Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

• PREMIUM (Preservation of Microorganisms by Understanding the Protective Mechanisms of Oligosaccharides): feedback on these exchanges was provided by the research staff from AgroParisTech involved in the PREMIUM project, which brought together researchers from Europe and Argentina.
• ManaGlobal(Globalized Governance Norms and Local Management and Business Practices in Africa and on the Arab Peninsula).
• Highlands (Collective Approach of Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development in Highlands).
• ATTER (Agroecological Transitions for Territorial Food Systems): three faculty members from AgroParisTech were also able to take advantage of individual research fellowships under the COFUND action program through the Agreenskills mobility program (2012-2016, then 2014-2019) coordinated by INRAE and Agreenium.
  • Bruno Lemaire (joint research unit SIAFEE) for the “Measurement of Nutrient Transport Across the Sediment-Water Interface” project at the University of Koblenz-Landau’s Institute for Environmental Sciences.
  • Pierre Barbillon (joint research unit MIA Paris-Saclay) for the “Computer Model Uncertainty Quantification” project at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in the United States.
  • Julien Wolfersberger ((joint research unit PSAE) for the “Ties Between Structural Transformation, the Environment, and Institutions in Developing Countries” at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

These international research fellowships, which lasted between eight months and one year, enabled them to pursue their research and enhance their skills. As Bruno Lemaire put it, “This travel grant allowed me to expand my understanding of physical limnology (turbulence, waves, energy flow) and environmental measurement techniques and enhance my programming and data-analysis skills. It also enabled me to experience a slightly different approach to research.”

The “Doctoral Networks” action, a program created to establish innovative joint doctoral programs spanning multiple European higher education institutions. In the case of “Joint Doctorate” type projects, this includes jointly supervised Ph.D. theses. ​​​​​​​During the Horizon Europe program, the ABIES Doctoral School and faculty from AgroParisTech took part in 6 doctoral networks in varying ways:

• DESTINY (Design and Sustainability Assessment of Innovative biomass production systems and value-chains in the Bioeconomy) - Coordinated by AgroParisTech;
• FAIROmics(FAIRification of multiOmics data to link databases and create knowledge graphs for fermented foods) - Coordinated by INRAE;
• E-MUSE (Complex Biological Systems Multiscale Modeling: Interactive Mechanistic and Data-driven Approaches) - Coordinated by INRAE;

• FertiCycle (New Bio-based Fertilizers from Organic Waste Upcycling) - Coordinated by the University of Copenhagen (Denmark);
• InsectDoctors (A Joint Doctoral Program to Educate Tomorrow’s Insect Pathologists: Solving Disease Problems in the Upcoming Insect Rearing Industry) - Coordinated by Wageningen University (Netherlands);
• FoodEngine (Enginomics in Food Quality Design: The Case of Shelf-stable Fruit-, Vegetable-, and Legume-based Foods) - Coordinated by KU Leuven (Belgium).

The “Postdoctoral Fellowships” action, which offered funding for travel in Europe and elsewhere in the world (followed by an additional return phase) for young researchers (“postdoctoral” here meaning up to 8 years after obtaining a Ph.D.). This action offered funding both to conduct research abroad for up to two years and to host world-class international postdoctoral researchers within the research teams at AgroParisTech. AgroParisTech (joint research unit SayFood) is currently hosting a Chinese post-doctoral fellow as part of the AlgaPow project (Smart design of well-function algae-plant-based powder: green spray-drying, characterization and rehydration).