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BiographyJean-Jacques Girardot is born in 1948 in Besançon (France). PhD in information economics, he was an assistant professor in economics in the University of Franche-Comté (France) from 1972 to September 2015.He is specialized in data analysis (designer of Anaconda software, award RD Apple 1981), in digital publishing, in project management and evaluation, in territorial observation (designer of the Catalysis method in 1989) and in territorial intelligence, which he proposed the concept and scientific project in 1998.He chairs the Scientific Council of INTI "International Network of Territorial Intelligence"  that meets about 60 research teams and territorial actors, after he has coordinated successively:- The first European Network of Economic and Social Insertion Initiatives, REIIES, by the 1992-1998 which result of the dissemination of the Catalyse method in Europe as the framework of the support of local initiatives and European projects.- The European Network of Territorial Intelligence, REIT, which has prepared the caENTI, from 1999 to 2005.- The caENTI, coordination action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence of the FP6, 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development of the European Union, 2006-2009.- Two proposals of large scale within the FP7: jobLIFE in 2010 and new-LiFE in 2011 to study a socio-ecological transition agenda guided by the welfare of each and all- The International Scientific Coordination Action "International Network of Territorial Intelligence" GDRI NRTIs, administered by the French National Centre for Scientific ResearchHe leads the definition of collaborative research project INTI around the concepts of sustainable development, territorial community and socio-ecological transition. This project has four pillars: collective intelligence; territories and networks; Cooperative observation; participatory governance; and two cross topics : vulnerabilities and resilience; and gender.He is a founding member of the cooperative start-up Acokima  that offers to stakeholders who wish to develop, manage and evaluate territorial projects, his tools issued from research and his international experience.