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Partnership
WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
In countries of the South
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In the French tropical dependencies
In mainland France
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Europe
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IN COUNTRIES OF THE SOUTH
Sub-Saharan Africa
and Indian Ocean
Notable events in relations with our African and
Malagasy partners were the new establishment
agreements signed in Benin, Cameroon, Congo
and Madagascar.
In Niger, the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary
Analysis (AMMA) project was formalised in a
framework agreement. From our Dakar centre in
Senegal, strong links have been forged with Mauritania, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde in health
and agronomic research. The IRD is still heavily
involved in Senegal, with sites at Hann, Bel-Air,
Mbour and Niakhar, and nearly fifty current programmes. On the health front, research continues
in the programmes on tuberculosis, AIDS care
in Africa, and malaria. Other themes covered by
the IRD structure in
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Senegal, its largest in Africa, are developments in
water resources, sub-Saharan agricultural development, use of microbial biodiversity for upgrading tropical resources, and aquatic and fishery
ecology.
Mediterranean countries
The countries of the Mediterranean basin received
more attention than formerly, most significantly
in programmes related to water. Actions continue
in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia, the IRD’s
presence in Morocco was strengthened and prospects were opened up in Algeria.
In Lebanon and Syria, the Irrimed hydrology
project began, and the IRD was active on the
Palmyra site in Syria.
In Morocco, a Franco-Moroccan agreement on
scientific and technical co-operation now makes it
easier for the IRD and CIRAD to operate there; the
Institute should be able to open an agency in the
country (see box). At the request of the European
Commission, an IRD team made an assessment
of Morocco’s scientific and technical potential. In
Algeria, a project relating to water and the environment has been launched and IRD seismologists
were active on land and sea after the Boumerdès
earthquake. This co-operation is likely to lead to
more permanent relations in 2004.
In Egypt, the entomovirology laboratory in
Cairo, which has been supported by the IRD for
some fifteen years, was assessed with a view to
improving its operations. The “Heritage conservation and management in Egypt and Syria” programme was due to end but was extended with
support from the European Union.
“WATER/ENVIRONMENT
AND SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT” SEMINAR,
MARRAKESH, JUNE 2003
In Tunisia, the study of desertification in the Tunisian Jeffara, carried out together with Tunisia’s
drylands research institute (Institut des régions
arides) and the IRD/University of Provence joint
research unit was completed, ending with a major
dissemination seminar (see page 24).
© IRD/S.Cordier
The strong network of scientific partners the
IRD has built up made it possible to have 350
programmes running in Latin America, the Mediterranean region, Asia, Africa and Madagascar.
In 2003 the Institute’s strategic Euro-Mediterranean-Africa axis was strengthened by significant initiatives in the Mediterranean region and
Europe. Various actions were undertaken with
CIRAD: sharing premises, agreements with common partners.
© IRD/C.Schwartz
In June 2003 a meeting on the topic
of “water/environment and sustainable
development” was held in collaboration
with Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakesh,
where the Sudmed programme is developing more efficient management of
water for farming in semi-arid areas. The
meeting was an opportunity to examine
the state of co-operation between the IRD
and our Moroccan partners, which has
developed spectacularly in the last three
years, thanks to enthusiastic support
from the teams. Future developments in
research topics and types of co-operation
in line with Moroccan national priorities were also discussed. A co-operation
agreement on water, agriculture, forestry,
the environment and regional planning
was signed between CEMAGREF, CIRAD,
ENGREF, IRD and the Moroccan agricultural and veterinary institute, the
national agricultural school at Meknès and
the national forestry engineers’ school.
© IRD/Y.Hello
© IRD/L.Emperaire
Asia-Pacific
To develop co-operation in Asia, the IRD focuses
on emerging countries but takes a regional approach in its work.
A seminar on bilateral co-operation was held in
Bangkok, Thailand, to strengthen Franco-Thai
co-operation and define themes of common interest. Programmes include research into emerging
viral diseases and improving the fertility of saline
soils.
In Indonesia, under an agreement with Bogor
Agricultural University signed in November 2003,
the IRD is producing an Atlas of fishing ports in
Java, together with the University of Nantes.
© IRD/J.P Montoroi
In Australia, a memorandum of understanding
was signed between CEMAGREF, CIRAD, CNRS,
INRA, IRD, the Australian National University
and the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial
Research Organisation, for work on agriculture
and the environment.
Latin America
Co-operation with the Andean countries is developing and, in the Mercosur zone, programmes are
taking on a regional dimension. This is the reasoning behind the IRD’s new presence in Argentina.
In Brazil and Mexico, the IRD is encouraging
networking to integrate local laboratories in the
global research community.
© IRD/P.Wagnon
In India, the joint committee of the Franco-Indian Water Research Unit (CEFIRSE) met in
Bangalore in October and welcomed the increase
in numbers of the local IRD research team. Programmes here cover river catchments and the effects of mining on water and climate.
In Argentina, 2003 saw the start of co-operation
in the social sciences with General Sarmiento
University in Buenos Aires.
In Bolivia, where the IRD has its largest centre
in the Andean region, health and hydrology remain the major sectors for co-operation. Two new
programmes were designed on the anthropology
of work and regional planning, together with the
International Centre for Tropical Agriculture
(CIAT). Brazil is still the IRD’s main partner in
Latin America as a whole (see box).
In Chile, greater co-operation in the desert zone
was covered by an agreement with the University of La Serena and the University of Orléans.
Research into territorial dynamics and conflict
linked to globalisation has been launched with
the Catholic University of Valparaíso as part of
French ECOS projects to evaluate and orient
scientific co-operation.
© IRD/P.Cayré
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© D.R
In Ecuador, a team of IRD archaeologists and
their partners in the National Institute for Cultural Heritage discovered traces of the earliest
human settlement ever found in western Amazonia. On the training support side, two “young IRD
partner teams” of Ecuadorians were selected,
one to work on the urban environment and one
on volcanic processes and hazards.
© IRD/A.Sonneville
© IRD/F.Valdez
In Mexico, the framework agreement with the
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONCYT) was extended for another five years in
January 2003. With the support of the French
Embassy, the IRD joined with the Autonomous
Metropolitan University, Mexico City, the Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering to create a chair
of biotechnology. In the social sciences, the IRD,
the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies
in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), the University
of Coahuila and UC MEXUS, California, held an
international conference on “mobility and multiculturalism”.
Contact dri@paris.ird.fr
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The purpose of the Jacques Senez (1) Chair, created in 2003, is to promote top-level scientific
exchanges in biotechnology and so strengthen the
scientific and technical co-operation links between
France and Mexico. The founding institutions are
the French Embassy in Mexico City, the IRD, the
Mexican Academy of Science, the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bio-engineering and the
Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in
Mexico City, which co-ordinates and houses the
Chair. Prof. Gustavo Viniegra at the UAM and Bernard Ollivier, Director of the IRD’s UR101 research
unit, are its scientific moderators. The Chair operates on the basis of renewable three-year curricula;
each year two French lecturers will teach on a cutting-edge topic in pure and applied biotechnology.
For 2004, a series of lectures on industrial production of industrially useful enzymes and biomolecules is scheduled.
(1) Jacques C. Senez was an eminent French microbiologist, a pioneer in industrial microbiology and a
former Chairman of the soil science technical committee at the IRD. The new Chair was created on
the initiative of Michel Portais, IRD representative
in Mexico, and IRD microbiologist Didier Alazard.
© IRD/P.Sabaté
A BIOTECHNOLOGY CHAIR
IN MEXICO
In Peru, the IRD’s status was clarified by an intergovernmental agreement in August 2003. As
part of the regional study of the Amazon basin, a
new site was opened with the national meteorology and hydrology service and La Molina agricultural university.
PIRENÓPOLIS SEMINAR
A regional seminar was held at Pirenópolis, Brazil,
on 1-3 December for IRD and CIRAD researchers and selected partners from Brazil, Bolivia,
Peru and French Guiana. Two major agreements
were also signed: with the Fundação Oswaldo
Cruz in September 2003, and with the Fundação
Carlos Chagas Filho in April 2003, to support
research in Rio State.
IN THE FRENCH TROPICAL
DEPENDENCIES
Regional research conferences
© IRD/J.M Chantraine
One of the year’s highlights was the practical implementation of the principle of regional
research conferences (assises). These were held
in the Indian Ocean (3-5 June) and Amazonia
(2-4 October), and the next one will be held in
the Pacific in August 2004.
Organised by Reunion Island regional council and
Reunion Island University with active support
from the IRD, the “Meeting for the Advancement of Research in the Indian Ocean region”
was attended by 13 countries in the region and
representatives of international organisations. It
examined the present state of research in the Indian Ocean and outlined prospects for regional
development and co-operation.
The Amazonia and Guyana Shield research meeting was attended by Brazil, Colombia, French
Guiana, Suriname and Venezuela, and the universities of Antilles/Guiana, Toulouse and Montpellier. This meeting marked the official creation of
the French Guiana university centre (Pôle universitaire de Guyane).
MILESTONES FOR
AN INDIAN OCEAN
RESEARCH AREA
Following the June research meeting, Reunion
Island now wishes to encourage the emergence
of an Indian Ocean Research Area for sharing
knowledge on common issues, particularly the
management of marine resources, natural hazards,
water resources, new information technologies,
health and demography. In this last discipline, for
example, valuable links have already been forged:
IRD researchers working in Madagascar on a programme called “Demographic dynamics and sustainable development” have set up a demographics
course at Reunion Island University to ensure that
teaching on this subject is available in the Indian
Ocean region up to doctoral level.
Contact dom@paris.ird.fr
FUTURE FRENCH GUIANA
UNIVERSITY CENTRE (PUG)
The C3I convention, whose purpose is to promote
the research work of CIRAD, IFREMER, INRA
and the IRD in the French tropical dependencies,
was asked by the French Guiana university centre
(PUG, Pôle Universitaire de Guyane, in process
of formation) to identify research priorities for
economic and social development. The evaluation, made in consultation with the university and
the national research bodies operating in French
Guiana, suggested ten major themes: knowledge
and utilisation of forest ecosystems; analysis and
utilisation of biodiversity and natural substances;
dynamics of coastal systems; continental waters;
health in tropical zones; mineral resources; sustainable agriculture and food technology; societies
and cultures in the Guyanas and the Amazon; and
methodologies and instrumentalisation.
© G.Pignolet
The IRD operates in French Guiana, MartiniqueCaribbean, Reunion Island, New Caledonia and
French Polynesia with 25 research units and
8 service units at major and secondary permanent sites and temporary research sites. Over
76 researchers and 173 engineers and technicians work in these dependencies, which account
for 12% of the IRD’s operating resources.
New Caledonia and
French Polynesia
The IRD centre in Nouméa, its largest
in the French tropical dependencies,
houses researchers from 13 research
units and 5 service units. A major event
there in 2003 was the international
symposium on “Ecological conservation and restoration in tropical mining
environments”, in July.
Research continues on terrestrial and
marine biodiversity, while joint research
with Pierre Fabre Laboratories into
the pharmaceutical chemistry of natural marine substances aims to identify
compounds active against malaria and
dengue fever.
Analysis of living coral continues to
produce information about past climates and interactions with El Niño.
Work on the Nouméa and Suva (Fiji
Islands) lagoons continues under the
National Coastal Environments Programme (PNEC) to model particle
transport and investigate the geochemical functioning of the lagoons. Research
into the geodynamics of the Southwest
Pacific has also contributed to a better
understanding of seismic processes in
Vanuatu, Futuna and New Caledonia.
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© IRD/M-N Favier
© IRD/P.Laboute
The IRD’s oceanographic vessel Alis assisted the
Salomon Association in a new archaeological
mission to the site of Lapérouse’s shipwreck on
Vanikoro in 1788. On this latest mission, a number of items from the wrecks of the Astrolabe and
the Boussole were discovered, including a complete human skeleton.
In the Pacific zone, the IRD’s Polynesian partners and other research bodies working in the
region were invited to a seminar on the use of
remote sensing and information systems for managing maritime and island environments. A key
topic of the seminar was the application of these
technologies to fishery.
The “Ecosystem approach to reef communities
and their uses in the Pacific islands” research
unit (CoRéUs) studies the ecology of fish and invertebrate communities in the coral ecosystems
of the Pacific islands. Its aims are to devise standardised methods for evaluating resources and to
define ecosystem indicators as decision aids for
reef and lagoon fishery management. This year,
2003, marked a turning point for CoRéUs, with a
significant increase in staff numbers, the launch
of operations in French Polynesia, and the opening of a secondary site in mainland France at the
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Perpignan.
Three new theses have begun in New Caledonia,
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on the modelling of protected marine areas, spatialised management and utilisation of resources
in Greater Nouméa, and the analysis of changes
in fishing intensity associated with the Koniambo
mining project in Nord province.
Research in Martinique
The Martinique Agricultural Research Centre
(PRAM) is now operational with researchers
from the agriculture and environment engineering
research institute CEMAGREF, CIRAD (Agricultural Research Centre for International Development), INRA (National Institute for Agricultural
Research) and the IRD. It houses a nematology research and consultancy platform unique in the Caribbean.The laboratory’s activity includes research
into alternatives to chemical treatment of phytoparasitic nematodes, with a view to developing sustainable cropping systems, particularly as part of
the “Banana nematode resistance” operation.
In soil science, the “Carbon sequestration in
tropical soils: effects of agro-ecosystem management methods” unit aims to find alternative ways
of managing Caribbean soils, based on a better
understanding of the soil’s biological functioning
with a view to reducing erosion and greenhouse
gas emissions.
CREOLE WORKSHOP
A research workshop on teaching Creole and French in the Caribbean area was set up at the
start of university year 2003/2004, following a conference in Haiti, which numbers some 8 million Creole-speakers. The workshop comprises researchers from the University of AntillesGuiana, the State University of Haiti and the IRD and promotes the development of the
Creole language and culture. Meetings are held every two months in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and other more ambitious projects, such as study days and conferences, may follow.
Website: http://www.univ-ag.fr/gerec-f/arecf/
The IRD’s research system consists of 98 units:
58 research units, 16 service units and 24 joint
research units.
Two-thirds of these units were set up in 2001
for a period of four years, the others in 2002. In
2003 they continued their research programmes
and their work on projects in Southern countries.
They also became involved in new international
programmes, gave training in research, performed
consultancy work and conducted scientific transfer operations.
The Institute continued to apply its policy of
openness, strengthening its links with French
higher education and research organisations
through joint units, federative research institutes
(IFR), partnerships of scientific interest (GIS),
public interest (GIP) or economic interest (GIE),
and national programmes.
Joint research units
Five new joint research units were created:
- Laboratory for the study of soil/agrosystem/
hydrosystem interactions, Montpellier
- Systematics, adaptation and evolution, Paris
- Pharmaceutical chemistry of natural substances
and redox pharmacophores, Toulouse
- Geological transfer mechanisms laboratory
(LMTG), Toulouse
- Internal geophysics and tectonic physics laboratory (LGIT), Grenoble.
Federative research institutes
Agreements for three new IFRs were signed in
2003: “Continental, Mediterranean and tropical
biodiversity”, “Plant genomics and integrative
biology” and “Ecology, genetics, evolution”. The
Institute now has ten IFRs.
The IRD became a member of the French insti-
tute for biodiversity (IFB). With the help of the
French development agency (AFD), the IRD
turned the DIAL partnership, “Development and
international integration”, from a GIS (partnership of scientific interest) into a GIE (partnership
of economic interest). It also helped to reshape
the Centre for Population and Development
(CEPED). Meanwhile the Montpellier genomics
centre consolidated its structure.
Universe sciences observatories
The IRD works directly with universities and the
CNRS in four Universe Sciences Observatories:
OSUG in Grenoble, the Midi-Pyrénées observatory in Toulouse, the Marseille Oceanography
Centre and the Oceanological Observatory in
Villefranche-sur-Mer. The environmental research
observatories (OREs) associated with these four
observatories have been appointed “Observation
services” by the ministry in charge of research.
The IRD and higher education
The IRD is much involved in university teaching
and participates in many doctoral programmes:
most of its research units are recognised as research training structures. The Institute is associated with a number of projects to provide training
in the framework of the new Bachelor’s - Master’s - Doctoral system now being set up.
Co-operation agreements
With some sixty agreements currently in force,
the Institute has developed and formalised its
relations with other French higher education
and research establishments. A number of research agreements also involve the IRD in joint
programs or support and training activities for
partners in the South.
Partnerships of scientific interest (GIS),
partnerships of public interest (GIP),
research partnerships (GDR), national and
regional programmes
© IRD/A.Rival
MAINLAND FRANCE
The IRD is actively involved in various forms of partnership within the French scientific community. They may be partnerships of scientific interest (GIS), public interest (GIP) or economic interest (GIE), research partnerships (GDR), or regional or national multidisciplinary programmes.
Partnerships of scientific, public or economic interest, joint-stock company (SAS)
GIS
GIS
GIS
GIS
GIS
GIS
GIS
GIS
Aire développement: overseas research investment agency
Pisciculture tropicale et méditerranéenne: tropical and Mediterranean fish farming
BRG: genetic resources bureau
CEPED: centre for population and development
Génoplante recherche: plant genomics
Cyanobactéries (GISCYA): cyanobacteria
Réseau Amérique latine: promoting and disseminating Latin-American research
Silvolab: tropical rainforest ecosystems: physical and biological bases of their functioning
and management, as applied to French Guiana
GIS Institut Français de la Biodiversité (IFB): biodiversity
GIS PCSI, programme commun systèmes irrigués: irrigation
GIP ECOFOR: forest ecosystems
GIP MEDIAS France: regional network for research into environmental changes in
the Mediterranean basin and subtropical Africa
GIP Mercator: ocean analyses and forecasts
GIP OST: science and technology monitoring
GIE DIAL: development and international integration
SAS Génoplante Valor
Research partnership (GDR)
GDR
Marges: dynamics of continental plate margins
National programmes
ECCO
PATOM
PNEC
PNTS
PNEDC
PROOF
RELIEFS
continental ecosphere processes and modelling (ACI programme)
multi-scale ocean and atmosphere studies (INSU programme)
coastal studies
space-based remote sensing
climate dynamics
biochemical processes in the ocean, fluxes
relief, erosion, climate, tectonics (INSU programme)
Regional programmes
ZONECO Inventory of marine and mineral resources in the New Caledonia exclusive economic zone
ZEPOLYF French Polynesia’s economic zone
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Paris / Ile-de-France
École des hautes études en sciences
sociales
• Centre d’études africaines : 8
• Centre de recherche Brésil
contemporain : 1
• Centre d’études Inde et Asie du
Sud : 2
Muséum national d’histoire
naturelle
• Département hommes, nature,
société : 6
• Département de systématique et
d’évolution : 3
• Laboratoire de minéralogie : 1
•Laboratoire de phanérogamie : 1
• Laboratoire d’ichtyologie : 3
• Laboratoire d’océanographie
physique : 1
• Laboratoire d’entomologie : 4
THE IRD
IN MAINLAND
FRANCE
Universités
Université Paris I - Institut d’étude
du développement économique et
social : 2
Université Paris V - Faculté
de pharmacie, laboratoire de
parasitologie : 5
Université Paris VI
• Laboratoire de Minéralogie
cristallographie : 2
• Laboratoire Lodyc : 16
• Unité mixte de recherche Sisyphe : 1
• Lacito UPR 3121 - Villejuif : 1
• Préhistoire et technologie - Meudon : 1
Institut du développement durable et
des relations internationales : 1
Centre population et développement
(CEPED) - Nogent : 4
Laboratoire sciences du climat et de
l’environnement - Gif-sur-Yvette : 1
Agence française de l’ingénierie
touristique : 1
Centre de recherches de l’Amérique
Latine : 1
Cirad : 1
Ecole normale supérieure : 2
École française d’extrême orient : 1
AUTRES
GIS Dial : 8
Observatoire des sciences et
techniques (OST) : 1
CNRS
• Centre d’études des langues
indigènes d’Amérique (Celia) : 1
Staff distribution at 31/12/03
Strasbourg
Le Havre
Brest
27
Bordeaux/Talence/Pessac
Université de Strasbourg Louis Pasteur
• Centre de géochimie de la surface : 1
• Faculté de géophysique : 1
• Institut de physique du globe : 2
• Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de
l’environnement : 2
1
Paris
Île-de-France
429
Laboratoire de physique des océans, université de Bretagne
occidentale :1
• Faculté de pharmacie - Chatenay
Malabry : 1
Université de Paris XII
• Laboratoire Interuniversitaire
système atmosphériques : 1
Université de Versailles Saint QuentinC3ED : 5
• Institut santé-développement : 4
• Laboratoire des Géosciences et
Techniques de l’Environnement : 1
Université Paris X
• Laboratoire géotropique Nanterre : 2
• Cered : 2
Université Paris XI
• Laboratoire d’écologie végétale
Orsay : 1
• Laboratoire populations, Génétique
et évolution - CNRS - Gif-surYvette : 6
Brest
Nancy
108
Strasbourg
1
Nancy
4
3
Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques : 1
Clermont-Ferrand
26 Orléans
Maison des Suds - CNRS : 2
Université Montesquieu - centre d’économie du
développement : 1
Unité mixte de recherche Regards - Pessac : 1
Université Blaise Pascal - Laboratoire Magmas et volcans : 4
Grenoble/ Le Bourget du Lac/ Thonon-les-bains
Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1
• Laboratoire d’études des transferts en hydrologie
(LTHE) : 10
• IRIGH – Laboratoire de géophysique interne et de
tectonophysique : 2
• Université de Savoie - Le Bourget du Lac : 2
INRA - Station d’hydrobiologie lacustre Thonon : 1
Le Havre
Station de météorologie : 1
Pau
Université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour : 1
4
Centre d’étude spatiale de la biosphère (Cesbio) : 4
Groupement de recherche Géodésique spatial : 2
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3
• Laboratoire d’hydrobiologie : 1
• Laboratoire minéralogie : 6
• Laboratoire de pharmacochimie des substances naturelles : 3
• Laboratoire mécanismes de transfert en géologie : 7
Bordeaux
Talence
Pessac
4
Pierre Fabre Médicaments - Unité mixte de recherche 1973
Castres : 1
Medias France/CNES : 2
Laboratoire d’études géophysique/océanographie spatiale
(Legos) : 9
Toulouse
Castanet Tolosan
Castres
Sète
Centre de recherche halieutique
méditerranéenne et tropicale : 18
Montpellier
Université Montpellier I : 1
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Université Montpellier II
• Maison des sciences de l’eau : 16
• Laboratoire Génomes et populations : 1
Centre de biologie et de gestion des
populations - INRA : 11
Laboratoire d’étude des interactions
entre sol, agrosystèmes et hydrosystème.
Ensam : 7
Cemagref : 6
The Ird in mainland France
Saint-Christol-lès-Alès
1
78
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20 Sète
1
• Laboratoire matière organique des sols
tropicaux : 6
• Laboratoire symbioses tropicales/
Méditerranéennes (LSTM) : 7
• Cirad - LPRC : 3
• École nationale du génie rural
(ENGREF) : 4
• Centre d’écologie fonctionnelle
évolutive/CNRS (CEFE) : 4
• Agropolis : 1
Grenoble
Lyon
Université Claude Bernard
• Laboratoire d’écologie et microbiologie : 2
• Écologie des hydrosystèmes : 4
Nice/ Villefranche-sur-Mer/ Sophia Antipolis
Perpignan
Université de Perpignan : 2
Thonon-les-Bains
18 Le Bourget du Lac
6
Montpellier
254
Pau
Perpignan
Lyon
Clermont-Ferrand
Toulouse/ Castanet Tolosan/ Castres
Nice
Villefranche-sur-Mer
Sophia Antipolis
13
48
Marseille
Aix-en-Provence
Effectifs
Université de Provence - Aix - Marseille
I
Répartition
par effectif budgétaire au 31/12/03
• Laboratoire population-environnement-développement : 13
• Unité mixte de recherche Telemme : 1
• Groupement de recherche en économie quantitative Aix
Marseille : 1
IRD centres
Université Aix - Marseille III
• Cerège : 1
Other institutions
Unité mixte de recherche SHADYC/Ehess CNRS : 4
Centre d’analyse et de mathématique sociale : 1
Saint-Christol-lès-Alès
• Laboratoire de pathologie comparée : 1
Marseille - Aix-en-Provence 26
Université de Méditérrannée - Aix - Marseille II
• Laboratoires de médecine tropicale : 2
• Centre océanologique de Marseillle : 5
• Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Médecine et Santé
Tropicales : 1
• Laboratoire de microbiologie (BAIM) - Luminy : 17
2
• Institut Bouisson-département des
maladies infectieuses : 1
• Laboratoire commun IRD/IMVTCIRAD : 6
• Parc scientifique Agropolis II - Unité de
service 018 IRD : 1
IRD
Unité mixte de recherche Géosciences AzurImplantations
:3
CNRS/Geodynamique sous-marine - Villefranche
sur Mer : 10
Hors implantations
IRD
Staff numbers
European Union
Multilateral organisations
Since one of the Institute’s main priorities is
involvement in European research, the IRD responded massively to the first calls for proposals
for the 6th Framework Programme for Research
and Technological Development. Fifteen proposals for specific measures to support national cooperation were submitted and ten were selected,
in the fields of natural resources management, the
environment, heritage and multilateral co-ordination. The purpose of the multilateral co-ordination theme is to open European research to other
countries. As part of the 5th Framework Programme, the Institute benefited from two support
measures on water in the Balkans. In addition to
the Framework Programme, the Institute took
part in EU scientific co-ordination of regional organisations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
IRD teams took part in six projects on issues that
are among the priorities of the 6th Framework
Agreement. Five were in “Sustainable development and global change” and one –for the creation of anti-HIV microbicides– in the “Genomes
and biotechnologies for health” field.The IRD was
also active in setting up a clinical trials platform
for poverty-related diseases – AIDS, malaria and
tuberculosis. Income from European research
contracts amounted to over 4.8 million euros
– 31% of the institute’s income from contracts.
Co-operation with United Nations organisations received new impetus. The IRD played an
active part in the French National Commission
for UNESCO, with seats on its human rights and
ethical issues committee and its social sciences
committee. The signing of the framework agreement between France and the World Health Organisation confirms the IRD’s work on tropical
diseases, while co-operation with the Food and
Agriculture Organisation was also intensified. In
December 2003, the IRD spoke at the meeting
of international donors for rural development in
Africa.
The Institute was significantly involved, alongside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in preparing
France’s Priority Solidarity Funds to support major international programmes. Mobilising funds
now in place include Biodiversity (consultancy
platforms in Africa, Madagascar and Asia),
ECHEL-Eau (Integrated management of the
Niger, Limpopo and Mekong river basins) and
Genetic Resources. Last but not least, the IRD’s
presence on the French High Council for international cooperation (HCCI) was also strengthened.
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