The IRD around
the world
Planting out rice, Madagascar
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• International
• Action
mission for the South
in the French overseas territories
• Research
in metropolitan France
Fitzcarrald expedition, Peruvian Amazon
Annual report 2005
International mission for the South
The IRD’s work with other institutions around the world is guided by several preoccupations:
establishing partnerships with emerging and less advanced countries, adapted to each case;
promoting actions of regional and transcontinental scope, and defining its own place in the French
and European system of research for development.
In 2005 the Institute was involved in a number of joint activities requested by Southern countries. One
example was providing assistance and advice for evaluating research in Algeria, in conjunction with
the CNRS and Inserm. Another was the joint French-Brazilian mission exploring the possibility of
cooperation between Brazil and Africa. This mission went to Senegal and Guinea Bissau, with the IRD,
CIRAD and the Pasteur Institute on the French side and the Fiocruz Foundation and Embrapa for Brazil.
CIRAD and the IRD jointly organised an international conference in Brussels on the subject of “The
international dimension of research: issues common to Europe and the world”. This was aimed at
drawing attention, on the eve of discussions over the 7th European Framework Programme, to the
necessity of international cooperation for European research.
An example of the ever-closer partnerships the IRD centres are forging in Africa was in Dakar. Here
the IRD’s institutional representation was installed off the Hann campus, which opened up to the
laboratories and research teams of Cheikh Anta Diop University.
Altogether these trends are putting the IRD in a better position to fulfil its mission as lead agency
mobilising French and European research for Southern countries and make its science research
system more closely relevant to development challenges.
Bilateral partnerships with Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Benin, Madagascar,
Cameroon and the Republic of Congo continued smoothly. In South Africa the FrancoSouth-African Centre for water science and technology was created with the help of the
French foreign affairs ministry.
North Africa and the Middle East
The IRD is working on European projects in
Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria
and Jordan. In Tunisia it is lead partner in the
internationally-known MERGUSIE programme on
integrated water management in the Merguellil
catchment. This has already led to spin-off
programmes, including the Sirma project and the
European projects Wademed, Aquastress and
Comprehensive
Assessment
of
Water
IRD leads NEPAD’s Water Sciences
and Technology programme
Africa and Indian Ocean
The Institute consolidated its presence in Africa, especially in
Kenya and Ethiopia, and the partnership with South Africa
continued. A visit to Mozambique by the Chairman of the IRD
laid the basis for a partnership that will be incorporated in the
Mozambique government’s new strategic plan for research.
Cooperation with Mozambique will be developed in a regional
context, and indeed a transcontinental one involving the IRD’s
Brazilian partners.
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In Niger, the Chairman of the IRD spoke at a special sitting of the National Assembly, about
the need to develop suitable ways of introducing science to the general public. A
cooperation framework agreement was signed between the Niger government and the IRD.
The links between the IRD and NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development)
were strengthened, thanks to efforts by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At NEPAD’s
request, the IRD was chosen as lead agency for all French research on “Water sciences and technology” theme. The Institute seconded a hydrologist for several
months in an advisory capacity and supported a meeting of African and French
experts in Nairobi, aimed at starting to build a network of African centres of excellence. At a workshop in Dakar, an action plan was proposed to NEPAD member countries’ ministers responsible for water.
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Management in Agriculture. In Morocco, national reforms are providing a major stimulus for
cooperation work, much of it European and Euro-Mediterranean. In Egypt, the second collaboration
meeting with the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and Research took place, at which
framework agreements with Cairo University and Senghor University and some research agreements
were signed. In Algeria, the IRD conducted projects on desertification, earthquake hazards, and water
resources. It also took part in discussions about the science evaluation system in connection with
the reform of the legislation governing research. Projects in the Lebanon mainly concern water
resources. In Syria, ongoing projects concern water management and irrigation techniques.
Latin America
In Latin America the IRD is at work in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico
and Peru. In 2005 it continued to strengthen its presence in the Andes region and enhance the
regional dimension of its work. Transcontinental collaboration with Africa was initiated.
In Bolivia, an agreement was signed with the Bolivian Ministry for Health and Sport to equip a
national laboratory for the control of major endemic diseases.
Seven new projects started up in Brazil, four of them concerning Amazonia. A joint French-Brazilian
environmental research laboratory opened, called LAMIRE. It involves Fluminense Federal
University, the University of Brasilia and the IRD.
In Chile, CONICYT and the IRD held their fourth collaboration meeting and signed an additional
memorandum of understanding on doctoral and post-doctoral education.
Much of the IRD’s work in Ecuador still focuses on natural hazards. A seminar for the whole
Andes region was held in Quito, on “Crisis management for natural disasters”.
In Mexico, new research programmes on health and social science issues were set up. A
programme began with the National Autonomous University of Mexico, to study volcano
hazards.
In Peru the IRD started two new programmes, one on “Natural substances with anti-malarial
and anti-leishmaniasis properties” and one on “Fish diversity in the Peruvian Amazon”. The
regional dimension was strengthened, through contacts with OTCA (see box) and the Andean
Community of Nations.
Asia
In Thailand, after the tsunami that hit South and Southeast Asia on 26 December 2004, the
IRD took part with Cirad and Kasetsart University, Bangkok, in an evaluation mission to
refurbish a badly damaged marine science station. The French embassy provided support.
In Sri Lanka and Indonesia, a joint cooperation action with the NGO Action Contre la Faim
was programmed, to sustainably improve access to drinking water for people in South Asia.
In Vietnam, the government granted official status to the IRD and Cirad. This is the first full
government approval granted to an IRD centre in Asia.
In Laos, collaboration agreements were signed with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of
Agriculture and Forestry.
In India, the water programm being conducted with the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore
was one of the projects selected for the foreign affairs ministry’s Networking Research
Programme.
In China, an AIDS research programme was established with the Peking Academy of Medical
Science.
Closer links with OTCA
The IRD strengthened its links with the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (OTCA) in 2005, taking
part in official meetings of the organisation in Lima, Brasilia and Iquitos. Meetings with the Secretary
General of OTCA were helds in Brasilia and Paris.
OTCA took part in the opening session of the first scientific meeting of ORE-HYBAM, the environmental
research observatory on the Amazonian river system. That meeting was organised by the IRD and held in
Lima. Several of the OTCA’s priority action strands are in fields the IRD is working on in the region. Water
resources might be a first subject of collaboration.
Annual report 2005
Multilateral cooperation
The IRD consolidated its collaborations with various United Nations agencies operating in fields
important to the IRD, particularly the World Bank, FAO, WHO, WMO (World Meteorological
Organisation), Unesco and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development).
On health issues, collaboration with various departments of the WHO concerned vector research
and control of parasite diseases and transmissible diseases. The Institute made significant
contributions to the fourth pan-African conference of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria and the
fifth forum of the Faire reculer le paludisme initiative in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
The IRD was closely involved in preparing and taking part in the International Biodiversity
Conference in Paris, jointly organised by Unesco and France, with the research and foreign affairs
ministries, the National Natural History Museum, the French Biodiversity Institute and Cirad.
Lastly, the IRD was closely involved in discussions about strengthening French cooperation with the
CGIAR (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). Jointly with the research
ministry, Cirad and Agropolis it organised a seminar followed by a meeting of directors of ministerial
departments and chairpersons and directors general of research institutions. It was the coordinating
body for the consultation meeting between the French research institutions and one of the CGIAR
centres, the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia. And it took part
in preparing the CGIAR’s medium-term plan for West and Central Africa.
Cooperation with the European Union
The IRD has been working with European Commission since 1989. In 2005 existing actions
continued and others began. The Institute was extensively mobilised on the 6th Framework
Programme’s priority themes. It is taking part in eight projects in priority fields connected with
water, AIDS, emerging diseases connected with climate change, marine ecosystems, climate,
desertification and irrigation systems.
The IRD finds the EU’s international cooperation programme (INCO) a particularly useful channel.
Sixteen projects submitted by the Institute have been chosen, on themes connected with cultural
heritage, health, climate change, environment, marine resources, sustainable development and
international coordination. The IRD is partner of Euro-Medanet and Asbimed, two institutional
multilateral coordination projects for the Mediterranean basin.
The Institute is involved in the New and Emerging Science and Technology programme (NEST),
conducting an obesity study. Its work under the Research Policy Support component currently
concerns fishery. It is involved in ERA-Net China, ERA-Net Latin America (EULANEST) and the
Eurosocial programme for social cohesion in Latin America (EuropeAid). And this year it chaired
CLORA, the Club of Associated Research Organisations in Brussels.
Contact: dri@paris.ird.fr
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Action in
the French
overseas
territories
Coral, New Caledonia
Annual report 2005
The IRD in the French
overseas territories
For its work in the French overseas territories, the IRD has centres in New Caledonia, French Guiana,
Martinique, La Réunion and French Polynesia. It has more than 57 researchers and 122 engineers,
plus about thirty temporary staff, grantees etc., working there.
A highlight of 2005 was the first meeting of overseas delegates and representatives from the six
research establishments that are members of the inter-organisation committee for the French
overseas territories, known as B2C3I. The organisations concerned are the BRGM, Cirad, Cemagref,
Ifremer, Inra and IRD. The meeting pinpointed research themes that are of concern to all the
member organisations and on which collaboration could help to address development issues more
effectively.
Martinique - Caribbean
An international seminar on racial mix, Regards croisés sur le métissage : rencontres eurocaribéennes, was jointly organised by the IRD and the Martinique Council for Culture, Education
and the Environment, with the collaboration of Antilles-Guyane University (UAG).
A research workshop was set up to coordinate research on the teaching of Creole and French in the
American-Caribbean zone. It was open to research lecturers, students, education managers,
teachers and NGOs in Creole-speaking countries. The organisations involved were GEREC-F, a
research group on French - and Creole - speaking areas, the UAG and the Applied Linguistics faculty
of the State University of Haiti.
The final report of the expert group
review on organic farming in
Martinique, which had been ordered
by the island authority, was published
in the Expertise collégiale series.
In order to take better account of
relations between agriculture and the
environment, in 2005 the Martinique
agronomy research centre PRAM,
which involves teams from Cemagref,
Cirad and the IRD, became the
Martinique
Agro-Environmental
Research Centre.
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The IRD was taking part in the CARAIBE-HYCOS regional cooperation project to establish
a network of hydrological observation stations. It also collaborated on drawing up a multistream training programme on “Satellite imagery and sustainable development” at
Antilles- Guyane University.
La Réunion
As soon as the chikungunya epidemic hit La Réunion - where more than 200,000 people
were infected - and neighbouring Indian Ocean countries, the IRD mobilised its researchers
and injected additional resources to combat the disease. The teams from the research unit
working on characterisation of vector populations took an active part in research and control
initiatives, both locally and nationally. They launched multidisciplinary research and took
part in the support mission launched by the ministries for health and overseas territories to
fight the epidemic. They analysed the environmental consequences of mosquito eradication
and took part in the institutional arrangements set up by the authorities.
The IRD was involved in producing an atlas of health in La Réunion - Atlas de la Santé à La
Réunion - in collaboration with the regional health and social affairs authority and the
University of La Réunion, and also in a project to upgrade the SEAS satellite observation
station.
French Guiana
The SEAS Guyane Amazonian environment monitoring
technology platform was installed in Cayenne. It is used
to directly exploit images from the Spot and Envisat earth
observation satellites. This project is the fruit of a close
partnership between the IRD and the company
SpotImage, and was jointly funded by the French Guiana
regional authority, the CNES, the French government and
Europe. The other partners are the French Guiana General
Council, the UAG, French Guiana University Centre, the
European Space Agency (ESA) and Guyane Technopole.
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New Caledonia
With 236 staff, the Nouméa centre is the largest IRD centre in
the overseas territories. It coordinates research on seven major
themes: climate; inland, coastal and marine ecosystems;
geodynamics and natural hazards; geosciences of the
environment; terrestrial environment and biodiversity; aquatic
ecology and fishery; identities and representations; and health
and major epidemics.
The IRD played a part in a technological first: in a FrancoAmerican experiment, a remotely controlled submersible glider
designed by the Scripps Institute - one of the most important
oceanography laboratories in the USA - was used to map and
study ocean currents between New Caledonia, the Solomon
Islands and Vanuatu.
Pierre Cabalion, the ethnopharmacologist who heads the
Terrestrial Natural Substances and Traditional Knowledge
Laboratory (US084 Biodival) was awarded the 2005 Terra Ficaria
prize by the Yves Rocher Foundation / Institut de France, for his work on bringing to light
pharmacologically useful substances derived from plants in the dry forest of the far north of New
Caledonia.
Several teams working on mining environments ran workshops on their target subjects:
endemic terrestrial biodiversity, impact of mining activity on the lagoon, lagoon biodiversity,
water management. This research brings private operators and the local authorities together
to discuss New Caledonia’s development, and also has an educational role, training doctoral
students and managers in the private and public sectors.
French Polynesia
At the request of the French Polynesian fishery department, IRD research unit UR 128 COREUS
mapped the coral reefs of French Polynesia’s island groups and produced an atlas of them. The
work was based on high-resolution satellite imagery made available by the Institute for
Marine Remote Sensing at the University of South Florida, USA.
The IRD, the Ministry for Youth, Culture and Heritage and the Ministry for the Development of
the Archipelagos signed an agreement to set up an archaeological study of models of spatial
conceptions and land use in the Marquesas Islands. This agreement is in compliance with the
government’s policy of heritage rehabilitation, conservation and utilisation.
An IRD expert group review on Natural Substances in French Polynesia was conducted and the
report published.
IRD EXTENDS GLOBAL ARGO OBSERVATION
NETWORK IN THE PACIFIC
For the Frontalis survey aboard the IRD’s oceanographic vessel Alis, a team from the remote sensing
oceanography and geophysics research laboratory LEGOS deployed about twenty autonomous floating
robots (called profiling floats) in the tropical West Pacific, then along the equator. The floats are designed
to drift at a depth of 1,000 m, but once every ten days they dive to 2,000 m, then rise slowly to the surface
recording precious data on water temperature and salinity in the ocean depths - information that is essential
for ocean and climate research. The
data are transmitted by satellite to
receiving stations, to be used in
worldwide research efforts.
This is the first French contribution to
the deployment of the international
Argo network in the Pacific.
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www.argo.net
Contact: dom@paris.ird.fr
Annual report 2005
Research in
metropolitan
France
Tropical soils ecology laboratory, Bondy
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More action in French regions
The IRD’s newly-formed scientific programming and regional action commission has a dual
mission. It monitors cross-functional activities, particularly under general research programmes,
and it implements and monitors structuring activities and regional tools under partnerships with
higher education and research establishments and local and regional authorities.
In 2005 the IRD continued to strengthen its partnership links in the regions, in joint units with
universities and other French research institutes, inter-establishment structures such as the
federative research institutes (IFRs), partnership structures and investment agencies of various
kinds (GIS, GIP, GIE, GDR), and national programmes. One key event this year was the government’s
establishment of competitiveness hubs, designed to stimulate national-level science and so help
to bring greater consistency and structuring potential to the regional research etablisments actions.
Examples are the PRES (research and higher education hubs), RTRAs (thematic advanced research
networks), cancer research hubs and site projects.
National Research Agency
The purpose of the National Research Agency (ANR) is to encourage scientists to put forward
research projects, which are then judged on scientific criteria and their economic relevance
for private enterprise.
This was the ANR’s first year, and 59 IRD applications were accepted. Apart from the nonthematic programme, the main programmes in which IRD researchers’ projects were
selected were Young researchers; Health, environment and work; the French Institute of
Biodiversity; Agriculture and sustainable development, and Tsunamis and telluric disasters.
The funds obtained cover periods of one to five years for an approximate total of €3.5 M.
Joint research units
The increasing focus on creating joint research units and renewing their mandates, with other
French research organisations and universities continued. The IRD now has 28 joint research units
in Montpellier, Perpignan, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand and Ile-de-France
(see map, p. 47).
Contact: dpr@paris.ird.fr
This year three new joint research units were created:
Competitiveness hubs
• Water management: actors and uses (G-Eau), with Cirad, Engref and Cemagref;
• Microbial ecology of natural and manmade environments, with the universities of Aix-Marseille 1
and Aix-Marseille 2;
• Prehistoric environments, economics and societies (ESEP), with the university of Aix-Marseille 1,
the CNRS and the Ministry of Culture.
A competitiveness hub brings together in the same geographical area private companies, training
centres and public or private sector research units, in order to create synergy around innovative
projects. The government issued a call for proposals, and at the end of the process the interministerial
regional development and competitiveness committee selected 67 competitiveness hubs out of the 105
proposals submitted.
Federative Research Institutes
The research ministry runs a programme of “federative research institutes” (IFRs), in which the IRD
plays a part. The IFRs bring together on one site research units of different institutions around a
common scientific strategy, committed to developing of social and economic partnerships. The IRD
is involved in 12 IFRs in Montpellier, Sète, Perpignan, Marseille, Lyon and Paris. This year it joined
a new IFR, the Institute for the Science of Medicines, in Paris.
The IRD is a member of six such hubs, two of which have world scope:
• Mer-Bretagne (Sea-Nergie), in Brittany ;
• Q@limed, on food and quality of life in the Mediterranean region, in Languedoc Roussillon;
• RISQUES, on risk management and local/regional vulnerability, in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur;
• Mer Sécurité Sûreté (MSS): sea, safety, security and sustainable development, in Provence-AlpesCôte-d’Azur;
• Orpheme, on emerging and orphan diseases, in Languedoc Roussillon and Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur;
• Agronutrition en milieu tropical, on food and agriculture in tropical regions, in la Réunion.
The IRD is fully committed to this partnership approach and its dual purpose of making French industry
more competitive and transferring results to Southern communities.
Annual report 2005
The IRD in Metropolitan France
Paris and Paris region
• Université Paris I : 3
• Université Paris VI : 29
• Université Paris X, Nanterre : 2
• Université Paris XI, Orsay : 1
• Centre d'études des langues indigènes d'Amérique
(Celia) : 2
• Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle : 16
• École normale supérieure : 3
• École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales : 6
• Cirad : 1
• GIE DIAL : 11
• Agence nationale de recherche sur le sida
(ANRS) : 1
• Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin : 9
• Faculté de pharmacie, Chatenay-Malabry : 1
• Centre population et développement (Ceped),
Nogent : 6
CNRS
• Laboratoire des sciences du climat
et environnement (lsce), Gif-sur-Yvette : 2
• Laboratoire populations, génétique et évolution,
Gif-sur-Yvette : 6
• Lacito UPR 3121 Villejuif : 1
• Préhistoire et technologie, Meudon : 1
Montpellier / Saint-Christol-lès-Alès / Sète
• Université Montpellier II
Maison des sciences de l’eau : 20
Laboratoire Génomes et populations : 1
Laboratoire Ecosystèmes Lagunaires : 2
• Agropolis : 2
• Centre de biologie et de gestion des populations
INRA : 13
• Cemagref : 7
Aix Marseille / Nice
• Université Aix-Marseille I : 18
• Université Aix-Marseille II : 30
• Université Aix-Marseille III : 4
• UMR GéoAzur, Villefranche-surMer, univ. de Nice-Sophia
Antipolis : 16
Le Havre
28
(at 31/12/05)
Paris
4
Bondy
Île-de-France
Brest
Rennes
268
168
5
Strasbourg
Nancy
101
1
29
Orléans
Strasbourg / Nancy
• Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg I : 4
• CNRS/Centre de recherches pétrographiques
et géochimiques : 1
ClermontFerrand
Lyon
3
4
Grenoble
Thonon
Le Bourget
19
8
Lyon
• Université Lyon I : 4
Clermont-Ferrand
• Université Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire magmas
et volcans : 3
Grenoble
• Université Joseph Fourier : 15
Thonon-Le Bourget
• INRA - Station d'hydrobiologie lacustre, Thonon : 1
• Université de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac : 3
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Bordeaux
Pessac
Montpellier
267
Nice
Villefranche-sur-Mer
Sophia Antipolis
Toulouse
52
32
Perpignan
Marseille
Aix
6
at 31/12/05
IRD Centre
Other placement
(UMR,EPST,Universités)
Bordeaux
• CNRS - Maison des Sud, Pessac : 3
• Université Montesquieu
Centre d'Économie du développement : 4
Institut Fédératif de Recherche sur les Dynamiques
Économiques (Ifrede) : 1
Toulouse
• Centre d'étude spatiale de la biosphère (Cesbio) : 5
• Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3 - LMTG : 19
• GIP Mercator Océan : 1
• Medias France/Cnes : 2
• Pierre Fabre médicaments : 1
• Laboratoire d’études géophysique/océanographie
spatiale (Legos) : 11
Perpignan
• Université : 2
• École Pratique des Hautes Études : 4
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Sète
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• Cirad : 3
• Ensam - Sciences du sol : 9
• Laboratoire Matières organiques des sols tropicaux
(Most) : 6
• Laboratoire symbioses tropicales/méditerranéennes
(Lstm) : 9
• École nationale du génie rural (Engref) : 4
• Centre écologie fonctionnelle évolutive (Cefe) : 3
• Institut Bouisson-Département maladies
Infectieuses : 7
• Maison de la télédétection : 12
• Laboratoire pathologie comparée
Inra Université : 1
• Centre de recherche halieutique
méditerranéenne à Sète : 32
Competitiveness hub
Toulon
Le Havre / Brest / Rennes
• Station de météorologie : 1
• Ifremer à Brest : 4
• Inra à Rennes : 1
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IRD participation in scientific
partnerships and investment agencies
Groupements d’Intérêt Scientifique (GIS)
Ceped
Linkages between population and development
Sol
Sustainable management of soil heritage
Curare
University discussion centre for an environmental hazards agency
BRG
Genetic Resources Bureau
Silvolab
Tropical rainforest ecosystems in French Guiana
IFB
French Biodiversity Institute
Génoplante
Plant genomics
Estet
Environment, earth and water sciences, territories
Pisciculture tropicale Fish farming in Mediterranean and tropical regions
et méditerranéenne
PCSI
Joint programme on irrigated systems
Amérique latine
Information dissemination and facilitation of French social and human sciences
research on Latin America
GRISCYA
Cyanobacteria
Aire développement Scientific and financial support for scientific communities in the South
Groupements d’intérêt public (GIS)
Renater
Ecofor
Médias France
Mercator Océan
ANRS
OST
National telecommunications network for technology, teaching and research
Temperate forest ecosystems
Global change and regional impacts
Ocean and climate forecasting
National AIDS Research Agency
Science and technology monitoring unit
Groupements d’intérêt économique (GIE)
Edctp
European clinical trials platform
Dial
Development of investigations into long-term adjustment
Génavir
Management of oceanographic survey vessels
Ecart
European Consortium for Agricultural Research in the Tropics
Regional programmes
ZONECO
Marine resources in the New Caledonia exclusive economic zone
ZEPOLYF
Inventorying and mapping of sea mounts in the French Polynesian exclusive
economic zone
Federative Research Institutes (IFR)
Lyon
IFR 41
Ecology, genetics, evolution
Marseille
IFR 86
Agro-industrial biotechnology (BAIM)
IFR 134
Economics and human and social sciences of health, Aix-Marseille
Montpellier
IFR 119
Tropical and Mediterranean continental biodiversity
IFR 122
Montpellier Institute of Biology –University of Montpellier 1
IFR 123
Languedoc Institute for Water and Environment Research (ILEE) IFR 124
Ecosystem - functioning and management of tropical and
Mediterranean natural and cultivated ecosystems
IFR 127
Daphné - Plant development, diversity and adaptation - genes and
phenotypes
IFR 129
Aquatic ecosystems: human impact, functioning, products
Paris
IFR 71
ISM - Institute for the science of medicines
IFR 101
Pure and applied ecology
IFR 106
EGER - Environment and management of rural areas
The IRD’s joint research units
Bondy
UMR 137 - Biosol
Clermont Ferrand
UMR 163 - Magmas et Volcans
Grenoble
UMR 012 - LTHE
UMR 157 - LGIT
Société par action simplifiée (SAS)
Génoplante Valor
Management and exploitation of intellectual property rights resulting from the
Génoplante programme.
Marseille
UMR 151 - LPED
UMR 161 - Cerege
UMR 180 - Microbiologie et biotechnologie
UMR 184 - Economies, sociétés et environnement
Groupements de recherche (GDR)
Marges
Dynamics of continental margins
ACOMAR
Analysis, understanding and modelling of marine biological archives
Montpellier
UMR 022 - CBGP
UMR 040 - LSTM
UMR 050 - HSM
UMR 123 - AMAP
UMR 141 - DGCP
UMR 142 - BDPPC
UMR 144 - LISAH
UMR 145 - VIH/SIDA
UMR 165 - Gemi
UMR 183 - G-Eau
National programmes
PNEC
LEFE
PNTS
AMMA
ECCO
RELIEFS
Coastal environments
Environment and Earth’s fluid envelopes
Remote sensing national programme
Inter-organisation action programme for AMMA
Continental ecosphere: environmental hazards
Earth reliefs national programme
Paris
UMR 135 - Celia
UMR 148 - Systématique
UMR 182 - Locean
Nice
UMR 082 - Geosciences Azur
Toulouse
UMR 065 - Legos
UMR 113 - Cesbio
UMR 152 - Pharmacologie
UMR 154 - LMTG
Perpignan
UMR 121 - Génomique
Versailles Saint-Quentin
UMR 063 - C3DED
Annual report 2005