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Privileged partnerships

Privileged partnerships is a tool being used by the Foundation in order to attract new collaborators and associates in order to broaden and reinforce partnerships in addressing key scientific challenges of our time.

Agropolis Fondation teams up with scientific organizations, development agencies, universities, private sector, non-government organizations, private foundation and other entities to pursue jointly identified scientific initiatives in order to create leverage effect and achieve greater impacts.

The Computational Plants and Eco-Systems Initiative below is the first privileged partnership between Agropolis Fondation and a French scientific organization.

Computational Plants and Eco-Systems: A partnership with INRIA

This partnership is aimed at building computer models that simulate plant development, lifecycles and environmental interactions, in order to compare the predictions made by modeling with in-field observations and help guide experiments. The challenges include the optimization and the adaptation of production systems as a response to climatic change and severe biological stress, within the context of sustainable development.

The scientific program covers three main topics:

• Gene-to-ecosystem computational modeling of plants and their uses
• Software platform development
• International collaboration with emphasis on the Mediterranean region

Learn more about the scientific partnership with INRIA >

Joint call for proposals

See Call for Proposal 2008 on Virtual Plant and Ecosystem and Results >

See Call for Proposal 2009 on Virtual Plant and Ecosystem

Seminar to promote mathematics-agriculture interface