Agriculture-Environment-Biodiversity Division (AEB)
Created in December 2017 within the MUSE Foundation, its aim is to become a Target University Research Cluster by 2022.
It provides a forum for synergy between research structures and scientific consultation to develop joint actions between members of the MUSE Consortium.
The cluster brings together over 3,000 permanent staff from research organizations such as BRGM, CIRAD, CNRS, IFREMER, INRAE and IRD, as well as higher education institutions such as the University of Montpellier, Institut Agro / Montpellier SupAgro and CIHEAM-IAMM. Every year, it publishes around 1,300 theses.
Missions
- Leading, communicating, highlighting scientific strategy and prospects
- Federating and fostering partnerships
- Increase the Region's visibility and contribute to its excellence in agronomy, the environment, ecology and biodiversity, both nationally and internationally.
- Promoting the link between Training and Research
- Promote collective reflection on platforms and infrastructures in conjunction with establishments and organizations
- Lead a collective reflection on concerted programming of jobs, skills and human resources in conjunction with establishments and organizations
Scientific scope
The cluster comprises 44 main research, experimental and service units and 8 secondary laboratories. It covers agronomy, environmental and water sciences, ecology and evolution. In these disciplines, it includes two Laboratories of Excellence ( labex Agro and labex Cemeb) and a Unesco International Center dedicated to water(ICIREWARD).
Structured around these three interacting communities, the AEB cluster forms a highly multidisciplinary whole, working on a wide range of issues and questions linked to the promotion of sustainable and ecologically innovative agriculture, food safety and security, the characterization, documentation, management and conservation of biodiversity, the structure and functioning of ecosystems, health and environmental quality, explicitly taking into account the impact of environmental and global change, particularly climate change, on all these subjects.
Its actions are fully in line with Muse's Nourish and Protect pillars, but also partly with the Heal pillar, notably through food, nutrition and a global health approach.
Institutional partners
The Pôle AEB brings together staff from several research organizations:
- BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières - Geological and Mining Research Bureau)
- CIRAD (Centre de coopération Internationale en Research Agronomique pour le Développement)
- CNRS (Centre National de la Research Scientifique)
- IFREMER (Institut Français de Research pour l'Exploitation de la Mer)
- INRAE (Institut National de Research pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement)
- IRD (Institut de Research pour le Développement)
or higher education :
- University of Montpellier
- Institut Agro (Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) /Montpellier SupAgro
- CIHEAM-IAMM (Centre International des Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes-Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier)
It also maintains close links (and even hosts staff in its laboratories) with other research organizations such as INRAP (Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives) or INRIA (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique), or higher education institutions: AgroParisTech (Institut des Sciences et Industries du Vivant et de l'Environnement), ENSCM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier), ARMINES ParisTech (IMT Mines Alès), EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Études), UPVM (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier), UPVD (Université Perpignan Via Domitia), Université d'Avignon, Université des Antilles, Université de la Réunion, Centre Universitaire de Mayotte.
Research structures
- Institut Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (AGAP Institute)
- Botany and Plant Architecture Modeling (AMAP)
- Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE)
- Bio-inspired chemistry and ecological innovations (ChimEco)
- Insect Diversity, Genomes and Microorganism Interactions (DGIMI)
- Plant Diversity, Adaptation and Development (DIADE)
- Geosciences Montpellier (GM)
- HydroSciences Montpellier (HSM)
- Agropolymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies (IATE)
- Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions (HPEI)
- Montpellier Institute of Plant Sciences (IPSIM)
- Montpellier Institute of Evolutionary Sciences (ISEM)
- Marine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation (MARBEC)
- Infectious Diseases and Vectors Ecology, Genetics, Evolution and Control (MIVEGEC)
- Montpellier Environmental Research Observatory (OREME)
- Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM)
- An integrated approach to food quality - QUALISUD
- Sciences for Oenology (SPO)
Partnered research structures:
- Biodiverse agrosystems (ABSys)
- Agro-ecology and Sustainable Intensification of Annual Crops (AIDA)
- Water, soil and plant analysis (Analysis)
- Animal, Health, Territories, Risks and Ecosystems (ASTRE)
- Biomass, Wood, Energy, Bioproducts (BioWooEB)
- Center for Biology and Population Management (CBGP)
- DIASCOPE experimental unit (DIASCOPE)
- Functional ecology and biogeochemistry of soils and agrosystems (ECO&SOLS)
- Ecotron
- Forests and Societies
- Water management, stakeholders and uses (G-EAU)
- Ecological functioning and sustainable management of banana and pineapple agrosystems (GECO)
- Agroecological functioning and performance of horticultural cropping systems (HortSys)
- Innovation and Development in Agriculture and Food (INNOVATION)
- Technologies and methods for tomorrow's agriculture (ITAP)
- Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory (LBE)
- Laboratory for Plant Ecophysiology under Environmental Stress (LEPSE)
- Laboratory for Soil - Agrosystem - Hydrosystem Interactions (LISAH)
- Unité Expérimentale sur les Systèmes Maraîchers Agroécologiques (Vegetable-growing UE0411 Experimental Unit on Agroecological Vegetable-growing Systems)
- Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (social and nutritional sciences) (MoISA)
- Pech Rouge experimental unit (PECH ROUGE)
- Recycling and Risk
- Mediterranean and Tropical Livestock Systems (SELMET)
- Knowledge, Environment, Societies (SENS)
- Territories, environment, remote sensing and spatial information (TETIS)
- Vassal experimental unit (VASSAL)
structuring bodies and programs
Local :
- Two main Labexes - Labex Agro and Labex CeMEB - and participation in two other Labexes, Entreprendre and Numev.
- Unesco International Centre for Water(ICIREWARD), which is also the Institut Montpellierrain de l'Eau et de l'Environnement(IM2E).
- A Scientific Cooperation Foundation: Agropolis Fondation
- An observatory at Research Méditerranéen de l'Environnement(OSU OREME), part of the Observatoires des Sciences de l'Univers of the Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers du Cnrs.
- MUSE Key Initiatives (KIM): Data & Life Sciences, Food & Health, Risks & Vectors, Sea & Coast, Vine & Wine Sciences, Waters
- Equipex: GEOSUD(International Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information for Sustainable Development) and participation in Equipex RESIF-CORE (French Seismological and Geodetic Network),
- A Convergences Digital Agriculture Institute #DigitAg
- A "Territoires d'Innovation" Fablab(Occitanum)
- Unesco Chair in World Food
- Two Occitanie Regional Challenges: Biodivoc and Rivoc
At national level :
Labexes in which MUSE partners are involved: CEBA(Centre d'étude de la biodiversité amazonienne), PaRaFRAP(Alliance Française contre les Maladies Parasitaires), DRIIHM(Dispositif de Research Interdisciplinaire sur les Interactions Hommes-Milieux)
Technology resources
- Environmental Trace Element and Isotope Analysis (AETE ISO)
- Food Technology Workshop (ATA)
- Water chemistry laboratory
- LAboratoire Mutualiséd'Analysedes Isotopes Stables de l'Eau (LAMA)
- Genotyping-Sequencing platform (GenSeq)
- Microbex platform
- Flow cytometry technical platform
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