The AllEnvi alliance publishes its first status report
24/05/2011 - Press release
French environmental research, which forms the core of AllEnvi, the national alliance for environmental research, now has access to shared tools, which can be used to address major environmental challenges. Founded on 9 February 2010, the AllEnvi alliance has just published its first status report .
AllEnvi1, the national alliance for environmental research's first status report, was presented this morning by Roger Genet, CEMAGREF Director General and President of the alliance, François Houllier, INRA Deputy Director General, Jacques Pagès, CIRAD Deputy Director General and Patrick Vincent, IFREMER Deputy Director General. The AllEnvi alliance’s mission is to programme and coordinate environmental research on issues concerning food, water, climate and territories on a national scale. Since it was set up in February 2010, the research conducted by the AllEnvi working group, which brought together 250 scientific experts, has strengthened the synergy between research stakeholders in France. It has also led to proposals for the orientation of programmes of ambitious and high performance research that can address environmental questions and economic and societal issues.
Orientation of the ANR's programmes
The summary of priorities set out by AllEnvi’s thematic working groups will contribute to the ANR’s 2012 programme. In particular, the alliance has submitted three new propositions concerning environmental risks, the function of eco-systems in relation to their biodiversity and climate forecasting at intermediary time scales.
Coordination: the example of the SOEREs (Systems of observation and long-term experimentation for environmental research)
The alliance co-ordinates and certifies national infrastructures for observation and experimentation for environmental research whose aim is to collect and pool observable and measurable parameters across the territory in four main areas: ocean and atmosphere, continental land areas and interfaces, ecosystems, biodiversity, man and the environment, and Earth sciences. In this way, data is made available to all scientists. Thus, in 2010, 13 SOEREs were certified and financed by the ministry of higher education and research.
In France, research stakeholders have joined forces to improve the co-ordination of their research and expertise in the environmental domain for the first time. Together, the 12 founder members and the 15 AllEnvi associate members, research organisations, universities and Grandes Écoles aim to give targeted fundamental research a central role in France and Europe as part of a move to encourage an innovative society that is open to the economy and able to manage environmental risks.
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