The Greater Paris, a question of territorial strategy

Before arriving in France, Lisa went to school in Germany in Berlin. Naturally, she decided to do her Sciences Po university college at the Franco-German European campus in Nancy. She describes these two years as brilliant. A year in Istanbul, between sociology and Turkish history, will complete the University College.

 

Lisa then joined the STU Masters programme, attracted by the study of the city in all its complexity and with the impression that the local is something that has an impact. In 2009, Lisa did her end-of-study internship at the Agence nouvelle des solidarités actives, an association created in 2006 by Martin Hirsch, which experiments and evaluates innovative programmes to fight poverty. She will have two missions: on the one hand to accompany the General Council of Meurthe et Moselle in the implementation of the Active Solidarity Income and on the other hand to participate in the European project Hope in stations. It was a very enriching experience both in terms of confronting the administration and also in terms of the autonomy given in the context of a large-scale European project with many interlocutors.

 

Lisa then went on to work with the public. She started working in a political group at the National Assembly. Between notes, monitoring, working groups and drafting amendments, Lisa learnt to work very quickly and acquired legal skills. However, she lacks the notion of project that she loves so much. She decided to reorient herself in a local structure closer to home, i.e. in her town of Clichy-la-Garenne. She joined the town hall as Administrative Manager of the Mayors office. She manages his agenda, assists him and, above all, acts as a link with the elected representatives and the departments. It is a job that requires a lot of coordination, dynamism and involvement.

 

However, Lisa would like to return to what she loves, the project dimension within a framework of territorial strategies. What could be better than Greater Paris? Lisa became a Greater Paris project manager. Its a cross-cutting position that involves governance, housing, transport, and a demonstrated ability to coordinate the various players. According to Lisa, it is a real territorial and urban strategy project that raises many questions: What is a territory? To which territory do we want to belong? These are fascinating questions that create synergies between departments.