LABINTEX Argentina : a new researcher has arrived in Montpellier: The LABINTEX /External Laboratory of INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuária, Argentina) was set up in November 2012 at Agropolis International after the arrival of the first coordinator of the project Daniel REARTE.
A second researcher has come to Europe this week in the framework of the LABINTEX: Roberto CITTADINI will be hosted at UMR INNOVATION (Innovation and development in Agriculture and agro-food), on INRA Campus Lagaillarde.

 

Daniel Horacio REARTE, has taken his functions as the first coordinator of the LABINTEX /External Laboratory of INTA which has been set up along the lines of the Brazilian Embrapa-Laboratory at Agropolis International

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November 29th and 30th 2012 - Official launching of LABINTEX programme of INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria – Argentina) at Agropolis International - Montpellier (France)

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« The LABINTEX programme of INTA in France is a strategic action because it allows Argentina to be positioned on cutting-edge research by cooperating with European partners”

LABINTEX implementation, supported by the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), aims to :

• Lead advanced research to create innovations
• Identify and develop scientific cooperation by establishing innovation networks between organizations in Argentina, in France and in other European countries
• Increase competitiveness and sustainability in Argentina’s agricultural production.
  

• Emergent technologies (biotechnology, nanotechnology, ICTs, etc.) ;
• Agro-food and agro-business technologies ;
• Technologies for environmental conservation and sustainable management ;
• Organizational innovations (rural development, family agriculture, extension).
  
  

These themes may evolve during the partnership.

September 2006
Visit of INTA delegation at Agropolis International and first exchanges on the subject

October 2011
Another mission to Montpellier of an extended INTA delegation headed by its Chair Carlos Casamiquela; they visited research units and met representatives of several institutions: Agropolis International, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Inra Montpellier, USDA and Embrapa’s LABEX Europe. The visit ended with further meetings in Paris with the executive directors of Inra and Cirad.

March 2012
Buenos Aires (Argentina) Signature of a Partnership Agreement between Agropolis International and INTA for the LABINTEX implementation in Montpellier.

November 2012, Montpellier (France)
Official launching of LABINTEX programme of INTA at Agropolis International

In the frame of this partnership, Agropolis International Association is in charge of providing technical, scientific and logistical support for the feasibility of the project.

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Agropolis International has signed a partnership agreement with INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria - Argentina) to set up in Montpellier (France) a LABINTEX/Virtual Laboratories of INTA Abroad, (23rd March, 2012, Buenos Aires)

The first coordinator of the LABINTEX has taken his functions by October 2012.

The aim of this agreement is to formalize the setting up in Montpellier of a LABINTEX/Virtual Laboratories of INTA Abroad, on the Embrapa’s European LABEX model, an original tool for international cooperation which was established at Agropolis International 10 years ago.

The partnership was initiated with INTA’s visit to Agropolis International in September 2006.

Another mission of an extended INTA delegation headed by its Chair Carlos Casamiquela took place in October 2011; they visited research units and met representatives of several institutions: Agropolis International, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Inra Montpellier, USDA and Embrapa’s LABEX Europe. The visit ended with further meetings in Paris, in particular with the executive directors of Inra and Cirad.

Further exchanges allowed to draw up the current partnership agreement between INTA and Agropolis International.

The setting up of this LABINTEX, supported by the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) aims at reinforcing cooperation between Argentina and the French scientific community.

It will help develop French-Argentinian joint research projects (PCR) in the research fields related to agro-pastoralism, agro-food and/or agro-business, dealing with the following issues:

• Emergent technologies (biotechnology, nanotechnology, ICTs, etc.) ;
• Agro-food and agro-business technologies ;
• Technologies for environmental conservation and sustainable management ;
• Organizational innovations (rural development, family agriculture, extension).
  

In the frame of this partnership, Agropolis International Association is in charge of providing technical, scientific and logistical support for the feasibility of the project.

 

The French delegation in Buenos Aires for agreement signature on 23rd March 2012, was composed of Bernard Hubert, President of Agropolis International, Paul Luu, Director of Agropolis International, and Laurent Bruckler, President of Montpellier Inra Centre.

More about the signature (INTA website)

© Norma Pensel, INTA

© Norma Pensel, INTA

 

Video : Partnership agreement between Agropolis International and INTA: interview with Lorenzo Basso, Secretario de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca / Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca (YouTube)