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Recruitment of Master and Doctoral Candidates in Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, Tongji University, PR China

In 2012, IESD will keep running the following programs: Master and doctoral programs in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, International Master’s Program in Environmental Engineering,in Environmental Laws, in International Politics and Environmental Governance, in Green Environment and Energy Economics. To promote and encourage excellence in higher education in developing countries, Tongji University will provide limited scholarships (deadline for application is mid-March)

Published on: 26-01-2012

A new website for the research unit Recycling and Risk

The overall objective of the research conducted within the unit is to provide solutions to recycle organic materials and waste (manure, biosolids from the treatment of wastewater, effluents of agro-industry, green waste and household waste) by agricultural practices within controlled agro-environmental risks.

Published on: 24-01-2012

A Spanish website for Agropolis International

Made by the Agropolis International web team, this light Spanish version offers 15 pages. Projects including Hispanic partners are highlighted and news of possible interest for Hispanic net surfers are translated.

Published on: 24-01-2012

2012 «Agropolis Fondation - Cariplo » Joint Call for Proposals is open

The first collaboration of its kind between the Milan-based Fondazione Cariplo and the Montpellier-based Agropolis Fondation, the FIRST Initiative (short for French-Italian Rice Science and Technology) is aimed at developing and supporting scientific research in the agri-food sector as well as in facilitating the emergence of excellent, innovative and potentially high-impact research on rice.

Published on: 24-01-2012

Visit of a delegation of IICA - Procisur "El Programa Cooperativo para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agroalimentario y Agroindustrial del Cono Sur". Feb 6-9, 2012. Agropolis International, Montpellier, France

The PROCISUR program associates several agricultural centers: INTA (Argentina), INIAF (Bolivia),EMBRAPA (Brazil),INIA (Chile),DIA (Paraguay),INIA (Uruguay). In the context of the Cooperation Agreement signed in December 2010 between Agropolis International and PROCISUR, a PROCISUR delegation will come to Montpellier in order to study scientific collaborations on water resources, prospective studies, innovation in agro-industry.

Published on: 29-12-2011

A new Master’s programme on Water

This Master’s programme on Water pools six Montpellier institutions that are involved in water research: UM1, UM2, UM3, Montpellier SupAgro, AgroParisTech- ENGREF and CIHEAM-IAM.M.

Published on: 29-12-2011

Agropolis International is member of the Bioenergiesud network

BIOENERGIESUD is a network that promotes innovation in the field of bioenergy. It brings together more than 100 structures, high-tech companies of all size, well-known research laboratories and innovation clusters of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region.

Published on: 06-12-2011

The 2011 «Agropolis Fondation - Capes» Joint Call for Proposals (CfP) is open.

This call is launched within the framework of the Partnership Agreement between Agropolis Fondation and the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) signed on 01 July 2010. Deadline for submission: 10 February 2012.

Published on: 02-12-2011

Cemagref becomes Irstea

Since November 2011, the Cemagref becomes IRSTEA (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture). Users can discover a new version of the website where content and presentation have been reviewed and improved.

Published on: 02-12-2011

Cooperation with INTA Argentina

Agropolis International welcomed on October 25-26, 2011 a delegation of INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Argentina) led by its President, Carlos Horacio Casamiquela. The objective of this visit was to reinforce cooperations between Argentina and the national scientific community by the creation in Montpellier of a Labintex (an "external laboratory without walls"), on the model of the LabEx Embrapa.

Published on: 24-11-2011

Visit of a delegation of agrofood companies from Valparaiso, Chile. Nov.28, 2011

In the context of the “Project Management Program-Gore Valparaiso” with the Regional Government of Valparaiso managed by the International Cooperation Agency of Chile, AGCI y supported by the European Union, a delegation of 12 business managers from the agrofood sector came to Agropolis International on Nov.28, 2011.

Published on: 23-11-2011

Cooperation project with the National Advanced School of Agronomy (ENSA) of Algiers

Agropolis International scientific community participates to the reform process of the National Advanced School of Agronomy of Algiers (Algeria). In this context, a delegation of 8 professors-researchers from ENSA came to Montpellier from dec. 6 to 9, 2011.

Published on: 23-11-2011

6th World Water Forum. March 12-17, 2012. Marseille, France

The World Water ir organized every three years since 1997. The organisers of the 6th World Water Forum have a major ambition: build on the extensive discussions around the issues, the problems and the recommendations of previous Fora and other international meetings in order to develop and to trigger the actual implementation of concrete solutions. In the context of the World Water Forum, the SICMED program (initiative aiming at a better understanding of the Mediterranean anthropo-ecosystems and their evolutions), VerSeau Développement and Agropolis International, will organize an international conference in Montpellier on March 7-8, 2012. Further details to come.

Published on: 27-12-2011

PhD course on International Forestry and Global Issues. April 16-20, 2012. Champenoux, France

"Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique" (INRA), AgroParisTech and the European Forest Institute (EFI), represented by its Central European Regional Office and the Observatory for European Forests (EFICENT-OEF), will conduct their 2nd PhD course on “International Forestry and Global Issues" from April 16th to 20th, 2012 in Champenoux, France. The course will address a wide range of forest issues, topics which rank high on the international and national forest and environmental research and policy agendas.

Published on: 27-12-2011

10th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography. April 23-27, 2012. Noumea, New Caledonia

This 10th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography is run under the auspices of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), in collaboration with the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and Météo-France. The objective of the 2012 conference, the 10th of the series, is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for presentations of our current state of knowledge, as well as motivating new research and applications within the variety of disciplines related to weather and climate of the ocean and atmosphere.

Published on: 27-12-2011

Opening of the registrations for the 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology. May 21-25, 2012. Montpellier, France

The objective of the congress is to question the history of human-induced changes for a better understanding of the components and dynamics of current global biodiversity. Congress participants would be encouraged to focus on their understanding of past human activities as a means to develop more sustainable patterns of natural resource management in the near future. Earlybird registrations are now open until Feb. 22, 2012.

Published on: 26-12-2011

8th congress of the French Phytopathological Society. June 5-8, 2012. Paris, France

The 8th congress of the French Phytopathological Society (Société Française de Phytopathologie, SFP) will take place in Paris in 2012 at AgroParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences). The data presented will concern different aspects of plant disease including plant disease control methods. Several topics will be developped: mecanisms of plant-microbe interactions, plant defense, virulence and symbiotic processes, epidemiology of plant disease, plant pathogen detection and disease control.

Published on: 25-12-2011

International Symposium on Emissions of Gas and Dust from Livestock. June 10-13, 2012. St Malo, France

This event is organized by the French partnership network on Livestock and Environment. It will be an opportunity to present the latest scientific advances from research on gas and dust emissions in animal agriculture and will contribute to providing information that industry and governments need in order to achieve cost-effective gas and dust mitigation outcomes.

Published on: 25-12-2011

6th SEST 2012 - 'International Symposium on Seed, Transplant and Stand Establishment of Horticultural Crops: Sowing the Future of Tropical Horticulture'. July 1-5, 2012. Brasilia, Brazil

This event is organized by Embrapa under the umbrella of International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS).The deadline for the abstract submission is April, 1st, 2012.

Published on: 25-12-2011

The call for paper is open for the 12th ESA Congress. August 20-24, 2012. Helsinki, Finland

This 12th conference of the European Society for Agronomy takes a number of themes from “agriculture at the extremes”, including tolerance to stresses, pushing the margins of sustainability, and extending models of crop growth to include responses to long days and cool droughts. Deadline for submitting abstracts is March 30, 2012.

Published on: 25-12-2011

7th Plant Biomechanics International Conference. August 20-24, 2012. Clermont-Ferrand, France

Plant biomechanics is an expanding interdisciplinary field, at the interfaces of biology, mechanics, physics and engineering. Over the years, the Plant Biomechanics International Conference has become the central event of the Plant Biomechanics research community, as well as a unique place for interdisciplinary exchanges around the amazing features that Plants have evolved to sense, acclimate and adapt to the mechanical challenges they have been submitted to. This event is organized by INRA, AgroParisTech and Université Blaise Pascal.

Published on: 25-12-2011

1st International Conference "Organic Rice Farming and Production Systems". Aug. 27-30, 2012. Montpellier, France

The main objective of the conference is to stimulate and favour exchanges between researchers, between stakeholders in the rice production chain and between researchers and stakeholders. The conference is organised into an introductory session followed by six theme based sessions. Each session is based on presentations combined with exchanges between scientists, ricegrowers and other stakeholders in the organic rice production and commercialisation chain.

Published on: 24-12-2011

International Conference "Natural products and biocontrol 2012". Sep. 19-21, 2012. Perpignan, France

This Congress is organized by the French-speaking group on natural origine organic pesticide, International Biocontrol Manufacturers' Association (IBMA), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD) and the pôle de compétitivité Qualiméditerranée.

Published on: 23-12-2011

Conference "BioRubber for Europe in Global Perspective". September 24-25, 2012. Wageningen, The Netherlands

The 2012 congress: BioRubber for Europe in Global Perspective, is organized organized by the EU-PEARLS consortium to mark the end of the FP7 EU-PEARLS research project ‘EU-based Production and Exploitation of Alternative Rubber and Latex Sources. This conference will bring together researchers, industry representatives and policymakers from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, interested in the development of alternative sources of natural rubber

Published on: 23-12-2011

2012 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications. October 31 - Nov 3, 2012. ShangHai, China

The call for paper for this conference is open until Feb. 15, 2012. Topics include: - Concepts and Hypotheses in Plant Modeling. - Plant System Modeling. - Plant-Environment Interaction/Feedback Modeling. - Data Acquisition and Application of Plant Models in Agronomy, Forestry, and Horticulture. - Mathematical Plant Modeling and Computational Methods. - Plant and Landscape Visualization. - System Simulation and Implementation.

Published on: 22-12-2011

'2012 EFFoST Annual Meeting : a lunch box for tomorrow : an interactive combination of integrated analysis and specialized knowledge of food'. Nov. 20-23, 2012. Montpellier, France

This event is organized by the European Federation of Food Science & Technology (EFFoST) in partnership with IUFOST (International Union of Food Science and Technology. The conference will focus on connecting the integrated (broad) and the specialized (focused) views on food to promote health, food security and sustainability for all.

Published on: 21-12-2011

Just out: Agropolis International Newsletter, Issue number 12, December 2011

Number 12 - December 2011

Published on: 29-12-2011

Synthesis of the PARME Forward-thinking Workshop "PArtnerships and Research in the MEditerranean"

The French National Research Agency (ANR) has selected Agropolis International to coordinate, from January 2010, a forward-thinking workshop (Atelier de Réflexion Prospective) on the theme ‘Which researches and which partnerships for the Mediterranean?’ This study aimed at identifying research and innovation fields requiring cooperations between Mediterranean countries and defining related operating modes with a forward-thinking view for 2030

Published on: 11-10-2011

Download the Book of Abstracts of the IUFRO International conference: "Research priorities in tropical silviculture: towards new paradigms?". Nov. 15-18, 2011. Montpellier, France

After more than 50 years of tropical silviculture research carried out in the major forested regions of the world, and in the framework of the International Year of Forests, Cirad, CIFOR and Ecofor organized this international conference under the auspices of IUFRO (Division 1.02.00 Tropical and Subtropical Silviculture; Division 3.07.00 Forest operations in the tropics ; Division 8.02.00 Forest Biodiversity).

Published on: 08-12-2011

Review of the 1st G20 Conference on Agriculture Research for Development - "Promoting Scientific Partnerships for Food Security". September 12-13, 2011. Montpellier, France

Organized on September 12-13 2011 in Montpellier (France) at the initiative of the G20 French Presidency and in the framework of the pillar on Food Security of the action plan for development, the 1st meeting of the G20 development on Agriculture Research for Development was devoted to promoting scientific partnerships for Food Security.

Published on: 28-09-2011

Review of the conferences of Mrs Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. June 20-24. Montpellier and Paris, France

E.Ostrom's works are one of the main reference for those who, in the scientific and politic worlds, are building their speeches and actions on the one hand only on state management, and on the other hand, on the promotion of private property as a universal tool for the management of resources and environment management. E. Ostrom's analysis presents the collective action and the auto-organization as a third alternative between privatization and state management.

Published on: 05-07-2011

Review of the presentation and discussion "Expanding the AWARD Programme in Francophone Africa". June 9, 2011. Agropolis International, Montpellier, France

See the highlights of the event "CGIAR Gender & Diversity Program launched African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD).

Published on: 22-06-2011