INRA: for the Earth and for Man

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INRA for the Earth and for Man

• INRA for the Earth and for Man
• Public mission oriented research
• Sustainable agriculture
• Nutrition and food safety
• Environment and rural areas

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INRA for the Earth and for Man

• A general presentation
• Portrait
• Scientific strategy
• Resources and organisation
• Updated

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1. Portrait
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1. Portrait

• Set up in 1946
• A public research organisation dedicated to
• Agriculture
• Food, food safety and human nutrition
• Environment and rural development
• A research performing organisation
• 1800 researchers and 2360 engineers
• 8600 total Staff
• A budget of 700 M for 2007 / 85 from the
  Ministry of Reseach
• A research funding organisation (ANR)
• Nearly 50 M in 2005

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1. Portrait

• 1946/1960 
• INRA was one of the principal actors in the
  modernisation
• of farming.
• 1960/1980 
• Through its research and innovation, INRA
  contributedto the development of the French
  agrifood sector.
• 1980/2000 
• The Institute integrated new and fundamental
  technologiesin the life sciences
  (biotechnologies, molecular biology,genetic
  engineering) in response to new
  environmentaland consumer demands.

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1. Portrait

• Missions 
• 1. To produce and disseminate scientific
  knowledge
• and innovations
• 2. To contribute to training in and through
  research,
• to the dissemination of scientific culture
  and to the
• science/society debate
• 3. Through its expertise, to participate in
  informing the
• decisions made by public and private sector
  actors

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2. Scientific strategy
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2. Scientific strategy

• Context
• New scientific challenges
• High throughput approaches
• Modelling at different scales
• System biology
• New socio economic conditions
• CAP to 2013 ? and WTO Doha Round?
• Evolution of rural areas
• Questions from the society, new concerns, new
  risks/opportunities, Climate change, Energy
• New research organisation, European Research Area

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2. Scientific strategy

• An enhanced partnership
• Building a more efficient relation with the
  stakeholders
• Strengthening the links with higher education and
  other research institutions
• Reshaping the relationship with rural development
  organisations
• Improving technology transfer and access to
  knowledge

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2. Scientific strategy

• European partnerships and international
  cooperation
• European commitment as the highest priority
• A special interest for long term cooperation with
  China, India, South America (Brazil, Mexico,
  Argentina..) and the Mediterranean basin
• A stronger cooperation with other scientific
  organisation

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3. Resources and organisation
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3. Resources and organisation

• A total budget of 700 M for 2007
• 85 funded by the government
• 15 on contracts
• 1800 scientists, 2270 research assistants and
  4230 technical staff on permanent positions
• 1000 scientists coming from partner organisations
• 1200 scientists and research assistants on time
  limited contracts
• 1600 PhD students
• 1000 international visiting scientists on
  doctoral or post doctoral fellowships

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3. Resources and organisation

• 21 regional centres
• 260 research units (including 140 joint units
  with other research institutions)
• 80 experimental units

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3. Resources and organisation

• 5 scientific directorates
• Animal and animal products
• Plant and plant products
• Human nutrition and food safety
• Environment, cultivated and natural ecosystems
• Social sciences
• 14 research departments

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3. Resources and organisation
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4. Updated informations
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The New research Law April 18, 2006
To improve efficiency and visibility of French
Research

• ANR National Research Agency New rules
• a Bunch of New Tools
• Evaluation Agency AERES
• Network of Excellence RTRA
• Universities Clusters PRES

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ANR INRA first results

• 6 programs under INRA management in 2006
• Sustainable development agriculture
• Human nutrition diet
• GMO
• Plant genomics
• Animal genomics
• Biodiversity
• New coming Program
• Large scale Microbes Genomic (2007)
• The projects involving INRA teams 14 M in
  2006 (financial resource for INRA)

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Whats new regarding INRA position inside the
French Research System?

• New contract 2006-2009 with the Government
  (Research and Agriculture) - October, 3, 2006.
• French Initiative for International Agricultural
  Research (IFRAI), a new tool built with
  CIRAD (French Agricultural Research for
  developing countries), May 2007.
• INRA is the Corner Stone for the Agricultural
  Research Foundation in Montpellier (RTRA with
  Cirad and SupAgro) and part of 3 other
  networks (Economics - Paris, Toulouse /
  Infectiology Lyon), 2007
• INRA contributes to 14 National Clusters for
  industry, with a key role in new Crops
  (Angers) and Non Food Ag (Lille-Reims).

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INRA in the European Research Area

• 144 projects
• 40 projects coordinated
• 3 Marie Curie training sites 1 Initial
  Training Network
• In the fields of Food quality safety - Policy
  supports - Global change and ecosystem - life
  sciences Genomics and Biotechnology for health.
• Coordinated projects
• 3 Networks of Excellence
• Eadgene European Animal Disease Genomics
• Endure Reducing the use of plant protection
  products
• Evoltree Genomics for terrestrial biodiversity
  and ecosystem
• 2 Integrated projects
• Co-Extra GMO Traceability
• BaSysBio Understanding the regulation of gene
  transcription

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INRA in the European Research Area

• Bilateral Aproches
• Institutional cooperation BBSRC / WUR / INRA
• - BBSRC Joint Program in Crop Sciences
  (effective since 2006 - 3 projects selected each
  side)
• - WUR fellowships for PhD students on joint
  projects
• SLU Swedish agricultural University Network,
  joint lab and joint call for proposals
• Hungary and Poland in progress for joint support
  tools for projects and mobility
• Perspectives
• - European Research Council
• - Infrastructures
• - Platforms
• - ERAnet Mediterranean basin

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Some International perspectives

• INRA pro active inside an international Network
  of Research bodies in the fields of
  Agriculture-Nutrition-Environment, to tackle the
  new complex global Challenges
• Participating in Ag Research movement towards the
  Millenium Development Goals
• Enhancing  Mission oriented  approach,
  balancing academic criteria of excellence and
  stakeholders needs and demands
• Building and leading International projects (e.g.
  Gut microflora)

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INRAs works

• Science developments
• Attractivity for young scientists
• Priorities chosen with our stakeholders

for Human Nutrition and Food Safety, for
Environment and Rural Development, for
competitive and sustainable Agriculture.
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Some International perspectives

• New collaborative Projects
• China strengthening links - CAS and CAAS
• 3 mains programs / Stem Cells, Wheat Genomics,
  Nutrition - Metagenome
• India building up exchanges ICAR and
  DBTWorkshops in progress (Plant biotechnoloy -
  Human Nutrition)
• Brazil organizing joint projects and
  partnership
• Mediteranean Basin Networking through key
  issues (water management - emerging disease -
  nutrition) and with a proposal for an European
  network (ERA NET)
• CGIAR Contributing with the coming new
  Challenge Programs (especially Climate Change and
  Horticulture)
• Fundamental partnerships on living edge of
   Science,
• with ARS USDA, Land Grant Universities (Midwest
  UoI, ISU, MSU, U.Wisconsin),
• JSPS, U. TsukubaCSIRO, ANU.

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3 New Scientific Challenges

• Human Nutrition better understanding and
  improving - Metagenome
• Innovative, sustainable and competitive Farming
  systems and Agricultural Practices
• CARBIO Bio Chimistry and Bio energy issues.

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INRA for the Earth and for Man
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