Throughout the year, in France and overseas, Montpellier scientific community participates to events, organizes international workshops and exhibitions. It will also meet the general public to raise awareness of tropical forests and the major role they play in our daily lives.

 

• CIRAD schedules several actions throughout the year:

  http://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/articles/2010/science/cirad-is-gearing-up-for-the-international-year-of-forests
  http://forets2011.cirad.fr/

  To mark the International Year of Forests, the Paris city council and CIRAD are presenting “Tropical forests, discoveries and issues” as part of the exhibition-walk “Let’s go down to the woods”, in the Parc de Bagatelle from 28 May to 2 November, 2011.
  
  During the Paris International Agricultural Show from February 19 to 27 (Porte de Versailles) CIRAD has organized an exhibition on the theme "biodiversity, climate, sustainable development, wood energy, forest plantations, tropical woods, agriculture" and round tables on February 21 and 22 on the theme "Should we pay for tropical forests?"
  To learn more on CIRAD activities during the Paris International Agricultural Show:
  http://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/press-releases/2010/paris-international-agricultural-show
  

• IRD organizes a series of conferences titled «Forests from here, Forests from elsewhere» at Marseille starting from February 5.
  See the programme: http://www.ird.fr/toute-l-actualite/evenements-et-manifestations/cycle-de-conferences-forets-d-ici-forets-d-ailleurs
  

  Publication of a thematic internet kit on "Forests and human"
  Further information: http://www.mpl.ird.fr/suds-en-ligne
  

  An exhibition on rainforests is also offered by IRD and CIRAD:
  
  http://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/press-releases/2011/tropical-rainforests
  
  

• Agropolis International will host from November 15 to 18, the international conference"Research priorities in tropical silviculture: towards new paradigms?". This conference is organized by CIRAD in partnership with CIFOR and ECOFOR 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)
  

  http://www.iufro2011-tropical-silviculture.org >>
  
  

• CEMAGREF schedules several conferences and actions throughout the year:
  
  http://forets.cemagref.fr/
  

• Montpellier township has organized the 3^rd edition of the « Biodiversity Festival» on May 20 and 21 (Esplanade Charles de Gaulle) on the theme of the forest. Most regional research and higher education institutes have participated. On this occasion, Agropolis International has organized for the second time the "Biodiversity little theater" which aims to stage scientists working on this theme.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research units in Montpellier working on forests:

Socio-environmental dynamics and resource governance (IRD)

Tropical Forest Goods and Ecosystem Services: Facing Global Change (CIRAD)

Joint research unit AMAP: Botany and computational plant architecture

Joint research unit CBAE: Bio-Archaeology and Ecology

Joint research unit CEFE: Center for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology

Joint research unit Eco&Sols: Biogeochemistry and functional ecology of soils

Joint research unit TETIS: Territories, Environment, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information

Joint research unit ESPACE

Joint research unit ISEM: Institute of Evolutionary Sciences

Joint research unit LAMETA: Montpellier Laboratory for Theoretical and Applied Economics

Joint research unit LSTM: Tropical & Mediterranean Symbioses Laboratory

AGIRs: Animal and Integrated Risk Management (CIRAD)

GREEN: Renewable resources and environment management (CIRAD)

DGAEF: Genetic Diversity and Breeding of Forest Species (CIRAD)

PVBT: Production and Processing of Tropical Woods (CIRAD)

FPEP: Functioning and Management of Tree-Based Planted Ecosystems (CIRAD)

Joint research unit SYSTEM: Tropical and Mediterranean Cropping System Functioning and Management

PSCP : Performance of Tree Crop-Based Systems (CIRAD)

Biomass and Energy(CIRAD)

Joint research unit ECOFOG: Ecology of the Forests of French Guiana

 

Training courses on forests

Level	Diploma	Course title	Institute
Bac + 5	European master	Sustainable tropical forestry (SUTROFOR) - Specialisation "Environmental management and policies for tropical forests"	AgroParisTech 4 universités européennes
Bac + 6	Specialized master	Forest, nature and society- Option "tropical"	AgroParis Tech
Bac + 6	Engineer	IPEF engineer "Forest, nature and society- Option "tropical"	AgroParis Tech