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A researcher at the Charles Gerhardt Institute (ICGM) and lecturer in the Department of Galenic Pharmacy and Biomaterials at the University of Montpellier, Marie Morille is conducting several strategic research projects on the formulation of biotherapies. This earned her the IUF award in 2022, after winning an ANR junior award in 2020.

The ExposUM Institute is an initiative of the University of Montpellier and its partners aimed at establishing an open, off-campus institute of reference for the study, training, and science-society interaction of the environmental determinants of human health. Winner of the ExcellenceS (PIA4) call for projects and supported by the Occitanie Region, ExposUM is funded to the tune of €46.4 million over the period 2022-2030. The exposome corresponds to all lifetime exposures to environmental and social factors whose specific effects, combined with the intrinsic characteristics of individuals, underlie health and the onset, progression, and severity of infectious and non-communicable human diseases. In this sense, it is the environmental counterpart of the genome, with which it interacts throughout an individual's lifetime. See the ExposUM Institute website Calls for projects Objective To provide an innovative conceptual framework for studying multiple environmental risks and their combined effects GATe: Gather people to Generate, Apply, Transmit knowledge Axis 1: Generate knowledge: accelerate the acquisition of basic knowledge in a coordinated and non-segmented interdisciplinary manner Axis 2: Apply knowledge: define global mitigation strategies adapted to the local context and encourage innovation. Find out more Axis 3: Transmit knowledge: promote the education of the next generation of scientists Organization Steering Committee (CoDir): Pascal Demoly (dir.), Aurélie Binot, Charlotte Boullé, Mircea Sofonea. Project Manager: Elodie Suttling. Scientific and Strategic Advisory Board (COSS): Jacques Mercier (chair), Amaria Baghdadli, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Eric Delaporte, Delphine Destoumieux-Garzon, Hélène Fenet, Sylvain Gandon, Brice Laurent, Coumba Toure Kane, Alain Lacampagne, Laurence Lachaud, Nadine Laguette, Delphine Muriaux, Denis Pesche, Andrei Turtoi, Nathalie Vachiery, Muriel Vayssier-Tarissat, Laurent Visier. Research Orientation and Evaluation Council Research COER): Mircea Sofonea (chair), Anne-Muriel Arigon, Aurélie Binot, Christophe Boete, Charlotte Boullé, Antoine Claessens, Sylvie Claeysen, Constance Delaby, Gauthier Dobigny, François Favier, Olivier Gimenez, Antoine Gross, Rodolphe Hamel, Luciana Kase-Tanno, Antonio Maraver, Jérôme Poli, Gwenn Pulliat, Anatja Samouelian, Annelise Tran, Aurore Vicet. Receive project news directly: Subscribe to the mailing list Partners

Advancing regional research to better preserve biodiversity, combat vector-borne diseases, imagine the viticulture and oenology of tomorrow, and respond to the collective challenges of the water cycle...  These are just some of the scientific challenges that the University of Montpellier and its regional partners intend to tackle by taking on four of the 15 "key challenges" identified and supported by the Occitanie Region. The "key challenges" are initiatives launched by the Occitanie Region to support the collective dynamics of research stakeholders in Occitanie. Focusing on strategic issues for our region, they aim to encourage the structuring of scientific communities, thereby making regional research even more collaborative, visible, and attractive, and to produce excellent research in line with the Region's political priorities, in particular the Transformation Plan-Green New Deal adopted by the Plenary Assembly on November 19, 2020. Each key challenge receives €2 million in regional aid to implement its action plan over a period of four years. Among the 15 challenges supported by the Region, the University of Montpellier is leading the way on the "key challenges" of biodiversity, water, infectious risks, and vines and wine, in collaboration with numerous partners throughout the region. BIODIVOC key challenge Officially launched on April 1, 2021, the Biodivoc project aims to develop fundamental research in ecology and evolution around the theme of "Dynamics, resilience, and management of biodiversity and ecosystems under human-induced environmental pressures." Biodivoc website Key challenge RIVOC Officially launched on March 18, 2021, the objective of the RIVOC "Infectious Risks and Vectors" project is to develop innovative and sustainable approaches to improve the understanding, surveillance, and control of these diseases and their vectors. Rivoc website VINIDOCC Challenge The "Innovation for the future of viticulture and oenology in Occitanie" project was launched on September 16, 2022, to conduct multidisciplinary, fundamental, and applied research and devise new practices for the viticulture and oenology of tomorrow. Find out more BIO'OCC Challenge Bio'Occ is a project funded by the French government as part of the France 2030 plan. This ambitious regional initiative aims to attract, train, and retain the talent and players of tomorrow by developing specialized training courses in the field of biotherapies and bioproduction. Find out more Key challenge: "Water Occitanie":  The Water Occitanie project aims to develop expertise in wastewater reuse, design and analyze infrastructure, equipment, and governance to respond to stakeholders' constraints at the local level, produce an assessment of the consequences at the level of large watersheds, and analyze the cumulative capacity to respond to the collective challenges of the large water cycle. Learn more

Our purchasing policy As a public institution, the University is subject to the Public Procurement Code. Its purchases fall within the legal framework of public procurement and comply with the three fundamental principles of public procurement: free access for companies to public procurement; equal treatment of candidates; complete transparency of purchasing procedures. The University's purchasing policy also aims to improve purchasing efficiency, with the following objectives: ensuring better control of public funds by rationalizing and pooling needs; promoting the integration of people who are furthest from the job market or people with disabilities; preserving the environment; participating in the dissemination of innovation; enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to access public procurement. Where can you find our public contracts? Above €40,000 excluding VAT, all our procedures are advertised on the following media: our buyer profile: Achapublic.com; Achapublic allows companies to consult and respond to consultations issued by the University. The platform allows users to set up personalized alerts to be notified at regular intervals of the publication of public contracts according to the criteria entered when creating the alert. a Legal Announcements Journal or the BOAMP; the Official Journal of the European Union for formalized procedures. Our areas of procurement In order to fulfill its public service missions, the University purchases various supplies, services, and works. It has more than a hundred so-called cross-functional contracts covering the most common needs, which are renewed regularly. These cover both general supplies and services (printing equipment, periodicals, IT and audiovisual equipment, software, office supplies, etc.) and, for research, a wide range of scientific equipment and consumables, laboratory products and gases, etc. Publication of essential data For purchases between €25,000 and €40,000 excluding VAT, the University is required to publish certain essential data: here is the data for 2024.For purchases exceeding €40,000 excluding VAT, essential data is published on the University's buyer profile. Essential data by year: 2023 2022 2021