiving and sensemaking across organizational levels”.
EURAM (European Academy of Management) 2021 Conference “Reshaping capitalism for a sustainable world” (SIG 09- Organizational Behaviour-Leadership), Montréal, Canada.
16-18 June 2021
Online due to COVID-19
Paper accepted: “Leadership for safety and resilience: challenges of sensemaking across organizational levels”.
37th EGOS Colloquium “Organizing for an Inclusive Society: Meanings, Motivations, and Mechanisms” (Sub-theme 58: Organizing in an Era of Riskification). Amsterdam, Netherlands.
8-10 July, 2021
Online due to COVID-19
Paper accepted “Resilience and organizational limits in the high-risk nuclear industry context”.
BAM (British Academy of Management) 2021 Conference “Recovering from Covid” (Sub-themes: Decision-Making Under Uncertainty; Leadership and Leadership Development).
31 August – 3 September 2021
Online due to COVID-19
Paper accepted: “The role of leadership for resilience: challenges of sensegiving and sensemaking across organizational levels”. Paper accepted: “Capturing the Unobservable: Uncovering Mechanisms of Leadership as Process through a Critical Realist Lens”.
Colloquium ESREL. European Safety and Reliability Conference. Angers, France.
19-23 September, 2021
Angers, France
Paper accepted “Resilience and organizational limits in the high-risk nuclear industry context”.
XVI Colloquium AGeCSO: "La gestion des connaissances, un tremplin pour faire face aux défis actuels?" (Sub-theme: "Résilience organisationnelle et gestion des connaissances"). Canada.
3-5 May, 2023
Online / Canada
Paper accepted "Former à la mindfulness individuelle et collective pour développer la résilience proactive".
EGOS European Groupe for Organizational Studies 2023. Cagliari, Italy.
6-8 July, 2023
Online / Italy
Paper presentation “Developing resilience in high risk and regulated environment: dangers of overpassing organizational limits of managerial actions”.
5th Paper Development Workshop in Organization and Management Studies for Advanced PhD Students and Early Career Scholars in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe (CESEE). Split, Croatia.
29 June – 1 July, 2023
Online / Split (Croatia)
Paper presentation “Dangers of overpassing organizational limits of managerial actions: the challenge of developing resilience in a high-risk and regulated environment”.
XVIIth colloquium of the Association for Knowledge Management in Society and Organizations. 29 May-31 May, 2024 Paris, France Paper accepted and presented: "Organisational Resilience and Knowledge Management". - Professional Conferences
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Subject / Place
Date
Status
Precisions
General Assembly of the European Technical Safety Organisations Network (ETSON). Paris, France.
10 July, 2020
Online due to COVID-19
Presentation of the ELSE Project: European Leadership for Safety Education”.
I2EN & Gifen Webinar
17 March, 2021
Online
Presentation:“Opportunities for studying abroad” Workshop (chairing) – Meet the nuclear energy sector.
IAEA Technical Working Group Nuclear Knowledge Management (NKM).
May 2021
Online
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
Nuclear Conference 2021
28 May, 2021
Online
Presentation of ENEN activities “ENEN-Education and Training initiative for the nuclear sector.”
30th NENE Conference. Slovenia.
6-9 September, 2021
Bled, Slovenia
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
European Nuclear Society, NESTET Conference. Belgium.
14-18 November, 2021
Online/Brussels
An event on leadership for safety training and education issues was organised, with participation of D. Louvat & J. Repussard.
4th IAEA International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management and Human Resource Development: Challenges and Opportunities. Russia.
13-16 June, 2022
Moscow, Russia
This conference was postponed from 2020. Paper on leadership for safety E&T (J Repussard), as accepted in the 2020 program.
Symposium ICSI-Foncsi. France.
23 June, 2021
ENAC, Toulouse, France
J. Repussard takes part in a round table led by B. Journé on the theme of “resistance to change, the social acceptability of acknowledging that not everything can be predicted, the lack of total control”.
NESTet2021 Conference. Belgium.
15-17 November, 2021
Online/ Brussels
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
NESTet2021 Conference: feedback from the session “Leadership for safety training”. Belgium.
17 November, 2021
Online/ Brussels
The session “Leadership for safety training” was coordinated by Jacques Repussard and Didier Louvat. Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva presented the objectives and the implementation of the ELSE project.
WNE – World Nuclear Exhibition 2021. Paris.
30 November-2 December, 2021
Villepinte,Paris
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
NUCLEAR 2022 Conference. Romania.
18-20 May,2022
Pitesti, Romania.
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
ENS webinar “Aligning leadership with organizational dynamics” General Conference, GNSSN meeting.
28 September 2022
Online
ELSE team members were invited to participate in the organizational and animation of an online ENS (European Nuclear Society) webinar with participation of IAEA and INPO.
IAEA General Conference, GNSSN meeting.
28 September 2022
Online
ELSE team members were invited to make a presentation “IAEA and ELSE Cooperation on Leadership for Safety Education” at the annual meeting of the GNSSN during the 2022 General Conference. ELSE team members presented the interest of effective leadership training and how ELSE training contributes to IAEA initiative.
Webinar Supporting Career paths in the nuclear field.
10 February, 2023
Online
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
ENEN Special Event
2 March, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
SNETP Coordinators Hub Day. Belgium.
14 March, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
Black Sea Women in Nuclear Leadership Group & U.S.-Black Se Nonproliferation. Georgia.
10 May, 2023
Tbilisi, Georgia
Presentation of ELSE Leadership for Safety Module.
IAEA Working Group. Technical Working Group on Managing Human Resources and Knowledge in the Field of Nuclear Energy. Austria.
22-26 May, 2023
Vienna, Austria
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
Regulatory Cooperation Forum meeting. Austria.
6 July, 2023
Vienna, Austria
J. Repussard presented ELSE and DMaLSE projects.
NENE2023 International Conference Nuclear Energy for New Europe. Slovenia.
11-14 September,2023
Portoroz, Slovenia
Presentation of ELSE within ENEN projects portfolio.
ENEN 20th Anniversary Event, Belgium.
22 September, 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Presentation of the ENEN projects portfolio at the ENEN roll-up, involvement of the ELSE-project representatives.
IAEA 67th General Conference, Austria.
26-29 September, 2023
Vienna, Austria
Presentation of ELSE and DMaLSE projects.
ETSON, https://www.etson.eu/jsp October, 2023 Online Presentation of ELSE and DMaLSE projects. IAEA Biennial Forum of the International Decommissioning Network (IDN) 28-30 November, 2023 Vienna, Austria Presentation of ELSE & DEMaLSE projects, ELSE training and its university diploma. 4th Security Day Event organized by the SAFE cluster at National Higher Firefighters Officers School (ENSOSP) 8 February, 2024 Aix-en-Provence, France Presentation of ELSE and DMaLSE projects. ENEN Special Event & General Assembly 29 February & 1 March, 2024 Brussels, Belgium Presentation of ELSE and DMaLSE projects. ASN, Journée du COFSOH 28 June, 2024 Paris, France Comment agir face à la complexité? International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management and Human Resources Development 1-2 July, 2024 Vienna, Austria Leadership dans l’industrie nucléaire. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 68 General Conference, 2024 16-20 September 2024 Vienna, Austria Side event on “Innovative Training Programmes and Education Opportunities for Member States”: ELSE Project, DMaLSE Project & SaTE
