University policies post-1968: An analysis of the project to establish the Institute of Psychology in Boulogne in 1999

In 1999, the Institute of Psychology of Paris Descartes University, carrying the legacy of the foundation of the academic discipline, moved from the center of Paris to Boulogne-Billancourt. It is the outcome of a project emerging in the immediate post-1968 period, resulting from national academic and research policies, relayed by the successive university presidents and the actors in charge of the discipline evolutions. The objectives to be achieved concerned at the same time the reception of new audiences at the university and the diversification of pedagogical interventions, the development of multidisciplinary, the practice of institutional participation and the development of fields of research and courses of psychology, both at the fundamental and professional level, so that their national and international quality be strengthened. This article allows you to retrace the key steps of a project carried out on some thirty years and to show which have been the benefits for the Institute of Psychology and Paris Descartes University.